Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • Systemic Knowledge-Based Assessment of Higher Education Programs
    Edgar Oliver Cardoso Espinosa
    The true success of a nation can be measured by its ability to create, disseminate, and utilize knowledge through education. A quality education instills in students the capability to add value to the economy through his or her skills, to participate in society, and to improve the overall wellness of his or her community. Systemic Knowledge-Based Assessment of Higher Education ...
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    223,05 €

  • 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 €

  • Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach to the English Language
    George D. Gopen / George DGopen
    For as long as writing has been taught, the subject has always been approached from the perspective of polite society. The central questions were all writer-based: What can, must, ought the writer to do? What cannot, must not, ought not the writer to do? Mistakes were corrected; awkwardness was chastised; bloat was deflated. We were urged to avoid (the passive) and contain (the...
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    15,45 €

  • We Need To Do Better
    Paul Miller
    There are no job descriptions for saving or improving lives. Kids who graduate high school have better lives than kids who drop out. Making sure our kids in urban areas succeed is much more than instruction, tests, and homework. It takes a mindset that creates partnerships between communities, parents, schools, and students. WE ALL HAVE TO DO BETTER! ...
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    20,16 €

  • NLN PAX Test Strategy!
    Complete Test Preparation Inc.
    Learn and Practice Proven multiple choice strategies for Reading Comprehension, Word Problems and Basic Math! Plus powerful vocabulary learning techniques to get your vocabulary up to speed fast before the exam! If you are preparing for the NLN PAX-RN, PAX-PN, you probably want all the help you can get! PAX Test Strategy  is your complete guide to answering multiple choice qu...
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    14,52 €

  • The Armchair Activist's Handbook
    Ruth Stokes
    Would you change the world, if only you knew how? Do you dream of doing more than signing online petitions but don't want to camp out on a pavement to prove a point? Are you frustrated because you're not making a difference but don't want to turn your life upside down in the name of action? Then this is the book for you. THE ARMCHAIR ACTIVIST'S HANDBOOK will help you find easy ...
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    15,01 €

  • Societal Benefits of Freely Accessible Technologies and Knowledge Resources
    Jose Aguilar / Oswaldo Terán
    Open access to information resources and technology can have a profound impact on the economic development of a region as well as society in general. In recent years, reaction against proprietary knowledge and technology has led to tremendous debate both in academic and professional circles. Societal Benefits of Freely Accessible Technologies and Knowledge Resources analyzes cu...
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    229,90 €

  • Sea Tales South Beach Miami
    Nick Hernandez
    The roaring twenties, cars driving to the south most point of Miami Beach for dances and the most popular burlesque spot in Miami Florida. Honky-tonk bars at the entrance of the pier that extended out onto the ocean make for a couple of drinks before dancing the night away. The burlesque house at the end of the pier built on the water. Too bad a barge broke loose during the 192...
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    9,51 €

  • Identification, Evaluation, and Perceptions of Distance Education Experts
    Gulsun Eby / TVolkan Yuzer
    Instructional quality can make or break the learning experience, especially in digital environments where the expressional nuances of interpersonal communication are lost. The most effective distance education instructors and experts are those who recognize the educational needs of students and are able to address those needs through creative use of the technological tools avai...
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    256,02 €

  • MY SYSTEM of CAREER INFLUENCES MSCI (Adult)
    Mark Watson / Mary McMahon / Wendy Patton
    Career development in the 21st century presents many challenges and opportunities to adults. They must now navigate a complex and rapidly changing world of work influenced by technology, globalisation and fluctuating economic conditions. This book describes the Systems Theory Framework of career development that provides the theoretical background to the MSCI as well as a step-...
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    58,88 €

  • Checking the Banks
    Tom Sgouros
    “This is a marvelous book! Well-written-even enjoyable to read-about local banking! Packed with important information, not only for the expert, but for anyone, activist or public official, Put it on top of your reading pile!” - Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? “A clear, accessible, practical, grounded, and authoritative intro- duction to ...
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    23,74 €

  • Cloud Computing for Teaching and Learning
    Lee Chao
    With its cost efficiency, enabling of collaboration and sharing of resources, and its ability to improve access, cloud computing is likely to play a big role in the classrooms of tomorrow. Cloud Computing for Teaching and Learning: Strategies for Design and Implementation provides the latest information about cloud development and cloud applications in teaching and learning. Th...
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    229,82 €

  • Speaking Out
    Alan Berman / Berman Alan / Shirleene Robinson
    Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book gives voice to the many victims who have suffered in the state once recognised as Australia’s most homophobic. It tells of the barriers people face in dealing with the legal system, the reasons why some do not report...
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    41,71 €

  • Evidence of Absence
    Simon Crowe / Simon FCrowe
    This book offers Australian mental health clinicians for the first time a locally written guide to the clinical interpretation of cognitive assessments using the Wechsler scales, including the WAIS-IV, the WMS-IV and the Advanced Clinical Solutions for WAIS-IV and WMS-IV. Using Australian case material, the reader is provided with empirical and interpretative analysis based upo...
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    66,46 €

