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The Coyote's Bicycle - The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire (Paperback): Kimball Taylor The Coyote's Bicycle - The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire (Paperback)
Kimball Taylor
R489 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R71 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Solving Problems Together (Paperback): Antonio Sacre Solving Problems Together (Paperback)
Antonio Sacre
R295 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R49 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Learn to solve problems together with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity for grade 2. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool, to explore important world issues, communication, and collaboration.

Who We Are (Paperback): Joe Rhatigan Who We Are (Paperback)
Joe Rhatigan
R242 R196 Discovery Miles 1 960 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discover the meaning of culture! This nonfiction book examines diverse cultures and encourages students to celebrate their differences. Made for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, an extension activity, discussion questions, and more beneficial features. This 24-page full-color book describes how food, games, holidays, and more vary from culture to culture. It also covers relevant themes such as kindness and being different, and includes an extension activity for Grade 1. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool to learn about multicultural society, world studies, and diversity.

Bulletproof - Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Paperback): Jennifer Wenzel Bulletproof - Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Paperback)
Jennifer Wenzel
R175 R137 Discovery Miles 1 370 Save R38 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet's command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements - such as the Ghost Dance in North America and the Birsa Munda uprising in India - these actions were meant to transform the world and liberate the Xhosa from oppression. Despite the movement's momentous failure to achieve that goal, the event has continued to exert a powerful pull on the South African imagination ever since. It is these afterlives of the prophecy that Jennifer Wenzel explores in Bulletproof. Wenzel examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing-harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation - to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Widening her lens, Wenzel also looks at how past failure can both inspire and constrain movements for justice in the present, and her brilliant insights into the cultural implications of prophecy will fascinate readers across a wide variety of disciplines.

The Tyranny of Merit - Can We Find the Common Good? (Paperback): Michael J. Sandel The Tyranny of Merit - Can We Find the Common Good? (Paperback)
Michael J. Sandel
R469 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R201 (43%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Delusions of Crowds - Why People Go Mad in Groups (Hardcover): William J Bernstein The Delusions of Crowds - Why People Go Mad in Groups (Hardcover)
William J Bernstein
R960 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R166 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries "We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups--with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last 500 years--from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today's polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles of recent years. Through Bernstein's supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their motivation, invariably "the desire to improve one's well-being in this life or the next." As revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein's chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania: for example, belief in dispensationalist End-Times has over decades profoundly affected U.S. Middle East policy. Bernstein observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact.

Intangible Cultural Heritage Under National and International Law - Going Beyond the 2003 UNESCO Convention (Hardcover): Marie... Intangible Cultural Heritage Under National and International Law - Going Beyond the 2003 UNESCO Convention (Hardcover)
Marie Cornu, Anita Vaivade, Lily Martinet, Clea Hance
R2,972 Discovery Miles 29 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This illuminating book offers an authoritative analysis of the legal issues relating to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Taking a critical approach, it provides a unique insight into the impact of international and national law on the present and future safeguarding processes of intangible cultural heritage. Expert contributors draw on the results of an international study conducted in 26 countries to illustrate how domestic laws comprehend the notion of intangible cultural heritage. The book explores the relationship that these states maintain with the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, and highlights challenging concepts, including the principle of participation and community and the nature of safeguarding. Through the analysis and synthesis of empirical data, the book also identifies new developments in cultural heritage law. This book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of cultural heritage law, as well as anthropology, ethnology, and cultural studies. Its panorama of national experiences will also be beneficial for persons involved in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, including policy makers and NGOs.

Organizational Ethnography (Hardcover): Monika Kostera, Nancy Harding Organizational Ethnography (Hardcover)
Monika Kostera, Nancy Harding
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ethnography is at the heart of what researchers in management and organization studies do. This crucial book offers a robust and original overview of ''doing'' organizational ethnography, guiding readers through the essential qualitative methods for the study of organizations. Preparing students to enter the field with a confident outlook and a toolkit of skills, chapters present a series of action-learning projects to arm readers with practical exercises that will hone the abilities of the organizational ethnographer. Expert contributors offer crucial outlines into a variety of essential skills, including shadowing, autoethnography, interviews, media analysis and storytelling. The book concludes with a chapter by a doctoral student, providing unique insights into the development of the ethnographic understanding of organizational realities. Featuring useful exercises and an accessible style, this book is critical reading for PhD and Masters students in business administration and organizational theory, as well as social science students undertaking qualitative methodology programmes. It will also be useful for students on MBA courses in need of a humanistic approach to organizations.

Forbidden Flowers - More Women's Sexual Fantasies (Paperback): Nancy Friday Forbidden Flowers - More Women's Sexual Fantasies (Paperback)
Nancy Friday
R471 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Today, women everywhere clamor for the latest erotic bestselling novels--their scenes of daring sexual exploits have fired up our collective imagination. But before we turned to fiction for our turn-ons, Nancy Friday unleashed a sexual revolution with her collections of uninhibited writings--the "real "fantasies of "real "women, in books that broke "all "the rules. . . .
FORBIDDEN FLOWERS
After "My Secret Garden," Nancy Friday's first boundary-shattering collection, rocked America and freed women to put their most private longings and secret desires into words for all to read, hundreds more were inspired to do just that: From the seeds sown in "My Secret Garden "grew "Forbidden Flowers," an even more explicit and colorful gathering of daring imaginings, uninhibited dreamings, and real-life experimental encounters experienced by women just like you. More fun than fiction, more supremely sexy than you ever imagined, here are the kinds of fantasies that dare you to cross a line and pluck some forbidden flowers of your very own.

A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (Hardcover, 3rd edition): James G. Carrier A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
James G. Carrier
R6,695 Discovery Miles 66 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offering a new and comprehensive overview of important topics and orientations in the anthropological study of economic life, this invigorating third edition of A Handbook of Economic Anthropology addresses key changes in the decade since the previous edition in people's economic lives and environments, as well as in intellectual interest among scholars. The Handbook contains diverse reflections on the economic turmoil of 2008 and the austerity that followed. Containing 35 newly commissioned chapters from important scholars in the field, it covers the nature of work and the changing ways people think about it, as stable jobs give way to short term work and the platform economy, as well as the expansion of the financial sector and efforts to control it. Chapters further explore social reproduction, the maintenance and regeneration of households and social relations over time, as well as the increasing concern with value, morality and ethics, both as things that motivate people and as policy orientations. This will be a critical read for academic anthropologists looking for a state-of-the-art and thorough reference work for this key area of the discipline. Economic sociologists and geographers, as well as heterodox economists will also benefit from the broad range of empirical work and theoretical standpoints explored.

Food Fray - Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food (Paperback, Special Ed.): Lisa H. Weasel Food Fray - Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food (Paperback, Special Ed.)
Lisa H. Weasel
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When famine struck Africa in 2002, several nations refused shipments of genetically modified foods, fueling a controversy that put the issue on the world's political agenda for good. In this thought-provoking exploration, esteemed molecular biologist Dr. Lisa H. Weasel brings readers into the center of this debate, capturing the real-life experiences of the scientists, farmers, policymakers, and grassroots activists on the front lines. Combining solid scientific knowledge and a gripping narrative to tell the real story behind the headlines and the hype, Food Fray approaches the topic of genetically-modified foods from an intimate, insider perspective so readers can draw their own conclusions about the validity of the opposing arguments and the safety of consuming these foods in their homes. Since the beginning, Americans have openly embraced the new genetically modified foods filling their grocery shelves while Europeans have remained much warier of these "Frankenfoods." Seminal and cutting-edge, Food Fray enlightens and informs readers with "food for thought" about one of the most important issues facing us today.

To Poison a Nation - The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America (Hardcover): Andrew Baker To Poison a Nation - The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America (Hardcover)
Andrew Baker
R780 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R120 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance, police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in turn-of-the-century New Orleans that holds up a dark mirror to our own times.--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands. Building outwards from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects one city's troubled past to the modern crisis of white supremacy and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses readers in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to the nation's largest African American community, a place where racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion--but which ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized violence: modern policing. A major new work of history, To Poison a Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and police violence in our own times.

Field Guide to Intercultural Research (Paperback): David S.A. Guttormsen, Jakob Lauring, Malcolm Chapman Field Guide to Intercultural Research (Paperback)
David S.A. Guttormsen, Jakob Lauring, Malcolm Chapman
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This informative Field Guide to Intercultural Research is specifically designed to be used in the field, guiding the reader away from pitfalls and towards best practice. It shares valuable fieldwork challenges and experiences, as well as insights into key methodological debates and practical recommendations relevant to both new and seasoned researchers. Offering an international outlook and featuring insights from across four continents, this invaluable guide introduces new methods and approaches to data analysis, tackling various research phases, including perspectives from quantitative researchers. It focuses on the role of culture and the intercultural challenges that fieldworkers encounter, enticing readers into further conversations concerning the role of fieldwork in producing new knowledge. Expert contributors illustrate the benefits of field research in intercultural research not only to academic literature, but also to organisational policies and the societies within which we work and live. Including insights from the fields of ethnography and social anthropology, this cutting edge guide is crucial reading for all students and researchers of business and management studies as well as organisational development hoping to begin their foray into fieldwork, as well as experienced scholars looking for new approaches to field research. It will also benefit management professionals and consultants in need of an expanded knowledge-base for coFnducting action research or other interventions in organisations.

Organizational Ethnography (Paperback): Monika Kostera, Nancy Harding Organizational Ethnography (Paperback)
Monika Kostera, Nancy Harding
R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ethnography is at the heart of what researchers in management and organization studies do. This crucial book offers a robust and original overview of ''doing'' organizational ethnography, guiding readers through the essential qualitative methods for the study of organizations. Preparing students to enter the field with a confident outlook and a toolkit of skills, chapters present a series of action-learning projects to arm readers with practical exercises that will hone the abilities of the organizational ethnographer. Expert contributors offer crucial outlines into a variety of essential skills, including shadowing, autoethnography, interviews, media analysis and storytelling. The book concludes with a chapter by a doctoral student, providing unique insights into the development of the ethnographic understanding of organizational realities. Featuring useful exercises and an accessible style, this book is critical reading for PhD and Masters students in business administration and organizational theory, as well as social science students undertaking qualitative methodology programmes. It will also be useful for students on MBA courses in need of a humanistic approach to organizations.

Teaching Cultural Economics (Paperback): Trine Bille, Anna Mignosa, Ruth Towse Teaching Cultural Economics (Paperback)
Trine Bille, Anna Mignosa, Ruth Towse
R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cultural economics deals with many aspects of the creative economy including the art market, heritage, live performing arts and cultural industries. Teaching Cultural Economics introduces the range and scope of these subjects through short chapters by experienced teachers who are expert in the topic of their chapters. The guide starts out with chapters on the experience of teaching cultural economics by leading exponents in the field. Chapters then follow grouped by general topic: financing cultural production, artists' labour markets, consumer behaviour in the cultural sector, digitisation and copyright and case studies of creative industries. The breadth of material provided within these pages is invaluable to teachers who wish to offer courses in cultural economics and are seeking guidance for developing a new course, as well as for teachers who are already teaching cultural economics and are seeking inspiration for new case studies. The material can also be used by teachers of other courses who wish to teach cultural economics as part of their curriculum. Contributors include: V. Ateca-Amestoy, H. Bakhshi, A. Baldin, F. Benhamou, T. Bille, E. Bjornsen, R. Buijze, S. Cameron, L. Champarnaud, D.C. Chisholm, M.J. del Barrio-Tellado, L. Delomeaux, J. Denis, P. Di Caro, L. Di Gaetano, J. Farchy, K. Goto, C. Handke, S.J.C. Hemels, L.C. Herrero- Prieto, P. Kaszynska, E. Lazzaro, I. Mazza, J. McKenzie, A. Mignosa, T. Navarrete, T. Orme, G. Pignataro, I. Rizzo, B. Seaman, R. Towse

Souvenir Guide The Burrell Collection (Paperback): Glasgow Life Museums Souvenir Guide The Burrell Collection (Paperback)
Glasgow Life Museums
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Understanding Race (Paperback): Rob Desalle, Ian Tattersall Understanding Race (Paperback)
Rob Desalle, Ian Tattersall
R392 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races, which do not actually exist as definable entities. Starting with a consideration of evolution and the mechanisms of diversification in nature, this book moves to an examination of attitudes to human variation throughout history, showing that it was only with the advent of slavery that considerations of human variation became politicized. It then embarks on a consideration of how racial classifications have been applied to genomic studies, demonstrating how individualized genomics is a much more effective approach to clinical treatments. It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human variation, at either the genomic or physical levels.

Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives (Paperback): Michele J.... Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives (Paperback)
Michele J. Gelfand
R480 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ethnicity, Inc. (Paperback): John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff Ethnicity, Inc. (Paperback)
John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
R160 R125 Discovery Miles 1 250 Save R35 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In Ethnicity, Inc., John L. and Jean Comaroff explore a range of intriguing, disturbing, even absurd phenomena to analyse a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Ethno-theme parks; Native American casinos; Scotland the brand; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; San 'Bushmen' with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the growth of marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations are just some of the diverse examples that fall under the Comaroffs' incisive scrutiny. Through these examples they trace the contradictory effects of neoliberalism as it transforms identities and social being across the globe. Intellectually rigorous, but leavened with wit, Ethnicity, Inc. is a powerful, highly original portrayal of a new world being born in a tectonic collision of culture, capitalism and identity.

Where We Call Home - Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest (Paperback): Josephine Woolington Where We Call Home - Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
Josephine Woolington; Illustrated by Ramon Shiloh
R641 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Field Guide for Research in Community Settings - Tools, Methods, Challenges and Strategies (Hardcover): M. r. Islam, Niaz A.... Field Guide for Research in Community Settings - Tools, Methods, Challenges and Strategies (Hardcover)
M. r. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, Mashitah B. Hamidi
R3,004 Discovery Miles 30 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field. Authors address key strategies to tackle the major challenges to fieldwork, including advice on using indigenous or innovative skills and making intelligent use of the advantages already available within standard research methodologies. International contributors provide a hands-on account of research methodologies as applied in the field, with particular focus on research ethics and community culture and interactions. The book offers a number of useful case studies, featuring examples of the application of research techniques in different cultural and socio-economic contexts. Utilizing an innovative and dynamic 'storytelling' method, this book will be a useful research tool for fieldworkers engaging in social science research in community settings, as well as students in the field learning the core techniques of fieldwork.

The Inheritors - An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning (Paperback): Eve Fairbanks The Inheritors - An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning (Paperback)
Eve Fairbanks
R502 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R128 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Eagle's Gift (Paperback, Original ed.): Carlos Castaneda The Eagle's Gift (Paperback, Original ed.)
Carlos Castaneda
R471 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched as a flash of lightning on the deserts and mountains where don Juan takes him to pursue the sorcerer's knowledge--the knowledge that it is the Eagle that gives us, at our births, a spark of awareness, that it expects to reclaim at the end of our lives and which the sorcerer, through his discipline, fights to retain. Castaneda describes how don Juan and his party, left thisworld--"the warriors of don Juan's party had caught me for an eternal instant, before they vanished into the total light, before the Eagle let them go through"--and how he, himself, upon witnessing such a sight, jumped into the abyss.

After Cooling - On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Paperback): Eric Dean Wilson After Cooling - On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Paperback)
Eric Dean Wilson
R545 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wrong Reality - The Essential Truth About Ourselves and Our World (Paperback): John Bapty Oates The Wrong Reality - The Essential Truth About Ourselves and Our World (Paperback)
John Bapty Oates
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This stimulating and challenging book marks a unique departure from traditional social theories. Fifty years in the writing, the author pulls few punches as he studies the current human condition in light of our little-realized, yet true collective potential. Focusing on the obvious disjointedness of contemporary society, this weighty study not only details the story of our tragic march towards Machine-based societies, but also points the way to surely the only enduring solution; our collective advancement to supraconsciousness, and to a truly humane, or 'humantrue' society.

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