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Being Ethnographicby Raymond Madden
Sage Publications Ltd. 2010; US$ 45.00Full of practical 'how to' tips for applying theoretical methods - 'doing ethnography' - this book also provides anecdotal evidence and advice for new and experienced researchers on how to engage with their own participation in the field - 'being ethnographic'. The book clearly sets out the important definitions, methods and applications of field research whilst reinforcing the infinite variability of the human subject and addressing the challenges presented by ethnographers' own passions, intellectual interests, biases and ideologies. Classic and personal real-world case studies are used by the author to introduce new researchers to the reality of applying ethnographic theory and practice in the field. Topics include:... more...
Social Determinants of Indigenous Healthby Bronwyn Carson; Terry Dunbar; Richard D. Chenhall; Ross Bailie
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 45.40A systematic overview of the impact of social and political factors on the health of Australia's Indigenous population. Australia's Aboriginal and Islander groups suffer ?Fourth World' standards of health: this book explains the causes for such poor healt more...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updatedby Thom Hartmann
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 11.99While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s web movie Global Warning, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture’s blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem. Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive book, originally published in 1998, has become one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement. Now, with fresh, updated material and a focus on political activism and its effect... more...
Human Ecologyby Gerald G. Marten
Earthscan 2001; US$ 32.95The scope and clarity of this book make it accessible and informative to a wide readership. Its messages should be an essential component of the education for all students from secondary school to university... [It] provides a clear and comprehensible account of concepts that can be applied in our individual and collective lives to pursue the promising and secure future to which we all aspire'From the Foreword by Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Earth Council and former Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit)The most important questions of the future will turn on the relationship between human societies and the natural ecosystems on which we all, in the end, depend. The interactions... more...
The World Is Flat 3.0by Thomas L. Friedman; Oliver Wyman
Picador 2007; US$ 9.99This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back , by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011. A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis,... more...
The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine Historyby John Haldon
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2010; US$ 29.00The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded by foes who posed a constant threat to its very existence, it survived because of its administration, army and the strength of its culture, of which Orthodox Christianity was a key element. This historical atlas charts key aspects of the political, social and economic history of a medieval empire which bridged the Christian and Islamic worlds from the late Roman period into the late Middle Ages. more...
Planning Australiaby Susan Thompson; Paul Maginn
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 60.00Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today. more...
Realism and Racismby Bob Carter
Routledge 2000; US$ 63.99This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with issues of race before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. more...
Making Places in the Prehistoric Worldby Joanna Bruck; Melissa Goodman
Routledge 1999; US$ 42.95This book draws together research from around the world to explore settlement as culturally constructed place, process and practice. It addresses issues central to the study of prehistoric settlement including group memory, the transmission of ideology and the impact of mobility and seasonality on the construction of social identity. Building on these themes, the contributors point to new ways of understanding the relationship between settlement and landscape by replacing Capitalist models of spatial relations with more intimate histories of place. Of particular interest to students of archaeology, this book will also be of interest to researchers in cultural anthropology and geography. more...
History of Settlement in Irelandby Terry Barry
Routledge 1999; US$ 120.00This book aims to provide a stimulating overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to modern times. The contributors analyze issues such as settlement change and distribution within the environment. more...









