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  • The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention

    An Introduction

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    Series series The Ethics of ...
    Few topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial. When confronted with humanitarian crises abroad, many feel that outsiders are not only justified in using force to halt the abuses, but that they ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Promised Lands

    The British and the Ottoman Middle East

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European might use to reach the subcontinent—through Egypt and the Red Sea, and through Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Promised Lands is a panoramic history ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Classes of Labour

    Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Caste and Kinship in Kangra

    by Jonathan P. Parry ...
    This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes. The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of caste ranking; the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Persistence of Poverty in India

    Edited by Nandini Gooptu, Jonathan Parry ...
    What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Questions of Anthropology

    Edited by Rita Astuti, Jonathan Parry, Charles Stafford ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Shrinking of Treehorn

    by Florence Parry Heide ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    21 min

    "If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table."But Treehorn wasn’t pretending. He really was shrinking, and that didn’t make life easy for him ashe became smaller by the moment. Treehorn’s teacher said, “we don’t shrink in this class,” and sent himto the Principal. Poor Treehorn spends an unhappy day and night until he ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

    Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

    Edited by Chris Hann, Jonathan Parry ...
    Series Book 4 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim ... Read more

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    Dirty Laundry

    by Daniel Ehrenhaft ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross, Charlotte Parry ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    Edgar Award-winning, best-selling author Daniel Ehrenhaft takes listeners to the hallowed halls of preparatory school for this unconventional mystery. The Winchester School of the Arts is where dropouts from good prep schools get their last chance. Yet graffiti artist Fun might not even graduate. Enter Carli, an undercover actress researching her latest role. Fun must serve as Carli's assistant to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Crimewaves

    A Full-Cast BBC Radio Thriller

    by Dave Simpson, Diane Whiteley ...
    Narrated by Jane Dawson, Colin Parry, Jonathan Perkins, Full Cast, Vincent Davies ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 48 min

    A six-part crime drama about a group of Manchester teens fighting for justiceWhen their friend Keith Brandon is charged with murdering a policeman, Gemma, Liam and Andy decide to bunk off school and go to the trial. Keith had a knife, a motive and has confessed to the crime, but they're sure he didn't do it - so when he's found guilty, they can't believe it.Determined to prove Keith's innocence, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

    by Tom Angleberger ...
    Narrated by Mark Turetsky, Greg Steinbruner, Julia Gibson, Charlotte Parry, Jonathan Todd Ross ...
    Series series Origami Yoda

    Unabridged

    2 hours 12 min

    A journalist and fiction author, Tom Angleberger has a knack for capturing the lives of today's youth. In The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, socially awkward Dwight shows up to school one morning waving a green finger puppet. Strange enough, but then Dwight starts talking in a funny voice and doling out advice. Is it the puppet, or is it Dwight? And will paper Yoda be able to help Dwight convince ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus