Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • How Science Can Help Us Live In Peace
    Markolf H Niemz / James D Dunn
    Award-winning biophysicist Markolf H. Niemz puts into a nutshell what the top 3 scientists on earth have discovered. Charles Darwin: Animal and man are not two. Albert Einstein: Space and time are not two. Alfred N. Whitehead: The world and I are not two. The world we live in is non-dualistic. Nature is crying for peace, but we shut off foreign from native, poor from rich, othe...
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    40,00 €

  • Words of Hope in Troubled Times
    José Ramos-Horta
    The Twenty-first Century offers us a chance, a unique chance, to coalesce around common global interests – to reverse the nefarious consequences of climate change, manage clean water reserves that are becoming a rare commodity, save our polluted rivers, lakes, and seas, replenish the depleted fish stock, eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and de-escalate tensions on the Kore...
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    23,52 €

  • Parents for World Peace
    Laura Fobler
    In the book Parents for World Peace, Laura Fobler describes the connection between conflicts in our world (both domestic and global) and a parenting style that many parents are obliviously using, based on inequality. In seven simple steps, Laura gives parents a wake-up call that will change their perspective and style on parent-child  communication forever. Implementing the sev...
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    13,27 €

  • A Global Security System
    David Swanson / Kent Shifferd / Patrick Hiller
    Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World Beyond War asserts that war itself can be ended. We humans have lived without war for most of our existence and most people live without war most of the time. Warfare arose about 6,000 years ago (less than 5% of our existenc...
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    17,31 €

  • Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication
    Misunderstandings in technology-mediated communication can be due to a lack of tone and facial expression on the part of the speaker, which provide additional context clues into the meaning of the message beyond textual representation. As technology becomes more of a ubiquitous element in our interactions with one another, further study into the ways in which language and humor...
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    242,82 €

  • Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries
    The mobile technology field is expanding with innovative research and discoveries that expand to all walks of life. Mobile technology may have its greatest impact in the developing world, because it brings telecommunication to districts that had never been reached before. Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications re...
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    236,22 €

  • Technological Advancement in Developed and Developing Countries
    Advancements in technological innovation and adoption impact modern organizations on an increasingly global level. There is now a continual need for research on recent developments and future considerations that promote the successful management of knowledge, ideas, and practice among developed and developing nations. Technological Advancement in Developed and Developing Countr...
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    236,81 €

  • Global Perspectives on Trade Integration and Economies in Transition
    Vasily Erokhin
    In the era of globalization, foreign trade has an immense impact upon modern economies. To succeed in the global marketplace, sustainable development in trade practices is an imperative goal for countries to reach. Global Perspectives on Trade Integration and Economies in Transition is an authoritative reference source for the latest research on the dynamics of transitional eco...
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    275,80 €

  • Cyber Harassment and Policy Reform in the Digital Age
    Mary Schmeida / Ramona S. McNeal / Ramona SMcNeal / Susan M. Kunkle / Susan MKunkle
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    190,05 €

  • Handbook of Research on Consumerism and Buying Behavior in Developing Nations
    Ayantunji Gbadamosi
    Having a grasp on what appeals to consumers and how consumers are making purchasing decisions is essential to the success of any organization that thrives by offering a product or service. Despite the importance of consumer knowledge and understanding, research-based insight into the buying patterns and consumption habits of individuals in emerging nations remains limited. The ...
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    309,00 €

  • Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age
    Since the popularization of Internet technologies in the mid-1990s, human identity and collective culture has been dramatically shaped by our continued use of digital communication platforms and engagement with the digital world. Despite a plethora of scholarship on digital technology, questions remain regarding how these technologies impact personal identity and perceptions of...
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    242,82 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • War and the Human Psyche
    Jake Hollister
    War is more than a clash of armies and political power - it is a profound psychological upheaval that shatters the lives of millions, especially civilians caught in the crossfire. In War and the Human Psyche - Updated Edition: Understanding Civilian Trauma and Emotional Resilience, this comprehensive exploration delves deeply into the often overlooked mental and emotional toll ...
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    90,51 €

  • The UNO’s Three Failures
    Naim Tahir Baig
    Book DescriptionThe UN’s Three Failures: Gaza, Kashmir, and UkraineAn Exposé of International Inaction and Institutional CollapseIn this devastating critique of the United Nations, distinguished international relations scholar Dr. Naim Tahir Baig presents an unflinching examination of how the world’s premier peacekeeping institution has systematically failed to prevent or resol...
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    24,51 €

  • Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia
    Yong-Shik Lee
    Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here. ...
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    49,84 €

  • Unparalleled catastrophe
    Rhys Crilley
    Unparalleled catastrophe chronicles and critically analyses recent events that have brought about a dangerous Third Nuclear Age. It presents the case for rethinking how we understand nuclear weapons and international security, and argues that today the planet stands on the brink of catastrophe. This book tells you why, and what we can do about it. ...
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    44,47 €

  • Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
    Ajay Parasram
    This book explains how the processes of ’total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a ’pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation. ...
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    44,47 €

  • US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland
    Richard Hargy
    This book revises our understanding of US intervention in Northern Ireland, 2001-2007. Within the context of 9/11 and America’s subsequent response, this work will reveal the vital role played by the George W. Bush administration in the region and why this was critical to the restoration of the Good Friday Agreement’s institutions in May 2007. ...
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    157,40 €

  • Memory and New Ways of Knowing
    This book is an interdisciplinary project centering on the testimonios of survivors in order to understand experiences of violence arising from the armed conflict in Colombia. The concepts of Testimony, Narrative and Memory are mobilized across the chapters to explore how survivors reconstruct experiences and imagine new ways of knowing and being. ...
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    44,83 €

  • Memory and New Ways of Knowing
    This book is an interdisciplinary project centering on the testimonios of survivors in order to understand experiences of violence arising from the armed conflict in Colombia. The concepts of Testimony, Narrative and Memory are mobilized across the chapters to explore how survivors reconstruct experiences and imagine new ways of knowing and being. ...
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    158,77 €

  • Women’s Troubles
    Claire Pierson
    Women’s Troubles sets out to capture the complexities of feminist movement building in the divided society of Northern Ireland, contributing to ongoing analysis of contemporary global feminisms. ...
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    145,49 €

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity...
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    204,18 €

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity...
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    53,31 €

  • Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Language Education
    Sviatlana Karpava
    This volume focuses on multidisciplinary approaches to multilingualism, multiculturalism and language teaching and learning at (pre)primary, secondary and tertiary levels. It addresses both top-down and bottom-up perspectives on language education policies, teacher training and preparation. The book explores the needs and challenges related to education in multilingual classroo...
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    129,20 €

  • Women’s Empowerment, Population Dynamics, and Development
    Dennis Hodgson
    This book assumes that 'women’s empowerment' is a social movement aimed at producing political, economic and social change. It traces the changing relationship among three unprecedented trends experienced in the 'developing world' since 1950: declining levels of mortality and fertility, socioeconomic development, and women’s empowerment. It offers two policy analyses of the con...
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    64,22 €

  • Reclaiming Everyday Peace
    Pamina Firchow
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    151,39 €

  • Media, Conflicts and the National Security Question
    This book explores how the media, and journalism in a cross-disciplinary sense, has treated conflicts in Nigeria, West Africa and the Sahel. Contributors connect theoretical foundations with practical experiences in the study of media, conflicts and national security, seeking to unravel the mediated and communication logic(s) in news coverage and analyse the media’s role in pre...
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    205,23 €

  • Reimagining Development in Southeast Asia
    This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imaginings of how development might look, considered alongside the growing disillusionment over mainstream development models. In suggesting alternative models of development, it reframes participatory processes from the developing world...
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    209,04 €

  • Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa
    J. Shola Omotola
    This book seeks to deepen empirical understandings of herder-farmer conflicts in Africa from the perspective of peacebuilding. Thus, the focus of the book is on the manifestations, causes, consequences and management of these conflicts (responses) by both state and non-state actors and lessons for sustainable peacebuilding.By adopting a comparative approach spanning five countr...
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    182,26 €

  • UNDERSTANDING THE POLITICAL ECONOMICS ON CHINA’S DEVELOPMENT
    Hailiang Gu / Tianyi Wang / TIANYI WANG HAILIANG GU
    This book attempts to answer significant questions such as: what is China’s 'developing' political economy, what are the major principles of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics, and how to achieve economic development. From 'new normal' and 'new development concept' to 'innovation driven development strategy' and 'supply side structural reform' to 'the Belt...
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    178,55 €


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