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Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences + Ereference

By Todd K. Shackelford (editor)

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9783319246116 | Pap/psc edition (Springer Verlag, March 15, 2018), cover price $8025.00

Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives

By Gabriele Marranci (editor)

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9789400749214 | Har/psc edition (Springer Verlag, March 15, 2018), cover price $1440.00

9789400749191 | Springer Verlag, October 9, 2016, cover price $949.00

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

Product Description: This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of individual differences within the domain of personality, with major sub-topics including assessment and research design, taxonomy, biological factors, evolutionary evidence, motivation, cognition and emotion, as well as gender differences, cultural considerations, and personality disorders...read more

By Todd K. Shackelford (editor)

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9783319246109 | Springer Verlag, March 15, 2018, cover price $5350.00 | About this edition: This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of individual differences within the domain of personality, with major sub-topics including assessment and research design, taxonomy, biological factors, evolutionary evidence, motivation, cognition and emotion, as well as gender differences, cultural considerations, and personality disorders.

Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds

Product Description: Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set of innovative research methods to tackle this field of research...read more

By Johannes Sjoberg (editor)

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9781474264884 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 20, 2017, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures.

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9781474264877 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 20, 2017, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures.

The Sonic Persona: An Anthropology of Sound

Product Description: In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences...read more

By Holger Schulze

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9781501305467 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 9, 2017, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.

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9781501305450 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 9, 2017), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.

Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution

Product Description: Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail it Working together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false assumptions...read more

By Tonia St. Germain

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9781479854493 | New York Univ Pr, February 28, 2017, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail it Working together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false assumptions.

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9781479841943 | Reprint edition (New York Univ Pr, February 28, 2017), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail it Working together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false assumptions.

Islam and the Americas

Product Description: “A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media.”—Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity “Gives us an entirely different picture of Muslims in the Americas than can be found in the established literature...read more

By Aisha Khan (editor)

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9780813060132 | Univ Pr of Florida, April 28, 2015, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: “A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media.

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9780813054056 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Florida, February 1, 2017), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: “A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media.

Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

Product Description: With over 5 million copies sold worldwide of Fingerprints of the Gods, its New York Times bestselling sequel Magicians of the Gods brings new evidence supporting Hancock's thesis that a global cataclysm wiped out a great global civilization...read more

By Graham Hancock

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9781250045928 | Thomas Dunne Books, November 10, 2015, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization.

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9781250118400, titled "Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earthâs Lost Civilization" | Reprint edition (Griffin, January 31, 2017), cover price $19.99 | also contains Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earths Lost Civilization | About this edition: With over 5 million copies sold worldwide of Fingerprints of the Gods, its New York Times bestselling sequel Magicians of the Gods brings new evidence supporting Hancock's thesis that a global cataclysm wiped out a great global civilization.

Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of EarthÂs Lost Civilization

By Graham Hancock

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9781250118400, titled "Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earthâs Lost Civilization" | Reprint edition (Griffin, January 31, 2017), cover price $19.99 | also contains Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization | About this edition: With over 5 million copies sold worldwide of Fingerprints of the Gods, its New York Times bestselling sequel Magicians of the Gods brings new evidence supporting Hancock's thesis that a global cataclysm wiped out a great global civilization.

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9781427267870, titled "Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earthâs Lost Civilization" | St Martins Pr, November 10, 2015, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization.

Intersecting Cultures in Music and Dance Education: An Oceanic Perspective

Product Description: This volume looks forward and re-examines present day education and pedagogical practices in music and dance in the diverse cultural environments found in Oceania. The book also identifies a key issue of how teachers face the prospect of taking a reflexive view of their own cultural legacy in music and dance education as they work from and alongside different cultural worldviews...read more

By David Lines (editor)

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9783319289878 | Springer Verlag, June 5, 2016, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: This volume looks forward and re-examines present day education and pedagogical practices in music and dance in the diverse cultural environments found in Oceania.

Food and Multiculture: A Sensory Ethnography of East London

Product Description: With its 8.3 million occupants, London is a bustling and diverse metropolis characterized by rich histories of socioeconomic change and multiculture. The abundance of smells and tastes which can be experienced in the city are integral to understanding both its history and the reality of London's urban present...read more

By Rhys Taylor Alex

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9781472581167 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 26, 2017, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: With its 8.

Children of the Welfare State: Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families

Product Description: Children of the Welfare State uses the case of Denmarkâemployed as emblematic of the European stateâto consider the ways in which children are âcivilizedâ within child-focused institutions, such as schools, daycare, and the family unit, under the auspices of the welfare state...read more

By Eva Gullv

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9780745336091 | Pluto Pr, January 15, 2017, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Children of the Welfare State uses the case of Denmarkâemployed as emblematic of the European stateâto consider the ways in which children are âcivilizedâ within child-focused institutions, such as schools, daycare, and the family unit, under the auspices of the welfare state.

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9780745336046 | Reprint edition (Pluto Pr, January 15, 2017), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Children of the Welfare State uses the case of Denmarkâemployed as emblematic of the European stateâto consider the ways in which children are âcivilizedâ within child-focused institutions, such as schools, daycare, and the family unit, under the auspices of the welfare state.

Anthropology and Film

By Richard Baxstrom

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9780415709897 | Routledge, January 1, 2017, cover price $140.00

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9780415709903 | Reprint edition (Routledge, January 1, 2017), cover price $44.95

Maya and Catholic Cultures in Crisis

Product Description: In his most recent book, The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews, John Early examined the relationship between the Maya and the Catholic Church from the sixteenth century through the colonial and early national periods...read more

By John D. Early

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9780813040134 | Univ Pr of Florida, July 15, 2012, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: In his most recent book, The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews, John Early examined the relationship between the Maya and the Catholic Church from the sixteenth century through the colonial and early national periods.

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9780813054049 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Florida, January 1, 2017), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In his most recent book, The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews, John Early examined the relationship between the Maya and the Catholic Church from the sixteenth century through the colonial and early national periods.

Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley

Product Description: âProvides rich new ethnographic material on a little-known population, the Bedouin of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. It positions such marginal populations in the broader theoretical context of modernization and health and demographic transitions...read more

By Suzanne E. Joseph

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9780813044613 | Univ Pr of Florida, September 24, 2013, cover price $74.95

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9780813054100 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Florida, January 1, 2017), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: âProvides rich new ethnographic material on a little-known population, the Bedouin of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.

Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization

Product Description: In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Western world at that time. Deindustrialization made Genoa a bleak, dangerous, angry city, where the unemployment rate rose alongside increasing political violence and crime and led to a massive population loss as residents fled to find jobs and a safer life elsewhere...read more

By Emanuela Guano

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9780812248784 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 26, 2016, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Western world at that time.

Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life

Product Description: How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human...read more

By Harry Walker (editor)

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9780986132575 | Hau, December 15, 2016, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear.

The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice

Product Description: The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being...read more

By Andrew Irving

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9780997367515 | Hau, December 15, 2016, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death.

Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

Product Description: According to Worshiping Power, we need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, the State has never been anything other than a tool to accumulate power. This innoÂvative and partisan study of human social complexity cuts through inÂadequate theories of early state formation to uncover social practices and institutions that have stifled egalitarian forms of self-organization throughout history...read more

By Peter Gelderloos

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9781849352642 | A K Pr Distribution, December 13, 2016, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: According to Worshiping Power, we need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation.

From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

Product Description: In 1986 the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard mounted From Site to Sight, a groundbreaking traveling exhibition on the historic and contemporary uses of photography in anthropology. Using visual materials from the vast photographic archives of the Peabody Museum and the work of members of Harvardâs anthropology department, the accompanying catalog investigates how anthropologists have employed the camera as a recording and analytic tool and as an aesthetic medium...read more

By Ira Jacknis (introduced by)

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9780873658676 | Anv edition (Peabody Museum of Archaeology &, January 23, 2017), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In 1986 the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard mounted From Site to Sight, a groundbreaking traveling exhibition on the historic and contemporary uses of photography in anthropology.

Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States

Product Description: Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of those with identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hopÂ This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, âMuslim Cool...read more

By Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

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9781479872152 | New York Univ Pr, December 6, 2016, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of those with identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hopÂ This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, âMuslim Cool.

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9781479894505 | Reprint edition (New York Univ Pr, December 6, 2016), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of those with identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.

Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East

Product Description: The subject of climate change could hardly be more timely. In Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East, an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine climate change through the lens of new archaeological and paleo-environmental data over the course of more than 10,000 years from the Near East to Europe...read more

By Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse (editor)

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9781438461830 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The subject of climate change could hardly be more timely.

Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power

Product Description: What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be...read more

By Joanne Nucho

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9780691168968 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 29, 2016, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East?

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9780691168975 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 29, 2016), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East?

Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

Product Description: In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, most commentators distort these changes by calling them unprecedented...read more

By Andrew Stuhl

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9780226416649 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 18, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of climate change.

The Handbook of Food and Anthropology

Product Description: Interest in the anthropology of food has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first handbook to provide a detailed overview of all major areas of the field.Twenty original essays by leading figures in the discipline examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry...read more

By James L. Watson (editor)

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9780857855947 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 25, 2016, cover price $172.00 | About this edition: Interest in the anthropology of food has grown significantly in recent years.

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