Allan Pred

During a 1985 visit to Sweden's National Portrait Gallery, Pred (geography, U. of California, Berkeley) was first struck by a painting of a young male. Called Badin, he was an Afro-Caribbean slave giv

Using both grand conceptualizations and grounded case studies, Allan Pred and Michael Watts look at how people cope with and give meaning to capitalism and modernity in different times and places. As

"A tour de force"--Orvar Lofgren, co-author of Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life"Written in a striking, experimental style, this is an insightful and impressive book on

The last quarter of the nineteenth century was the most dramatic era in the social and spatial transformation of Stockholm. During this time large-scale manufacturing industry rose and eclipsed small-scale artisan sectors of production; the city's population virtually doubled and there was a rapid extension and rebuilding of the urban fabric. Allan Pred reconstructs this transformation of Stockholm's local economy, civil society and built environment between 1880 and 1900 through an interpretation of lost elements of language, or forgotten fragments of daily discourse, of lost words and meanings that belonged to members of the working and periodically employed classes. His analysis reveals that a language of production, distribution and consumption practices subsumed a language of discipline-avoidance and survival tactics. He demonstrates that the 'folk geography', or language used for negotiating the city streets and getting from here to there, subsumed a language of ideological resis

"Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on Terror' finally

Understanding consciousness by taking the stream of consciousness seriously; a general characterization of experience and a detailed description of experience from within, drawing on theories of Willi

This book covers the theoretical problems of modeling electrical behavior of the interconnections encountered in everyday electronic products. The coverage shows the theoretical tools of waveform pred

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion --with a novel even more magnificent than its pred

This book reviews all the important aspects of treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders, covering issues such as definitions, clinical aspects, neurobiological correlates, treatment options, and pred

Whether it’s an unforeseen financial crash, a shock election result, or an expectedbarbecue season that sees record rainfall, forecasts have impacts on us all. Forewarned is a consumer’s guide to pred

The thrilling new novel from bestselling author Louise Candlish. It's summer, and for teachers Ed and Natalie Steele this means six weeks off work with their young daughter Molly. Their lives are pred

An Englishman of the late 19th century recounts his travels to the United States and Canada from Australia by steamer. Falk comments on the political and national character of Americans and makes pred

Baumol studies the effect of the allocation of entrepreneurs between productive and unproductive activities on an economy's performance. Although it is admittedly difficult to theorize and make pred

What does it take to catch a predator who has terrorised southeast England for over fifteen years?Delroy Grant - dubbed the Night Stalker - was one of the nation's most wanted men, a shocking sex pred

The first edition of this comprehensive work quickly filled the need for an in-depth handbook on concrete construction engineering and technology. Living up to the standard set by its bestselling pred

Assess. Respond. Protect. From break-ins to basement flooding to broken bones, in theTotal Emergency Survival Manual you’ll find everything you need to be prepared for any emergency that comes your wa

Are we headed toward a global economic collapse? Financial markets are violently unstable worldwide, and the key benchmarks of financial health are rapidly getting worse.Christians know the Bible pred

Over the last thirty years, the study of liquids containing polymers, surfactants, or colloidal particles has developed from a loose assembly of facts into a coherent discipline with substantial pred

With contributions from expert physicians, diabetes educators, and dieticians, Nutritional Strategies for the Diabetic/Prediabetic Patient addresses all aspects of nutrition in adult diabetic and pred

This book contributes to the debate over the culpability of the Trans-Atlantic Slave from various disciplinary perspectives. The general thesis that undergirds the book is that by knowing who was pred

Learn about the brave dogs who help guard livestock around the world!Wolf populations in the Rocky Mountains have reached recovery goals due in large part to an environmentally friendly method of pred

For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous pred

This book looks at how President Obama uses deracialization in context of his performance on racial issues (both substantive and symbolic) and uses this evaluation to compare him to his immediate pred

This book looks at how President Obama uses deracialization in context of his performance on racial issues (both substantive and symbolic) and uses this evaluation to compare him to his immediate pred

A historical portrait of the iconic astrologer evaluates how his prophecies have been interpreted, transformed and analyzed throughout history while exploring the ways in which people believe his pred

The Ghost teams up with Inspector Donovan, a former lover, and a British spy to derail a conspiracy and prevent a war with Britain while dealing with flashbacks, a mechanized madman, and airborne pred

Outdoors enthusiasts and safety gurus alike need look no further than How to Survive—a practical hands-on guidebook that will help you conquer any situation with cheeky humor and simplified instructio

For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous pred

This book is the first in a multi-volume, decade-by-decade series covering the entire history of Formula 1 through its teams and cars. The series launches with the 1960s, when the British came to pred

Vigo presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a variety of contexts with a theoretically based set of general mathematical principles for use in the explanation and pred

"The Lockwood Analytical Method for Prediction (LAMP) is a systematic technique for predicting short-term, unique behaviors. Using primarily qualitative empirical data, LAMP allows the analyst to pred

Queer theory and the gay rights movement historically have been in tension, with the former critiquing precisely the identity politics on which the latter relies. Yet neither queer theory, in its pred

Chronicling Scotland's past, this document traces the movement of the Scottish people from rural to urban environments during the 18th and 19th centuries and the subsequent changes in labor from pred

In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a pred