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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by Joel Robbins, Simon Coleman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual background to how anthropologists approach religion, and to show why its study remains a dynamic means of reflecting on ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Introduction to Differential Geometry

    by Joel W. Robbin, Dietmar A. Salamon ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook is suitable for a one semester lecture course on differential geometry for students of mathematics or STEM disciplines with a working knowledge of analysis, linear algebra, complex analysis, and point set topology. The book treats the subject both from an extrinsic and an intrinsic view point.The first chapters give a historical overview of the field and contain an introduction to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Matrix Algebra Using MINimal MATlab

    by Joel W. Robbin ...
    The strength of this textbook lies in the careful exposition of mathematical thinking, basic set-theoretic notions, and proof techniques combined with contemporary numerical methods used throughout the book. A basic version of computer programs compatible with the widely used program MatLab, and exercises are provided on a disk included with the book.Warmup * Matrix Operations * Invertible ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • The Moment-Weight Inequality and the Hilbert–Mumford Criterion

    GIT from the Differential Geometric Viewpoint

    by Valentina Georgoulas, Joel W. Robbin, Dietmar Arno Salamon ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book provides an introduction to geometric invariant theory from a differential geometric viewpoint. It is inspired by certain infinite-dimensional analogues of geometric invariant theory that arise naturally in several different areas of geometry. The central ingredients are the moment-weight inequality relating the Mumford numerical invariants to the norm of the moment map, the negative ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life

    by Joel Robbins ...
    Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity. Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Where is the Good in the World?

    Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

    Edited by Anna Strhan, Joel Robbins, David Henig ...
    Series Book 12 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • 31-Day Food Revolution

    Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World

    by Ocean Robbins ...
    **Heal your body, lose excess weight, and free yourself from toxic food with this simple guide focusing on sustainable food."A breadth of information." —Rip Esselstyn, New York Times bestselling author of The Engine 2 Cookbook**31-Day Food Revolution is your guide to liberation from a toxic food world. Author Ocean Robbins reveals the secrets the industrialized food industry doesn't want you to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

    Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change

    by Holly Wardlow ...
    Series series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism

    by Joel Robbins ...
    The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism

    by Joel Robbins ...
    The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Values of Happiness

    Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life

    by Joel Robbins ...
    Series series Special Issues in Ethnographic Theory
    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. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Remarkable Friendship of Aristotle & Burgoo

    by James L. Robbins ...
    Illustrated by Joel Ray Pellerin ...
    Aristotle, a small, shy cloud, and Burgoo, a happy fun-loving pelican, are the best of friends that spend all their time together. One day Aristotle is told he does not act like a cloud and he must go to Thunderstorm School...without Burgoo! Aristotle learns that Thunderstorm School is not the school for him while Burgoo makes a plan to see his friend again. Together they hatch a plan to find a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD