Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: barbara adam

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  • THEORIZING CULTURE
    BARBARA ADAM
    This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, ...

    $1,120.00

  • TIMESCAPES OF MODERNITY
    BARBARA ADAM
    Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic growth; large-scale productio...

    $1,600.00

  • SEISMOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH: TREATISE ON GEOPHYSICS
    ROMANOWICZ, BARBARA / DZIEWONSKI, ADAM
    Seismology and Structure of the Earth focuses on theory and applications of seismology strictly as related to our understanding of the Earth’s interior structure. This volume provides an overview of the status of geophysics and is divided into three parts. Part I is devoted to various aspects of seismic wave propagation theory, data analysis and inversion methods, and documents...

    $1,233.00

  • DISABILITY LIFE STORIES
    ANNEMARIE VACCARO / ADAM M. MOORE / BARBARA M. NEWMAN / PHILIP R. NEWMAN / EZEKIEL W. KIMBALL / ALEXIS CA
    Based on a 10-year longitudinal study in the United States, this much-needed text offers insight into the developmental trajectories of people with disabilities from childhood through adulthood using their language and amplifying their voices. Through in-depth interviews with 14 disabled people, the authors learned important lessons about how each individual developed and enact...

    $700.00

  • ON KINDNESS
    ADAM PHILLIPS / BARBARA TAYLOR
    In this brilliant, epigrammatic book, the eminent psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the social historian Barbara Taylor examine the terrors of kindness and return to the reader the intense satisfactions of generosity and compassion. Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave k...

    $229.00