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  • Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland

    Webs of Significance

    by T. Inglis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going. To help reveal the complexity and intricacy of the webs of meaning in which they are suspended, Tom Inglis interviewed one-hundred people in their native home of Ireland to discover what was most important and meaningful for them in their lives. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • A Modest Proposal / For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    A modest of perposal of preventing the children of poor people for being a burthen to their parents or country, or making them beneficial to the public, commonly referred to as a modern purposal is a juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. ... Read more

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  • Bird on Fire

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies

    Edited by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping discourses and policies of diversity include race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexuality ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa

    Coethnic Strangers

    by Claire L. Adida ...
    This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence. It shows, counterintuitively, that cultural similarities between immigrants and their hosts do not help immigrant integration and may, in fact, disrupt it. This book is one of the first to describe and explain in a systematic way immigrant ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Café Society

    Edited by A. Tjora, G. Scambler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafés, café as surrogate office, and café as site of exchange for news and views. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Sounds and the City

    Popular Music, Place and Globalization

    Edited by B. Lashua, K. Spracklen, S. Wagg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies

    Edited by H. Lenskyj, S. Wagg ...
    A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Football, Ethnicity and Community

    The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club

    by Paul Ian Campbell ...
    Series Book 6 - Sport, History and Culture
    Winner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the British African-Caribbean male experience in leisure and sport as well as on the relationship between «race» ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • The Battle for the High Street

    Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust

    by Phil Hubbard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets are ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Regenerating Regional Culture

    A Study of the International Book Town Movement

    by Jane Frank ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the significance of the international book town movement and its impact on contemporary society. It examines how book towns have emerged and how their culture and unique characteristics help to explain a steadily growing phenomenon that has enabled peripheral communities around the world to reclaim their economic futures and impact on the cultural sphere as increasingly powerful ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Culture of the Slow

    Social Deceleration in an Accelerated World

    Edited by N. Osbaldiston ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume explores this new brand of living that entails not simply slowing down but an embracing of alternative activities that promote meaning, thoughtfulness, engagement and authenticity. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD