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VA05-352 Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media.
  Downing, John D H/ 9780761926887
 
 
VA05-351 SAGE Quantitative Methods, 4-Vols/Set.
  Vogt, W Paul/ 9781848606999
 
 
VA05-350 Social Psychology Toolkit, The.
  Nezlek, John B/ 9781847874771
 
 
PA05-7 Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680-1810.
  Sorge-English, Lynn/ 9781848930896
 
  Stays were the most important article of clothing in an eighteenth-century woman¡¦s life. Worn from infancy, stays were designed to reshape the female body into an accepted aesthetic ideal. This study tells the story of stays, their makers and their wearers. This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the intricacies of the staymaker¡¦s craft, the role of gender in the design and manufacture of stays and the changing shape of stays over time. Over forty black and white photographs and line drawings are used to illustrate a chronology of style and form. This detailed artefactual analysis also allows for study on the effects of long-term wearing of stays on a woman¡¦s health. Such constrictive garments cannot have left their wearers unscathed, and it is unsurprising that as women became more involved in the production process the design of stays became more akin to the natural female form.
PA05-6 Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, 1500-1800, 5-Vols/Set.
  Brennan, Thomas E/ 9781851962846
 
  Until recently the role of the public drinking house has been approached from elitist, folkloric and anecdotal perspectives. The work of a new generation of social historians, however, has raised the tavern¡¦s profile in the academic consciousness and confirmed its position within the mainstream of social and cultural history. It is now recognized that an understanding of the centrality of public drinking to the development of both elite and popular culture is vital to studies of social behaviour. The study of taverns has also been at the forefront of emerging interest in the history of consumption and material culture, and has contributed to a richer understanding of economic history. Constructions of gender and identity are also visible through research into the patterns of behaviour and discourse in and around the public house. This five-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives. The documents are translated and set in their social and historical context, providing a multidisciplinary collection that will be of great importance to scholars of all areas of social and cultural history of the early modern period.
PA05-5 Prostitute's Body, The.: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain.
  Attwood, Nina/ 9781848930063
 
  For too long historians have imposed on the literature a homogeneous, pre-determined narrative of Victorian attitudes to prostitution. Instead, Attwood argues for a multi-faceted, many-layered representation amongst contemporary Victorian observers, demonstrated using political, medical, feminist, literary and pornographic sources. The picture that emerges of Victorian society is complex and fluid, rather than static stereotype.
Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire, A.
  Kete, Kathleen/ 9781847888211
 
 
Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age, A.
  Malamud, Randy/ 9781847888228
 
 
Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity, A.
  Kalof, Linda/ 9781847888174
 
 
Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age, A.
  Resl, Brigitte/ 9781847888181
 
 
Cultural History of Animals in the Renaissance, A.
  Boehrer, Bruce/ 9781847888198
 
 
Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Enlightenment, A.
  Senior, Matthew/ 9781847888204
 
 
Dispersal and Social Exclusion of Asylum Seekers, The: Between Liminality and Belonging.
  Hynes, Patricia/ 9781847423269
 
  This book establishes asylum seekers as a socially excluded group, investigating the policy of dispersing asylum seekers across the UK and providing an overview of historic and contemporary dispersal systems. It is the first book to seek to understand how asylum seekers experience the dispersal system and the impact this has on their lives. The author argues that deterrent asylum policies increase the sense of liminality experienced by individuals, challenges assumptions that asylum seekers should be socially excluded until receipt of refugee status and illustrates how they create their own sense of 'belonging' in the absence of official recognition. Academics, students, policy-makers and practitioners would all benefit from reading this book.
Ethnicity, Class and Aspiration: Understanding London's New East End.
  Butler, Tim/ 9781847426512
 
  East London has undergone dramatic changes over the last 30 years, primarily as a result of London's large scale de-industrialisation and the rise in its financial sector. Large parts of inner East London remain deprived, but a once overwhelmingly white working class area is now home to a more complex and mobile class and ethnic mix. This topical book focuses on the aspirations of these different groups and the strategies they have pursued about where to live, driven in part by a concern to ensure a good education for their children. The book will be essential reading for students and academics in sociology, urban studies, geography and multicultural studies.
Cultural History of Animals, A., 6-Vols/Set.
  Kalof, Linda/ 9781847888235
 
  Cultural History of Animals is a multi-volume project on the history of human-animal relations from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers 4500 years of human-animal interaction. Volume 1: Antiquity to the Dark Ages (2500BC - 1000AD) Volume 2: The Medieval Age (1000-1400) Volume 3: The Renaissance (1400-1600) Volume 4: The Enlightenment (1600-1800) Volume 5: The Age of Empire (1800-1920) Volume 6: The Modern Age (1920-2000, including a discussion of animals in the future) As the same issues are central to animal-human relations throughout history, each volume shares the same structure, with chapters in each volume analysing the same issues and themes. In this way each volume can be read individually to cover a specific period and individual chapters can be read across volumes to follow a theme across history. Each volume explores: the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs); hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations. The full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on animals through history.
VA17-27 Religion and Violence: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 4-Vols/Set.
  Wolfart, Johannes/ 9780415331258
 
