Class acts [[electronic resource] ] : service and inequality in luxury hotels / / Rachel Sherman
| Class acts [[electronic resource] ] : service and inequality in luxury hotels / / Rachel Sherman |
| Autore | Sherman Rachel <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
| Disciplina | 647.94068 |
| Soggetto topico |
Hospitality industry - Customer services - United States
Hotels - United States - Management Luxuries - Social aspects - United States Social classes - United States |
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america
behind the scenes bellperson class differences concierge consumer society cultural studies demographic study economic inequality ethnographers ethnographic research hotel jobs hotel managers hotel staff hotel workers housekeepers luxury consumption luxury hotels luxury service nonfiction study nonfiction service industry social inequality social relationships united states urban hotels wealthy guests workplace |
| ISBN |
0-520-93960-3
1-281-75250-9 9786611752507 1-4337-0002-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Luxury Service And The New Economy -- 1. "Better Than Your Mother": The Luxury Product -- 2. Managing Autonomy -- 3. Games, Control, And Skill -- 4. Recasting Hierarchy -- 5. Reciprocity, Relationship, And Revenge -- 6. Producing Entitlement -- Conclusion: Class, Culture, And The Service Theater -- Appendix A: Methods -- Appendix B: Hotel Organization -- Appendix C: Jobs, Wages, And Nonmanagerial Workers In Each Hotel: 2000-2001 -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Sherman Rachel <1970->
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In the course of a lifetime [[electronic resource] ] : tracing religious belief, practice, and change / / Michele Dillon and Paul Wink
| In the course of a lifetime [[electronic resource] ] : tracing religious belief, practice, and change / / Michele Dillon and Paul Wink |
| Autore | Dillon Michele <1960-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200.1/9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WinkPaul <1952-> |
| Soggetto topico | Faith development |
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1920s
20th century america american religion catholics christian history christianity comparative religion cultural change demographic study faith and religion life stories long term study nonfiction personal growth personal journey protestants religion and culture religious belief religious experiences religious lifestyles religious practices religious scholars religious studies role of religion spiritual journey spirituality theology us religion |
| ISBN |
9786612358609
0-520-94003-2 1-282-35860-X 1-4337-0833-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The vibrancy of American religion -- Meet the parents : the family context shaping religious socialization in the 1930s and 1940s -- Adolescent religion in the 1930s and 1940s -- The imprint of individual autonomy on everyday religion in the 1950s -- The ebb and flow of religiousness across the life course -- Individual transformation in religious commitment and meaning -- Spiritual seeking -- The activities, personality, and social attitudes of religious and spiritual individuals in late adulthood -- Spiritual seeking, therapeutic culture, and concern for others -- The buffering role of religion in late adulthood -- American lived religion -- Methodological appendix : measuring religiousness and spiritual seeking in the IHD longitudinal study. |
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Dillon Michele <1960->
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The invention and decline of Israeliness : state, society, and the military / / Baruch Kimmerling
| The invention and decline of Israeliness : state, society, and the military / / Baruch Kimmerling |
| Autore | Kimmerling Baruch |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306/.095694 |
| Soggetto topico |
National characteristics, Israeli
Jews - Israel - Identity Religion and state - Israel |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
citizen rights cross cultural cultural history demographic study ethnicities historians israel israeli military israeli society israeli state judaism middle east modern history multicultural society national identity nationalism nonfiction political analysts political science political resource distribution secular zionists social scientists social studies sociological study sociologists thought provoking |
| ISBN |
9780520939301
0-520-93930-1 1-59734-686-1 9780520229686 9780520246720 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Mythological-Historical Origins of the Israeli State: An Overview -- 2. Building an Immigrant Settler State -- 3. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness -- 4. The End of Hegemony and the Onset of Cultural Plurality -- 5. The Newcomers -- 6. The Cultural Code of Jewishness: Religion and Nationalism -- 7. The Code of Security: The Israeli Military-Cultural Complex -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Kimmerling Baruch
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 | ||
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Nimo's war, Emma's war : making feminist sense of the Iraq War / / Cynthia Enloe
| Nimo's war, Emma's war : making feminist sense of the Iraq War / / Cynthia Enloe |
| Autore | Enloe Cynthia H. <1938-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 956.7044/3082 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women and war - Iraq
Women soldiers - Iraq Women - Iraq Iraq War, 2003-2011 |
| Soggetto non controllato |
african americans
baghdad causes of war contemporary feminists cost of war demographic study ethnic politics feminism gender of war historians international relations iraq war iraqi army men and women middle east modern history multiple perspectives nonfiction political history political science prostitution sexism sexual assault us army war history womens experiences womens perspective world history |
| ISBN |
1-282-76394-6
9786612763946 0-520-94595-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Eight Women, One War -- 2. Nimo: Wartime Politics in a Beauty Parlor -- 3. Maha: A Widow Returns to Baghdad -- 4. Safah: The Girl from Haditha -- 5. Shatha: A Legislator in Wartime -- 6. Emma and the Recruiters -- 7. Danielle: From Basketball Court to Baghdad Rooftop -- 8. Kim: "I'm in a Way Fighting My Own War" -- 9. Charlene: Picking Up the Pieces -- Conclusion: The Long War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Enloe Cynthia H. <1938->
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