Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • China’s Human Rights Lawyers
    Eva Pils
    This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise them. The book also discusses how human rights lawyers and the social forces they ...
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    281,26 €

  • The San Francisco System and Its Legacies
    Kimie Hara
    This book explores the key developments of the contentious political and security issues in the Asia-Pacific that share a common foundation in the post-war disposition of Japan, particularly the San Francisco Peace Treaty. These include both tangible and intangible issues, such as disputes over territories and 'history' problems. Taking the San Francisco System as its conceptua...
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    254,21 €

  • The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar
    As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed. This uncovers opportunities and challenges associated with third pillar interventions by looking at legal, economic, political, military and alternative interventions in third-countries. ...
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    48,03 €

  • Creative Analysis
    George Hagman
    Hagman explores the dynamics of creativity in psychoanalytic treatment and relates these results to therapeutic change. ...
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    66,92 €

  • Relationship Coaching
    Elaine Cox / Yossi Ives
    A practical guide with a strong theoretical base which explains how elements of coaching can be customised and adapted for relationships. ...
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    57,25 €

  • Beyond Individual Differences
    Charles A. Ahern / Kenton de Kirby
    In an era of intense interest in educational reform, spurred by increasing global competition for jobs and advancement, it is more critical than ever to understand the nature of learning. And although much attention is paid to differences between learners, short shrift is often given to cognitive functions that characterize successful learning for all students. Yet these are th...
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    66,99 €

  • Narcissism and Its Discontents
    J. Walsh
    Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations. By building on insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory it puts forward a theorisation of narcissistic sociability which redeems Narcissus from his position as the subject of negative critique. ...
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    48,31 €

  • Creativity and Mental Illness
    S. Kyaga
    Is there really a thin line between madness and genius? This book provides a thorough review of the current state of knowledge on this age old idea, and presents new empirical research to put an end to this debate, but also to open up discussion about the implications of its findings. ...
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    48,19 €

  • Well-being and Performance at Work
    This volume examines the relationship between well-being and job performance. It integrates research on both issues, and considers personal and corporate costs and benefits of well-being and how to improve well-being and organizational performance. ...
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    73,55 €

  • Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
    E. Rousselot
    This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the ’neo-historical’ novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history. ...
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    48,21 €

  • The Student Fundraising Handbook
    Sarah L Hewett
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    15,15 €

  • Election Administration in the United States
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    131,58 €

  • Bright Lights, Lonely Nights - The Memories of Serena, Porn Star Pioneer of the 1970s
    Serena Czarnecki
    'A true pioneer, artist, and star of her generation, Serena is the very definition of individuality and freedom tantamount to an exclusive community of golden era, erotic film performers. Melding natural beauty and raw sexuality with an intuitive, ethereal sensitivity, Serena created an abiding presence on screen. Almost 40 years after her film debut, exquisitely characterized ...
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    35,99 €

  • Election Administration in the United States
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    44,41 €

  • Early Social Interaction
    Michael A. Forrester / Michael AForrester
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    157,12 €

  • Bright Lights, Lonely Nights - The Memories of Serena, Porn Star Pioneer of the 1970s (hardback)
    Serena Czarnecki
    “A true pioneer, artist, and star of her generation, Serena is the very definition of individuality and freedom tantamount to an exclusive community of golden era, erotic film performers. Melding natural beauty and raw sexuality with an intuitive, ethereal sensitivity, Serena created an abiding presence on screen. Almost 40 years after her film debut, exquisitely characterized ...
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    46,17 €

  • Coping with Demographic Change
    Bernadette Jonda / Reinhold Sackmann / Walter Bartl
    With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations, this book offers a theoretical model of coping with demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change. In particular, it details the different ways that Germany and Poland have tried to cope with this challenge and reveals three conflicting ...
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    64,93 €

