Social Sciences

Carol Dyhouse / Girl Trouble : Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (Large Paperback)

Horror, scandal and moral panic! The popular fascination with the moral decline of young women has permeated society for over a hundred years. Be it flappers, beat girls, dolly birds or ladettes,...

Lorraine Nencel / Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru (Large Paperback)

In this lively, hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution, Lorraine Nencel interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the...

T.M.S. Evens / The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Large Paperback)

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case...

Alejandro Portes / Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (Large Paperback)

Alejandro Portes (Editor), J. DeWind (Editor) With the increasing worldwide problems of migrat

Donna L. Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson / Death, Dying and Bereavement (Large Paperback)Donna L. Dickenson (Editor) ,

"The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to read...

H. Falk John , Lynn D. Dierking / The Museum Experience (Large Paperback)

The Museum Experience is the first book to take the "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit. It integrates the authors' original research with that from a wide variety of disciplines as well as...

Jean McNiff / You and Your Action Research Project (Large Paperback)

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James P. Spradley /The Ethnographic Interview (Large Paperback)

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Nigel Thrift / Spatial Formations (Large Paperback)

This essential guide to social theory and space is written by one of the leading writers in the field. Nigel Thrift explores the interconnections among people, places and things and demonstrates why...

Armand Mattelart / Invention Of Communication (Large Paperback)

1996 A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing...

Armand Mattelart / Mapping World Communication: War, Progress, Culture (Large Paperback)

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Immanuel Wallerstein / The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century (Large Paperback)

his book is nothing short of a state-of-the-world address, delivered by a scholar uniquely suited to the task. Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the most prominent social scientists of our time, documents...

Colin Lankshear / New Literacies (Large Paperback)

"Lankshear and Knobel's New Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning is a savvy and principled analysis of emerging socio-cultural conditions of digitization, the best take to date on education,...

Margaret A. Boden / Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches in theoretical psychology (Large Paperback)

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Davide Nicolini / Practice Theory, Work, and Organization: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

What is practice theory? Where do practice theories come from? What do they say? Do they really offer something new to the study of work and organization?In setting out to answer these questions,...

Donald A. Norman / Turn Signals Are The Facial Expressions Of Automobiles (Large Paperback)

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Jorn Rusen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback)

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Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback)

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Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback)

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Jerome Bruner / Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Large Paperback)

In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind...

Jerome Bruner / Toward a Theory of Instruction (Large Paperback)

This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is how children learn, and how they can...

Jerome Bruner / On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Large Paperback)

The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we...

Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback)

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James V. Wertsch / Culture, Communication, and Cognition: Vygotskian Perspectives (Large Paperback)

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Seth Chaiklin / Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (Large Paperback)

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Beth E. Kolko / Virtual Publics (Large Paperback)

How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law, architecture, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online...

T. B. Bottomore / Classes in Modern Society (Exact Copy)

The role of social class in contemporary society (the book was first published in 1966). The picture shown is the actual book you will receive.   Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an...

Alan J. Munro / Social Navigation of Information Space (Large Paperback)

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J.H. Erik Andriessen / Working with Groupware (Large Paperback)

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Michael H. Agar / Speaking of Ethnography (Large Paperback)

In this eloquently written volume Michael

Steinar Kvale / Doing Interviews (Large Paperback)

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Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak / Working Knowledge (Large Paperback)

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Donald Angus MacKenzie / Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change (Large Paperback)

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Julian E. Orr / Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job (Large Paperback)

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Doreen Massey, David Wield / The Good Research Guide (Large Paperback)

The first comprehensive survey and critic

Robert M. Emerson / Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Large Paperback)

In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field , three scholars reveal how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is...

Steinar Kvale / InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing (Large Paperback)

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Christine A. Finn / Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (Large Paperback)

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Rich Ling / Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere (Large Paperback)

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Christina Haas / Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy (Large Paperback)

Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the "computer...

James F. Slevin / The Internet and Society (Large Paperback)

The Internet and Society explores the imp

Eric Alfred Havelock / The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present (Large Paperback)

When oral culture becomes literate, in what way does human consciousness itself change? And how does the new form of communication affect the content and meaning of texts? In this book, one of the...

Leo Marx / Progress: Fact or Illusion (Large Paperback)

Progress, perhaps the fundamental secular belief of modern Western society, has come under heavy fire recently because, after three centuries, advances in science and technology seem increasingly to...

Marshall Sahlins / How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example (Large Paperback)

When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who...

Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Large Paperback)

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Ken Webster / The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in an Age of Globalization (Large Paperback)

For four decades now, information and communication technologies have been seen as principal drivers of socio-economic change. Stimulated in recent years by the Internet, the National Information...

Neill Nugent / Government and Politics of the European Union (Large Paperback)

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Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt / New Directions in Action Research (Large Paperback)

This collection provides a worldwide pers

Neill Nugent / The Government and Politics of the European Union (Large Paperback)

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Eoin Devereux / Devils and Angels: Television, Ideology, and the Coverage of Poverty (Large Paperback)

Exploring how television tells stories ab

George E. Marcus / Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas (Large Paperback)

Building on the legacy of Writing Culture

Edward de Bono - Lateral Thinking - A Textbook of Creativity - PB - 1978

HE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono.In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'...