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  • Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Tanu, Danau

    Publisher: Berghahn Books

    Date Published: 12-2020

    ISBN: 1789207959 | EAN: 9781789207958

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Pages: 296

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  • Ohb Archaeology Ohbk P

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Al, Cunliffe Et

    Publisher: Academic

    Date Published: 07-2020

    ISBN: 0198855206 | EAN: 9780198855200

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Pages: 1184

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  • Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global

    BasicBinding: Hardcover

    Author: Norris, Sian

    Publisher: Verso

    Date Published: 06-2023

    ISBN: 1839764732 | EAN: 9781839764738

    BasicBinding: Hardcover

    Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 304

    Annotation: "An exposâe of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics, and their connections to the US far right"--

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  • Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America Volume 53

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Flores, Andrea

    Publisher: University of California Press

    Date Published: 09-2021

    ISBN: 0520376854 | EAN: 9780520376854

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 312

    Annotation: "This book--a story of social reproduction and change--illustrates how the larger ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valuable, and who is an American are worked out by young people through their everyday acts of striving in school and caring for friends and family. It uses the experiences of everyday high schoolers, some undocumented and some from families with mixed legal standing, to understand the roles that education and a broad definition of achievement play in shaping how young people, who are today the focus of xenophobic ire, come to understand their national identity and sense of belonging to the United States"--

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  • Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia

    Publisher: Stanford University Press

    Date Published: 12-2019

    ISBN: 1503610896 | EAN: 9781503610897

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Illustrated, Maps | Pages: 344

    Annotation: "In 1995, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Israel transferred responsibility for waste management in the West Bank to the nascent Palestinian government. While electricity, water, roads, and telecommunications remained largely controlled by Israel building new waste infrastructures and controlling the movements and effects of Palestinians' wastes became central to efforts to demonstrate the Authority's ability to be state-like. Waste Siege asks what is made possible, and what other ways of being are foreclosed, in the rubble, debris, and infrastructural fallout of decades of struggle to live a livable life among waste. Tracing Palestinians' own experiences of wastes over the past decade highlights the significance of the presence of multiple governing authorities in the West Bank-including municipalities, the Palestinian Authority, international aid organizations, NGOs, and political groups, as well as Israeli control-shows how all of these actors rule Palestinian lives by waste siege"--

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  • Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses

    BasicBinding: Hardcover

    Author: Koudounaris, Paul

    Publisher: Thames & Hudson

    Date Published: 10-2011

    ISBN: 0500251789 | EAN: 9780500251782

    BasicBinding: Hardcover

    Features: Bibliography, Bookmark, Index, Illustrated, Table of Contents, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product | Pages: 224

    Annotation: From bone fetishism in the ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual and compelling work of cultural history.

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  • Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Yu, Pei-Lin

    Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

    Date Published: 09-1997

    ISBN: 082631807X | EAN: 9780826318077

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Illustrated | Pages: 252

    Annotation: A personal view not only of a people whose life as savannah foragers is unique and fast-disappearing, but of the thoughts and actions of a young woman researcher during the hardest, and most exciting time in her life.

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  • Magical House Protection: The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Hoggard, Brian

    Publisher: Berghahn Books

    Date Published: 01-2021

    ISBN: 1800730217 | EAN: 9781800730212

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Bibliography | Pages: 336

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  • Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Perley, Bernard C

    Publisher: University of Toronto Press

    Date Published: 04-2022

    ISBN: 1487526377 | EAN: 9781487526375

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Glossary, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 472

    Annotation:

    This new collection of anthropological theory updates and diversifies the canon with contributions by important yet underrepresented scholars and theoretical discussions that reflect the state of the discipline today.

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  • Last Days of the Afghan Republic: A Doomed Evacuation Twenty Years in the Making

    BasicBinding: Hardcover

    Author: Coburn, Noah

    Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

    Date Published: 07-2023

    ISBN: 1538178087 | EAN: 9781538178089

    BasicBinding: Hardcover

    Features: Bibliography, Index | Pages: 330

    Annotation: Part memoir and part historical account, The Last Days of the Afghan Republic tells the story of four Afghans--how the evacuation forced them from their homes, divided their families, and changed the course of their lives forever.

