Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape
    Tine Ustad Figenschou
    This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the ’Al Jazeera moment,’ it tracks the channel’s bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal, in-depth analysis of the channel’s editorial profile and strategies. ...
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    254,64 €

  • United States - Africa Security Relations
    The book examines the broad gamut of the United States’ security relations-terrorism, AFRICOM, military cooperation, national interests, and natural resources- with Africa. ...
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    254,53 €

  • From Communism to Capitalism
    Florentina C. Andreescu
    The book analyzes the transition from communism and a planned economy to democracy and capitalism, focusing specifically on the case of Romania. More specifically it analyzes how the transition is reflected in the cultural space of films. The research high ...
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    65,37 €

  • Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726
    Josephine Donovan
    Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 is the first theoretical study of early modern women’s contribution to the rise of the novel. Named in its first edition an 'Outstanding Academic Book of the Year,' by Choice, this second, expanded edition include ...
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    54,28 €

  • Effective Interventions in the Lives of Criminal Offenders
    This book provides the most current thinking on effective interventions in the lives of criminal offenders. Original articles by leading criminologists provide in-depth analyses of 'turning points' in the desistance process experienced by criminal offenders. An understanding of the sources of turning points (or interventions) across the life course is vital to assessing their i...
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    133,15 €

  • Hyperdemocracy
    Stephen Welch
    What is the future of democracy? Is it steadily improving in scope, depth, and accountability? Is it being marginalized by economic forces? Or has it already progressed too far? This book argues that none of these assessments is right, and instead that dem ...
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    65,22 €

  • The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy
    James Thomas Snyder
    The attacks of September 11th established a new era of US foreign policy-one marked by a profound focus on public diplomacy. With tremendous resources poured into diplomatic efforts to curry favor with foreign audiences, the efficacy of these efforts are s ...
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    65,17 €

  • Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece
    Yiqun Zhou
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    71,03 €

  • Politik in Sachsen
    Eckhard Jesse / Thomas Schubert / Tom Thieme
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    47,52 €

  • Climate in Asia and the Pacific
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    135,06 €

  • Putting Fear of Crime on the Map
    Bruce J. Doran / Melissa B. Burgess
    Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the subject have consistently uncovered alarming characteristics, primarily relatin...
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    136,30 €

  • Ironic Freedom
    Judith A. Baer
    If we legalize physician-assisted suicide, will people be forced into it? Did allowing abortion make it compulsory for some women? Did abolishing the military draft create a ’poverty draft’ for disadvantaged youth? Ironic Freedom analyses this familiar pro ...
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    65,37 €

  • Sudan Divided
    The secession of South Sudan in July 2011 took place against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, spurring hopes of a 'new beginning' that might lead to a more just, democratic Sudan. Nonetheless, the years following secession have witnessed new wars, growing ...
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    65,03 €

  • The Economies of Urban Diversity
    The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies. In this exciting work, the contributors develop an integrative approach to urban diversity and economy by employing concepts from different studies and linking hi ...
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    65,00 €

  • Constitutional Mythologies
    Alain Marciano
    Our societies obviously rest on common beliefs. These 'myths' are tools that help us to develop and build common identities; they form the structure around which societies function. This does not imply that these beliefs are 'true,' in the sense that they would be supported by empirical facts. In social matters, myths have undoubtedly important functions to play even if no empi...
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    134,41 €

  • Spelling Morphology
    Dorit Diskin Ravid
    Modern Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language-its lexicon is rich in morphemes. This volume supplies the first in-depth psycholinguistic analysis of the interaction between morphological knowledge and spelling in Hebrew. It also examines how far this model can be applied to other languages. Anchored to a connectionist, cognitive, cross-linguistic and typological framewor...
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    134,35 €

  • Handbook of International Feminisms
    The goal of Handbook of International Perspectives on Feminism is to present the histories, status, and contours of feminist research and practice in their respective regional and/or national contexts. The editors have invited researchers who are doing this work to present their perspectives on women, culture, and rights with the objective to illuminate the diverse forms that f...
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    207,34 €

  • Security Education and Critical Infrastructures
    Security Education and Critical Infrastructures presents the most recent developments in research and practice on teaching information security, and covers topics including: -Curriculum design; -Laboratory systems and exercises; -Security education program assessment; -Distance learning and web-based teaching of security; -Teaching computer forensics; -Laboratory-based system d...
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    47,53 €

  • The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy
    J. Snyder
    Through personal experience and a lively narrative, this book examines the difficulty of communicating in adversarial environments like Iraq and Afghanistan, the complexity of multi-linguistic communications, and the importance of directing American cultural power in the national interest. ...
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    66,52 €

  • From Communism to Capitalism
    F. Andreescu
    This book offers an interdisciplinary mode of analyzing transitions from communism and planned economy to democracy and capitalism focusing on how the various social and political transformations are reflected within one hundred Romanian films produced during communism, transition, and post-transition. ...
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    66,73 €

  • The Lateral Line System
    The Lateral Line System provides an overview of the key concepts and issues surrounding the development, evolution, neurobiology, and function of the lateral line, a fascinating yet somewhat enigmatic flow-sensing system. The book examines the historical precedence for linking the auditory and lateral line systems, its structure and development, use o...
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    208,93 €

  • The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts
    The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts: Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies explores the complex interplay of colonial and capital formations throughout the modern world. The authors present a critical approach to this topic, trying to shift discourses in the theoretical framework of historical archaeology of capitalism and colonialism through the use of postcolon...
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    136,42 €

  • Anthropology and Art Practice
    Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. ...
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    53,18 €

  • Road to Pakistan
    B. R. Nanda
    This is a biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the story of the creation of Pakistan. At a time of much interest and concern about Pakistan in the international community, this volume provides a historical context which helps in an understanding of the present. It traces the development of the Muslim identity on the Indian subcontinent and follows Jinnah as he rode the wave of ...
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    44,21 €

  • Data Security Breaches and Privacy in Europe
    Rebecca Wong
    Data Security Breaches and Privacy in Europe aims to consider data protection and cybersecurity issues; more specifically, it aims to provide a fruitful discussion on data security breaches. A detailed analysis of the European Data Protection framework will be examined. In particular, the Data Protection Directive 95/45/EC, the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications...
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    66,49 €

  • Understanding Theology and Homosexuality in African American Communities
    Sana Loue
    ​Understanding Theology and Homosexuality in African-American Communities focuses specifically on helping mental professionals understand the scriptural and historical bases for the negative stance of some African American churches towards same-sex relations, and how that understanding is relevant within the context of mental health care. It provides a summary of the relevant p...
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    67,08 €

  • Understanding Theology and Homosexuality in African American Communities
    Sana Loue
    ​Understanding Theology and Homosexuality in African-American Communities focuses specifically on helping mental professionals understand the scriptural and historical bases for the negative stance of some African American churches towards same-sex relations, and how that understanding is relevant within the context of mental health care. It provides a summary of the relevant p...
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    48,64 €

  • Marvelous English Multi-Purpose Guide
    Prof Avtar S. Virdi / Prof Avtar SVirdi
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    18,08 €

  • Introducing Peace Education in the Education Curriculum
    Kayembe Martin C.
    This book is a result of a research carried out in selected schools in the Katanga province in the DRC on possibilities of introducing peace education in the curriculum of secondary schools in the DRC.As a writer, I was motivated by the various conflicts that have happened in that country, and bearing in mind that the DRC is one of the countries having a large number of teenage...
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    88,89 €

  • Behavioural Public Policy
    Adam Oliver
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    151,21 €


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