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Bouquet/Reclaiming English Kinship, Portuguese Refractions Of British Kinship Theory[marriage, family, kinship, kinship theory, British]. Bouquet/Reclaiming English Kinship, Portuguese Refractions Of British Kinship Theory[marriage, family, kinship, kinship theory, British]. [#306an90] Bouquet / Reclaiming English Kinship, Portuguese Refractions Of British Kinship Theory ♦ £35 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ $65 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ 44 Euros Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ Bouquet/Reclaiming English Kinship, Portuguese Refractions Of British Kinship Theory[marriage, family, kinship, kinship theory, British]. Bouquet/Reclaiming English Kinship, Portuguese Refractions Of British Kinship Theory[marriage, family, kinship, kinship theory, British]. published by Manchester University Press, Manchester & New York, 1993; [viii] + 260 pages including Bibliography and Index; 15 X 23cm; "Fine/Mint" green hardback in "Fine/Mint" dustwrapper. Nice copy of an infrequently encountered item. 4 COPIES AVAILABLE

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Eyles (John), Woods (Kevin J.)/The Social Geogaphy of Medicine and Health[social anthropology, deprivation, ecology, health]. Eyles (John), Woods (Kevin J.)/The Social Geogaphy of Medicine and Health[social anthropology, deprivation, ecology, health]. [#613bj01] Eyles (John), Woods (Kevin J.) / The Social Geogaphy of Medicine and Health ♦ £36 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ $66 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ 45 Euros Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ Eyles (John), Woods (Kevin J.)/The Social Geogaphy of Medicine and Health[social anthropology, deprivation, ecology, health]. Eyles (John), Woods (Kevin J.)/The Social Geogaphy of Medicine and Health[social anthropology, deprivation, ecology, health]. Published by Croom Helm, London & Canberra, 1983; 272 pages; 14 X 22cm; John Eyles and Kevin J. Woods are in the Department of Geography at Queen Mary College, University of London; Contents include List of Figures, List of Tables, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1) Perspectives on Health and Health Care, 2) Changing Conceptions of Health and Health Care in Urban Society, 3) Man, Disease and Environmental Associations: from Medical Geography to Health Inequalities, 4) Perspectives on the Location and Distribution of Health Services, 5) Practical Responses: the Effects of Constraints, 6) Societal Constraints and Systems of Health Care Provision, 7) Directions for Social Geographical Research, Bibliography, Subject Index and Author Index; with 32 Figures and 23 Tables in the text; "Mint" black/gilt cloth hardback in near "Fine" price-clipped buff/red dustwrapper, with somewhat sunned spine. *** Crisp/clean copy of a now-scarce item.***

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Hardacre/Lay Buddhism In Contemporary Japan : Reiyukai Kyodan[buddhism, Japan, sociology, philosophy, religion,]. Hardacre/Lay Buddhism In Contemporary Japan : Reiyukai Kyodan[buddhism, Japan, sociology, philosophy, religion,]. [#0507bu] Hardacre / Lay Buddhism In Contemporary Japan : Reiyukai Kyodan ♦ £49 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ $91 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ 61 Euros Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ Hardacre/Lay Buddhism In Contemporary Japan : Reiyukai Kyodan[buddhism, Japan, sociology, philosophy, religion,]. Hardacre/Lay Buddhism In Contemporary Japan : Reiyukai Kyodan[buddhism, Japan, sociology, philosophy, religion,]. Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1984. With line drawing, charts & tables. "Good plus" or better blue cloth HARDBACK with silver titling in "Very Good" blue/white/black pictorial DUSTWRAPPER with neat paper Dewey label on spine; formerly the property of an English city library with their ornate armorial bookplate on front pastedowns and rear free endpaper; barcode label and unobtrusive "withdrawn" stamp on front fly-leaf; their neat ownership stamp on occasional pages; a barely used lending exemplar with none other of the defects associated with lending copies, aside from the unobtrusive slight residuum of a lending sheet on the first flyleaf and some evidence still of librarian's use of transparent tape. FULLEST DETAILS of publication, pagination, contents, condition and size, in both inches and centimetres, along with sample text & sample illustration and publisher's synopsis all shown in ACCOMPANYING COMPOSITE IMAGE. **** A crisp/clean exemplar of a now infrequently encountered study. ********

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Pasternak/Guests in the Dragon : Social Demography of a Chinese District 1895-1946[demography, social, Lungtu, rural, Taiwan, marriag]. Pasternak/Guests in the Dragon : Social Demography of a Chinese District 1895-1946[demography, social, Lungtu, rural, Taiwan, marriag]. [#200] Pasternak / Guests in the Dragon : Social Demography of a Chinese District 1895-1946 ♦ £49 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ $91 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ 61 Euros Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ Pasternak/Guests in the Dragon : Social Demography of a Chinese District 1895-1946[demography, social, Lungtu, rural, Taiwan, marriag]. Pasternak/Guests in the Dragon : Social Demography of a Chinese District 1895-1946[demography, social, Lungtu, rural, Taiwan, marriag]. Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1983. "Very Good Plus" or better black cloth HARDBACK with green titling in "Very Good Plus" or better white/green DUSTWRAPPER; densely informative text with charts & graphs; formerly the property of the City of Liverpool Public Libararies with their ornate armorial bookplate on front pastedown and their neat ownership stamp on occasional pages; barcode label on front fly & residue there of reference sheet; paper Dewey label on dw spine; In all, a very nice reference library excemplar with none of the faultsasociated with lending copies. Some evidence still of librarian's use of transparent tape. FULLEST DETAILS of publication, pagination, contents, condition and size, in both inches and centimetres, sample charts and sample text all shown IN ACCOMPANYING COMPOSITE IMAGE. ***** Nice crisp/clean item exemplar of a scarce item.******

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THANK YOU FOR READING THROUGH TODAY'S REVISION OF THIS PAGE
HEREWITH TOO A BRIEF SELECTION OF TODAY'S HISTORICAL ANNIVERSARIES:-

21st. August
Events
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Sh?gun and the de facto ruler of Japan.
(Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192) 1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayag|ez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1831 - Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
1841 - The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda.
(Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856) 1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1942 - The Battle of Stalingrad began.
1942 - Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1963 - Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceau?escu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr.
was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
1986 - Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1991 - Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to Macedonia.
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