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Alan J. Lutenegger
Laboratory testing of fine-grained soils usually evaluates basic soil behaviour. This manual covers characterization tests such as determination of carbonate content, specific surface area, cation exchange capacity, and pore fluid…
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Alan Fine
Presenting essays on America’s most reviled traitor, its worst president, and its most controversial literary ingenue (Benedict Arnold, Warren G. Harding, and Lolita), among others, the author analyzes negative, contested…
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Gary Alan Fine
If all politics is local, then so is almost everything else, argues sociologist Gary Alan Fine. We organize our lives by relying on those closest to us–family members, friends, work…
Describes how people and groups attempt to give meaning to the natural world that surrounds them.
Seeking to understand adolescents as social actors, this work considers the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience. It analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical…
Sticky Reputations focuses on reputational entrepreneurs and support groups shaping how we think of important figures, within a crucial period in American history – from the 1930s through the 1950s…
What are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone betwee
This study analyzes the, often misunderstood, subculture of fantasy role-playing games such as ‘Dungeons and Dragons’.Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the…
Offers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. Through field observation and interviews, this work shows that weather forecasts are often shaped as much by social…
Whether your chess career culminated in grandmaster status, or ended (repeatedly) in your or your brother’s hurling the board and pieces across the living room, nearly all of us learned…
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Gary Fine opens up the contemporary art practice MFA and finds that it’s mostly about theorizing and arguing about art, and very little about actually making it.
Gary Fine explores how Americans attempt to give meaning to the natural world that surrounds them.
Offering a portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, this book presents their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life.
A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is…
Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns…
A deeply researched ethnographic portrait of progressive senior activists in Chicago who demonstrate how a tiny public wields collective power to advocate for broad social change.
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This diverse, global, and interdisciplinary volume explores the existing research, practice, and ethical issues pertinent to the field of human-animal interactions (HAI), interventions, and anthrozoology.
Alan Raymond Fine
This work contemplates life purpose in poetry and message. It seeks to provide the reader with inspiration toward building a better physical, emotional and spiritual self, a beautiful life, and…
Fine,Tim Hallett
Sociological analysis has been replete with debates about micro and macro, individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interacting groups are the hinge that connects them…
Alan Fine,Rebecca R. Merrill
Alan Fine shares his unique method of coaching which he has used effectively with businesses and sports personalities. It recognises that top performance comes from removing the obstacles that block…
Hanneke Grootenboer
Gary Alan Fine discusses as ‘outsider art’, which is created by self-taught artists, without traditional training & mostly living on the fringes of society. He examines the influences on the…
Gary Alan Fine,Patricia A. Turner
Given that matters relevant to race remain confused and divisive in many corridors of American society, it is not surprising that rumors and legends that reflect racial misunderstanding and mistrust…
Gary Alan Fine,Kent L. Sandstrom
To help the researcher understand why and how children react to adults who are doing ethnographic research, Fine and Sandstrom explore the methodological and ethical problems of qualitative research with…
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Gary Alan Fine,Joseph R. Gusfield
From 1945 to 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of students whose work has come to define a second Chicago School of sociology. In this book…
Alan Fleishman
In 1905 Russia, Avi Schneider shoots a man, flees to America and, with his wife Sara, lives the Jewish immigrant's dream. His beloved brother Lieb stays behind and lives the…
Alan Skyrme
A simple guide to assist those interested in collecting fine art photographic prints.
H. Alan Fine,Gordon H. Geiger
An updated and revised version of the original text, this handbook reviews the basic principles of physical chemistry, linear algebra and statistics, which are necessary to determine material and energy…
Covers such topics as theoretical directions in interactionism, interpretations of the theory of George Herbert Mead, Meadian connections, and dramaturgy and Goffman.
Alan Judd
In Elizabethan England, the queen’s chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward off Catholic plots and an ever-present threat…
A captivating espionage novel that explores the life of theatrical genius–and spy–Christopher Marlowe, whose violent death remains one of the most fascinating mysteries of the Elizabethan Age –
Alan Spence
A Canons edition: Alan Spence’s debut collection of short stories is a timeless portrait of Glasgow, and an acknowledged piece of classic Scottish writing.
‘A masterful storyteller with an intricate knowledge of his subject.’ The Daily Telegraph
‘Alan Judd knows more about the secret world than any other writer living. To have him turn…
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‘Absolutely spellbinding. I gobbled it up in two days and could not stop’ Miranda Seymour
A remarkable and meticulously researched…
Alan Bradley
While on a boating trip with her sisters, something suddenly grazes 12-year-old Flavia’s fingers as she dangles them in the water. She pulls up what she expects will be a…
Arthur E. Morris,Gordon H. Geiger,H. Alan Fine
Lately, there has been a renewed push to minimize the waste of materials and energy that accompany the production and processing of various materials. This third edition of this reference…
Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett
Funny, touching and real, this second collection of Alan Bennett’s classic work for television from the late 1970s and early 1980s is full of fine observations of life as it…
