Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y cultura: general

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  • Ethnic Angst
    Dr. Ajay Sahebrao Deshmukh / DrAjay Sahebrao Deshmukh
    This book is one of the rare books that delves into the psyche of the Parsi community, their culture and anxieties. The book takes into consideration all these aspects reflected in the fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa and Rohinton Mistry. Meticulous style, deep critical insights into the literary, critical, cultural as well diasporic, religious, political, and minority aspects are the ...
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    16,75 €

  • Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction
    V. Flanagan
    Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood. ...
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    103,53 €

  • Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space
    K. Duff
    Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff’s new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike. ...
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    48,26 €

  • With and Without the White Coat
    Lata Murti
    This study examines the role of occupational status in the racialization of Indian physicians in Southern California. Since the liberalization of U.S. immigration policy in 1965, the number of first and second-generation Indian doctors in the U.S. has grown to nearly seven percent of the nation’s physician workforce; however, Indians constitute less than one percent of the tota...
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    33,00 €

  • The Politics of HBO’s The Wire
    This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism. As such, it is a visual text worth investigating and exploring for its nuanced examination of power, difference and inequality.  ...
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    268,30 €

  • On the Importance of Small Farms in Michigan
    Wendy Lockwood Banka
    In 2014 the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) requested comments on proposed changes to an obscure document called the Site Selection GAAMP. By the deadline two weeks later MDARD had received nearly 700 responses, with hundreds more to follow after the deadline passed. This is a book of excerpts from 121 of those public comments, which tell the ...
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    13,15 €

  • HEBREWS TO NEGROES
    Ronald Dalton Jr.
    HEBREWS TO NEGROES Wake Up Black America.....The book 'Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America' touches on subjects too controversial for most authors to reveal to the people. This book will expose the truths that have been hidden by the powers that be in America. Since the European and Arab slave traders stepped foot into Africa, blacks have been told lies about their heri...
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    59,96 €

  • Global Communication
    Cees Hamelink
    A student introduction to the history, present and future of global communication from one of Europe’s most respected communication scholars. ...
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    58,60 €

  • Getting Away with Murder
    Vanessa A. Holloway / Vanessa A. Holloway / Vanessa AHolloway
    During the early twentieth century, nearly 200 anti-lynching proposals were introduced in the United States Congress. Getting Away with Murder argues that constitutional defenses for these proposals were merely excuses for Southern Democrats’ racist attitudes toward black Americans and for giving private citizens a license to murder. ...
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    50,64 €

  • The Durhams of Fairfield
    Robert L. Uzzel
    In The Durhams of Fairfield: An African American Genealogy, Robert L. Uzzel traced his wife Debra’s roots to the slaves of the family of Robert Winfield Durham. Evidence indicates that Gobi, the patriarch of the Durham family, along with his wife Mary and five older sons, were slaves in Fairfield County, South Carolina and that Gobi died there. Mary gave birth to their young...
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    17,63 €

  • Fear of Speaking the Unspeakable
    Willa Lee Adkins
    Air ships UFOs abound in the El Capitan Mountains of New Mexico, constantly vigilant in protecting the sacred secrets being held from mankind. Here are the secret passages and rooms of the ancients, the metropolis that once was here, and the constant flow of space travelers who meet here to trade many things. Our alien space families are here to teach us a new way of living. Ne...
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    20,03 €

  • A Student’s Introduction to Geographical Thought
    Pauline Couper
    An enormously accessible account of the key philosophical ideas that have informed geographical research. A complete student guide to the theories, methodologies and histories of both human and physical geography. ...
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    64,44 €

  • Comics and Narration
    Thierry Groensteen / Ann Miller
    This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen’s ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links ...
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    50,28 €

  • Lillian Carter
    Grant Hayter-Menzies
    Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this book provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who--as nurse, mother and social justice activist in segregated southwest Georgia--made a lifelong habit of breaking the rules defining a woman’s place in and out of the home and the status of blacks in society. As the only white nurse in...
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    43,42 €

  • Research, Action and Policy
    Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change presents the voices of women from every continent, women who face vastly different climate events and challenges. The book heralds a new way of understanding climate change that incorporates gender justice and human rights for all. ...
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    136,30 €

