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The supplemented edition of this important reader includes a substantive new introduction by the author on the changing nature of feminist methodology. It takes into account the implications of a maj …

Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed 'our narcotic mod …

Older People in Modern Society is an established classic text in its field and through subsequent editions its reputation and that of its author has grown. In this fourth and renamed edition, Anthea …

A beautifully written, trenchant, and moving memoir, When Marx Mattered follows Harold J. Bershady”s odyssey from childhood through his coming of intellectual age. The wounds and pleasures of his ch …

Anthropology is primarily done in the field, unlike the laboratory oriented experimental sciences. Experimental sciences make their observations in constructed settings that permit variables influenc …

The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century. His most famous book, The Protestant E …

How does one investigate a child maltreatment case when the victim is blind, mute, deaf, mentally retarded, or confined to an institution? Special Children, Special Risks presents analysis, recommend …

What is 'too fat’? what is 'too thin’? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures. Meeting weight expectations is a major concern for many people because failing to do so m …

Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little”s highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational ps …

Originally published in 1972. Hoover’s first publication, his doctoral dissertation, set the stage for a life-long preoccupation with spatial economics from when it was a relatively new field. His wo …