Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • Believing in Magic
    Stuart A. Vyse
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    28,87 €

  • Anatomy of a Lynching
    James R. McGovern
    First published in 1982, James R. McGovern’s Anatomy of a Lynching unflinchingly reconstructs the grim events surrounding the death of Claude Neal, one of the estimated three thousand blacks who died at the hands of southern lynch mobs in the six decades between the 1880s and the outbreak of World War II.Neal was accused of the brutal rape and murder of Lola Cannidy, a young wh...
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    38,30 €

  • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT THE HUMAN FACE
    DR PARVEEN PRASAD PRASAD / Sekhar Seshan
    1 Evolution Of Human Resource Management 2 Recruitment 3 Selection 4 Job Analysis 5 Equality And Diversity In The Workplace 6 Learning And Development 7 Performance Management And Appraisal 8 Compensation Establishing Pay Plans 9 Talented Management 10 Law And Hrm 11 Collective Bargaining 12 Employee Relations 13 Employee Health And Safety 14 Ethics 15 International Human Resou...
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    37,68 €

  • In Protest
    In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights is an anthology of new poetry exploring human rights and social justice themes. This collection, a collaboration between the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Keats House Poets, brings together writing that is often very moving, frequently touching, and occasionally humorous. The 150 poe...
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    15,38 €

  • The Madinah [Medinah] Arabic Course for Children
    Muhammad Taha Abdullah
    THE MADINAH ARABIC COURSE FOR CHILDREN : WORKBOOK LEVEL THREE This is 'Workbook Level Three' of the 7-book series 'Madinah Arabic Course for Children' aimed for third year elementary school children. The series contains three textbooks, three workbooks and a calligraphy skills book. ('Arabic Calligraphy Made Easy') It has been developed, modified, improved and tested over a...
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    26,59 €

  • How Will Our Children Learn? Choosing Better Schools
    Michael Hewitson
    OW WILL OUR CHILDREN LEARN asks the big questions of what life is about. How will our children know what is important? How will we know that our children have at least learnt the basics? How did one State School for a decade become the property of the unionised staff room? Why did parents choose a new school in a dusty paddock - a school without tradition, money or resources? ...
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    23,96 €

  • The Search for a Theology of Childhood
    Jerome Berryman
    Assembled for the first time in one collection are some of the major writings of Jerome W Berryman, fourth generation interpreter of the Montessori tradition, and founder of Godly Play - an approach to religious education and the pastoral care of children which is today being drawn upon all over the world. The writings contained in this book, some of which are now largely inacc...
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    32,56 €

  • At the Intersection of Education, Marketing, and Transformation
    Sabra Brock / Sabra E. Brock
    There have been significant changes in the last decade in the fields of education and marketing. Both have been transformed by technology and globalization. Attention spans have been shortened due to accelerated delivery of entertainment. A new global cyber culture has emerged. Social networking sites have changed the way we get information. The web and mobile apps have emerged...
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    49,81 €

  • The State Theory of Money
    Georg Friedrich Knapp / H. M. Lucas / HMLucas
    2013 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842-1926) was a German economist who in 1895 published 'The State Theory of Money,' which founded the chartalist school of monetary theory, which takes the statist stance that money must have no intrinsic value and strictly be used ...
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    22,97 €

  • Tell Me Why Dear Bennett
    Juanita Patience Moss
    A favorite Bennett College song asks Belles to tell why they love their Alma Mater and many have been delighted to share their reasons. Tell Me Why Dear Bennett, Volume II contains not only memoirs, but also legacies, accomplishments, tributes, and memorials. Many Belles are being remembered as having 'set the pace' through the years, for Bennett’s 'her-story' is a reflection o...
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    41,32 €

  • Between-Election Democracy
    Hanne Marthe Narud
    Why do we need European integration in increasingly fragmented and antagonised European societies? How can European integration relate to the national stories we carry about who we are as a nation and where we belong? What to do with the national stories that tell traumatising tales of past loss and sacrifice, and depict others as villains or foes? Can we still claim that our n...
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    149,15 €

  • Soar
    Tom Bunn
    From an author who has the unique perspective of an airline captain and a licensed therapist, SOAR is a groundbreaking program that uses techniques based on new brain scan technology to automatically control feelings when flying and cure flight anxiety within a week to 10 days. ...
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    16,09 €