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  • Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Yano, Christine R

    Publisher: Duke University Press

    Date Published: 04-2013

    ISBN: 0822353636 | EAN: 9780822353638

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents | Pages: 336

    Annotation: Tracing the global circulation and consumption of Hello Kitty, Christine R. Yano analyzes the spread of Japanese "cute-cool" culture, which she sees as combining kitsch with an ironic self-referentiality.

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  • Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: King, Charles

    Publisher: Anchor Books

    Date Published: 07-2020

    ISBN: 0525432329 | EAN: 9780525432326

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Price on Product, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 480

    Annotation: "A ... group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a ... chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves"--Publisher's description.

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  • Lost Art of Finding Our Way

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Huth, John Edward

    Publisher: Belknap Press

    Date Published: 11-2015

    ISBN: 0674088077 | EAN: 9780674088078

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Illustrated, Maps, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 544

    Annotation: Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative--part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history--brings our own world into sharper view.

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  • Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Narby, Jeremy

    Publisher: Tarcherperigee

    Date Published: 03-2006

    ISBN: 1585424617 | EAN: 9781585424610

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents, Price on Product | Pages: 288

    List Price: $15.95 Added to Cart - View Cart

  • Home: A Very Short Introduction

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Fox, Michael Allen

    Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

    Date Published: 02-2017

    ISBN: 0198747233 | EAN: 9780198747239

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Illustrated, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 144

    Annotation: Ideas of home play a prominent role in the way people of all cultures frame an understanding of their lives. This Very Short Introduction considers the enduring concept of home in our modern world, as international and local migration, homelessness, and uprootenedness threaten to destabilize our traditional notions of place and belonging.

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  • First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Von Petzinger, Genevieve

    Publisher: Atria Books

    Date Published: 03-2017

    ISBN: 1476785503 | EAN: 9781476785509

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 328

    Annotation: "Archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger looks past the horses, bison, ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings and instead focuses on the abstract geometric images that accompany them. She offers her research on the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures--signs that have never really been studied or explained until now"--

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  • Omnivores Dilemma

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Pollan, Michael

    Publisher: Large Print Press

    Date Published: 04-2007

    ISBN: 1594132054 | EAN: 9781594132056

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Large Print, Bibliography, Table of Contents, Price on Product | Pages: 710

    Annotation: Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming, organic food, and what it is like to hunt and gather food, this is a surprisingly honest and self-aware account of the evolution of the modern diet.

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology (SL and HL): Revise IB TestPrep Workbook

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Rowan, Amelia

    Publisher: Extend Education

    Date Published: 12-2019

    ISBN: 1913121046 | EAN: 9781913121044

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Pages: 126

    Annotation:

    Practice exam papers are one of the best ways to make students feel confident and prepared for their exams. With full sets of exam-style papers, this SOCANTH TestPrep Workbook is the perfect resource to use as part of exam revision.

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  • Way of Tea: Health, Harmony, and Inner Calm

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Author: Fisher, Aaron

    Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

    Date Published: 06-2022

    ISBN: 080485436X | EAN: 9780804854368

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Illustrated, Price on Product | Pages: 272

    Annotation: "Readers will learn ... about all aspects of tea--from the practical to the spiritual--and how they can implement the accompanying ancient traditions into their modern life. With [this book], you'll start by tapping into the wisdom and insights of the Chinese tea masters, learn more about the distinct practices of the chanoyu (tea ceremony), and delve into the healthful and holistic benefits of drinking tea. With its antioxidants, polyphenols, and amino acids, tea reduces the risk of cancer and heart disease, lowers blood pressure, relieves stress, can help prevent diabetes and eye disease, and improve dental health"--Publisher marketing.

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  • 70's Biweekly: Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

    Date Published: 06-2023

    ISBN: 9888805703 | EAN: 9789888805709

    BasicBinding: Paperback

    Features: Illustrated | Pages: 296

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