Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • PEACE
    Richard Birrer
    Peace: A Compendium provides a uniquely comprehensive, intensive and practical presentation of the diverse facets of peace. Featuring both classic and contemporary works, it enables readers to understand the history of peace and conflict from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, literature, law and theology while also introducing them to the most current perspectives ...
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    35,81 €

  • China in Ethiopia
    Aaron Tesfaye
    Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development. ...
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    41,01 €

  • Securing Land Rights
    Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa
    Securing land rights takes up themes at the centre of socio-political debates throughout the African continent. These relate to national struggles over access to land, land distribution, land rights and security of tenure. Land in much of rural Africa is communally held, a system that provides security of livelihood and a social safety net, but is not immune to appropriation by...
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    70,44 €

  • Africa’s Security Challenges in the 21st Century
    Tunde Adeniran
    Against the backdrop of a globalized world, with the key players having to contend with the changing nature of power in international relations and Africa of the 21st century faced with new realities, this book was conceived to expand and push the scope of inquiry into a new direction in strategic thinking. It was designed to examine various issues that are related to the secur...
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    67,48 €

  • Redefining Theory and Practice to Guide Social Transformation
    Beth Fisher-Yoshida / Joan Camilo Lopez
    The application of theory to practice in addressing social transformation still has a lot of room for growth and improvement. This is also true of theory being informed by practice. Too often, there are gaps between what is studied in the academy and what is needed in the field. The academy develops theories in isolation from the everyday lives of people, especially in post-con...
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    281,64 €

  • Ableist Rhetoric
    James L. Cherney
    Examines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion. ...
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    42,95 €

  • Multilingual Metal Music
    This multi-disciplinary book explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English including Japanese, Yiddish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, Austrian German, and Norwegian. Topics covered include national and minority identity, politics, wordplay, parody, local/global, intertextuality, and adaptation. ...
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    159,06 €

  • Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh
    Marjaana Jauhola
    Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh offers a critical contribution to the study of post-conflict politics. The book examines the rebuilding of the city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia in the aftermath of the celebrated Helsinki-based peace mediation process, thirty years of armed conflict, and the tsunami. The research is supported by 14 documentary videos reflecting individuals’ experienc...
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    47,14 €

  • Friendship with a Purpose
    Kenneth R. Ross / Kenneth RRoss
    Poverty and underdevelopment continue to present a profound challenge globally. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals suggest that 'Partnership for the Goals' will be key to success. This booklet explores the innovative people-to-people partnership developed by Malawi and Scotland during the 21st century. It identifies distinctive features of this international coll...
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    33,97 €

  • Foreign Aid to the Gaza Strip between Trusteeship and De-Development
    Ahmed Tannira
    One of the very few books that focus on the political economy of Gaza under the foreign aid regime that has emerged post Oslo Agreement 1993. ...
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    180,32 €

  • The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Media Management and Business
    This authoritative handbook connects research and industry practice in a one-stop reference for media students and professionals. Addressing the latest technologies and business practices, the handbook offers strategic guidance for solving media management issues in a convergent environment. ...
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    195,27 €

  • The Evolution of Political Rhetoric
    Volume 6 of The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research series focuses on the rapidly changing rhetoric coloring American politics. An increasingly polarized electorate combined with advances in technology have led to a combative and pitched rhetoric through more and more outlets. Each chapter is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on communication studies, political science, history...
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    71,71 €

  • The Communication Solution
    Stacy Smulowitz
    This book uses a communicative perspective to help the higher education leader conceptualize, gear up, implement and follow through with their change plan. ...
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    80,88 €

  • Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns
    Janet Johnson
    This bookexplores how social media influenced presidential campaign rhetoric. Janet Johnson discusses media use in American presidential campaigns as well as social media campaigns for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. ...
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    135,97 €

  • Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm
    This book addresses different contexts of communication pertaining to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). An international group of clinicians and communication specialists describe, analyze, and explain how NSSI is communicated about, what NSSI is communicating, and how can we do a better job in communicating with others about NSSI. ...
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    136,08 €

  • Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond
    Hsin-I Cheng
    This book argues that relational citizenship articulates relational membership for individuals, not as a status granted from the state, but as a multilayered interactive process centered on connections to multifaceted histories, peoples, institutions, and future paths. This theory offers strategies to rethink how belongingness is accomplished. ...
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    142,76 €

  • A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness
    Yuko Kawai
    This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others. ...
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    129,38 €

  • Robert Pickus, Pacifist Warrior
    Robert Woito
    This book introduces Robert Pickus’ leadership role in the pacifist community (1951–2016) and his forceful work to constructively engage the U.S. in world politics. He called for leadership by the U.S. in a conflict-filled world through non-military peace initiatives designed to gain the reciprocation of allies and dedicated adversaries alike. ...
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    50,46 €

  • Tibet Brief 20/20
    Michael van Walt van Praag / Miek Boltjes
    If you thought Tibet was water under the bridge, this book will make you think again.Tibet Brief 20/20 is a wakeup call that establishes a link between China’s current expansionism and the international community’s misguided appeasement on Tibet. The book maintains that many states are today not only acting contrary to their international legal obligations by treating Tibet as ...
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    42,85 €

  • Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society
    In recent years, many developing regions across the globe have made rigorous efforts to become integrated into the global information society. The development and implementation of information communication technology (ICT) devices and policies within various fields of service have significantly aided in the infrastructural progression of these countries. Despite these consider...
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    268,99 €

  • Social Entrepreneurs & Change Makers
    Bose Creative Publishers
    Most often, the project started with one man, or one woman, and then the idea attracted more volunteers. We have in this book an NGO which got established in 1976 by a Swiss pilot, and one that got established in 2020 in response to the pandemic and the plight of daily wage workers in India. The range of social enterprises presented in this book, are from Europe, India, US and ...
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    7,56 €

  • Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions
    Contains an Open Access chapter. With chapters spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day, this book considers how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalised to connect, mobilise, organize and inspire the masses in particular national, political, and economic contexts. ...
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    164,59 €

  • The Communication Solution
    Stacy Smulowitz
    This book uses a communicative perspective to help the higher education leader conceptualize, gear up, implement and follow through with their change plan. ...
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    40,74 €

  • Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines
    Women have been represented in art, literature, music, and more for decades, with the image of the woman changing through time and across cultures. However, rarely has a multidisciplinary approach been taken to examine this imagery and challenge and possibly reinterpret old women-related myths and other taken-for-granted aspects (e.g., grammatically inclusive gender). Moreover,...
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    354,19 €

  • Redefining Theory and Practice to Guide Social Transformation
    Beth Fisher-Yoshida / Joan Camilo Lopez
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    215,79 €

  • Celebrity and the American Political Process
    Jennifer Brubaker
    This book uses an integrated marketing communication perspective to examine the brand of the celebrity as it is brought into the American political system, primarily in the form of celebrity endorsements. ...
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    122,56 €

  • Resistance Advocacy as News
    Benjamin Rex II LaPoe / Benjamin Rex LaPoe / Victoria L. LaPoe / Victoria LLaPoe
    This book examines the Black and mainstream press’s digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obama’s first term. It addresses questions surrounding the idea of our society as one that is “postracial” and the ongoing struggle of Black people to have their voices heard in the mainstream press. ...
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    54,71 €

  • Peacebuilding in Language Education
    This book shares wisdom and strategies to help language teachers, teacher educators, and peace educators communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into classrooms and daily life. The book’s Language of Peace Approach and more than 50 creative activities nurture peacebuilding skills in students, educators and the community. ...
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    153,57 €

  • Peacebuilding in Language Education
    This book shares wisdom and strategies to help language teachers, teacher educators, and peace educators communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into classrooms and daily life. The book’s Language of Peace Approach and more than 50 creative activities nurture peacebuilding skills in students, educators and the community. ...
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    59,98 €

  • Value Chain Development and the Poor
    This collection explores how VCD is implemented in the field, options for innovation in design, and the potential for VCD to achieve impact at scale. The book provides a timely critique of current approaches, pointing at options for more reflexive learning, new collaborative frameworks, and faster innovation of VCD. ...
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    142,14 €


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