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Understanding Digital Societies
2021 || Paperback || Jessamy Perriam e.a. || SAGE
Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.
The Practice of Social Research / 15th edition
2020 || Paperback || Earl Babbie || Cengage Learning
Known as the gold standard for research methods, Babbie's THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH gives you a definitive guide to research as practiced by social scientists. Combining a straightforward approach with the author's renowned sense of humor, this student-friendly text equips you with the tools and knowledge to apply research concepts as both researcher and consumer. The author emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing today's various observati...
An Introduction to Data Science
2020 || Paperback || Jeffrey S. Saltz e.a. || SAGE
An Introduction to Data Science is an easy-to-read data science textbook for those with no prior coding knowledge. It features exercises at the end of each chapter, author-generated tables and visualizations, and R code examples throughout.
Statistical Literacy
A Beginner's Guide
2024 || Paperback || Rhys Christopher Jones || SAGE
In an increasingly data-centric world, we all need to know how to read and interpret statistics. But where do we begin?This book breaks statistical terms and concepts down in a clear, straightforward way. From understanding what data are telling you to exploring the value of good storytelling with numbers, it equips you with the information and skills you need to become statistically literate.
It also:Dispels misconceptions about the nature of statistics to help you avoid common traps. Helps ...
Exploring Culture
Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures
2002 || Paperback || Geert Hofstede e.a. || John Murray Press
Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Suitable for students, trainers, coaches and educators, it can be used for individual study or as a set text, and serves as an excellent partner to Geert Hofstede's popular Cultures and Organizations.
Between The World And Me
2015 || Paperback || Ta-Nehisi Coates || Text Publishing
Dealing in Desire / 1st edition
Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
2015 || Paperback || Kimberly Kay Hoang || University of California Press
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to ...
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
On Homecoming and Belonging
2017 || Paperback || Sebastian Junger || HarperCollins
From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they've suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return.
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The Human Past / 4th edition
World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
2018 || Paperback || Chris Scarre || Thames & Hudson Ltd
Here is a new, fourth edition of this authoritative introductory survey of world prehistory, spanning the past 3,000,000 years and written by a team of twenty-four expert authors. This edition has been radically updated to be more thematic and accessible: chapters are connected by new key themes boxes (climate change, domestication, migration, social inequality and urbanism), which link global regions and encourage big-picture thinking. The text has been streamlined and the book's design comp...
Never in Anger / 1st edition
Portrait of an Eskimo Family
1971 || Paperback || Jean L. Briggs || Harvard University Press
In the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-month field study of the Utku, a small group of Inuit First Nations people who live at the mouth of the Back River, northwest of Hudson Bay. Living with a family as their "adopted" daughter-sharing their iglu during the winter and pitching her tent next to theirs in the summer-Briggs observed the emotional patterns of the Utku in the context of their daily life....