Author: E. C. Cuff
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sociology, perspectives
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 1990-12-04
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0415079209
ISBN-13: 9780415079204

From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This fourth edition has been wholly rewritten and restructured. While retaining its wealth of information about the founding figures of sociology it also includes much new material on contemporary social theory and particularly the challenge to sociology posed by the rise of post-structuralism with its questioning of the whole enlightenment period. New features include: a concise introduction to the major deba

Author: Dana Cuff
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: practice, story, architecture
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1992-07-08
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0262531127
ISBN-13: 9780262531122

Although architecture is the fastest-growing profession in America, its private context remains shrouded in myth. In this book, Dana Cuff delves into the architect’s everyday work world to uncover an intricate social art of design. The result is a new portrait of the profession that sheds light on what it means to become an architect, how design problems are construed and resolved, how clients and architects negotiate, and how design excellence is achieved. Dana Cuff has taught as a social scientist among architects and as an architect among social scientists. Her particip

Authors:E.C. Cuff, W.W. Sharrock, D.W. Francis,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sociology, perspectives
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2006-08-18
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0415301114
ISBN-13: 9780415301114

From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features: a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century, placing them in historical and philosophical context information on thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century whose relevance to modern social thought is only now being recognized, e.g. Nietszche, Saussure, Simmel connections drawn between post-structuralist thinkers like Foucault a

Author: Yvonne Hutchinson Cuff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: sculptors, potters, technology, ceramic
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0812213777
ISBN-13: 9780812213775

Ceramic Technology for Potters and Sculptors is an accessible, comprehensive instructional manual that demonstrates the technology involved in making and firing ceramics. Divided into three parts—Background Sciences, Workshop Practice, and Raw Materials; Clay Bodies, Slips, and Casting Slips; and Glaze and Color—this book covers the whole process from start to finish. Yvonne Hutchinson Cuff carefully guides both experience and amateur potters through 46 exercises, offering a full and detailed explanation of the expected results together with supporting discussion.

Authors:David J. Cuff, Mark T. Mattso,
Publisher: Methuen young book
Keywords: production, design, maps, thematic
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1982-12-02
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0416335004
ISBN-13: 9780416335002

Authors:Andrew Goudie, David Cuff,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, companions, change, global, companion
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195324889
ISBN-13: 9780195324884

The Oxford Companion to Global Change is an up-to-date, comprehensive, interdisciplinary guide to the range of issues surrounding natural and human-induced changes in the Earth’s environment. In one convenient volume, the Companion brings together current knowledge about the relations between technological, social, demographic, economic, and political factors as well as biological, chemical, and physical systems. It is an essential reference work for students, teachers, researchers, and other professionals seeking to understand any aspect of global change.