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This is the classic text on the art of sugar boiling and all its branches, covering the manufacture of fondants, creams, chocolates, pastilles, jujubes (jelly babies) comfits, lozenges (plain and med …

In this book David Mansley argues that the frequency with which violence intrudes on to the streets is related to both how society is governed and how it is policed. With the help of an innovative me …

First Published in 1998. This is Volume IV of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Stemming from an original study on social mobility, this book looks at B …

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sc …

Meaning in Culture discusses the question of whether ”culture” refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right, or is only convenient short-hand for the shared beliefs and behaviour …

With contributions from leading researchers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore, this volume contains personal, imaginative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit …

Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities o …

This is volume III of six in a series on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1949, Study of Rural Economy in Yunnan. …

This study focuses on a set of issues at the forefront of feminist thought in the late 1990s: identity, difference and their implications for feminist politics. As feminism moves into an era in which …

First Published in 2004. Why did Michael Jordan quit basketball and take up baseball? Why was Martina Navratilova so successful as a professional tennis player? Why did Diego Maradona take performanc …