Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y cultura: general

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  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • Societal Benefits of Freely Accessible Technologies and Knowledge Resources
    Jose Aguilar / Oswaldo Terán
    Open access to information resources and technology can have a profound impact on the economic development of a region as well as society in general. In recent years, reaction against proprietary knowledge and technology has led to tremendous debate both in academic and professional circles. Societal Benefits of Freely Accessible Technologies and Knowledge Resources analyzes cu...
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    229,90 €

  • Sea Tales South Beach Miami
    Nick Hernandez
    The roaring twenties, cars driving to the south most point of Miami Beach for dances and the most popular burlesque spot in Miami Florida. Honky-tonk bars at the entrance of the pier that extended out onto the ocean make for a couple of drinks before dancing the night away. The burlesque house at the end of the pier built on the water. Too bad a barge broke loose during the 192...
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    9,51 €

  • Speaking Out
    Alan Berman / Berman Alan / Shirleene Robinson
    Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book gives voice to the many victims who have suffered in the state once recognised as Australia’s most homophobic. It tells of the barriers people face in dealing with the legal system, the reasons why some do not report...
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    41,71 €

  • Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment
    In the past decade, trust has gained a prominent place at the center of academic scholarship in the social sciences. Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives provides a variety of theoretical perspectives on the topics of trust and technology, as well as some empirical investigations into the trust-building, trust-main...
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    236,44 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • The Burial of the Urban Poor in Italy in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire
    Emma-Jayne Graham
    The horror of the puticuli, the mass burial pits, and their traditional association with the poor, has often led to this socio-economic group being viewed as somehow ‘different’ to the rest of the ancient urban community in the Italy of the Late Roman Republic. This is the theory questioned by the author of this volume. Why should this part of the community care so little about...
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    64,06 €

  • The Pleasure of Thinking
    Theodore Dalrymple
    In The Pleasure of Thinking, Theodore Dalrymple embarks on an entertaining intellectual journey. With his characteristic wit, Dalrymple navigates the quirky realms of literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, highlighting the satisfaction that comes with reflecting on life’s questions. This book is for anyone who delights in the intricacies of the human mind and ...
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    19,48 €

  • Addiction Hurts Everyone
    LaFonya Jones-Hines
    Addiction Hurts Everyone: A Family’s Journey to Healing is a 3-volume guide consisting of the Essential Guide, Participant’s Guide, and Meditational that assists family members related to those who are suffering from drug addiction. In this powerful work, Dr. LaFonya Jones-Hines utilizes her practical and professional expertise in developing a group strategy for therapy. Dr. Jo...
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    75,19 €

  • Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents The Smartest Student In High School Made The Worst Grades In America Blessed Are Those O Children Alternate Cover Inscribed By 9Ruby Prince Intergalactic Ambas
    9RUBY PRINCE INTERGALACTIC AMBASSADOR / PRINCE SEAN ALEMAYEHU TEWODROS / SEAN ALEMAYEHU TEWODROS GIORGIS
    Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents The Smartest Student In High School Made The Worst Grades In America Blessed Are Those O Children Alternate Cover Inscribed By 9Ruby Prince Intergalactic AmbassadorDa 21 Scriptures |The Smartest Student In High School Made The WorstGrades In America Blessed Are Those O Children01 Scriptures | The Smartest Student In School Making The Wor...
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    181,15 €

  • Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents In Search Of Da 9Ruby Princess From The 7th Planet Abys Sinia In The 19th Galaxy Called EL Elyown. 9Love Divine Love Story Of DestinEye Philmore Who Is Da 9Rub
    SEAN ALEMAYEHU TEWODROS GIORGIS
    Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents In Search Of Da 9Ruby Princess From The 7th Planet Abys Sinia In The 19th Galaxy Called EL Elyown. 9Love Divine Love Story Of DestinEye Philmore Who Is Da 9Ruby Prince President Intergalactic Ambassador?Who is this Spiritual Soul is known as Krassa Alemayehu Giorgis, the 9Ruby Prince of Abyssinia? On a great journey inspired by a beautif...
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    158,32 €

  • Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents In Search Of Da 9Ruby Princess From The 7th Planet Abys Sinia In The 19th Galaxy Called EL Elyown. 9Love Divine Love Story Of DestinEye Philmore Who Is Da 9Rub
    SEAN ALEMAYEHU TEWODROS GIORGIS
    Sean Alemayehu Tewodros Giorgis Presents In Search Of Da 9Ruby Princess From The 7th Planet Abys Sinia In The 19th Galaxy Called EL Elyown. 9Love Divine Love Story Of DestinEye Philmore Who Is Da 9Ruby Prince President Intergalactic Ambassador?Who is this Spiritual Soul is known as Sean Caddy Amun Giorgis, the 9Ruby Prince of Abyssinia? On a great journey inspired by a beautifu...
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    219,16 €

  • The Indolence of the Filipino (Esprios Classics)
    José Rizal
    José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Filipino people. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement,...
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    16,40 €

  • The Red Record (Esprios Classics)
    Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Ida BWells-Barnett
    Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, ...
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    19,86 €

  • Selected Short Works of Booker T. Washington (Esprios Classics)
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and ...
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    21,49 €

  • Anonymous Was a Woman
    Natascha Graham
    Written by award-winning writer Natascha Graham, these short stories collate fragments of women’s lives and weave them through various stories, short and long, to explore the often untold stories and unseen language of underrepresented women. ...
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    67,46 €

  • Anarchism and Socialism (Esprios Classics)
    George Plechanoff
    Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (11 December [O. S. 29 November] 1856 - 30 May 1918) was a Russian revolutionary, philosopher and Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify himself as 'Marxist'. Facing political persecution, Plekhanov emigrated to Switzerland in 1880, where he continued in his ...
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    19,83 €

  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent and the Principles by Which it is Regulated (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. T. R. Malthus / RevTRMalthus
    Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13/14 February 1766 - 23 December 1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation’s food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because ...
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    17,57 €

  • Russia in the Shadows (Esprios Classics)
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the 'father of...
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    17,47 €

  • Then See If I Care
    David Crittendon
    David Crittendon’s historic blues novella, THEN SEE IF I CARE: A Story About Bessie Smith, makes you feel her yearning down to your bones. This is no low-down, foot-dragging dirge. With prose that rings true to African American idiom yet resounds with Crittendon’s singular poetic voice, THEN SEE IF I CARE is by turns defiant, bawdy, mocking, starkly bitter, and jubilant, initia...
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    19,34 €

  • War and the Human Psyche
    Jake Hollister
    War is more than a clash of armies and political power - it is a profound psychological upheaval that shatters the lives of millions, especially civilians caught in the crossfire. In War and the Human Psyche - Updated Edition: Understanding Civilian Trauma and Emotional Resilience, this comprehensive exploration delves deeply into the often overlooked mental and emotional toll ...
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    93,97 €

  • The Mischiefs That Ought Justly to Be Apprehended from a Whig-Government
    Bernard Mandeville
    In this scathing 1714 political pamphlet, Mandeville critiques the emerging Whig ascendancy in Britain, warning of the ideological and moral hazards he associates with their influence. Drawing sharp distinctions between Whig and Tory principles, he challenges prevailing assumptions about liberty, governance, and virtue. A pointed contribution to early modern political theory, t...
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    11,49 €

  • Revolutionary Legacies
    Marla Brettschneider
    Thinks with a range of extraordinary Jewish women about how to live vibrant lives and resist the settler colonialism at the heart of the modern project of freedom.This book provides a timely new transnational lineage of Jewish feminist revolutionary legacies. Using extensive research, deep thinking, and a bold methodology, Marla Brettschneider tousles with a host of anti-coloni...
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    45,79 €

  • A Woman’s Philosophy of Woman
    Jenny P. d’Héricourt
    'To emancipate woman is not to acknowledge her right to use and abuse love; such an emancipation is only the slavery of the passions; the use of the beauty and youth of woman by man; the use of man by woman for his fortune or credit. To emancipate woman is to acknowledge and declare her free, the equal of man in the social and the moral law, and in labor. At present, over the w...
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    17,76 €

  • The Down to the Countryside Campaign and Return to the City Movement
    Joshua Zhang / Philip Monte
    Using a social movement perspective, this monograph demonstrates the differences between the Return to the City Movement by the Chinese educated youths - the only successful social movement by the Chinese people since the establishment of the communist regime - and the Down to the Countryside Campaign by the Chinese Communist Party.Grounded in data collected via an unprecedente...
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    45,27 €

  • The Down to the Countryside Campaign and Return to the City Movement
    Joshua Zhang / Philip Monte
    Using a social movement perspective, this monograph demonstrates the differences between the Return to the City Movement by the Chinese educated youths - the only successful social movement by the Chinese people since the establishment of the communist regime - and the Down to the Countryside Campaign by the Chinese Communist Party.Grounded in data collected via an unprecedente...
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    129,30 €

  • APOLOGIST
    Daniel W. Marshall
    What happens when loyalty to power trumps loyalty to truth? APOLOGIST: The Silent Saboteurs of Democracy is a gripping examination of the individuals, institutions, and cultural forces that quietly erode democratic values from within. While dictators and strongmen steal headlines, their enablers-the polished defenders, academic justifiers, and digital loyalists-often operate in...
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    16,30 €

  • Faster Towards My Own Destruction
    Micazilin Rhoady
    a man becomes a recluse when the world becomes infected with a deadly plague. ...
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    21,62 €

  • The Occult Anatomy of Man
    Manly P. Hall
    The Occult Anatomy of Man by Manly P. Hall is a fascinating exploration of the hidden connections between the human body, ancient mysticism, and spiritual enlightenment.In this thought-provoking work, Hall delves into esoteric traditions from around the world, revealing how the physical form serves as a microcosm of universal truths. Through the lens of Hermeticism, Kabbalah, E...
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    12,18 €

  • Frederick Douglass (Esprios Classics)
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 - November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. F...
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    26,03 €


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