SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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The Hunt for Ancient Israel
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi, Pauline A. Viviano, Thomas Romer, Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter, Steinar Skarpnes, Yairah Amit, Christoph Levin, Reinhard Muller, Benedetta Rossi, Bob Becking, Maria Hausl, Lowell K. Handy, Aren Maeir, David Hamidovic, Lester L. Grabbe, Daniel Pioske, James S. Anderson, Philippe Guillaume, Jason M. Silverman, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Kåre Berge, Jorunn Okland
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi, Pauline A. Viviano
This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking outside the box and her challenging of...
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Fabricating Identities
Fabricating Identities pairs early career scholars with members of Culture on the Edge, to explore how social actors identify themselves through their practices and associations. The book is arranged in a series of articles and commentaries that all press the model of seeing what we usually call ide...
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Framing Archaeology in the Near East
This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region where, traditionally, such approaches have n...
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Rush
When Tamsin Omond left university they had no idea that within a year they would be up on the roofs of Parliament, breaking the law for their beliefs about climate change. Rush! The Making of a Climate Activist is a candid account of this journey from directionless student to her involvm...
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Food & Morality
In this continuing series, the topic of morality embraces a wide range of essays from English, American and overseas scholars who ponder contemporary questions such as eating foie gras, advertising junk food, and master and servant relationships as well as historical studies concerning fasting in...
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In Praise of Masturbation
Philippe Brenot lifts the lid on masturbation and argues that this most intimate of acts in our personal lives is also the most natural, normal, and necessary way to keep in touch with your sexuality.
For the majority of us, masturbation is the most widespread sexual practice, and fo... -
Cathy Come Home
Sandford's screenplay Cathy Come Home details the issue of homelessness and the life of a young woman in 1960s London as she moves from her own home, to council accommodation, and finally emergency accommodation for the homeless before being evicted and her children taken into care.
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Hiroshima Notes
Hiroshima Notes is a collection of non-fiction essays that deliver a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature based on his visits to the city between 1963 and 1965 where he attended hearings related to the status of the...
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Edna
Winner of the Writer's Guild Best Television Play and Critic's Choice Best Television Play
Edna the Inebriate Woman was written when Jeremy Sandford, whose Cathy Come Home had focused public attention on the plight of homeless families, decided to... -
Housing by People
John Turner's classic essay makes a unique contribution to housing theory and practise. His Three Laws of Housing summarize the psychological, social and economic basis of his thesis:
1: When people have no control over, nor responsibility for, key decisions in the housing process, d...