  • Growing into Politics
    This book presents up-to-date empirical research on crucial questions of political socialisation. It suggests new approaches and answers to a classic, but still valid question of political socialisation research. The volume maintains that political socialisation is no universal or independent phenomenon, but one significantly shaped by the surrounding parameters of the society ...
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    148,86 €

  • How to Talk to Teenagers
    Lucinda Neall
    This pocket book explains how adults can communicate with teenagers in a way that makes them likely to listen and react positively. It is packed with examples from day-to-day life, and has chapter summaries for easy reference. Topics include maintaining boundaries, avoiding conflict, and how to stop nagging and shouting. ...
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    13,34 €

  • Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century
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    26,40 €

  • The Founders’ Key
    Larry P. Arnn / Larry PArnn
    Today the integrity and unity of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are under attack by the Progressive political movement. And yet, writes Larry P. Arnn:'The words of the Declaration of Independence ring across the ages. The arrangements of the Constitution have a way of organizing our actions so as to produce certain desirable results, and they have done thi...
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    17,49 €

  • Human Rights and the World’s Major Religions
    William Brackney
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    94,26 €

  • El mundo global
    Fazio Vengoa Hugo / Hugo Fazio Vengoa
    El propósito principal del libro consiste en el diseño de un esquema de inteligibilidad del mundo contemporáneo, debido al convencimiento a que he llegado del escaso nivel de reflexión sobre la mundialidad en curso, en condiciones en que todo deja entrever que el siglo XXI se va a diferenciar del inmediatamente anterior por el hecho de que los fenómenos mundiales y/o globales s...
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    10,92 €

  • La ciencia de la investigación cualitativa
    Martin Packer
    “Las ciencias sociales y del comportamiento necesitan con urgencia este libro. De hecho, debería ser lectura obligatoria para cualquier persona que esté estudiando seriamente los métodos o las metodologías. Es una verdadera hazaña haber reunido en un solo tomo a las figuras prominentes, los problemas difíciles y las soluciones imperfectas que plagan los varios tipos de indagaci...
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    22,88 €

  • Read It Forward
    Linda Kay
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    51,65 €

  • Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa
    Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how loca...
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    44,39 €

  • Beyond Writing Culture
    Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus’ volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge as to how to conceptualise the intricate relationship between epistemology and re...
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    44,51 €

  • Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
    John T. Friedman / John TFriedman
    In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the histo...
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    44,18 €

  • Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa
    Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conv...
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    44,43 €

  • The State and the Social
    Ornulf Gulbrandsen
    Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa-as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the 'failure' of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues that Botswana’s apparent ...
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    44,00 €

  • Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
    Christian Bailey
    'By looking at political and intellectual discourses from a wide array of political perspectives (conservative, Catholic, regional, social democratic), this book makes several important points in discussing various rival conceptions of ’Europes that never happened’ but that allowed a diverse array of political groupings to converge on support for European integration. This book...
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    184,16 €

  • Reconstructing Obesity
    'A valuable text. The arguments and chapters are coherently linked to highlight the role of cultural assumptions in medical and social attitudes towards fatness and obesity. The volume makes a strong contribution to contextualizing ideologies on fatness and invites the reader to engage with a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives.' · Lucy Aphramor, Well Founded Ltd, Cent...
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    184,24 €

  • Points of Passage
    Tobias Brinkmann
    'This is a major contribution to our understanding of a process which in a few decades radically transformed the geography of the Jewish world.' · Antony Polonsky,United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University'This volume will prove to be a very valuable addition to the growing literature on Eastern European migrations as a passage into Western Europe and bey...
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    184,57 €

  • Peripheral Vision
    Catarina Frois
    In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, 'modernization through technology' was the major political motto used to develop and improve the country's peripheral and backward condition. This study reflects on one of the resulting, specific aspects of this trend-the implementation of public video surveillance. The in-depth ethnography provides evidence of how the political construction...
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    163,87 €

  • Being Human, Being Migrant
    Anne Sigfrid Grnseth
    'It is refreshing to find a volume that both shows commitment to ethnographic detail and aspires to lift consideration to a broader level, reaching back to the nihil humani a me alienum puto perspective, but with new and nuanced narratives to give that perspective a special appeal.' · Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, University of Pittsburgh'This is an original and persua...
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    184,57 €