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1. Migration and New Media

   Transnational Families and Polymedia

   By Mirca Madianou, Daniel Miller

   How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and...

   Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
2. Animal Ethics and Theology

   The Lens of the Good Samaritan

   By Daniel Miller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   In this book, Daniel K. Miller articulates a new vision of human and animal relationships based on the foundational love ethic within Christianity. Framed around Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, Animal Ethics and Theology thoughtfully examines the shortcomings of utilitarian and rights-based...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Epilepsy Surgery

   Principles and Controversies

   Edited by John W. Miller, Daniel L. Silbergeld

   Series: Neurological Disease and Therapy

   Offering authoritative coverage of the vast array of major clinical issues in epilepsy surgery-from the selection of surgical candidates to presurgical evaluation, surgical techniques, and postoperative rehabilitation-this reference presents a series of essays on the principles and controversies in...

   Published November 1st 2005 by CRC Press
4. Handbook Of Coating Additives

   2nd Edition

   Edited by John J. Florio, Daniel J. Miller

   This volume compiles a wealth of information on the composition, properties, utilization, and performance of major classes of additives while alerting formulators to potentially damaging interactions and challenges in the selection and testing of these materials. Completely revised and updated, the...

   Published May 25th 2004 by CRC Press
5. Consumption

   Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Edited by Daniel Miller

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   These volumes comprise the most extensive guide to past and current research on the topic of consumption ever created. Ranging from the classic discussions of a century and more ago to the latest evidence for the diversity of consumption as it is actually practiced, this set is an essential...

   Published June 13th 2001 by Routledge
6. Shopping, Place and Identity

   By Peter Jackson, Michael Rowlands, Daniel Miller

   Published May 20th 1998 by Routledge
7. Material Cultures

   Why Some Things Matter

   Edited by Daniel Miller

   This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something...

   Published November 12th 1997 by Routledge
8. Domination and Resistance

   Edited by Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, Chris Tilley

   Series: One World Archaeology

   The nature of power - one of the central concerns in social science - is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere, the editors and contributors offer a wealth...

   Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge
9. Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local

   Edited by Daniel Miller

   Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge

   Worlds Apart is concerned with one of the new futures of anthropology, namely the advances in technologies which r eate an imagination of new global and local forms. It also analyses studies of the consumption of these forms and attempts to go beyond the assumptions that consumption either...

   Published August 23rd 1995 by Routledge
10. Acknowledging Consumption

    Edited by Daniel Miller (Series Editor), Daniel Miller

    Series: Material Cultures

    A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas....

    Published June 21st 1995 by Routledge