Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • Online Philanthropy in the Global North and South
    Radhika Gajjala
    This book examines the representation, global inclusion, and commodification of the subaltern through digital platforms for online microfinance, the discourses of gender empowerment that emerge through MPESA promotional material online, and the use of games for change in online philanthropy. ...
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    122,43 €

  • Disaster Management in Australia
    George Carayannopoulos
    Disaster Management in Australia examines government coordination when faced with large scale crises, outlining the challenges in managing events such as the 2009 Victorian bushfires and 2011 Queensland floods. ...
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    82,98 €

  • Leadership through the Lens
    This edited collection looks at leadership on television to investigate issues of race, gender, class, identity, and voice in a variety of workplace and social settings. It examines the constructive and destructive manner in which concepts of leadership are produced to instruct viewers to reflect on their own relationship with leadership. ...
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    122,37 €

  • Research Ethics in the Digital Age
    The book discusses the multiple issues of a digital research ethic in its interdisciplinary diversity. Digitization and mediatization alter social behavior and cultural traditions, thereby generating new objects of study and new research questions for the social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, mediatization and digitization increase the data volume and accessibility of (q...
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    73,00 €

  • Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory
    This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of 'formulas for betrayal' as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe. The contributors, who specialize in history, sociology, anthropology, memory studies, media studies and cultural studies, discuss the exertion of political control over memory (including the selection, imposition, silen...
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    154,92 €

  • Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut
    Judith Naeff
    This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: 'the suspended now'. Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and cinema; the book argues that last decades have witnessed a gradual shift in understanding this temporality from being a transitional phase to ...
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    134,59 €

  • The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security in Namibia
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods. What is happening in Namibia and other Southern African countries that make superma...
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    38,00 €

  • Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities
    Maya Kahanoff
    Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities reveals the powerful potential of intergroup dialogues to transform both identities and mutually negating relations between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. ...
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    63,91 €

  • PNL Programación Neurolingüística
    Mónica Dreyer
    Los tiempos en que vivimos reclaman una escuela nueva, otra forma de repensar el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje.A través de este libro, la Lic. Mónica Dreyer nos ofrece una serie de herramientas y ejercicios prácticos que nos permitirán abordar este desafío a partir de la Programación Neurolingüística. La misma nos permite comprender que cada alumno posee una forma particular...
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    25,48 €

  • Orthodox Christian Perspectives on War
    Many regions of the world whose histories include war and violent conflict have or once had strong ties to Orthodox Christianity. Yet policy makers, religious leaders, and scholars often neglect Orthodoxy’s resources when they reflect on the challenges of war. Through essays written by prominent Orthodox scholars in the fields of biblical studies, church history, Byzantine stud...
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    60,20 €

  • The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention
    Kai Koddenbrock
    This book examines the Western and local spheres of intervention and shows how their separation helps to perpetuate intervention. ...
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    57,31 €

  • Studies of Communication in the 2016 Presidential Campaign
    This edited collection explores a wide range of communication elements and themes, representing a variety of topics and methodologies. It focuses broadly on the role and function of communication within the context of the 2016 United States presidential election, with chapters devoted to topics including an overview of the election from a communication perspective, the nominati...
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    135,89 €

  • Unsustainable Transport and Transition in China
    Becky PY Loo
    This book discusses various transport sustainability issues from developing countries’ perspective and explores key issues, problems and potential solutions for unsustainable transport. It will be of great interest to scholars interested in topics including Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Environmental Policy, and Transportation. ...
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    241,02 €

  • Writing and Reporting News You Can Use
    Tammy Trujillo
    Writing and Reporting News You Can Use instructs students on how to produce news that is informative, interesting, educational, and most importantly, compelling. It addresses roadblocks to student interest in writing news, using illustrative examples and exercises to help them understand how to write news that is interesting and accurate. Trujillo’s hands-on approach is based o...
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    113,85 €

  • Writing and Reporting News You Can Use
    Tammy Trujillo
    Writing and Reporting News You Can Use instructs students on how to produce news that is informative, interesting, educational, and most importantly, compelling. It addresses roadblocks to student interest in writing news, using illustrative examples and exercises to help them understand how to write news that is interesting and accurate. ...
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    308,64 €

  • Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
    Andrew Hardie / Elena Semino / Zsófia Demjén
    This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life in contemporary UK. ...
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    267,74 €

