..".an excellent collection of anthropological autobiographical essays focusing on the positionality and resource of the self in ethnography...The essays are engaging and well written... and] remind me of some of those classic anthropological / ethnographic collections - interesting in their own rig[...]

Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women - and avidly read by generations [...]

Of interest to those without any prior grammatical knowledge, this title includes discussion and exemplification of key terms, and introduces essential topics. It features sections, diagrams and shaded boxes.[...]

Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork. The nature of "locality" itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it now must [...]

The late 1960s and early 1970s formed a significant epoch in the world of international sports car racing. As the motor racing rule-making body moved back and forth between cars that less and less resembled road-going vehicles, prototype sports car racing captured the imagination of manufacturers, t[...]

This is the first book to be written about the history and development of Alfa Romeo's fabulous Tipo 33 prototype racers. Carlo Chiti's sports cars of the 1960s and 70s won the Manufacturers World Championships in 1975 and 1977, but few records were kept then about the many variants produced. This b[...]

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with "Leaves of Grass."
Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of [...]

A revised and updated edition draws on extensive research to expose the myths regarding world hunger, examining the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries. Original.[...]