Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • International Law and Drone Strikes in Pakistan
    Sikander Ahmed Shah
    This book explores the legal and political issues surrounding the use of drones in Pakistan. The book examines international treaty law and customary international law, as well as statistical data, to analyse of whether the use of drones is in compliance with the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law. The book goes on to look at the socio-political realitie...
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    254,47 €

  • The Psychology of Power
    Jaap van Ginneken
    This book tests the disquieting hypothesis that our most powerful leaders acquire strange quirks at the top, making them take unnecessary risks. The author scrutinizes some of the best-known politicians of the largest western or G6 nations over the last half century, when they approached or reached the highest executive office, such as Berlusconi, Bush, Clinton, Kennedy, Reagan...
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    65,31 €

  • Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing
    This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women’s writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions. ...
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    48,12 €

  • The Psychology of Power
    Jaap van Ginneken
    The author tests the hypothesis that hubris and the Bathsheba syndrome tend to affect all top leaders, by zooming in on the best known and very highest executives of our own day and age, and examines the psychological forces tugging at the top level of political leadership. ...
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    48,20 €

  • Representations of Internarrative Identity
    L. Way
    Based upon Ajit Maan’s groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black Caribbean diaspora, and cyberspace to explore the interconnection between identity and life experience as expressed through personal narrative. ...
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    48,19 €

  • Social Justice and Deep Participation
    Paula Donnelly Roark
    Knowing what deep participation is, and how it works, can make a critical difference in solving 21st century economic, political, and social problems. This book provides a new approach to hands-on change and begins formulation of a participatory social theory promising greater prosperity and justice for all. ...
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    48,07 €

  • The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication
    The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading scholars of nonverbal communication from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the discipline. The collection presents contemporary research and theorization of the nature, functions, and modalities of nonverbal behavior in an array of circumstances, with the aim of rethinking cu...
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    132,32 €

  • Social Justice and Deep Participation
    Paula Donnelly Roark
    Economic and political power alone is no longer sufficient in solving such complex 21st century problems as poverty, climate change, and securing the peace. However, Social Justice and Deep Participation offers the means to change this status quo. Deep participation allows institutions to be collectively reorganized within their own culture at both community and international l...
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    65,17 €

  • Representations of Internarrative Identity
    Lori Way
    With a foreword by Ajit Maan. Representations of Internarrative Identity is based upon Ajit Maan’s breakthrough theory of Internarrative Identity, which deals with one’s sense of self as expressed in personal narrative, connecting the formation of identity with life experiences. This book is the first extensive examination of the adaptive qualities of Maan’s work within divers...
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    65,28 €

  • Cynicism in British Post-War Culture
    Kieran Curran
    Cynicism is a neglected subject for investigation in post-war British cultural history, perhaps due to its apparent omnipresence. Kieran Curran aims to rectify this omission by lucidly connecting together literature, music and film as common avatars of the cynic sensibility. Transcending barriers between high and low culture, Curran maps cynicism from 1950 (the end of post-war ...
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    65,23 €

  • Clinician’s Guide to Severe Hoarding
    Michael A. Tompkins
    The cat lady. The couple who won’t let anyone in their apartment. The old man with all that junk in his yard. Their severe hoarding puts them, and often others, at risk for injury, disease, and even death. Most deny needing help, and for this reason, professionals are desperate to find more effective ways to offer and provide assistance to them.In response to this growing publi...
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    205,63 €

  • The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication
    The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading nonverbal communication scholars from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the nonverbal literature with the aim to rethink current approaches to the subject. ...
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    47,60 €

  • Alphabet to Internet
    Irving Fang
    In Alphabet to Internet: Media in Our Lives, Irving Fang looks at each medium of communication through the centuries, asking not only, 'What happened?' but also, 'How did society change because of this new communication medium?' and, 'How are we different as a result?' ...
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    122,45 €

  • Attention and Emotion (Classic Edition)
    Adrian Wells / Gerald Matthews
    This classic edition of the award-winning textbook provides a critical review of the literature on attention and emotion, and presents an integrative cognitive attentional model of the development and maintenance of emotional disorders. This edition includes new section introductions, which reflect on the influence of the model and subsequent developments in the field, 20 years...
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    88,80 €

