Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • Cultural Awareness and Competency Development in Higher Education
    As the world becomes more globalized, student populations in university settings will continue to grow in diversity. To ensure students develop the cultural competence to adapt to new environments, universities and colleges must develop policies and programs to aid in the progression of cultural acceptance and understanding. Cultural Awareness and Competency Development in High...
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    275,84 €

  • Sex After...
    KaNisha L. Hall
    KaNisha L. Hall, M.D.'s 'Sex After...' is the all-encompassing guide to personal sexual empowerment for women of all generations. This work emanates from the sexual challenges faced by those closest to Dr. KaNisha L. Hall, in addition to many women observed in her daily medical practice. Dr. KaNisha L. Hall's desire to provide every woman with the tools to take ownershi...
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    20,59 €

  • Handbook of Research on Driving STEM Learning With Educational Technologies
    María-Soledad Ramírez-Montoya
    Educational strategies have evolved over the years, due to research breakthroughs and the application of technology. By using the latest learning innovations, curriculum and instructional design can be enhanced and strengthened. The Handbook of Research on Driving STEM Learning With Educational Technologies is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research ...
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    394,05 €

  • Peaceful Conversations - Preventing Conflict in Communication
    Gail Nemetz Robinson
    One of the greatest challenges facing society is how to develop peaceful communication, empathy and mutual understanding. Entire communities are being stereotyped and targeted for hate. In the political arena, differences of opinion turn into violence. In the workplace, simple differences in communication style cause loss of clients and jobs. Children, parents, couples and frie...
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    17,63 €

  • Integrating an Awareness of Selfhood and Society into Virtual Learning
    Recent technological advances have opened new platforms for learning and teaching. By utilizing virtual spaces, more educational opportunities are created for students who cannot attend a physical classroom environment. Integrating an Awareness of Selfhood and Society into Virtual Learning is a pivotal reference source that discusses the latest scholarly perspectives on creatin...
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    262,60 €

  • Lasting Touch
    Jean-François Pinsonnault
    For nearly ten years Jean-François visited his widowed and unwell mother every other week, to ensure her comfort. Regularly, he invited her to come and live with him. Each time Lise, his mother, kindly refused saying she was not ready. One spring day, she called and asked: “Is the offer still good?” Not long after that life changing conversation began a journey of joy, challeng...
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    17,48 €

  • Gifted and Talented COGAT Test Prep Grade 2
    Gateway Gifted Resources
    Help maximize your child’s chances of acing the COGAT®! When it comes to gifted test prep, don’t risk your son or daughter being unprepared and underperforming on test day.Your child must be familiar with test material AND be able to focus on test material for longer than the typical 4-5 minute attention span of most young kids. This book offers a chance to do both.- Ensure you...
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    26,44 €

  • Fire Up Your Profile For LifeWork Success Revised 2016
    Nancy J. Miller
    A winning combination of strategies, activities, analogies, worksheets, and success stories that take you through the process of telling your story using powerful communication tools. Learn and practice the many ways to tell the world who you are, what you want, and how you accomplish your goals. Using the Career Success Formula, you will learn how to show what you can do for a...
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    13,83 €

  • Forgiving Murder - The Voice of Reason
    Anita Lambert
    This thought provoking and inspirational story is the true account of how Anita’s nephew’s brutal murder forced her to experience forgiveness in the rawest form. It is a testament to the strength of the human spirit’s ability to heal after crippling devastation which would forever alter the lives of all those effected, negatively or positively. Anita gives a very personal accou...
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    11,23 €

  • From Misery to Mastery
    Ruth Cyster-Stuettgen
    Have you ever felt lost, helpless or scared of what your life has become? Have you ever felt that there was more out there, that there was a deeper purpose for you? If so, then this is the book for you. From her dark past filled with violence, oppression, and fear, to her brightest, fearless days of the present, let Ruth guide you on your journey of self-discovery, forgiveness...
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    18,28 €

  • First, Do No Harm
    Steve Nelson
    First Do No Harm: Progressive Education in a Time of Existential Risk develops a comprehensive argument for the importance of progressive education in light of the world’s increasingly severe challenges.  Current educational practices, particularly in the United States, instill conformity and compliance at a time when authority must be challenged, skepticism must thrive and our...
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    23,82 €

  • Decision Making in Disaster Response
    J. S. Tipper
    The aggressive, armed militia member in front of you wants fifty dollars to let you deliver your medicine to a war-zone clinic which is running desperately low on stock.How would you respond?Responding to disasters - whether natural or man-made - can be incredibly challenging. With more and more people on the frontline of humanitarian response, how can they - and the organisati...
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    23,63 €

  • Governing Under Constraint
    In 2015, Matteo Renzi's government continued to elicit contrasting reactions while dealing with both internal and external constraints. Some say it passed crucial reforms for economic development in fields such as the labor market, the banking system, education, and public administration, in addition to passing a new electoral law. However, others criticize the substance an...
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    175,10 €

  • Shakespeare's Macbeth for Kids
    Brendan P Kelso
    Who will you be? Macbeth? Lady Macbeth? One of the spooky witches?!  Macbeth like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 6-17+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play. Macbeth for Kids is a play versatile enough for sibling fun, classes, drama groups, homeschool groups, or ba...
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    17,89 €