  • Articulating Islam
    This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central fea...
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    133,98 €

  • Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone
    Nancy E Riley
    This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China’s Dalian Economic Zone. Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions and urban status to negotiate their family status. However, women use these ...
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    134,47 €

  • The Grail -Two Studies
    Alexander Jacob / Leopold von Schroeder
    A proper understanding of the significance of the cultic object called the Holy Grail has eluded most scholars who have confined their research to western European literary and cultural sources, especially since the originally Celtic story of the Holy Grail underwent numerous bewildering metamorphoses in the romances of the Middle Ages.It was the Indologist Leopold von Schroede...
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    33,37 €

  • Textual Travels
    Mini Chandran / Suchitra Mathur
    This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects. It explores how the cultural politics of globalization is played out most powerfully in the realm of popular culture, and especially the role of translation in its practical facets, ranging from the fields of literature and publish...
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    241,22 €

  • Internet Addiction in Psychotherapy
    D. Kuss / M. Griffiths
    Current knowledge about effective internet addiction treatment is limited. This book explores how 20 international internet addiction therapy experts experience the presenting problem of internet addiction in psychotherapy. ...
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    48,57 €

  • Interrogating the Theory and Practice of Communication for Social Change
    Elske van de Fliert / Pradip Ninan Thomas
    A new addition to the Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change series, this book sets the stage for subsequent books by identifying and analysing the current gaps in the field. It critically reviews the theory, practice and strategies of Communication for Social Change in relation to occurring structures, policies and discourses. ...
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    108,57 €

  • The Black Feminine Mystique
    William E. Waters / William EWaters
    The Black Feminine Mystique is a collection of poetry that celebrates women of color. It draws from mythology; from the many Black women heroines from history; from women living and dead; and from writers, artists, athletes, and women from the author’s life, including but not limited to his four sisters and his mother. The Black Feminine Mystique paints a broad stroke from Isis...
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    14,86 €

  • The Labour of Memory
    M. Allen
    This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases that not only illustrate the effects of the organisation of remembrance on its participants, but reveal how people engaged in memorial culture to address difficult and unbearable conditions in the wake of 7/7. ...
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    65,50 €

  • Internet Addiction in Psychotherapy
    Daria J. Kuss / Mark D. Griffiths
    Current knowledge about effective internet addiction treatment is limited. This book explores how 20 international internet addiction therapy experts experience the presenting problem of internet addiction in psychotherapy. ...
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    65,76 €

  • The Labour of Memory
    M. Allen
    This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases that not only illustrate the effects of the organisation of remembrance on its participants, but reveal how people engaged in memorial culture to address difficult and unbearable conditions in the wake of 7/7. ...
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    48,41 €

  • Foodies
    Josee Johnston / Shyon Baumann
    This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ’hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for ...
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    78,53 €

  • Towards a Victimology of State Crime
    Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and omissions of states and governments. This collection provides expert analyses of such victimizations across the world, from Europe, the United States, and Africa to New Zealand and South America. Leading scholars in the area of state crime describe the nature, extent, and distribution of state crime victimization, as we...
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    73,06 €

  • Teaching Communication and Media Studies
    Jan Fernback
    Designed for communication/media educators and graduate students, Teaching Communication and Media Studies is a practical and conceptual guide to teaching university courses in communication and media studies. Relying on her extensive experience instructing graduate students on the ins and outs of teaching, Jan Fernback discusses theoretical and applied topics central to contem...
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    70,81 €

  • The Promiscuity of Network Culture
    Robert Payne
    In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Payne brings crucial questions of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and attention back into conversation with recent thinking on network culture and social media, identifying the queer undercurrents of...
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    268,41 €

  • China’s Exchange Rate Regime
    China Development Research Foundation
    The imbalance between China’s currency, the RMB, and those of other countries is widely regarded as a major problem for the world economy. This book reports on a major research project undertaken following the 2005 exchange rate reform to assess the impact on China’s economy. It concludes that the policies pursued so far have been correct, and that further reform, both to the e...
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    294,74 €


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