Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • Business
    Dr. Paul R. Friesen / DrPaul RFriesen
    Flipped learning is on the rise in education. This module is designed for that specific learning model. Students have access to videos to watch at home or online. quizzes are interactive and available online. Debate and critical thinking are at the center of the course. It is easy to teach when students have made a bit of an effort to prepare. Preparing at home with short video...
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    16,27 €

  • The Fatah-Hamas Rift
    Gadi Hitman
    Analyzes the relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas since 2007, a period of time that has been marked by the parties’ continual failure to end political disagreements and formulate a common national vision. ...
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    121,90 €

  • Relentless
    Charles W Strange / Steven R Leuschel
    Relentless:A Gold Star Father’s Pursuit of Truth of Extortion 17 Charles’s son, Michael Strange, was a top cryptologist and SEAL Team 6 member on the Osama Bin Laden raid in 2011. Three months later on August 6, 2011, Michael was killed in Afghanistan along with 30 other Americans on call sign Extortion 17. Charles has been seeking the truth about Michael’s death for nearly a d...
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    23,99 €

  • The Subtle Subtext
    Laurent Pernot / W. E. Higgins
    Examines forms of double meaning, including allusion, ambiguity, innuendo, and courteous phrases used in daily life, politics, and literature. Draws on examples from across the human sciences, from Homer to Shakespeare, Molière, Proust, Foucault, and others. ...
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    143,89 €

  • ACHIEVING SUSTAINING PEACE THROUGH PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY
    GUO YANJUN & HAN ZHILI
    Preventive diplomacy constitutes an important part of international conflict resolution mechanisms. The countries in the Asia Pacific region have the political will to use preventive diplomacy to address the needs for sustaining peace and security. The challenge is to find approaches compatible with the consensual norms, and operational for tackling conflicts in the regional co...
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    154,23 €

  • Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies
    Grant W. Smith / Grant WSmith
    ’Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies’ presents a comprehensive study of names in Shakespeare’s comedies. Although names are used in daily speech as simple designators, often with minimal regard for semantic or phonological suggestiveness, their coinage is always based on analogy. They are words (i.e., signs) borrowed from previous referents and contexts, and applied to...
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    76,98 €

  • Young People and Social Media
    Blair Miller
    ’Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children’s Digital Culture’ explores the practices, relationships, consequences, benefits, and outcomes of children’s experiences with, on, and through social media by bringing together a vast array of different ideas about childhood, youth, and young people’s lives. These ideas are drawn from scholars working in a variety of discipl...
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    80,28 €

  • The Nation or the Ummah
    Birol Başkan / Ömer Taşpınar
    Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally. ...
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    121,91 €

  • China’s Economic Dialectic
    Enfu Cheng
    For Western Marxists, what is likely to be most astonishing is the many-sided approach to Marxism displayed throughout this work. This reflects a strong emphasis on cultivating an open Marxism, drawing on different views and debates, and various movement ver­naculars, in the continuing world struggle for socialism. ...
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    41,82 €

  • Mass Communications and the Influence of Information During Times of Crises
    Although global pandemics are not a new phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken place in a very different information environment than any pandemic before it. In today’s world, information plays a critical role in all areas of life with much of this information being delivered over the internet and social media. People have access to unprecedented amounts of information fro...
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    281,98 €

  • Mass Communications and the Influence of Information During Times of Crises
    Although global pandemics are not a new phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken place in a very different information environment than any pandemic before it. In today’s world, information plays a critical role in all areas of life with much of this information being delivered over the internet and social media. People have access to unprecedented amounts of information fro...
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    216,12 €

  • A Fair Race
    Chhetri / Tanisha Chhetri
    The Right to Education Act was a historic moment for India. It made universal education a priority for the nation. As we progress towards higher rates of literacy, we are faced with important questions. Is literacy rate the best measure for a country’s education system? How much of an impact does the quality of education have on an individual’s life? How do we provide quality e...
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    11,34 €

  • Patrolling Epistemic Borders in a World of Borderless Pandemics
    The global epistemological gendarmerie do not only police epistemologies but they also infect the world with infectious epidemics of laughter targeted at those people whose epistemologies are offhandedly condemned as sterile and useless in controlling and containing pandemics. Patrolling epistemic borders in ways that demobilise indigenous epistemologies, the global epistemolog...
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    67,75 €

  • Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises
    Today, individuals and societies of the digital age are no longer constrained by conventional contexts, narratives, settings, and status; they are surrounded and guided by digital tools and applications leading to a digital revolution. That digital revolution changed the individual along with living styles and cultural and social relations among people. Moreover, these revoluti...
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    400,04 €

