LIBROS DEL AUTOR: Alan O'Connor

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  • Sailing and Social Class
    Alan O’Connor
    This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has much to tell us about the wider sociology of leisure and sport. ...
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    76,34 €

  • Bridge Deck Analysis
    Alan O’Connor / Damien Keogh / Eugene J. Obrien
    This second edition combines an explanation of background theory with a step-by-step guide on the analysis of common bridge forms. It includes practical examples of everyday problems in bridge engineering-particularly useful for senior undergraduates and new engineering graduates. The new edition introduces reliability analysis, an emerging area ...
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    122,36 €

  • Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy
    Alan O'Connor / Alan O’Connor
    Unlike studies that consider punk as subculture and style, this innovative book maps the field of punk-rock labels. Using the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, it describes the social life of the field and the struggles of punks to live up to their ideals. ...
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    71,25 €

  • Voice of the Mountains
    Alan O'Connor / Alan O’Connor
    Using tape recordings, videos, and the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams, this work examines the uses of radio for development, the impact on oral culture, and the use of radio by indigenous people in Ecuador and miners in Bolivia. Few anthropologists have studied radio, and The Voice of the Mountains is a unique and important text due to its approach to the field o...
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    49,09 €

  • Raymond Williams
    Alan O'Connor / Alan O’Connor
    Raymond Williams-a Welsh media critic and a pioneer of cultural studies-believed that the traditional focus of biographies on individuals isolated these people from their communities. For this reason, Alan O’Connor looks at Williams and his time period-one of social change and crisis. Williams, son of a railway worker, would have pursued university studies had World War II not ...
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    58,27 €