Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y cultura: general

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  • Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture
    Rupa Huq
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    226,18 €

  • Gay Marriage Rights Now a Global Reality
    John Aruna Massaquoi
    This book is a whistle blower to the world that the long uncompromising denial of gay marriage rights is now becoming a global reality. The struggle between gay activists and homophobia against same-sex marriage had almost come to an end with religious groups and politicians losing the battle. This became possible as a result of gay aggressive activists of public pressure, for ...
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    23,18 €

  • The Social Worlds of the Unborn
    D. Lupton
    Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research. ...
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    48,45 €

  • The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
    The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication. In this expanded second edition, editors Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin bring together thirty-two essential readings for students of cross-cultural, intercultural, and international communication. This s...
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    150,26 €

  • Sex trafficking and peacekeeping in post-conflict Bosnia
    Katarina Andrejevic
    On the heels of ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the international community created a free market space in Bosnia known as the Arizona Market. The Arizona Market was an attempt at post-conflict reconstruction via neo-liberal reform, but it gained notoriety for its active trade in sexual services, with UN peacekeepers becoming clients of ’trafficked’ women. This disser...
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    83,56 €

  • Barthes’ Mythologies Today
    Through a revisiting of Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. ...
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    268,33 €

  • Konzepte der Verkörperung. Der Konflikt zwischen der individuellen Entscheidungsfreiheit und gesellschaftlichen Schönheitsidealen
    Rebecca Jones
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Note: 1.3, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Gesellschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Embodiment - Konzepte der Verkörperung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit Frauen bei dem Entschluss für eine Schönheitsoperati...
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    22,81 €

  • The Indian Dream
    Samuelin MarTinez
    How does a mother and son heal from the most horrid human experience, an American Holocaust that everyone is convinced never existed. My mother faced the greatest fears of having to surrender her son to an American campaign to 'Kill the Indian save the child' under the threat of America taking me from her if she did not send me to school. This is the story of how difficult i...
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    18,05 €

  • Handbook of Social Development
    Social development over one’s lifetime is a complex area that has received consider­ able attention in the psychological, social-psychological, and sociological literature over the years. Surprisingl~ however, since 1969, when Rand McNally published Goslin’s Handbook of Socialization, no comprehensive statement of the field has appeared in book form. ...
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    272,05 €

  • Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry
    M. MacLaird
    Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country’s transitions to a democratic political system and a free-market economy. ...
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    134,31 €

  • Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev
    Nataliya Kibita
    Based on extensive original research, including in unpublished archival material, this book examines the reforms, discussing the motivations for them, which included Khrushchev’s attempt to strengthen his own power base, exploring how the process of reform was implemented, especially its impact on the republics, and analysing why the reforms, which were reversed in 1959, failed...
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    254,62 €

  • Brand Journalism
    Andy Bull
    Responding to the newly-emerging trend of organisations hiring journalists to create content on their behalf, Brand Journalism is the first comprehensive, practical guide to this hybrid form of traditional journalism, marketing and public relations. ...
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    91,97 €

  • Die Grüne-Gentechnik-Debatte
    Birgit Freitag
    Am Beispiel der Grünen-Gentechnik-Debatte zeigt Birgit Freitag die Macht der Sprache bei der Wissensherstellung über einen umstrittenen Sachverhalt auf. Sie beschreibt die von den Akteuren verfolgten Strategien, um deren Position im Diskurs durchzusetzen, und verdeutlicht damit, dass nicht nur das Wissen, das ein Akteur über einen umstrittenen Sachverhalt weitergibt, sondern au...
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    78,01 €

  • Governing India’s Northeast
    Samir Kumar Das
    ​This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ’problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violen...
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    60,90 €

  • Little Manila Is in the Heart
    Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
    In the early twentieth century-not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony-Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California’s fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union hall...
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    40,93 €

  • Sociological Souls of Black Folk
    Robert A. Wortham / Robert AWortham / Robert Wortham / W. E. Burghardt Du Bois / WEBurghardt Du Bois
    The Sociological Souls of Black Folk is a collection of sixteen sociological essays published by W.E.B. Du Bois between 1897 and 1902. The first eight essays included in the volume provided the foundation for The Souls of Black Folk, and collectively these sixteen essays showcase the work of one of the pioneering figures in the development of American sociology. ...
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    66,27 €

