Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • Developing as an Educational Leader and Manager
    Megan Crawford
    Focusing on organisation improvement and strategical leadership, this book offers a bank of creative ideas and guidance for teachers already in management positions, and those just starting out reflect on their leadership development. ...
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    62,36 €

  • The Evolution of Sexuality
    Attraction, mating, reproduction: it is a given that as a species, human beings are concerned with sex. And whether the study compares sexual behaviors of men and women or considers the proportions between nature and nurture, most roads lead back to our distant ancestors and/or our fellow animals.The Evolution of Sexuality collects stimulating new empirical findings and theoret...
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    132,51 €

  • The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience
    Jacob J. Sauer / Jacob JSauer
    This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile. This examination is done through the lens of Resilience Theory, which has the potential to offer an interpretive ...
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    67,01 €

  • Global and Asian Perspectives on International Migration
    Graziano Battistella
    This volume examines key aspects of the migration process that are particularly relevant in the Asian context. It looks into established concepts and theoretical propositions that have found application in other areas, particularly in the West and explores their validity and relevance in understanding the realities of migration in Asia.Global and Asian Perspectives on Internati...
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    132,63 €

  • Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution
    Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for reexamining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. This collection examines the viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and the one-child policy as outcomes of earlier Maoist science. ...
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    84,03 €

  • Teaching Mythology Exposed
    Starr Sackstein
    Mishaps that resulted in tears and a constant questioning of my choice to switch careers are the short story of my earliest teaching memories. Fortunately, looking back, I can laugh at the many foibles of that experience - It’s with love that I invite you new or older teaching professionals to embrace this miraculous journey. This book will help ease the growing pains of being ...
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    17,58 €

  • Sex, Love and DNA
    Peter Schattner
    Can 21st-century molecular biology answer age-old questions about the human experience? Can studying proteins and DNA help us understand how we make our choices in sex and love? How we communicate? Where our emotions come from? Or why we age and die?......... In this fascinating journey into the biology of cells, scientist and educator Peter Schattner explains how proteins and ...
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    13,84 €

  • Sex, Love and DNA
    Peter Schattner
    Can 21st-century molecular biology answer age-old questions about the human experience? Can studying proteins and DNA help us understand how we make our choices in sex and love? How we communicate? Where our emotions come from? Or why we age and die?......... In this fascinating journey into the biology of cells, scientist and educator Peter Schattner explains how proteins and ...
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    31,44 €

  • Doing Mental Health Research with Children and Adolescents
    Dr. Nikki Kiyimba / Michelle O'Reilly / Michelle O’Reilly
    ’For those researching with children, this is essential reading. Whether a research student or experienced researcher, this book comprehensively explains how to conceptualise and ethically conduct research, analyse and theorise from multiple perspectives, and disseminate and publish. I wish this book had been available when I first started applying for grant funding’ - Professo...
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    62,06 €

  • Understanding Assessment in Primary Education
    Sue Faragher
    This book looks at the role and purpose of assessment in primary education and provides guidance and practical strategies, so students will gain a firm understanding of assessment and how to use it effectively in their teaching. ...
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    54,48 €

  • Emotional Well-being and Mental Health
    Digby Tantam
    ’This is a very timely book with the introduction of the Care Act 2014 with its overarching aim of well-being. I found the book very interesting for this reason and could relate the different perspectives of well-being to my work as an adult social worker, especially in relation to how well-being relates to choice and control and the strengths approach’ - Mrs Erin King, School ...
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    58,98 €

  • Breaking With Dyslexia
    Dennis Brooks
    The introductory price is 50% off. Take advantage of it! This workbook takes students from preschool up to high school level reading with a unique multi-sensory word recognition process. The process includes phonetic decoding, pronunciation drills, syllabication, enunciation, visualization, memorization, syllable stress, handwriting, and reading out loud. With this program, stu...
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    20,07 €

  • The Origins of NLP
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    21,52 €

  • The Politics of Nihilism
    Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, participation,and democracy. Interestingly, both institutional and anti-institutional sides of this antagonis...
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    226,16 €

  • Scenes of Intimacy
    Jennifer Cooke
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    64,21 €

  • Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives
    This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives ...
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    63,84 €