  • Principles of Learning and Memory
    Robert G. Crowder
    In this landmark volume from 1976, Robert Crowder presents an organized review of the concepts that guide the study of learning and memory. The basic organization of the book is theoretical, rather than historical or methodological. Crowder presumes no prior knowledge of the subject matter on the part of the reader; technical terms are kept to a minimum, and he makes every effo...
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    92,19 €

  • Massive Open Online Courses
    Paul Kim
    Massive Open Online Courses shares insights from multiple stakeholders on what MOOCs are now and could eventually become, providing those in higher education as well as K-12, military, government, and corporate training with an authoritative source on a wide range of key issues surrounding MOOCs. ...
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    76,29 €

  • Tell It Like It Isn’t
    Dr. Lori L. Badura / DrLori LBadura
    The average person tells at least six lies a day – is it any wonder we struggle to sort fact from fiction in the modern world? Thanks to remarkable increases in the speed and ease of information sharing, the ability to critically judge the integrity of information around us is more necessary now than ever before. Luckily, it is possible for any individual to evaluate informatio...
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    43,54 €

  • Tell It Like It Isn’t
    Dr. Lori L. Badura / DrLori LBadura
    The average person tells at least six lies a day – is it any wonder we struggle to sort fact from fiction in the modern world? Thanks to remarkable increases in the speed and ease of information sharing, the ability to critically judge the integrity of information around us is more necessary now than ever before. Luckily, it is possible for any individual to evaluate informatio...
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    23,04 €

  • CORRUPT INEPT RUDDERLESS POLITICIANS
    Sat Sharma
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    28,32 €

  • The Time Unknown
    Jitesh Talreja
    The book gives you a whole lot of knowledge about the concepts of time travelling, consisting from the basic theory of time to the theory created by the author. It also has the description about how timeline works, and how we are bound to these timelines. ...
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    5,94 €

  • Slippery Willy’s 1st Class
    Paul J. Reed / Paul JReed
    This book is a heartwarming and educational story about a mouse who teaches his first class, and in the process of teaching, he learns a great deal about himself as well. ...
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    28,18 €

  • Slippery Willy’s 1st Class
    Paul J. Reed / Paul JReed
    This book is a heartwarming and educational story about a mouse, who teaches his first class, and in the process of teaching,he learns a great deal about himself as well. ...
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    13,74 €

  • Global Governance, Trade and the Crisis in Europe
    Mariarosaria Iorio
    The first part of this compilation contains articles that highlight the main challenges to the structure of global governance, trade, and development. They are based on empirical analysis resulting from my own professional experience with both the United Nations? system and trade negotiations. They show the challenges that multilateral regimes face in maintaining their relevanc...
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    18,04 €

  • WPA
    Council Writing Program Administrators
    WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within p...
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    17,61 €

  • DECARBONISING THE WORLD’S ECONOMY
    TERRY BARKER & DOUGLAS CRAWFORD-BROWN
    Too often amongst policy makers and thought leaders an assumption is made that we must make a choice between tackling climate change and having a strong economy; tackling climate change and allowing poorer nations to develop; tackling climate change and having a secure energy system. However, a decade of advanced modelling tested against historical data has provided wide eviden...
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    165,95 €

  • Your Hidden Face
    Tim Lyons
    Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung referred to projection as 'an unconscious, that is, unperceived and unintentional, transfer of subjective psychic elements onto an outer object.' If a person projects such 'subjective psychic elements' onto an outer object, he will not see that outer object accurately. Rather, he will see some mixture of the outer object with the 'subjective psyc...
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    35,79 €

  • Making of an African King
    Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
    The Making of an African King examines the source of the kingship struggle in Winneba, Ghana as seen by colonial administrators, and the final court ruling in June 2013 between the patrilineal Otuano Royal Family against the non-royal Acquah faction that favors matrilineal system of succession practiced by the Akan. ...
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    58,17 €

  • Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
    A.M. Halpern / A.MHalpern / Amy Miller
    The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of t...
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    65,29 €

  • Spaces of Governmentality
    Martina Tazzioli
    This book explores migrants’ movements and struggles taking place in the aftermath of the Arab Revolutions and examines how they impact the European space. ...
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    58,60 €

  • Desire After Affect
    Angerer / Marie-Luise Angerer / Nicholas Grindell
    Desire After Affect offers a detailed analysis of the affective turn and its consequences for the humanities. ...
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    54,66 €


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