Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y cultura: general

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  • 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof
    J. A. Rogers / JARogers
    2013 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Joel Augustus Rogers (1880-1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States. His research spanned the academi...
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    7,17 €

  • An American Primer
    Walt Whitman
    This rare text comprises the 83 of the most important documents in American’s past, presented here with interesting commentaries by such esteemed historians as Arthur Schlesinger and Henry Steele Commager. A book elected for its prolific historical and educational value, this text is an immensely important piece of literature that will appeal to those with an interest in the p...
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    13,77 €

  • The First Black United States Marines
    Ronald K. Culp
    On June 1, 1942, the United States Marine Corps broke a 144-year tradition and enlisted the first black Marines. Three months later, more than 400 black volunteers began their training as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a Marine camp of over five square miles located within Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Informed by personal interviews, th...
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    51,49 €

  • Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes
    This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected (or undermined) by current processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamental questions concerning the viability of a socially and politically effective public sphere in a post-Westphalian world. To what degree are the theo...
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    144,76 €

  • Multilateral Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Order
    Given the current environment, there is a compelling need to undergo a broad-ranging analysis on the future of multilateral development cooperation. The time has come to critically examine the effectiveness of international development assistance channelled through multilateral organizations, emphasizing what works and what needs to change in the context of an evolving global o...
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    64,65 €

  • Literature of an Independent England
    Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation. ...
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    47,96 €

  • Negotiating with North Korea
    Leszek Buszynski
    The North Korean nuclear threat has created an enormous amount of apprehension in the international community in recent years. In 2003, the Six Party Talks brought together the US, China, Russia, Japan as well as South and North Korea to negotiate a multilateral resolution of this nuclear issue. This book examines this multilateral attempt, and will look at the Six Party Talks ...
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    281,68 €

  • The Sociology of Urban Living
    Harold E. Nottridge
    The urban setting in which people live has an important influence upon the organization and planning of their social lives. H. E. Nottridge here presents a valuable introduction to the field of urban sociology, showing that it is a theoretical discipline which is worthy of consideration in its own right.Throughout his account Mr Nottridge places strong emphasis on the need for ...
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    79,23 €

  • The African City
    Anthony O’Connor
    This book explores various characteristics of tropical African cities, with special reference to change in the post-independence period. It stresses the diversity of urban forms and urban experience to be found within the region, distinguishing the more general features from those peculiar to individual cities. Much has been written about urban Africa, but nearly all relates to...
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    78,11 €

  • Inner City Poverty in Paris and London
    Charles Madge / Peter Willmott
    Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles, but just outside their centres are neighbourhoods where ordinairy people have their homes, often living in poverty and sometimes in squalor. Two such neighbourhoods were Stockwell in London and Folie-Mericourt...
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    79,14 €

  • Applied Urban Analysis
    Ian Cullen
    Much of the theoretical literature in planning and human geography at present is materialist in perspective. This offers a powerful critique but locates the dynamics of urban systems too specifically in just one basic social relationship. It fails to provide an intellectual base broad enough for constructive, detailed urban analysis, partly because it fails to do justice to the...
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    35,43 €

  • Nage Birds
    Gregory Forth
    This unusual and richly-illustrated book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. Based on fieldwork carried out over a period of some fifteen years, it aims for a total view of how a human community interacts with another zoological class, giving birds a chosen place in human ideas and social pra...
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    56,97 €

  • The Life or Legend of Gaudama the Buddha of the Burmese
    P. Bigandet
    This is Volume V in a series of sixteen on Buddhism. Originally published in 1912, this study is the second part of a look at the life or legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese, with annotations and the ways of the Neibban and notice on the Phogyies or Burmese Monks. ...
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    78,25 €

  • The Shahnama of Firdausi
    Arthur George Warner / Edmond Warner
    This is Volume IX of thirteen the Oriental series looking at Persia. The Sháhnáma of Firdausi Vol VI, includes the genealogical table of the Sasanians, the conclusion of the Kaianian dynasty, the Eaianian dynasty, the Ashkanian dynasty and the Sasanian dynasty, concluding iwth Yazdagird, son of Shapur. ...
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    51,89 €