  • Terror of the Tokoloshe
    S. D. Tucker
    Who, these days, still believes in goblins? Well surprisingly, millions of people do, right the way across the countries of southern Africa, where such creatures are known as tokoloshes. Little known in the West, these entities - hairy little men with gigantic magical penises and the ability to turn themselves invisible through the aid of an enchanted pebble - are a matter of e...
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    21,60 €

  • A History of Infanticide in Britain c. 1600 to the Present
    Anne-Marie Kilday
    This work provides a detailed history of infanticide in mainland Britain from 1600 to the modern era for the very first time. It examines continuity and change in the nature and characteristics of new-born child murder in Scotland, England and Wales over a chronology of more than four centuries. Alongside offering a comparative analysis of the types of individuals suspected of ...
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    156,88 €

  • Frauen in der Politik
    Ina E. Bieber / Ina EBieber
    Ina E. Bieber untersucht die Unterrepräsentation von Frauen in der Politik. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, ob sich Frauen in der Politik nicht beteiligen können, wollen oder sollen. Auf theoretischer und empirischer Grundlage leitet sie ein umfassendes Analyseschema her, anhand dessen die Wahlchancen der Frauen bei Bundestagswahlen im Längs- und Querschnitt und experimentell b...
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    90,66 €

  • Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh
    Pranab Kumar Panday
    This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women’s political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, in Beijing, in which a Platform for Actio...
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    132,88 €

  • Peacebuilding and Aid in Sri Lanka. Consequences of International Intervention in a (Post)Conflict Setting
    Michaela Harfst
    Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1,0, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin AS (Intercultural Conflict Management), course: Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: A broad overview of the 'internationalization' of peacebuilding in Sri Lanka is given in the beginning of this essay. A...
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    22,81 €

  • Surviving the Night
    Douglas Saylor
    A collection of loosely linked short stories that chronicle life, love, and death in the era of AIDS. ...
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    16,21 €

  • Asian Popular Culture
    Anthony Y.H. Fung
    This book examines two seemingly contradictory and yet parallel processes in the circulation of Asian popular culture: the interconnectedness between Asian popular culture and western culture in an era of cultural globalization, and the local derivatives and versions of global culture that are necessarily disconnected from their origins in order to cater for the local market. ...
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    240,79 €

  • The Ultimate Betrayal
    Hope Bohanec
    Drawing on peer-reviewed research, worker and rescuer testimony, and encounters with the farm animals themselves, The Ultimate Betrayal discusses the recent shift in raising and labeling animals processed for food and the misinformation surrounding this new method of farming. This book explores how language manipulates consumers concepts about sustainability, humane treatment, ...
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    15,85 €

  • Theory on the Edge
    Theory on the Edge brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies in order to trace the contemporary development of feminist ...
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    64,89 €

  • Debating Orientalism
    Anna Bernard / David Attwell
    Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book’s impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy. ...
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    47,89 €

  • A Woman’s Ramayana
    Mandakranta Bose / Sarika Bose / Sarika Priyadarshini Bose
    The Rāmāyana, an Indian epic, is one of the world’s best-loved stories. Made available in English for the first time, this version by a female poet from Bengal is very direct, touching, timely, and accessible. The three-part poem is a highly individual rendition of the ancient epic, and instead of celebrating masculine heroism it laments the suffering of women caught in the pla...
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    268,38 €

  • Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era
    Natalya Chernyshova
    After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book analyses the politics and economics of the state’s efforts to improve living standards, and shows how mass consumption was often used as an instrumen...
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    267,88 €

  • Manufacturing Social Distress
    Robert W. Rieber
    Toward the Psychology of Malefaction This is a book about human wickedness. I would like to identify two obstacles in the path that this book seeks to traverse. One obstacle is an inappropriate scientism; the other is an inappropriate moralism. There is a kind of scientism that prevents us from seeing that human beings are responsible for what happens on the planet. It is a vie...
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    48,09 €

  • Popular Culture and New Media
    David Beer
    Popular culture and new media are deeply interwoven, yet they are often thought of as separate spheres. This book explores the material and everyday intersections between popular culture and new media. Using a range of interdisciplinary resources the chapters open up a series of hidden dimensions - including objects and infrastructures, archives, algorithms, data play and the b...
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    65,37 €


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