Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • 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 €

  • Circumcision
    Al-Mahdi Golam
    Writing on his experience in war-torn Afghanistan and recounting his first attempt at helping with circumcision, he explains why the practice must continue to ensure better health and the real pleasure of making love, and most of all why God made this a covenant with Abraham, saying: 'The soul that not have his flesh circumcised, I will scatter him from among my people forever....
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    67,78 €

  • Governing Failure
    Jacqueline Best
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    54,03 €

  • Narcissism and Its Discontents
    Julie 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. Following a close engagement with Sigmund Freud’s 1914...
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    65,41 €

  • Under Development
    Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Yet, without gender it is impossible to understand development - and the development of under-development. This collection brings together specialists from different parts of the world and various disciplines, who look at various key...
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    64,70 €

  • Curbing Clientelism in Argentina
    Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
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    145,41 €

  • Virtuous Violence
    Alan Page Fiske / Tage Shakti Rai
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    79,27 €

  • The End of Socialism
    James Otteson
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    122,98 €

  • The End of Socialism
    James Otteson
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    49,33 €

  • 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 €

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

  • 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 €

  • Election Administration in the United States
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    131,58 €

  • Researching Literacy Lives
    Fiona M. Collins / Marilyn Mottram / Teresa Cremin
    Informed by international research and illustrated throughout with examples and case studies of the experiences of the classroom teachers involved in the research, Researching Children’s Literacy Lives offers fresh insight into literacy teaching and learning. It looks towards the future and prompts the profession to think more critically about the everyday literacy lives of tod...
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    281,68 €

  • Contesting Security
    Thierry Balzacq
    This book aims to address the issue of what the extent to which the ’logic of security’, which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled. ...
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    281,42 €

  • Arts Integration and Special Education
    Alida Anderson
     Arts Integration and Special Education contributes to research, policy, and practice by providing a theory of action for studying how linguistic, cognitive, and affective student engagement relates to arts integrated learning contexts and how these dimensions of engagement influence content area and literacy learning. ...
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    268,15 €

  • The Political Classroom
    Diana E. Hess / Paula McAvoy
    Based on the findings from a large, mixed-method study about discussions of political issues within high school classrooms, The Political Classroom provides an in-depth look at how real teachers engage their classrooms in discussions of political controversy. ...
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    267,95 €

  • E-Government and Websites
    Aroon Manoharan
    This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. This volume in the Public Solutions Handbook Series focuses on various e-government initiatives from the United States and abroad, and will help guide public service practitioners in their transformation to e-government. The book provides important recommendations and sugge...
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    257,77 €

  • Cameron’s Conservatives and the Internet
    Anthony Ridge-Newman
    The internet is changing the way we interact and communicate. But how is it impacting on more historically traditional institutions like the British Conservative Party? This book examines the role of specific internet technologies like ConservativeHome, Facebook, Twitter and WebCameron in the organizational culture of the Tory Party 2005-14. ...
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    65,67 €

  • A Guide for Women in Religion, Revised Edition
    The Guide is a welcome companion for women in religious studies. From undergraduates to retired professors, this distilled wisdom of several generations of colleagues is an important book to have handy. Whether seeking a job, preparing for tenure, working ...
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    66,61 €

  • Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship
    M. Avilés-Santiago
    Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials. ...
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    66,53 €

  • Chile and Australia
    Irene Strodthoff
    Exploring bilateral narratives of identity at a socio-discursive level from 1990 onwards, this book provides a new approach to understanding how Chile and Australia imagine and discursively construct each other in light of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in 2008. ...
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    66,57 €

  • Trade and Exchange
    Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic documentary sources reveal non-local materials in historic and prehistoric assemblages.Trade and exchange repres...
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    136,08 €

  • Not Invited to the Party
    James T. Bennett
    Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The Americ...
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    29,12 €

  • Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories
    M.R. Haberfeld / Serguei Cheloukhine
    Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime. However, in the past decade, many transitional countries in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, have experienced a surge in criminal activities that came about through the collaboration of diverse players-such as criminals, state officials...
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    158,94 €

  • The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration
    This book is an invitation to academic administrators, at every level, to engage in reflection on the ethical dimensions of their working lives. Academics are very good at reflecting on the ethical issues in other professions but not so interested in reflecting on those in their own, including those faced by faculty and administrators. Yet it is a topic of great importance. Aca...
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    158,83 €