  This four volume set represents the most extensive guide available to past and current research on religion and violence from ancient times to the present. The contents are highly interdisciplinary, drawing together landmark work from the fields of history, sociology, anthropology, political acience and religious studies. Primary sources, including excerpts from sacred texts, classical theological statements, and graphic illustrations, supplement the scholarly areticles, providing readers with a range of sources to draw upon in their own teaching and research. Conflict between Muslims and Jews in the Middle East, Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, religious nationalism in Africa or fundamentalism in South Asia, the language of Jihad from one corner, the language of crusade from another, the din of explosions in nightclubs, marketplaces, and abortion clinics: everyday, the news media offers a new report illustrating the vital link between religion and violence. Although religiously-motivated violence is widely acknowledged, it is poorly understood. As globalization continues both to inspire crises of faith, and to broadcast the bloody consequences of these crises, the need for a comprehensive reference work such as this seems more urgent now than ever before.
VA05-354 Rethinking Sustainable Development: Urban Management, Engineering, and Design.
  Yigitcanlar, Tan/ 9781616920227
 
  In an atmosphere where civilization is progressing and becoming more aware of the consequences of careless development decisions, rethinking sustainable development-particularly sustainable urban and infrastructure development-has become an inevitable necessity. Rethinking Sustainable Development: Urban Management, Engineering, and Design considers the role of urban, regional and infrastructure planning in achieving sustainable urban and infrastructure development, providing insights into overcoming the consequences of unsustainable development. This companion volume to Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure: Technology, Planning and Management, overviews all aspects of sustainable urban and infrastructure development. Topics Covered *Sustainable urban stormwater management *Framework for urban planning and development *Decision support systems *Information and communication technologies *Transit oriented developments *Urban traffic characteristics *Structural health monitoring *Sustainable infrastructure project planning *Sustainability performance of construction *Infrastructure capacity management
VA05-353 Technologies for Migration and Commuting Analysis: Spatial Interaction Data Applications.
  Stillwell, John/ 9781615207558
 
  Internal migration serves as one of the key contributing factors to population change involving not only change in the numbers of people, but also a change in composition and structure of local populations. Technologies for Migration and Commuting Analysis: Spatial Interaction Data Applications addresses the technical and data-related side of studying population flows and provides a selection of substantive case studies and applications to exemplify research currently being carried out. With expert international contributors currently working in the field, this authoritative book allows readers to better understand interaction data and ways knowledge of population flows can be put to use. Topics Covered *Interaction data *International migration *Migration and commuting *Migration patterns *Modeling migration with Poisson regression *Population censuses *Rural commuting *Spatially consistent interaction flows *Temporal and spatial consistency
VA05-349 SAGE Qualitative Research Methods, 4-Vols/Set.
  Atkinson, Paul/ 9781849203784
 
 
VA05-348 Ethnomethodology, 4-Vols/Set.
  Sharrock, Wes/ 9781848604414
 
 
VA05-347 Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, 2-Vols/Set.
  Steinberg, Shirley R./ 9780313350801
 
  Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia spans the breadth of the country and the full scope of a pivotal growing-up time to show what "a boy's life" is really like today. With hundreds of entries across two volumes, it offers a series of vivid snapshots of boys of all kinds and ages at home, school, and at play; interacting with family or knocking around with friends, or pursuing interests alone as they begin their journey to adulthood. Boy Culture shows an uncanny understanding of just how exciting, confusing, and difficult the years between childhood and young adulthood can be. The toys, games, clothes, music, sports, and feelings¡Xthey are all a part of this remarkable resource. But most important is the book's focus on the things that shape boyhood identities¡Xthe rituals of masculinity among friends, the enduring conflict between fitting in and standing out, the effects of pop culture images, and the influence of role models from parents and teachers to athletes and entertainers to fictional characters.
VA05-346 Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels, 2-Vols/Set.
  Booker, M. Keith/ 9780313357466
 
  At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment, Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels serves as an exhaustive exploration of the genre¡¦s history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels focuses on English-language comics¡Xplus a small selection of influential Japanese and European works available in English¡Xwith special emphasis on the new graphic novel format that emerged in the 1970s. Entries cover influential comic artists and writers such as Will Eisner, Alan Moore, and Grant Morrison, major genres and themes, and specific characters, comic book imprints, and landmark titles, including the pulp noir 100 Bullets, the post-apocalyptic Y: The Last Man, the revisionist superhero drama, Identity Crisis, and more. Key franchises such as Superman and Batman are the center of a constellation of related entries that include graphic novels and other imprints featuring the same characters or material.
VA05-345 Emile Durkheim, 4-Vols/Set.
  / 9780415584272
 
 
VA05-344 Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure Development: Technologies, Applications and Management.
  Yigitcanlar, Tan/ 9781615207756
 
  The concept of 'sustainability' has been pushed to the forefront of policy-making and politics as the world wakes up to the impacts of climate change and the effects of the modern urban lifestyle. Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure Development: Technologies, Applications and Management,bridges the gap in the current literature by addressing the overall problems present in society's major infrastructures, and the technologies that may be applied to overcome these problems. It focuses on ways in which energy intensive but 'invisible' (to the general public) facilities can become green or greener. The studies presented are lessons to be learnt from our neighbors and from our own backyard, and provide an excellent general overview of the issues facing us all.
VA05-343 Methods of Interpretive Sociology, 4-Vols/Set.
  David, Matthew/ 9781847879479
 
 
VA05-342 Post Industrial Society, 4-Vols/Set.
  Smart, Barry/ 9781848601802
 
 
VA05-341 Data Collection, 4-Vols/Set.
  Vogt, W Paul/ 9781847879301
 
  Insufficient attention to collecting data is often to blame when a research project founders. So how can we avoid, at best, redoing the research and at worst, scrapping the project due to a lack of sufficient data? Data collection is the foundation of high quality research, but it is often given less attention than later steps in a research project, such as coding and analyzing data. The first step in implementing a research design is collecting the data. You first have to take care to gather appropriate types of and amount of data, because making adjustments later in the project can be prohibitive. This major work focuses on this neglected aspect of the research process. It is divided into five main sections that correspond to the broad types of research design and their associated sampling methods. The five categories of research design used to organize the selection are: 1. Surveys 2. Interviews 3. Experiments 4. Observations, including ethnographic 5. Archival and public sources of data In each of the five sections, quantitative and qualitative data collection is discussed because each of these design types can be used to collect either or both types of data.
VA05-340 Making of Olympic Cities, The., 4-Vols/Set.
  Gold, John R/ 9780415553513
 
 
VA05-339 Cosmopolitanism, 4-Vols/Set.
  Inglis, David/ 9780415498814
 
  A term of antique provenance, 'cosmopolitanism' has developed and cohered into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural analysis. However, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of the available research exploring the many, often controversial, issues attendant upon cosmopolitanism-and the breadth and complexity of the canon on which it draws-makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new title in the highly regarded Routledge series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is so timely. It answers the urgent need for a wide-ranging collection to provide easy access to the key items of scholarly literature, material that is often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. In four volumes, this new collection addresses how key issues, such as globalization, migration, citizenship, social belonging, and cultural complexity and blending, are illuminated by reflections upon what cosmopolitanism is, or could be; and how cosmopolitan thinking and practice could, or does, impact upon such matters. The gathered materials also make sense of the revolutionary effects that debates on cosmopolitanism are having on research agendas and ways of thinking in sociology, and across the social sciences and humanities more generally. Cosmopolitanism is supplemented with a full index, and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource. Volume I: Classical Contributions to Cosmopolitanism Volume II: Key Contemporary Analyses of Cosmopolitanism Volume III: Cosmopolitans and Cosmopolitanisms Volume IV: Contested Cosmopolitanisms
VA05-338 Cultural Theory, 4-Vols/set.
  Oswell, David/ 9781848607057
 
  This four volume collection brings together papers from a range of different journals from different fields, sub-disciplines and disciplines that address the central problem of the relation between culture and society. In doing so, it frames understandings of experience, text, meaning, power, stratification, identity, representation, practice, discourse, materiality, image, technology, and the many other concepts and categories in the context of this fundamental interrelationship. Although the themes of culture and society provide the broad parameters of these four volumes, Cultural Theory makes visible some of the different objects of theoretical discourse that different schools of thought and theoretical paradigms have thrown before us. The four volumes traverse the disciplines of, amongst others, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, literary theory, media and communication studies, and science and technology studies, to provide a sense of the development and extension of cultural theory from initial and longstanding questions about power and agency, ordinary and popular cultural practice, and representation to ones about the body, sensory experience and identity to the changing natural and built environment and questions about global humanity and justice to developments in the global cultural economy concerning information, technology and value. Throughout this collection, the editor offers a coherent, complex, and multiply inflected narrative which is both grounded in the substantive histories of the field and oriented to some of its most exciting and forward looking ideas and prospects.
 

 

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