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Taming Time, Timing Death
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death, or communicate with the dead,... more...
The Language of Miracles
New World Library 2010; US$ 15.95Filled with amazing stories, The Language of Miracles inspires readers to sit down with the animals in their lives and explore the unspoken world between them. more...
The Urban Design Reader
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 74.95The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following... more...
Modernities
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.50Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which have defined the development of our modern world: today's consumer modernity preceded by the industrial modernity of the nineteenth century which was... more...
Population and Development in the Third World
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 46.95Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate, for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers also have long-reaching effects on those left behind.... more...
Terms of Trade and Class Relations
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 80.00Published in the year 1977, Terms of Trade and Class Relations is a valuable contribution to the field of History. more...
Economic Growth in the Asia Pacific Region
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 100.00This book seeks to account for what James H. Gapinski calls the "miraculous" growth of Asian economies. He examines several major determinants of growth, including capital quantity (gross investment and physical depreciation), capital quality (embodied technical progress), labor quantity (employment), labor quality (education), international... more...
Philip Roth's Rude Truth
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 23.95Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half... more...
Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2006; US$ 28.99This ethnographic study explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and the individual experience of employment and economic change at the household level. Author Greta Friedemann-Sánchez's challenges the current academic consensus that transnational assembly line industries reinforce patriarchal... more...
Gender Diversity in Indonesia
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 148.00Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores the nature of gender diversity in Indonesia, and with the world?s largest Muslim population, it examines Islam in this context. Based... more...