  • Fostering Self-Regulated Learning through ICT
    Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is the process through which individuals control their own learning, from the cognitive, meta-cognitive, behavioral, emotional and motivational points of view. Through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) it is an important interdisciplinary competence which has increasingly gained attention in the past couple of decades because it lea...
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    236,83 €

  • Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment
    In the past decade, trust has gained a prominent place at the center of academic scholarship in the social sciences. Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives provides a variety of theoretical perspectives on the topics of trust and technology, as well as some empirical investigations into the trust-building, trust-main...
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    236,44 €

  • The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas
    Robert Grant Haliburton
    Robert Grant Haliburton spent his last years proposing the existence of a distinctive tribal group of small stature within the Atlas Mountains and vicinity. He collected local stories and eyewitness accounts of this 'dwarf people,' debated critics, and published theories. These curious tales disappeared (or at least were never investigated fully) after Haliburton died, but he l...
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    18,62 €

  • 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 €

  • The Burial of the Urban Poor in Italy in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire
    Emma-Jayne Graham
    The horror of the puticuli, the mass burial pits, and their traditional association with the poor, has often led to this socio-economic group being viewed as somehow ‘different’ to the rest of the ancient urban community in the Italy of the Late Roman Republic. This is the theory questioned by the author of this volume. Why should this part of the community care so little about...
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    64,06 €

  • ADDICTION HURTS EVERYONE
    LaFonya Jones-Hines
    Addiction Hurts Everyone: A Family’s Journey to Healing is a 3-volume guide consisting of the Essential Guide, Participant’s Guide, and Meditational that assists family members related to those who are suffering from drug addiction. In this powerful work, Dr. LaFonya Jones-Hines utilizes her practical and professional expertise in developing a group strategy for therapy. Dr. Jo...
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    52,97 €

  • Addiction Hurts Everyone
    LaFonya Jones-Hines
    Addiction Hurts Everyone: A Family’s Journey to Healing is a 3-volume guide consisting of the Essential Guide, Participant’s Guide, and Meditational that assists family members related to those who are suffering from drug addiction. In this powerful work, Dr. LaFonya Jones-Hines utilizes her practical and professional expertise in developing a group strategy for therapy. Dr. Jo...
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    75,19 €

  • Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents In Search Of Da 9Ruby Princess From The 7th Planet Abys Sinia In The 19th Galaxy Called EL Elyown. 9Love Divine Love Story Of DestinEye Philmore Who Is Da 9Rub
    SEAN ALEMAYEHU TEWODROS GIORGIS
    Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents In Search Of Da 9Ruby Princess From The 7th Planet Abys Sinia In The 19th Galaxy Called EL Elyown. 9Love Divine Love Story Of DestinEye Philmore Who Is Da 9Ruby Prince President Intergalactic Ambassador?Who is this Spiritual Soul is known as Krassa Alemayehu Giorgis, the 9Ruby Prince of Abyssinia? On a great journey inspired by a beautif...
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    158,32 €

  • Emotional Abuse
    Zak Mucha
    'This book is both terrifying and hopeful...'  --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune,  WGN-AM We have been incorrectly socialized to believe emotional abuse is not as damaging as physical or sexual abuse. We have been taught emotional abuse itself is nothing more than 'hurt feelings' and there is no 'real' evidence other than the victim’s complaints. The victim of emotional abuse is di...
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    12,15 €

  • Teach Me How to Bake V2
    Kimberly I Houston
    Teach Me How to Bake: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Baking Basics, Science & Real Recipes is a hands-on, full-color baking curriculum designed for kids ages 8-12. Written by pastry chef and educator Kimberly Houston, this interactive book blends real kitchen skills with the fun of a guided workbook-perfect for young bakers ready to move beyond just mixing and decorating.From measurin...
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    39,59 €

  • 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 €

  • Secrets of Men and Women
    Rick Schmidt
    'SECRETS OF MEN AND WOMEN is the perfect read for night watchmen, parking lot attendants, long haul truck drivers, or anyone else who must stay awake at night. The stories kind of creep up on you and bite you on the ass. A few with a kind of happy ending just to keep the reader from jumping off the nearest roof. The brilliant Charlie Simonds erotic drawings, included between th...
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    28,74 €

  • The Ice Cream Grammar
    Alessio Piantanida
    ’The Ice Cream Grammar’ is the complete guide to artisanal Ice Cream and Gelato making, aimed at educating Chefs in the science behind how premium quality is achieved because of the way the separate ingredients work with each other, and to empower them to be creative with their own recipes.Written by Alessio Piantinida, a highly experienced Italian Executive Pastry Chef with a ...
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    117,34 €

  • Someone Finds Answers
    Dr. David Yourtee
    This is a tough love book. It takes one on a journey checking for salvation while revealing the strength of our reality. ...
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    47,59 €

  • Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 (Esprios Classics)
    Edward Bellamy
    Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 - May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy’s vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous 'Nationalist Clubs' dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy’s political ideas. After working as a journalist and writing several unremarkable...
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    22,88 €