Author : Michael K. Orbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520376269
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Author : Michael K. Orbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520376250
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Author : Kenneth J. Blume
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0810856344
In the Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry, author Kenneth J. Blume provides a convenient survey of this important industry from the colonial period to the present day: from sail to steam to nuclear power. This concise new reference work captures the key features of overseas, coastal, lake, and river shipping and industry. An introduction provides an overview of the industry while the dictionary itself contains more than four hundred cross-referenced entries on ships, shipping companies, famous personalities, and major ports. A number of appendixes, including statistics on foreign trade, maritime disasters, famous ships, and major ports, supplement the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources.
Author : Man Singh Das
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788185880785
The book discusses about various issues related to women's adjustment, role commitment, satisfaction, decision-making, etc, in marital relations. In general, the book is a good source material for those who are doing research in the related field.
Author : Gísli Pálsson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719043864
Palsson (social anthropology, U. of Iceland) examines how indigenous producers and anthropologists portray the interaction between people and the environment in the fishing industry. He finds that, through history, different cultural models reflect different social relations, which in turn reflect changes in the resources, technology, and organization of the industry. Of interest to anthropologists and human ecologists. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : R. E. Johannes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category :
ISBN : 0520321391
Author : James P. Spradley
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478633247
Spradley should be read by anyone who wants to gain a true understanding of the process of participant observation. This text is a follow-up to his ethnographic research handbook, The Ethnographic Interview, and guides readers through the technique of participant observation to research ethnography and culture. Spradley shows how to analyze collected data and to write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.
Author : Dr Alan Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1134450907
This is the only encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology to cover fully the many important areas of overlap between anthropology and related disciplines. This work also covers key terms, ideas and people, thus eliminating the need to refer to other books for specific definitions or biographies. Special features include: * over 230 substantial entries on every major idea, individual and sub-discipline of social and cultural anthropology * over 100 international contributors * a glossary of more than 600 key terms and ideas.
Author : Rennie S. Holt
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Dolphins
ISBN :
Author : Howard Schiffman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 904742395X
Reservations and veto mechanisms found in marine conservation agreements have contributed to the decline of living ocean resources. This book chronicles their use in the history of key marine conservation and management regimes and examines the evolving legal framework that informs, and potentially limits, their use.