  • Music Therapy as an Intermodal Practice
    Hyams Daniel
    What does a music therapist do when a client chooses not to engage using music? What does a music therapist do when a client engages in the therapeutic relationship, but self-elects to use other arts? How does a music therapist respond when allocated a multi-purpose room in a school setting, where various arts and play materials are on offer, in addition to musical instruments,...
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    48,00 €

  • Social Impact Bonds in Emerging and Developing Countries
    Böhler Nikki
    Increasingly, there are tendencies observable aimed at improving the social service provision, in order to cope more effectively with the significant social challenges that the world is facing nowadays. Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are an example of such an innovation, introducing evidence base and business acumen into the solving of social challenges. This book assesses the pote...
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    28,93 €

  • Consumer Behaviour and Economic Growth in the Modern Economy (RLE Consumer Behaviour)
    These essays show that industrialisation and fast economic growth have changed not only the broad material environment, but have also had a very important impact on basic food consumption. The introductory chapter takes a theoretical view and tries to establish the interrelationship between economic forces and social habits. The other contributors analyse how the experience of ...
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    240,77 €

  • The Fearless Classroom
    Joli Barker
    Students learn better when they aren’t afraid to take risks and make mistakes. In this book, teacher and popular blogger Joli Barker shows you how to make students fearless in the classroom so they can engage in deeper learning. ...
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    187,48 €

  • What Schools Don’t Teach
    Brad Johnson / Julie Sessions
    Are we adequately preparing students for life beyond school doors? In this thought-provoking book, authors Johnson and Sessions describe 20 skills that are overlooked in schools and in educational standards but that are crucial to real-world success. ...
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    187,09 €

  • North Korea and Northeast Asian Regional Security
    Simon Shen
    This volume presents different assessments of North Korea’s nuclear issue from the viewpoints of neighbouring powers. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Asian Development. ...
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    241,29 €

  • Consumer Behaviour (RLE Consumer Behaviour)
    Gordon Foxall / Gordon R. Foxall
    This book is concerned with the application of the behavioural sciences, notably social psychology and sociology, to the study of consumer behaviour. The emphasis throughout is on making these sciences practical for the marketing manager by focusing on those aspects of consumer behaviour which prove useful for managerial decision-making. The introduction defines the scope of th...
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    187,06 €

  • Consumer Profiles (RLE Consumer Behaviour)
    Adrian Furnham / Barrie Gunter
    Psychographics have been developed in the field of market research as a way to relate consumer behaviour to market choice. This book introduces the essential elements of psychographics. It shows how researchers go about defining consumer profiles and designing successful research programmes. It looks at the way they are applied in various consumer groups and uses case study mat...
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    241,20 €

  • Capitalism and the Consumer (RLE Consumer Behaviour)
    Fred Henderson
    Written at a time when the needs and influence of the consumer within the economic system were in their infancy, this book offers a valuable insight into the birth of consumer-led economics as an integral part of social structure and economic theory. ...
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    214,36 €

  • The Consumer Interest (RLE Consumer Behaviour)
    J. D. Forbes
    This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of the consumer interest . It examines the impact the consumer interest has in various spheres and considers the reonses of these spheres. It points out the ways in which consumer interests are represented in different countries, particularly the significant difference between North America and Europe. ...
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    240,49 €

  • Consumer Education (RLE Consumer Behaviour)
    Marion Giordan
    Education in consumer affairs has become increasingly important in recent years with the growth of consumer societies in many parts of the world. This practical handbook is a guide to teachers on the various aspects of the field; it looks at the consumer world in its political, social and economic context, describing how teachers have approached some of the subjects discussed i...
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    187,62 €

  • Arranged Marriage
    Swarn Singh Bains
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    18,42 €

  • Fatal Fallacies
    C.W. Griffin / C.WGriffin
    In the unprecedented assault on science and logical thinking afflicting the U.S., the role of lies has been recognized, if not adequately, by the general media. Almost totally ignored, however, are the logical fallacies perpetrating ideological nonsense. Christian fundamentalists and Republican plutocrats have formed our first religiously based national political party, dedicat...
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    21,66 €