  • The Mumbo Jumbo Fix
    Michael J. Grace / Michael JGrace
    The Mumbo Jumbo Fix: A Survival Guide for Effective Doctor-Patient-Nurse Communication tackles the vital subject of healthcare miscommunication which is a leading cause of patient harm. It is the first book of its kind geared to all three essential participants--doctors, nurses, AND patients. Written by a medical malpractice trial attorney, hospital risk manager, and healthcare...
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    32,86 €

  • Handbook of Research on Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Conflicts and Their Impact on State and Social Security
    The resolution of conflicts based on religious and ethnic contradictions is a time-consuming process. Under certain conditions, a religious conflict became a form of expression of class, estate, interethnic contradictions, and the confrontation of states. However, we know that all religions call for peace, tolerance, and understanding. There is a need to realize that social inj...
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    354,06 €

  • The World Needs Dialogue! Three
    The third annual conference of the Academy of Professional Dialogue was held online for the first time, and in the Academy’s Online Conference Centre specially created for the occasion. By holding sessions for four hours each day for five consecutive days, many more could be present than in previous conferences.This year’s conference theme was Shaping the Profession. Dialogue a...
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    68,70 €

  • Survivors
    David Petersen / Mandy Conti
    The green oasis of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, built at what was once the hypocenter of an atomic blast, is the most visible sign of the city’s renaissance as a vibrant and forward-looking center, and a force for peace in the midst of the turbulence of 21st century politics.But it is not the only reminder of the tenacious spirit of life in Hiroshima. Less well-known outside ...
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    72,53 €

  • The EU and crisis response
    A state-of-the-art consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms based on comparative fieldwork in a number of cases. ...
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    35,72 €

  • The EU and crisis response
    A state-of-the-art consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms based on comparative fieldwork in a number of cases. ...
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    157,39 €

  • Fending for Ourselves
    Rory Pilossof
    Zimbabwe celebrated its independence just over 40 years ago. While the nation is no longer young, its population certainly is: over 60% are under the age of 35. Understanding youth perspectives and experiences is therefore vitally important. Fending for Ourselves reviews the recent histories and realities of youths in Zimbabwe, offering a distinguished range of authors explorin...
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    49,47 €

  • Understanding Nonverbal Communication
    Marcel Danesi
    The human body is a primary source of meaning-making, with the body conveying over two-thirds of our messages. But how can we understand these physical communicative cues? How are they being expressed and exploited in new media and multimodal online and mobile interaction?Offering an in-depth guide to help you investigate and understand real and virtual nonverbal communication ...
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    160,80 €

  • Covid-19 and the Dialectics of Global Pandemics in Africa
    The prevalence of global pandemics has been timeless and universal. In 1918, the Spanish Flue grounded Spain and her neighbours. In 1997, 2014 and 2020, the Ebola virus wreaked havoc in West Africa in the same manner that polio had ravaged the globe. Since 2019, the Coronavirus has forced most economies onto a downward spiral. Despite concerted global attempts at observing Worl...
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    83,45 €

  • Insights on Domestic Stakeholders and Climate Action
    Zakari Zirra
    This international relations text focuses on the key stakeholders driving climate action in Nigeria i.e. Non-Governmental Organisations, the Public Sector and the Private Sector. The eleven chapters analyse the nuances of climate change and climate action by these stakeholders in response to the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A...
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    20,17 €

  • Compassionate Collaborative Communication
    Anthea Peries
    Compassionate Collaborative Communication: How To Communicate Peacefully In A Nonviolent WayA Practical Guide Using Effective Proven Skills For Conflict In Relationships Between Parents & Kids You know how frustrating it can be when you are flustered, annoyed, angry, and cannot communicate your frustration in a kind and positive way?Our communication style is very important and...
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    15,40 €

  • Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique
    Tanja Kleibl
    By demonstrating that Western conceptions of ’civil society’ have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambiqueargues that it is only through a critical deconstruction of these concepts that we can start to re-balance global power relationships, both in academic discourse and in development practices.Examining th...
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    154,49 €

  • Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance Within the Academic Profession at Makerere University
    Andrea Kronstad Felde / Anja Myrtveit / Tor Halvorsen
    Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance Within the Academic Profession at Makerere University is set against the backdrop of the spread of neoliberal ideas and reforms since the 1980s. While accepting that these ideas are rooted in a longer history, the authors reveal how neoliberalism has transformed the university sector and the academic profession. In particular, they focus...
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    68,46 €

  • Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Kenya
    Leah Jerop Komen
    In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in the discourse of development in the changing world. It subverts the traditional ...
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    39,66 €

  • A New Handbook of Rhetoric
    Michele Kennerly
    A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory. ...
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    143,75 €

  • Q and the Anons
    An Anon
    This 292-page book is filled with hundreds of graphics, news headlines, photos, and many memes. The paperback is black-and-white, the ebook is color, and the hardcover is premium color, with printing costs to match - a great gift and keepsake of this amazing time.The Q-Research boards have been a place where good-hearted people from many countries and all walks of life came tog...
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    25,00 €