  • Hospital Hill
    Anderson Katherine
    After working in asylums for nearly three decades, Valerie Martin is set to retire but one phone call changes everything and she finds herself on a train bound for Northampton and the asylum where her career began on the wards in 1959. Finding herself inside the walls for the first time in over a decade, Valerie begins one final clerical task for the Department of Mental Health...
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    10,02 €

  • Blessed Are the Weird
    Jacob Nordby
    The world wants its soul back…In this book, author Jacob Nordby offers a bold new definition of success in the modern era.“The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don’t care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ...
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    11,98 €

  • Stand Your Ground
    Katherine Mayfield
    Dysfunctional family dynamics can ruin a person's life, health, career, and self-esteem.  Making positive life changes and rebuilding self-esteem can only be accomplished by clearly seeing the family's negative patterns, and learning how to move beyond them.Stand Your Ground reveals how deeply dysfunctional family dynamics can affect us, offers advice on the best ways t...
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    12,88 €

  • Adventures in Numberland
    Paul Georgiou
    Adventures in Numberland is a fairy story about numbers in life and in business. The target audience is adult but will work for older children as an introduction to business and the importance of numeracyThe hero is Piff, the wood-cutters daughter, a beautiful , strong-minded young girl who is thrown out of her home by her fat and lazy step-mother.  Alone in the forest, Piff me...
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    11,86 €

  • Permaculture Plants
    Jeff Nugent
    The comprehensive guide to edible  and useful Agaves and Cacti. Productive plants for land rehabilitation. Plants which survive uncertain rainfall. Drought and snow resistant plants. Staples  of  ancient  cultures. Low effort emergency food. Extensively  indexed. Over 400 useful species covered. ...
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    26,20 €

  • Advancing Next-Generation Teacher Education through Digital Tools and Applications
    The implementation of the Common Core State Standards program has spearheaded many changes within the education field. As this initiative is ultimately designed to optimize student performance and success, it is critical that teacher education programs and technological tools being utilized in classrooms align with Common Core State Standards. Advancing Next-Generation Teacher ...
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    236,32 €

  • Gordy the Rabbit has ADHD
    Jessie Shepherd
    Often when people are given a mental health disorder diagnosis the weaknesses are clear and overwhelmingly emphasized, while the strengths are ignored or forgotten. The mental health children's book series 'What Mental Disorder?' challenges the stigma against therapy and diagnosis. It enlists the reader to view the character as a whole being and not as a mental issu...
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    12,83 €

  • Field Guide To The American Teenager
    Jerome C Vergamini / Ray Miskimins
    This book was written in an effort to share our combined knowledge of teens, gained both as mental health professionals and as parents. We wanted to put together something that parents could understand, short and to the point, with as little psychological jargon as possible, and most importantly, something that would be useful. Our planning began with a look at the various aspe...
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    14,09 €

  • Walking the Law and History
    Michelle Janene
    The companion student workbook for the Bible curriculum of Walking the Law and History Genesis. Students will participate in deep Bible study of the creation of the world, the foundations of the Christian faith, and the formation of the Jewish nation.  ...
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    9,81 €

  • Deep Denial
    David Billings
    Deep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Part I takes a broad historical view, from seventeenth century Virginia through World War II., examining the origins of white supremacy as a structural feature of US society and describing its evolution over time.Part II features the Civil Rights Movement, how it emerged i...
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    20,70 €

  • The Lynx
    Victor Nickolich
    'As the Russian-built Lada sedan sped towards Havana, the man known as Lince felt a sudden chill running down his spine. Could it be possible that the same people he sought help from had double-crossed him? The likelihood that someone at the US State Department had cozied up to the Cubans and leaked his intentions to defect suddenly became a daunting reality. He braced himself ...
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    28,72 €

  • Police Psychology and Its Growing Impact on Modern Law Enforcement
    Police psychology has become an integral part of present-day police agencies, providing support in the areas of personnel assessment, individual and organizational intervention, consultation, and operational assistance. Research-based resources contribute to those efforts by shedding light on best practices, identifying recent research and developments, and calling attention to...
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    249,43 €

  • The Art of Math and Science
    Jayanti Tambe
    The Art of Math and Science guides teachers to introduce masterpiece art to young children, so they can tell you about “paints with hidden floats” and ask questions like, “When painting the Sistine Chapel, do you think Michelangelo had many headaches?”This book helps parents and educators look at the subject through the prism of mathematical and scientific experiences. This boo...
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    46,14 €

  • Reforming Education for the Real World
    George P Waldheim
    Education, as we know it in America, is too often characterized as living in a world by itself; unaccountable and unimproved--so different from the Real World.  Year after year 'Band-Aid' attempts are initiated to improve education and again, year after year, those attempts only produce marginal improvement--if any.  Thus, our international ranking is still depicted as 'mediocr...
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    12,21 €

  • The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover Tales
    Mindy Campbell Hudson
    Collected through firsthand interviews, author Mindy Campbell Hudson brings local lore to life in The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover Tales with stories of Dover, Arkansas's own legends, history, and supernatural tales. Complete with photographs of historical Dover, this collection of tales captures the legacy and traditions of rural Arkansas and sets it ...
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    12,86 €

  • A New Map for Relationships
    Dorothie L. Hellman / Martin E.. Hellman
    What if you never had another fight or argument? And what if doing that helped bring peace to the world?You are invited to eavesdrop as Dorothie and Martin Hellman reveal the secrets that  allowed them to transform an almost failed marriage into one where they reclaimed the true love that they felt when they first met fifty years ago. Their marriage became a laboratory, where t...
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    26,40 €