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  • Luscious Berry Desserts

    by Lori Longbotham, James Carrier ...
    Sweetness is in season with over fifty recipes for berry-based treats in this colorful cookbook by the author of Luscious Lemon Desserts.This delightful cookbook is for anyone who's ever snuck just the plumpest, ripest strawberry straight from the basket; believed raspberries should have their own special food group; and never met a blueberry they didn't like. Each recipe is bursting with ideas ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unraveling Management

    Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs

    Edited by James G. Carrier ...
    Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap and provokes us to think seriously about this ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Confronting Environments

    Local Understanding in a Globalizing World

    by James G.Carrier, Donald Macleod, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Peter Wynn Kirby, Eeva Berglund, Kay Milton, Josiah Heyman ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    6 x 9 ... Read more

    $51.79 CAD

  • Gifts and Commodities

    Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700

    by James G. Carrier ...
    Series series Material Cultures
    Three hundred years ago people made most of what they used, or got it in trade from their neighbours. Now, no one seems to make anything, and we buy what we need from shops. Gifts and Commodities describes the cultural and historical process of these changes and looks at the rise of consumer society in Britain and the United States. It investigates the ways that people think about and relate to ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Virtualism

    A New Political Economy

    Edited by James G. Carrier, Daniel Miller ...
    We live in a time of economic virtualism, whereby our lives are made to conform to the virtual reality of economic thought. Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes and the decay of welfare are all signs of the growing power of economics, one of the most potent forces of recent decades. In the last thirty years, economics has ceased to be just an academic ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology

    Edited by James G. Carrier, Deborah B. Gewertz ...
    he Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and future. It will provide the ultimate source of authoritative, critical descriptions of all the key aspects of the discipline as well as a consideration of the general state of the discipline at a time when there is notable uncertainty about its foundations ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Anthropologies of Class

    Power, Practice, and Inequality

    Edited by James G. Carrier, Don Kalb ...
    Rising social, political and economic inequality in many countries, and rising protest against it, has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. A timely intervention in these discussions, this book explores the concept of class and its importance for understanding the key sources of that inequality and of people's attempts to deal ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Ethical Consumption

    Social Value and Economic Practice

    Edited by James G. Carrier, Peter G. Luetchford ...
    Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Meanings of the Market

    The Free Market in Western Culture

    Edited by James G. Carrier ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    For almost twenty years, the 'Free Market' has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples' lives. Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • After the Crisis

    Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath

    Edited by James G. Carrier ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath offers a thought-provoking examination of the state of contemporary anthropology, identifying key issues that have confronted the discipline in recent years and linking them to neoliberalism, and suggesting how we might do things differently in the future.The first part of the volume considers how anthropology has come to ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Virtualism, Governance and Practice

    Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

    Edited by James G. Carrier, Paige West ...
    Series Book 13 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of power, knowledge and governance in their policies and projects. This collection indicates that such an analysis appears to be justified from one perspective, but not from another. The chapters in this collection show that the critics, concerned with the power of these organizations to impose their ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era

    Edited by James G. Carrier ...
    Series Book 36 - EASA Series
    Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrongdoing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD