Religion, Sustainability, and Place

This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments. This interdisciplinary volume deepens our understanding of this relationship, revealing that the geographical imagination—our sense of place—is a key aspect of the sustainability ideas and practices of religious groups. The book begins with a broad examination of how pl…

Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture

This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture. Moving beyond binary understandings that inform the militarization of culture thesis and examining various national and cultural contexts, the collection outlines ways in which a process of paramilitarization is …

Andean Foodways

There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. Strong associations of foodways with culture are particularly characteristic of South American Andean cultures. Food and drink conve…

Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to "do philosophy" rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist intersects and overlaps with others. The book is embedded in the literary theory that tapping into background knowledge is a key step in h…

Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy

This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsciâ€â€¦

Domesticity on Display

This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989, following the experiences of consumers, workers in the glassware and porcelain industry, and artists. By tracing the valu…

Explosions in the Mind

This book explores how to compose sounds and visualisations that represent psychedelic hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia. Through a detailed discussion regarding compositional methodologies and technical approaches, the book aims to educate students, practitioners, and researchers working in related areas. It weaves together sound, visual design, and code across a range of media, p…

Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes

This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.

International Handbook on Abortion

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0-313-23463-9

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xii, 520 p.; 24 cm.

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363.46 Int i

CROSS-BRODERING DYNAMICS IN EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING: A PERSPECTIVE FR…

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978-1-03-208514-2

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xi, 172 p. ; 23 cm

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371.04 Cro c

Schooling Around the World: DEBATES, CHALLENGES, AND PRACTICES

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1st

ISBN/ISSN

0-205-45459-3

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384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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370.9 Maz s

Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place. It is a big history of geological origins, management by Aboriginal people, environmental despoliation by white Australians, and the formation of beach cultures. It is also a local history of the name Bondi, the origins of the Big Rock at Ben Buckler, the motives of early land holders, the tragedy known as Black Sunday, the hostilities between lifesa…

LIFESTYLES : Sebuah Pengantar Komprehensif

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ISBN/ISSN

979-3684-10-0

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276 hlm.; 21 cm.

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306.4 Cha l

LIFESTYLE ECSTASY: KEBUDAYAAN POP DALAM MASYARAKAT KOMODITAS INDONESIA

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979-3684-02-X

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xlvii, 397 hlm. : ilus. ; 21 cm

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303.4 Lif f

HOUSING, CULTURE, AND DESIGN: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

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ISBN/ISSN

0-8122-1271-1

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xii, 488 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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307.336 Low h

GENDER IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

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ISBN/ISSN

0-13-352048-X

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viii, 504 p. ; 25 cm.

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305.3 Bre g 1993

DYNAMICS OF VALUES IN FERTILITY CHANGE

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ISBN/ISSN

0-19-829439-5

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xv, 378 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

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531.1 Dyn d 2004

THE FAMILY SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL, SEVENTH EDITION

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7th

ISBN/ISSN

0-06043287-X

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399 p. : 25 cm

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306.85 Kep f

SOCIOLOGY: A Global Perspective

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