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34 produkter
Soft City
Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City
Häftad, 2022
265 kr
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There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days, temptation flooded Times Square on theater marquees and neon signs. Behind unmarked doors downtown, more adventurous experiences awaited for those in …
Con Men
Hustling in New York City
Av Terry Williams, Trevor Milton
Inbunden, 2015
951 kr
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This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover …
Cocaine Kids
The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring
Häftad, 1990
189 kr
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Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in The Cocaine Kids is the story behind the headlines. The lives of …
Con Men
Hustling in New York City
Av Terry Williams, Trevor Milton
Häftad, 2017
255 kr
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This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover …
Le Boogie Woogie
Inside an After-Hours Club
Inbunden, 2020
1068 kr
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The “after-hours club” is a fixture of the African American ghetto. It is a semisecret, unlicensed “spot” where “regulars” and “tourists” mingle with “hustlers” to buy and use drugs long after regular bars are closed and the party has ended for the “squares.” After-hours clubs are found in most …
Le Boogie Woogie
Inside an After-Hours Club
Häftad, 2020
273 kr
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The “after-hours club” is a fixture of the African American ghetto. It is a semisecret, unlicensed “spot” where “regulars” and “tourists” mingle with “hustlers” to buy and use drugs long after regular bars are closed and the party has ended for the “squares.” After-hours clubs are found in most …
Teenage Suicide Notes
An Ethnography of Self-Harm
Inbunden, 2017
282 kr
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"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra …
Life Underground
Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York
Inbunden, 2024
1123 kr
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Winner, 2024-2025 New York City Book Awards, New York Society LibraryAboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The …
Life Underground
Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York
Häftad, 2024
282 kr
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Winner, 2024-2025 New York City Book Awards, New York Society LibraryAboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The …
Soft City
Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City
Inbunden, 2022
1037 kr
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There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days, temptation flooded Times Square on theater marquees and neon signs. Behind unmarked doors downtown, more adventurous experiences awaited for those in …
Management Science in Practice
Häftad, 2009
685 kr
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Written for students studying management science / operational research, Management Science in Practice takes a fundamental look at what management science is and how it can be practiced in today's management environment. In doing so, it: Provides an underlying philosophy of how organisations …
Modelling Complex Projects
E-bok, 2003
755 kr
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It is widely acknowledged that traditional Project Management techniques are no longer sufficient, as projects become more complex and clients demand reduced timescales. Effective modeling techniques, which capture the complexities of such projects, are therefore necessary for adequate project …
Modelling Complex Projects
Inbunden, 2002
1030 kr
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It is widely acknowledged that traditional Project Management techniques are no longer sufficient, as projects become more complex and client's demand reduced timescales. Problems that arise include inadequate planning and risk analysis, ineffective project monitoring and control, and uninformed …
On Ethnography
Av Sarah Daynes, Terry Williams
Inbunden, 2018
698 kr
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In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life. In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team …
On Ethnography
Av Sarah Daynes, Terry Williams
Häftad, 2018
245 kr
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In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life. In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team …
On Ethnography
Av Terry Williams, Sarah Daynes
E-bok, 2018
271 kr
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In turn creative thinker and street flâneur , careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life. In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team …
Harlem Supers
The Social Life of a Community in Transition
E-bok, 2016
763 kr
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Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork, providing an in-depth analysis of the daily life of superintendents …
Harlem Supers
The Social Life of a Community in Transition
Inbunden, 2015
825 kr
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Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork, providing an in-depth analysis of the daily life of superintendents …
Harlem Supers
The Social Life of a Community in Transition
Häftad, 2016
552 kr
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Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork, providing an in-depth analysis of the daily life of superintendents …
Great Grandchild
E-bok, 2019
195 kr
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A great-grandmother is asked by her granddaughter to babysit her eighteen-month-old great-granddaughter while she ran some errands. The day turns into a fun-filled adventure as they both can't wait until Mommy comes home.
Vanishing Indian Upper Class
Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan
Av Terry Williams, Raza Mohammed Khan
Inbunden, 2020
603 kr
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This book itemize the familial, cultural, religious, and historical themes in a unique life story. The book is distinctive in that it continues the life story as a sociological genre, and as a methodological construct [it] attempts the comprehensive life story which engages the totality of a …
Vanishing Indian Upper Class
Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan
Av Terry Williams, Raza Mohammed Khan
Häftad, 2022
401 kr
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This book itemize the familial, cultural, religious, and historical themes in a unique life story. The book is distinctive in that it continues the life story as a sociological genre, and as a methodological construct [it] attempts the comprehensive life story which engages the totality of a …
