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Normal Accidents(1999) PERROW, CHARLESAnalyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typicalVezava: Mehka54,67 € -
Morality at the Margins - Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya(2019) HILLEWAERT, SARAHWhat does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shVezava: Mehka56,27 € -
The Tongue-Tied Imagination - Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal(2019) WARNER, TOBIASVezava: Mehka43,40 € -
Hawthorn Archive(2017) GORDON, AVERY F.Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the Black Radical Tradition.Vezava: Mehka62,70 € -
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Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa(2022) DIBUA, JEREMIAH I.In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopVezava: Mehka58,79 € -
Mass Panic and Social Attachment(2022) MAWSON, ANTHONY R.How do humans behave when under threat of attack or disaster? How does the social context affect individual behavior? Anthony Mawson provides an illuminating examination of individual and collective behavior under conditions of stress and danger, in respoVezava: Mehka55,11 € -
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Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul(2016) KEOUGH, LEYLA J.Vezava: Trda11,45 € -
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Subsistence Agriculture in the US(2022) COLBY, ASHLEYSubsistence Agriculture in the US fills this gap in the existing literature by examining the lived experiences of people taking part in subsistence food production. This book will be of great interest to scholars of sustainable consumption, environmentalVezava: Mehka36,74 € -
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The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality(2014) WALTERS, SUZANNA DANUTATakes on received wisdom about gay identities and gay rights, arguing that we are not "almost there," but on the contrary have settled for a watered-down goal of tolerance and acceptance rather than a robust claim to full civil rights.Vezava: Trda15,75 € -
Gender Violence (Second Edition): Interdisciplinary Perspectives(2007)From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and around theVezava: Mehka31,00 € -
Understanding Deviance(2016) DOWNES, DAVID (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS),ROCK, PAUL (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS),MCLAUGHLIN, EUGENE (PROFESSOR OF CRIMINOLOGY, PROFESSOR OF CRIMINOLOGY, CITY UNIVERSITY)The clearest and most authoritative student guide to deviance: David Downes, Paul Rock, and Eugene McLaughlin, all leading experts in the field of deviance, come together to lead students through the sociological theories behind crime and deviance.Vezava: Mehka83,10 € -
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