Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: daniel miller

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  • THE ORPHANAGE BY THE LAKE
    DANIEL G. MILLER
    USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Irresistible!" — James Patterson A MISSING GIRL. AN ORPHANAGE FILLED WITH SECRETS. Hazel wants a new life. She's thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding. Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, pays Hazel a visit with an offer too enticing to resist. An orphan girl has disapp...

    $364.00

  • QUEER DEMOCRACY
    DANIEL D. MILLER
    Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society. Daniel Miller argues that this metaphor has consistently expressed a desire for social and political order, grounded in the social body’...

    $1,120.00

  • HOME POSSESSIONS
    DANIEL MILLER
    Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is just up to us to decorate, transform and construct our homes, but in this book we discover a new form of ‘estate agency', the active participation of the home and its material culture ...

    $1,100.00

  • CAPITALISM
    DANIEL MILLER
    This provocative book challenges many of our ingrained assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers fresh perspectives that will inform the development of a new and relevant political economy for our times. The complex and often contradictory world within which modern commodities are produced, sold and consumed is set within the larger context of transn...

    $1,160.00

  • THE INTERNET
    DANIEL MILLER / DON SLATER
    This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the social, political and cultural contexts which account for the contemporary Internet experience. From cybercafes to businesses, from middle class h...

    $1,000.00

  • VIRTUALISM
    JAMES G. CARRIER / DANIEL MILLER
    We live in a time of economic virtualism, whereby our lives are made to conform to the virtual reality of economic thought. Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes and the decay of welfare are all signs of the growing power of economics, one of the most potent forces of recent decades. In the last thirty years, economics has ceased to be just a...

    $1,100.00

  • MODERNITY - AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH
    DANIEL MILLER
    From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challen...

    $1,160.00

  • THE CELL PHONE
    HEATHER HORST / DANIEL MILLER
    Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This...

    $940.00

  • CAR CULTURES
    DANIEL MILLER
    Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives rise to a wide range of emotions, from guilt about the environment in the UK to aboriginal concerns with car corpses, to struggles to keep the creatures alive with everything but the p...

    $1,100.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE INDIVIDUAL
    DANIEL MILLER
    Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person. Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to c...

    $1,100.00

  • CLICK AND GROW RICH
    BRETT FOGLE / E. DANIEL MILLER
    "Transform any type of entrepreneurial activity, new idea, or . . . a business you already own into a much more profitable company" with this book's strategy. (from the foreword by Kevin Harrington, an original "shark" on  Shark Tank and serial entrepreneur)    In  Click and Grow Rich, readers discover the nine-step proven formula for creating a wildly successful online busines...

    $149.00

  • MIGRATION AND NEW MEDIA
    MIRCA MADIANOU / DANIEL MILLER
    How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several time...

    $1,160.00

  • ANIMAL ETHICS AND THEOLOGY
    DANIEL MILLER
    In this book, Daniel K. Miller articulates a new vision of human and animal relationships based on the foundational love ethic within Christianity. Framed around Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, Animal Ethics and Theology thoughtfully examines the shortcomings of utilitarian and rights-based approaches to animal ethics. By considering the question of animals within the Chr...

    $1,380.00

  • SHOPPING, PLACE AND IDENTITY
    PETER JACKSON / MICHAEL ROWLANDS / DANIEL MILLER
    Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that has developed in recent years. ...

    $1,420.00

  • DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE
    DANIEL MILLER
    The nature of power - one of the central concerns in social science - is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere, the editors and contributors offer a wealth of perspectives and case studies. They illustrate the application of these ideas t...

    $1,420.00

  • MATERIAL CULTURES
    DANIEL MILLER
    This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something of a renaissance recently. This study provides an up-to-date analysis of a develo...

    $1,340.00

  • A THEORY OF SHOPPING
    DANIEL MILLER
    A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. But Miller rejects this assumption and follows the surprising route of analysing shopping by means of an analogy with anthropological studies of sacrificial ritual. He argues ...

    $824.00

  • ESSENTIALS OF SCHOOL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
    MILLER, DANIEL C.
    Written by a renowned expert in school neuropsychology, Essentials of School Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition is a practical resource presenting school psychologists, educational diagnosticians, and pediatric neuropsychologists with clear coverage and vital information on this evolving area of practice within school psychology. Filled with case studies and guidance...

    $621.00

  • THE RED LETTER
    DANIEL G. MILLER
    "I inhaled this book. With killer twist after twist, I defy you to predict where it's going." — John Marrs, international bestselling author of You Killed Me First A DEAD BODY. A BLOOD-RED LETTER. A KILLER WHO'S JUST GETTING STARTED.  Hazel has everything she wants. He boutique PI firm is thriving. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems ...

    $202.00