Portable Communities

Portable CommunitiesLooks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices. Runner Up, 2009 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award "I blog, text, IM, email, and I don't like to be without my cell phone or have to shut it off even in a theater. Let's put it this way, my 'connections' are more important than whatever I'm doing that might force me to shut my cell phone off." A Member

filled with the ghosts of lost friends and lovers

she came to the UK and became a child psychotherapist

from its headquarters in Nashville

Sikata Banerjee notes that the nationalism defined by masculine Hinduism draws on a more general narrative of nation found in many cultures

Through richly documented case studies across Europe

Published at the beginning of Corelli’s career as one of the most successful writers of her generation

the chapters in this volume offer fresh insight into the form

Both conventional and organic postharvest handling practices require a comprehensive approach from selection of plant material through production

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Although used more often against local government officials

Being also one of the most visited cities in the world

In her new prologue to this reprint of the revised edition