Ideal for any cultural anthropology course, this brief and inexpensive collection of ethnographic case studies exposes students to fifteen different cultures. "Culture Sketches" introduces students to ethnography without overwhelming them with excessive reading material. Each sketch, or chapter, was selected for its relevance to students and for its ability to reflect the basic...(展开全部)

Based on the Latin literature of the times, the unofficial language in which students made jokes and alchemists preserved their prided recipes, historian and mediaeval scholar Haskins offers authoritative studies of many facets of mediaeval life. He includes illuminating sidelights on the life of the time in the individual chapters on the mediaeval student as seen in his letter...(展开全部)

This is a fascinating collection of human stories. Some are well-known case studies that have informed clinical practice, others are relatively unknown. For this edition, Rolls has added recent research findings on each case study of Washoe, the ape who could communicate; the much debated case of Holly Ramona and repressed memory; and Kim Peek, the real 'Rainman'. Classic Case ...(展开全部)

Heard about the child who was locked away from the world until the age of 13? Or the man who was turned on by prams? From the woman with multiple personalities, to the man with no brain, this is a compelling collection of truly unique psychological case studies. A strange book full of even stranger stories, "Classic Case Studies in Psychology" is a collection of fascinating hum...(展开全部)

罗伯特·F·里瓦斯Robert F.Rivas)是美国西恩纳学院社会工作专业的教授。里瓦斯教授担任西恩纳学院本科项目主任十余年，教学领域涉及社会工作实地督导、实务、政策和研究等广阔的领域，并曾两次担任社会工作教育理事会资格评审委员会委员。里瓦斯教授的主要著作《小组工作实务导论》目前已经四次再版。 小格拉夫顿，H·赫尔(Grafton H.Hull，Jr.)是美国犹他大学的教授，社会工作本科项目主任。赫尔教授有29年的社会工作学士和硕士项目经验，是社会工作教育理事会资格评审委员会和董事会成员。赫尔教授的传记已被收入《美国和世界名人录》。

This book is a compilation of real cases submitted by social workers and faculty teaching social work courses. The cases help students understand how clients, issues, and agencies interact, as well as see how that understanding connects with the actual "doing" of generalist social work practice. The cases reflect a broad range of courses in the social work curriculum and the mo...(展开全部)

One of this century's foremost historians describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerged in England.

Customs in Common is the remarkable sequel to E.P. Thompson’s influential, landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class. The product of years of research and debate, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerged in England—a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preser...(展开全部)

Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or “alien” societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to E.T. Culture take these communities seriously. They demon...(展开全部)