Thomas Yarrow: 3 books
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes...
Development beyond Politics
Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of development are concretely enacted.
Archaeology and Anthropology
Understanding Similarity, Exploring Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeologys interest in anthropology has remained largely unreciprocated....