Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y cultura: general

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  • Your Affectionate Godmother (Esprios Classics)
    Elinor Glyn
    Elinor Glyn (1864-1943), born Elinor Sutherland, was an English novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered massmarket women’s erotic fiction. She coined the use of It as a euphemism for sexuality, or sex appeal. Elinor was schooled by her grandmother (a minor French aristocrat) which gave her an entrée into aristocratic circles on her return to Europe and led her to be considered ...
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    18,47 €

  • 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 €

  • How the Other Half Lives (Esprios Classics)
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, 'muckraking' journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished ...
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    23,63 €

  • Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) (Esprios Classics)
    Francis Galton
    Sir Francis Galton, FRS (16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of co...
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    20,71 €

  • Mob Rule in New Orleans (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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    18,28 €

  • 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 €

  • Days of Love
    Elisa Rolle
    A new book chronicling 2,000 years of same-sex love stories, from Alexander the Great to the latest Literary Award winner. Days of Love, created and edited by Elisa Rolle, makes inspiring reading and lays to rest the myth that LGBT couples are not capable of sustaining life-long relationships. Packed full of beautiful photos and illustrations it lovingly features the personal s...
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    33,58 €

  • The Story of Ervin James
    Bernette Sherman
    Sherman is especially skilled at building bigger-picture thinking between characters that come to life in their conversations as they age and adapt to new times. The result is a vivid story of slavery’s impact, social changes, and one family’s legacy that succeeds in changing the hearts, minds, and experiences of those who follow generations later. - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer...
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    18,41 €

  • Beyond Biology
    Matthew Hallinan
    Anthropology has so far failed to solve the riddle of human evolution. Existing models are unable to account for the scope of the differences that distinguish humans from other animals. We know that we evolved, but we don’t yet understand how we evolved to become a creature so different from every other animal. In Beyond Biology, author Matthew Hallinan argues that we are not j...
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    14,09 €

  • Mapping Sentence Pocket Guide
    Katie Lustig / Paul M W Hackett
    The mapping sentence is a research tool and a way of conceiving of research into the social sciences and humanities. In this book, the mapping sentence is introduced in both its traditional and declarative formats for use in quantitative and qualitative research respectively. The reader is taken through the process of developing a mapping sentence for their specific research st...
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    23,29 €

  • The Settlers at Home (Esprios Classics)
    Harriet Martineau
    Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 - 27 June 1876) was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective. She also translated various works by Auguste Comte, and she earned enough to su...
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    22,19 €

  • Victoria’s Not so Little Secret
    Lainey Dex Ryder
    Victoria Is torn between the love of her life whom she hoped and dreamed of having a solid future with but Skylar appeared in her life with different intentions ...
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    21,30 €

  • Who We Are?
    Abdenal Carvalho
    This work aims to awaken in my readers the importance of understanding the real reasons that lead them to be here, on this planet, as well as encouraging them to try to discover their true missions as members of a greater purpose in cultural, scientific and cultural growth. technological development of humanity. We cannot believe or accept the idea that we were born, grew up an...
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    30,76 €

  • The Story of My Life and Work (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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    25,93 €

  • 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 €

  • Southern Horrors (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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    18,35 €

  • Prejudices
    Abdenal Carvalho
    André is a young man who since his adolescence has been a victim of intolerance and prejudice on the part of his family, neighbors and everyone who knew him. older brother, due to his condition of homosexual. The situation reached the extreme of him being expelled from home, going to live with a couple of elderly uncles, where he finished his studies. Years later he took over t...
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    54,66 €

  • Memories of a Sadist
    Abdenal Carvalho
    Marcos was an important writer with an incomparable intelligence for literature, his impressive ability to create stories in a short space of time earned him several awards. As well as an expansive recognition in the literary world. His readers were found all over the world and all of his works were a huge sales success. However, due to a certain tendency to exaggerated lust, h...
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    46,72 €

  • A Hard Woman Is Good To Find
    Lainey Dex Ryder
    Short stories of Lesbian Erotica that journeys into the world of lesbian sex with unique and sometimes kinky stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights of pleasure. ...
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    27,16 €

  • Conflicts
    Abdenal Carvalho
    After writing several stories and delighting many people with his novels and short stories, Eduardo decides to talk about himself, his frustrations, pains and life full of perversity, orgies and drugs, in a plot where there are only two characters: He, with his thoughts full of conflicts and contradictions, and loneliness always in silence, mocking your unhappiness, until a new...
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    54,66 €

  • Moral Principles in Education (Esprios Classics)
    John Dewey
    John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. The overriding theme of Dewey’s works was his profound belief in democracy, be it in politics, education, ...
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    17,35 €

  • 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 €

  • A Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Esprios Classics)
    A. Woodward / AWoodward
    'Since the following chapters were prepared for the press, my attention was directed by a friend, to a letter published in a Northern paper, which detailed some shocking things, that the writer had seen and heard in the South; and also some severe strictures on the institution of domestic slavery in the Southern States.I have in the following work, related an anecdote of a youn...
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    21,36 €

  • The Garies and Their Friends (Esprios Classics)
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb
    Francis Johnson Webb (March 21, 1828 - c. 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novel, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the first novel by an Indian-African American to be published, and the first to portray the daily lives of free blacks in the North. As a young man, Frank Webb worked in Philadelphia’s vibrant community...
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    28,97 €

  • Domestic Manners of the Americans (Esprios Classics)
    Fanny Trollope
    Domestic Manners of the Americans is a 2-volume 1832 travel book by Frances Milton Trollope, which follows her travels through America and her residence in Cincinnati, at the time still a frontier town. The text now resides in the public domain. The book created a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, as Frances Trollope had a caustic view of the Americans and found America ...
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    25,91 €

  • Introduction to the Study of History (Esprios Classics)
    Charles V. Langlois / Charles VLanglois
    Charles-Victor Langlois (May 26, 1863, in Rouen - June 25, 1929, in Paris) was a French historian and paleographer, who specialized in the study of the Middle Ages and taught at the Sorbonne, where he taught paleography, bibliography, and the history of the Middle Ages. Langlois attended the École Nationale des Chartes and earned a doctorate in history in 1887. He taught at th...
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    25,96 €

  • Behind Closed Doors Climbing The Corporate Ladder
    Lainey Dex Ryder
    Some will stop at nothing to get to the top. sleeping with the high profile executive is their aim ...
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    29,93 €

  • The Executives Secret Desires
    Lainey Dex Ryder
    High Profile Corporate Executive Rena holds secret desires and she intends to satisfy them. ...
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    29,57 €

  • In Defense of Women (Esprios Classics)
    H. L. Mencken / HLMencken
    Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the 'Monkey Trial,' also gained him attention. As ...
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    21,48 €

  • Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine (Esprios Classics)
    William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown (c. 1814 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 19. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked for abolitionist causes and becam...
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    21,41 €