Saskia (Columbia University, USA) Sassen 
Cities in a World Economy [EPUB ebook] 

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget”s work in psychology, education and philosophy duri …

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the 'war between the sexes’. It deals with the politics of large state-sized …

This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education – either in general studies programmes or as aspects …

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, …

Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established unders …

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the United States today. The bitter national debate over California”s Proposition 187, the influx of Cuban refugees into Miami, and th …

In today”s political climate the status and future of the trade unions are subjects of particular interest. Yet apart from national leaders of major unions little is known about full-time trade unio …

Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape – and are shaped by – the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and …

First published in 2001. This book provides a socio-legal analysis of disasters by setting out two sport and leisure disasters (the 1989 Hillsborough and Marchioness disasters) and considering them i …

This book is a collection of original case studies describing anthropological knowledge successfully translated into action. It describes the targeted problem or issue, his or her role as an anthropo …