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  • Food Consumption in Global Perspective

    Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody

    Edited by J. Klein, A. Murcott ...
    Series series Consumption and Public Life
    With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Food, Science and Society

    Exploring the Gap Between Expert Advice and Individual Behaviour

    by P.S. Belton, T. Belton, T. Beta, D. Burke, L. Frewer, A. Murcott, J. Reilly, G.M. Seddon ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

    $89.09 USD

  • The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging

    by Anne Murcott ...
    Series series Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
    Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging.From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and stretch-wrap, Murcott shows the importance of food packaging for global food systems. As a pioneering excursion into the many aspects of the history of ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Nation's Diet

    The Social Science of Food Choice

    by Anne Murcott ...
    'Why we eat what we eat?' is a key question for the 1990s, posed again and again in government departments, in sectors of the food industry, by professionals in health, in education, and in catering, to name a few. It is the same question adopted as the springboard for the UK Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Research Programme on 'The Nation's Diet' (1992-1998), a wide ranging, multi ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • First Buddhist Women

    Poems and Stories of Awakening

    by Susan Murcott ...
    First Buddhist Women is a readable, contemporary translation of and commentary on the enlightenment verses of the first female disciples of the Buddha. The book explores Buddhism’s relatively liberal attitude towards women since its founding nearly 2,600 years ago, through the study of the Therigatham, the earliest know collection of women’s religious poetry. Through commentary and storytelling, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • I'm Not Afraid of You

    by Annette Murcott ...
    In 2003, 32-year-old Annette Murcott was wrongfully charged with the wilful murder of her partner, Bevan, in Port Hedland in Western Australia. She was sent to Bandyup Prison in Perth for three long years before the charge was overturned.A lifelong battler, Annette presents a stomach-churning account of extreme abuse, love, murder, family loyalty and police corruption.She had endured a violent ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing the Sociology of Food and Eating

    by Anne Murcott ...
    This textbook equips students with the ability to analyze and think critically about contemporary food topics. A thorough introduction to the sociology of food and eating, the book also acts as a primer to the discipline of sociology more generally.Chapters start with a 'common sense' assumption about food which students frequently encounter in their own lives or in the mass media. Topics include ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Sociology and Medicine

    Selected Essays by P.M. Strong

    Edited by Anne Murcott ...
    Doctors and patients, inter-professional rivalries, how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in sociology and medicine. These are also the long-running intellectual preoccupations of Philip M. Strong's twenty-year contribution to the field - one which he did much to shape. Posthumously gathered together for the first time in this volume, are ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Developments in Sociology

    by Robert Burgess, Anne Murcott ...
    Series series New Sociologies Series
    Appropriate as a supplemental text to courses in Sociology. Providing an overview grounded in research. Developments in Sociology focuses on the major areas of theoretical, methodological and substantive developments in sociology. Each author takes a field of study in which they are an acknowledged expert and highlights the way in which the subject has developed over the last fifty years. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The craft of writing in sociology

    Developing the argument in undergraduate essays and dissertations

    by Andrew Balmer, Anne Murcott ...
    This is an indispensable companion for students studying sociology and related disciplines, such as politics and human geography, as well as courses which draw upon sociological writing, such as nursing, social psychology or health studies. It demystifies the process of constructing coherent and powerful arguments, starting from an essay's opening paragraphs, building evidence and sequencing key ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociologies of Food and Drink

    Edited by Anne Murcott, Mari Niva ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook presents a novel approach to updated, authoritative accounts of research on the sociologies of food and drink.Foregrounding the discipline of sociology in its various forms, it presents a range of theoretical approaches – including theories of practice, figurational sociology, symbolic interactionism, Conversation Analysis as well as inspiration derived from Science and Technology ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Prospects for the National Health

    Edited by Paul Atkinson, Robert Dingwall, Anne Murcott ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The British National Health Service celebrated its thirtieth birthday in 1978. A Royal Commission was set up to consider the role of the National Health Service, and it is the debates that surrounded this Royal Commission that form the basis for the twelve topics covered by this book.The economic difficulties that the country was facing when this book was published in 1979 highlighted the widely ... Read more

    $69.99 USD