Lost in Transition. Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism, Paperback - Kristen Ghodsee

Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many E...

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary peo...

Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wal...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Tibor (Research Chair, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) ValuchIllustration(s): 68 Figures; 17 ...

A fascinating exploration of the lives of normal people in ancient Egypt. Full of their own strange and amusing stories; documents their anxieties,...

There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Ea...

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Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rig...

Why the most radical feminists were also communistsPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Kristen GhodseeNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Publisher: Central European University PressIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175...

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This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-...

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One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas, this treatise presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism and serves as a corn...

This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): N TkaczNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

The follow-up to the acclaimed autobiographical comic collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition.

Drawing on decades of researching the ethnohistory of the coastal mid-Atlantic, Helen Rountree reconstructs the Indigenous world the Roanoke coloni...

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the socia...

Laura is content with her marriage, children and job - until an old lover returns. With passion and excitement rekindled, she realises how stagnant...

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As a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics of everyday life points to a gro...

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This book examines contemporary recollection of Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s and its connection to the country's current polit...

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Reducere. Description"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life...

This volume covers the nineteenth century, a period of profound change in Scottish history.

Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do - and how effective incentives can...

Featuring some of the most iconic images of our time, this unique combination of photojournalism and commentary offers a probing and comprehensive ...

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In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Sigmund FreudTranslator: A. a. Brill PhdThe simple but convincing explanations of things familiar to everybody are explaine...

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Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation i...

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There's nothing 'alternative' anymore about clean energy and green design. As this book makes beautifully clear, the future is here-- Bill McKibben...

The book introduces students to five broad perspectives on human social behaviour: social cognition, cultural psychology, evolutionary theory, exis...

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A humorous guide to the hidden calculations that are essential to everything we do.Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books LtdAuthor(s): Chris WaringIllust...

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In "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" Freud examines the psychological basis for the forgetting of names and words, the misuse of words in spee...

A storytelling-driven self-help book about how to reclaim wonder in our lives, and thereby achieve the good life.

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Social Psychology offers a fresh approach to the study of social psychology, that no other available text can match.Publisher: Macmillan LearningAu...