Tiantian Zheng 
Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia [PDF ebook] 

A major new resource book for academics and students of youth studies, this work offers a rare comparative review of a field which is often focused on the local or national situation. Drawing togethe …

This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river t …

This title was first published in 2000: An investigation of how the claims of minority groups for greater political power through »autonomy» and »secession» clash with the concerns of the nation- …

This book was published in 2003.How has NATO managed to survive and transform itself into a peace-enforcement organization? Challenging the dominant assumption that NATO intervened in the Balkans bec …

This title was first published in 2003. The media is an important influence on how a company or organization is perceived. This is an insider»s guide to media handling, showing readers what needs to …

Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism, ’ …

“Maurice Bloch is so ferociously smart that one can always enjoy tangling with his ideas, even when—perhaps especially when—one doesn’t agree with him. This is an important and provocative book.” —Sh …

In this book, Charles R. Acland examines the culture that has produced both our heightened state of awareness and the bedrock reality of youth violence in the United States. Beginning with a critique …

Organizations increasingly use temporary designs. Many temporary organizations are assembled by ‘mixing and matching’ building blocks from static, bureaucratic, parent organizations into a temporary …

What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country. This book explores t …