  • The Archaeology of Race
    Debbie Challis
    How much was archaeology founded on prejudice? The Archaeology of Race explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period. It investigates how material culture from ancient Egypt and Greece was used to validate the construction of racial hierarchies. Specifically focusing on Francis Galton’s ideas around inh...
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    63,94 €

  • Language, Ethics and Animal Life
    A number of factors-new research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and modern concerns about animal welfare and ecology-have made our relationship to animals an area of burning interest in contemporary philosophy. Utilizing methods inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume exp...
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    47,16 €

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism
    Ruth Kinna
    The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism is a comprehensive reference work to support research in anarchism. The book considers the different approaches to anarchism as an ideology and explains the development of anarchist studies from the early twentieth century to the present day. It is unique in that it highlights the relationship between theory and practice, pays special atten...
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    65,62 €

  • Knowledge and the Future School
    Carolyn Roberts / David Lambert / Michael Young
    Written at a time of uncertainty about the implications of the English government’s curriculum policies, Knowledge and the Future School engages with the debate between the government and large sections of the educational community. It provides a forward-looking framework for head teachers, their staff and those involved in training teachers to use when developing the curriculu...
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    154,33 €

  • Authority and the Teacher
    William H. Kitchen
    Authority and the Teacher seeks to overturn the notion that authority is a restrictive force within education, serving only to stifle creativity and drown out the voice of the student. William H. Kitchen argues that any education must have, as one of its cornerstones, a component which encourages the fullest development of knowledge, which serves as the great educational emanci...
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    154,56 €

  • The Subject of Rosi Braidotti
    The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts brings into focus the diverse influence of the work of Rosi Braidotti on academic fields in the humanities and the social sciences such as the study and scholarship in - among others - feminist theory, political theory, continental philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, cultural studies, ethnicity and race studies....
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    206,35 €

  • Deconstructing Brad Pitt
    Christopher Schaberg
    The reactions evoked by images of and stories about Brad Pitt are many and wide-ranging: while one person might swoon or exclaim, another rolls his eyes or groans. How a single figure provokes such strong, often opposing emotions is a puzzle, one elegantly explored and perhaps even solved by Deconstructing Brad Pitt. Co-editors Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett have s...
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    192,85 €

  • Cultural Science
    John Hartley
    Cultural Science introduces a new way of thinking about culture. Adopting an evolutionary and systems approach, the authors argue that culture is the population-wide source of newness and innovation; it faces the future, not the past. Its chief characteristic is the formation of groups or ’demes’ (organised and productive subpopulation; ’demos’). Demes are the means for creatin...
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    160,74 €

  • Why Electoral Integrity Matters
    Pippa Norris
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    162,19 €

  • The Contradictions of Media Power
    Des Freedman
    Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are ’powerful’; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regulation, control and impact of communicative institutions and processes? Further, we assume that this ’power’ is somehow problematic; audiences are often treated as highly susceptible t...
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    161,10 €

  • A British Fascist in the Second World War
    Claudia Baldoli
    A British Fascist in the Second World War presents the edited diary of the British fascist Italophile, James Strachey Barnes. Previously unpublished, the diary is a significant source for all students of the Second World War and the history of European and British fascism.The diary covers the period from the fall of Mussolini in 1943 to the end of the war in 1945, two years in ...
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    206,48 €

  • Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet
    Leon Harold Craig
    Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues, however, it has also been treated as problematic in a raft of ways. In Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet, Leon Craig explains that the most oft-cited problems and criticisms are act...
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    206,33 €

  • Memory and Imagination in Film
    Patrizia Lombardo
    Lombardo expands upon the intuitions of Baudelaire, proposing a new understanding of cinephilia as the interplay of the memory and the imagination of both filmmakers and spectators. Films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant are presented as imaginative uses of the history of cinema, as well as the histories of painting, music, literature and photography. Quotations, allus...
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    65,10 €

  • Governing the Use-of-Force in International Relations
    Aiden Warren / Ingvild Bode
    This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which the Bush and Obama administrations viewed legitimizing the greater use-of-force as a necessary solution to thwart the security threat presented by global terrorist networks and WMD proliferation. The Bush administration’s use-of-force policy centered on advocat...
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    65,16 €


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