  • Communication, Culture and Ecology
    Kiran Prasad
    This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of contributions and case studies from leading experts in Asia to highlight the debates ...
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    120,64 €

  • Social Movements and Media
    This volume focuses on media and social movements. Contributing authors draw on cases as diverse as the Harry Potter Alliance to youth oriented, non-profit educational organizations to systematically assess how media environments, systems, and usage affect collective action in the 21st Century. ...
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    193,88 €

  • Sexual Rhetorics
    This volume explores the intersection of rhetoric and sexuality through the varieties of methods available in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies, including case studies, theoretical questioning, ethnographies, or close (and distant) readings of 'texts' that help us think through the rhetorical force of sexuality and the sexual force of rhetoric. ...
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    82,53 €

  • Modern Rhetorical Criticism
    Rebecca Lavally / Roderick P Hart / Suzanne M. Daughton
    A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, structure, and style. The text covers a wide range of critical techniques, from cultural and dramatistic analysis to feminist and Marxist approaches. A wealth of original criticism demon...
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    153,84 €

  • NGOs in the Muslim World
    Susumu Nejima
    Though there have been many studies on 'political Islam', only a few approaches to broaden our understanding of Muslim NGOs have appeared. Based on empirical studies in Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and Jordan, this book explores key issues concerning the role and work of Muslim NGOs. ...
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    79,16 €

  • Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
    Pádraig Ó Tuama
    Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community draws on the spiritual practices of Northern Ireland's longest established peace and reconciliation organisation. For over fifty years, it has been bringing fractured communities together and resourcing others in the work of healing conflict.At the heart of its life is a simple pattern of daily worship. This prayer book captures th...
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    20,13 €

  • The UN at War
    John Karlsrud
    This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations. It provides constructive suggestions as to how the UN and the international system can evolve to remain relevant and tackle the peace and security challenges of the 21st century, without abandoning the principles that the UN was founded upon and on which the legitimacy of UN peace operations ...
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    47,54 €

  • Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
    Pádraig Ó Tuama
    Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community draws on the spiritual practices of Northern Ireland's longest established peace and reconciliation organisation. For over fifty years, it has been bringing fractured communities together and resourcing others in the work of healing conflict.At the heart of its life is a simple pattern of daily worship. This prayer book captures th...
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    26,72 €

  • Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa
    Meredeth Turshen
    This book explores the persistence of violence in conflict zones in Africa using a political economy framework to situate violence against women and men in the context of criminal, corrupt, and violent economies. The political economy approach employs an analysis of violence on both edges of the spectrum-a macro-economic analysis of violence against workers and a micro-politica...
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    82,86 €

  • The New Humanitarians in International Practice
    This book sheds light on why and how new humanitarian actors engage in humanitarian action and how their humanitarian activities are perceived in their (transnational) organisational environment. It provides detailed international and empirical comparisons between the ’new’ humanitarians and traditional humanitarian actors, in particular those which focus on the relative level ...
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    82,01 €

  • James Friedrich and Cathedral Films
    Kenneth Suit
    This book studies Episcopal Reverend James Friedrich’s work at Cathedral Films during the 1940s and 50s. It offers insight into the way a small, independent B-studio created and distributed religious films for the church, television, and theatrical markets in the postwar American film industry. ...
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    142,56 €

  • Multiple Faces of Khat
    Asnake Kefale / Zerihun Mohammed
    FSS, in collaboration with the Civil Society Support Programme I(CSSPI), designed and implemented a project on khat in Ethiopia. The project had three components: research, national conference and production of a documentary film. The research contained, two studies based on rigorous field research and using qualitative and quantitative data. The research reports, the socio-eco...
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    52,50 €

  • Political Campaign Communication in the 2016 Presidential Election
    Robert E. Denton / Robert E. Jr. Denton / Robert EJrDenton
    The 2016 presidential campaign gave us an election that broke with many accepted practices and introduced new concepts to campaign communication. Providing a clear understanding of the strategic decisions made and tactical communication practices used in contemporary political campaigns, the updated eighth edition adds an exploration of the primaries, the conventions, and the d...
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    14,45 €

  • Political Campaign Communication
    Joseph Cowart / Larry Powell
    Now in its third edition, Political Campaign Communication: Inside and Out examines the intricacies of political campaigning through the eyes of both an academic and a political consultant. Unlike others in its field, this text takes a broad view of political campaigning, discussing both theories and principles, along with topics such as political socialization, the role of mon...
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    146,57 €


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