The Captain Nemo`s Heritage

“In the wake of considerable recent biographical attention to Marcel Mauss in English-language publications, it is fitting that works by him still available only in French appear in translation. The Manual of Ethnography has been expertly translated by Dominique Lussier, and appropriately edited and introduced by N. J. Allen. This historically important document, … reflects the youthful moment of modern anthropology when the questions and subjects of this discipline came to depend on rigorous collection of material from field research… an important historical document in the context of Mauss's teaching of anthropology and in the originary hopes for ethnography. Highly recommended.”  ·  George Marcus in Choice

The Manual of Ethnography

Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

Russian Cold, The

“Usbeck’s deep analysis of the process [of using American Indians as inspirational examples of both annihilation and resistance] will interest many scholars of the Nazi era, of race and of Germans’ relationships with non-Europeans. The book’s introduction offers readers a primer on mining German periodicals. So detailed is Usbeck’s discussion of current resources, it is sure to interest many.” · German History

	“Usbeck’s study is very impressive. He has collected a great number of facts…[and] presents a most interesting book…An extensive bibliography concludes an important work that is also attractively illustrated.” · AmerIndian Research

	“This is an excellent study of how the German infatuation with North American Indians, ‘Indianthusiasm,’ was used to promote Nazi ideology during the so-called ‘Third Reich’... [The author] goes far beyond [previous studies] in the depth and acumen of his archival research and theoretical grounding... His observations help us to perceive and analyze German Nazi ideology and some of its surprising internal contradictions in a far more comprehensive and complex way than before.” · Hartmut Lutz, University of Greifswald

	“[This book] is a useful analysis of how and why the images of Native Americans played a role in explaining the rise of the Nazi party to power... Usbeck’s look at the connection between the German images of Native Americans and their own largely imagined unified past should be a revelation to American readers... It is wonderfully succinct, erudite, well written, and thought provoking.” · Tom Holm, University of Arizona

The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany

Fellow Tribesmen

“…an excellent collection of essays and case studies offering both a critical and nuanced look at how projects are produced from a practitioner’s perspective. Contributing authors . . . reflect work within a development enterprise where economic determinism reigns supreme . . . With an emphasis on highlighting the lessons learned, this book is an engaging, educational, and provocative read.”  ·  Barbara Rose Johnston, Environment, Health and Human Rights, Center for Political Ecology

Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and Its Emergence in China

Making a Difference?

Das Edelmetall Silber als natürliches Antibiotikum

Heilen mit kolloidalem Silber

Shakespeare and the Ethics of War

Leibniz, Kant, Maimon, Proust, Tarde, Whitehead, Simondon, Francis Bacon, Foucault und Deleuze

Deleuze - seine philosophischen Welten für Einsteiger 1. Band

Butterflies Snowbirds and Passions: a chapbook of poems and fantasies: P

From the reviews:“The book is split into eight sections covering patient preparation and techniques … . The text and drawings make even the more complex lesion understandable with clear and logical descriptions used throughout. … it is reasonably priced and should act as a ‘bench book’ in any department that undertakes imaging in congenital heart disease. Although it appears that this book is aimed more at the specialist than general audience, it would also be a useful text for the incidental finding on a general CMR list.” (Bobby Agrawal, RAD Magazine, October, 2011)

MRI of Cardiovascular Malformations

From the reviews:

"Permafrost Soils summarizes recent knowledge on a wide variety of aspects concerning permafrost and frozen soils that occupy over 20 percent of the Earth’s surface. … The book consists of 21 short essays by experts in the numerous micro-specializations. … Summing Up: … Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and faculty." (J. D. Ives, Choice, Vol. 46 (10), June, 2009)

Permafrost Soils

Anatomie und Physiologie - Krankheitslehre Methoden

Grundlagen der Massage und physikalischen Therapie

“[The volume] advances conceptual tools for contemporary anthropology and in provides a valuable source of overviews of the examined concepts, stimulating reading on how to think the configuration of social life.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

	“I don’t know of a book that explores [sociality] so centrally and effectively… Each chapter and concept has multiple applications across a range of research and conceptualization… Overall, I enjoyed reading this unpacking of sociality through different lenses very much, and I am sure others will too.” · Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London

An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts

Thinking Through Sociality

And the Stars Smiled

"In his densely detailed, long-term study of Ogata-mura, Wood has taken us a lifetime away from the first studies of Japanese villages carried out by foreigners in the 1930s and 1950s… Wood presents an excellent analysis of the conflict between the view held by some residents that farming is a way of life and the conviction by others that it is a business like any other. The authorities have proved remarkably tone-deaf to the implications of this contrast, not only in Ogata-mura, but on the national level as well. Wood is able to provide a degree of detail that most ethnographers would envy.”  ·  Asian Anthropology

	“This is a very interesting text written about a very important subject.  The ‘saga’ of Ogata-mura speaks to a number of issues (agriculture, rural development, centralized bureaucratic planning, ecological impact and other such areas) that are very important for modern Japan and, by extension, many other societies.”  ·  John Mock, Temple University Japan

Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village

Ogata-Mura

On an International Anthropology of the United States

America Observed

“Whoever wants to learn about life in today's Russia, where various forms of magic play a central role, should read this book. And of course all those interested in Semiotic or medical anthropology who will gain further insight into the relationships between healer and patient.”  ·  Anthropos

	“Lindquist’s book makes two important contributions, the first anthropological, and the second ethnographic…Lindquist clearly brought passion, care, and the highest ethical standards to her role as ethnographer, to the great benefit of her readers. When telling these stories, her writing is always clear, often elegant, and sometimes deeply moving.”  ·  Slavic Review

Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia

Conjuring Hope

'This is an excellent one volume comparative study. The economic analysis is modest but adequate for the job. As a result one with little or no understanding of formal economics ought to be able to profit from reading it. Further, the author is not excessively doctrinaire and is able to analyze a wide variety of perspectives without noticeable bias. This is a book that should belong on every competition and antitrust lawyers' shelf.' Herbert Hovenkamp, University of Iowa, USA  'The strength of this book lies in the balance it has struck between achieving breadth in its scope of coverage and depth in its analysis of the competition laws of the United States and the European Community. The author has done a commendable job of integrating both the doctrinal and theoretical facets of the subject matter into his discussion of the legal frameworks of each jurisdiction and should be congratulated for making a valuable contribution to the literature in this field.' Singapore Journal of Legal Studies  'It is a pleasure to welcome this new book on European Competition and US antitrust law and policy.' Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Jacobs, FCMG, QC, (formerly, Advocate-General Court of Justice of the European Communities)  'This book is an important contribution to the work of comparing EU and US antitrust laws and will be welcomed by all actors in the field.' Hans Henrik Lidgard, University of Lund, Sweden  'This book is a great achievement. It is hoped it will receive the attention and dissemination it deserves.' Common Market Law Review

Federal Antitrust and EC Competition Law Analysis

For two decades or more managers and theorists have argued about the role of Communities of Practice (CoPs) in Knowledge Management: how and why do they work or not work? can or should they be managed? do they or do they not contribute to sustained learning? This lucid and compelling book clears up the mess. After setting the theoretic scene, Hara uses her considerable skill as a trained ethnographer to provide accounts of CoPs in action, observing and reporting on the work of both face-to-face and online communities. She shows how CoPs produce, sustain and develop cultural knowledge in a process of localized organizational learning that supports members through good times and bad. Hara is a talented writer: the extended accounts of work in Public Defender work in two different County Courts are compelling reading. Specialists and non-specialists alike can learn from this text: Hara’s emphasis on identity and culture and her findings on the specific and varied effects of IT in Communities of Practice are important contributions to thinking about KM. 

Elisabeth Davenport
Professor Emeritus
Napier University, Edinburgh

Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place

Communities of Practice

Trading for Newbies (Positive Operations, #1)

Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

The Revolution before the Revolution

“The volume’s merit lies not only in the empirical clariﬁcation of the Rosenstraße controversy but also in drawing new attention to public forms of opposition during the Nazi regime, whereas research has mainly concentrated on consent and cooperation in the last years…[It will inspire work on confessional milieus, contributing to a more diﬀerentiated categorization of resistance and opposition on the one side and consent and cooperation on the other – or rather on the interminglement of the two.” • Journal of Contemporary History

	“This is a solid book and a welcome addition to the literature. It should find a place on the reading lists of any course dealing with dictatorships, totalitarianism, or twentieth-century German history.” • HISTORY: Reviews of New Books

	“Protest in Hitler's National Community: Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response is comprised of nine erudite and instructive articles that are impressively written works of seminal scholarship… [It] is strongly recommended for academic library 20th-Century German History reference collections in general, and Nazi History supplemental studies reading lists in particular.” • Midwest Book Review

	“This collection represents a very useful introduction to, as well as historiographical stock-taking of, the field of protest, resistance and acquiescence in the Third Reich. I find the writing to be engaging and very well-suited to an advanced lay audience or informed undergraduate audience.” • Richard Steigmann-Gall, Kent State University

Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response

Protest in Hitler's "National Community"

“This reviewer is more than impressed with the effort and care required to produce what amounts to a syllabus of cogent explorations of one of the most shameful chapters known to man…Let Them Not Return is an invaluable publication providing a great deal of information in support of what promises to be a long and arduous campaign to obtain Turkish confirmation of the genocide of its Christian minorities, particularly that of the lesser publicized Assyrians and Pontic Greeks. With its abundant notes and a rich bibliography accompanying each chapter, this book deserves to grace the shelf of every caring Assyrian.” • Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies

	“The book is an excellent contribution in presenting new ideas through its 12 chapters, to study the case of Sayfo by dedicated researches, especially concerning the trauma effect of the post-genocide survivors. Indeed, this is an important book and necessary to be consulted to understand various aspects concerning many themes regarding Christians in the Middle East.” • Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Journal

	“This volume does not try to arrive at a conclusive evaluation. But it provides three well thought-out steps for future research in… completely unknown topic in Osman history during the First World War.” • H-Soz-Kult

	“With a list of top-notch contributors, this is an excellent addition to what little is currently available on this under-researched genocide. The organization of the contributions and the volume’s breadth of scope are particularly impressive.” • Mark Levene, University of Southampton

Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Let Them Not Return

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

Exchanging Objects

Unto Caesar

“This splendid and nuanced volume provides long-needed corrections to images from literature, cinema, news, and social science that have reduced Parisian suburbs to a dystopian vision of crime-ridden towers and despairing immigrants… Given the rich, careful data, the complex analyses, and the sensitive evocations of families divided by place, decisions, and success, this book should stimulate vastly enriched, comparative examinations of metropolitan Paris in its global context. It is also a provocative read about class, place, education, aspiration, and anxiety for social scientists and citizens worldwide …Essential.” • Choice

	“Cartier et al.’s research is an important contribution to the anthropology of identity, as well as of the ways to protect it, in relation to alterity (which fluctuates between tolerance and stigmatization), and the possible ways of combating its prejudices. In other words, we strongly recommend the reading of these rich analyses to teachers, researchers, and students in different disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, geography, and political sciences.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

	“Cartier, Coutant, Masclet, and Siblot have produced an important book. Their analysis not only shines light on an understudied swath of contemporary French society, but it also engages larger questions concerning how individuals understand, experience, and negotiate social stratification today in relation to where they live… Theoretically sophisticated, the book is also highly readable (translator Juliette Radcliffe Rogers did an excellent job). This makes it suitable for both graduate and undergraduate courses. More broadly, it should appeal to anyone interested in urban ethnography, urban development and sociality, immigration studies, the sociology of stratification, or the sociology of voting behavior. In short, this is a well-researched, persuasive work that engages productively with many different fields.” • French Politics, Culture and Society

	“[The volume] shows the value of investigating middle-class Western neighborhoods and especially of the historical changes in such sites. The study is a contribution to the anthropology of Europe as well as to urban anthropology and to the anthropology of class, and it usefully complicates and even debunks some preconceptions about suburban life, immigration, class, and politics.” • Anthropology Review Database

A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

The France of the Little-Middles

Sinisen tähden salaisuus

“House of the Waterlily is an excellent introduction into the world of the Classic Period Maya in large part because Carmean is a fine storyteller who weaves her narrative as beautifully as a ‘fine-spun’ huipil. This book would be an excellent addition to the course reading list for undergraduate students who are studying the ancient Maya.” · Scott Simmons, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

	“Although fiction, House of the Waterlily is a powerful platform from which to begin a discussion of vast catastrophic events in the context of daily life in the late Classic period of this fascinating pre-Columbian civilization.” · Rob Swigart, author, Xibalba Gate: A Novel of the Classic Maya

A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

House of the Waterlily

“This valuable work engages fully with the field of cinema studies and demonstrates ways of building on traditional film theory from an ecocritical perspective. The author speaks the language of film aesthetics, provides sophisticated analyses that go beyond cursory readings of plot and narrative, and directly engages with film technology and its impact on textual meaning.” · Stephen A. Rust, University of Oregon

	“This is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of ecocinema. The analyses of individual films are all expertly positioned within the existing literature, and O’Brien makes a convincing case for rethinking New Hollywood, as a mode of production and a cultural moment, from an ecocritical perspective.” · Pietari Kääpä, University of Stirling

Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood

Transactions with the World

The Financial System

“Marsh’s work makes a significant contribution to museum ethnography; it provides and invites detailed inquiry into the ways in which museums work to develop public displays within their own changing histories, values and processes. Relevant to anyone engaged in museum anthropology and institutional ethnography, Extinct monsters to Deep Time will also be of interest to those within the discipline of museum studies, as well as museum and heritage professionals.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

	“Findings in this work are new and useful, presenting evidence showing the benefits to ‘friction and complementarity’ whilst offering insights that can be used by other institutions and collaborative projects to achieve more balanced results in their work…[It] contributes significantly to museum ethnography by delivering a thorough study to the existing body of work…The aspect of practical museology is crucial for museum studies as well as for other disciplines that examine informational institutions that serve and are responsible to the public. For museum researchers the work serves as a fascinating example of multidimensional research in the field.” • Museological Review

	“This book is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the history of the Smithsonian, of the representation of paleontology, of the changing dynamics of departments and disciplines over time, and of the shift in museums from an emphasis on research to public outreach. It is also an important contribution to the genre of museum ethnography.” • Jennifer Shannon, University of Colorado Boulder

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