  • Torture Porn
    Steve Jones
    Lambasted by critics as a sign of censorial failure and even social decline, the horror subgenre known as ’torture porn’ has generated a great deal of controversy during the last decade. Although torture porn films such as Saw, Hostel and The Human Centipede were highly successful and have become cultural touchstones, the term ’torture porn’ remains synonymous with misogyny, ob...
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    157,39 €

  • Mobilität und Identität
    Maik Hömke
    ​​Ein deutlicher gesellschaftlicher Wandel vollzieht sich in den letzten Jahren in der zunehmenden Mobilität der Menschen. Hat man sich von der Vorstellung eines Wohn- und Arbeitsortes in unmittelbarer Nähe bereits seit längerem verabschiedet, so werden die Distanzen immer größer. Tägliche Pendelzeiten von über einer Stunde pro Fahrt sind keine Seltenheit mehr. Trotz der ständi...
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    60,93 €

  • Race to Acceptance
    Denise O'Connor / Denise O’Connor
    This story tells of the author’s experience as a teaching volunteer in Ghana, Africa, and how this experience affected her as a person and her outlook on relationships between black and white people. It looks at the education system in Africa, the process of setting up an NGO, and difficulties in adapting to a new culture. It takes us on a romantic journey where the author must...
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    35,48 €

  • Race to Acceptance
    Denise O'Connor / Denise O’Connor
    This story tells of the author’s experience as a teaching volunteer in Ghana, Africa, and how this experience affected her as a person and her outlook on relationships between black and white people. It looks at the education system in Africa, the process of setting up an NGO, and difficulties in adapting to a new culture. It takes us on a romantic journey where the author must...
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    21,50 €

  • Ecofeminism and Systems Thinking
    Anne Stephens
    This work combines the epistemologies of cultural eco-feminism and critical systems thinking to explore issues of project management, community development, gender studies, and ecological sustainability, and provide accounts of marginalised stakeholder groups in community development and project management. It shows, through several case studies, that when the principles of fem...
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    268,44 €

  • Transmedia Television
    Elizabeth Evans
    Transmedia Television uses empirical audience research to explore attitudes towards the dramatic changes that television has undergone since the turn of the twenty-first century due to the development of digital technologies. It asks to what extent audiences are embracing these changes and what ’television’ means in a multiplatform media landscape. ...
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    84,15 €

  • Music, Social Media and Global Mobility
    Ole J. Mjos / Ole J. Mjos
    This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through a unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ engagement with social media such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The book suggests that the nature of this activity alters aspects of our practical and theoretical understanding of the processes of media globalizatio...
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    84,29 €

  • The Adaptation Industry
    Simone Murray
    Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely unexamined crucial questions of how adaptations com...
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    83,91 €

  • Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet
    Olga Goriunova
    In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. In order to understand these processes, the author introduces the concept of the art platform, a specific configuration of creative passions, codes, events, individuals and works that are propelled by cultural currents and maintained through digitally native means. Goriunova provid...
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    84,36 €

  • Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
    Irit Dekel
    Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin offers a novel approach to the memorial and its study through the focus on performances. Based on extensive ethnographic research, and drawing on dramaturgic theory, memory studies and theories of the public sphere, the book offers a fresh theorization of memorial experience by analyzing interaction between guides, memorial workers ...
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    65,32 €

  • Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875. Part Six
    David Dobson
    The sixth installment in David Dobson’s 'Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875' endeavors to identify, in the absence of official Scottish passenger lists to North America, as many as possible of the Scottish men, women, and children who took part in this great migration. Containing about 1,500 sketches not found in the prior books, Part Six brings the total number of passenge...
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    28,17 €

  • Immigrant Children
    This edited book focuses on immigrant and refugee children around the world and will provide readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach of how researchers, practitioners, and social policymakers can examine immigrant children and youth among ethnic minority families. Also, the chapters will focus on the various methodological advances used to explicitly investigate i...
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    69,00 €

  • Social Media
    Ralf Leinemann
    Die Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen Unternehmen bieten eine fundierte Darstellung zum Einfluss sozialer Medien (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing, etc) auf die Kommunikation und Aussendarstellung von Unternehmen sowie auf interne Prozesse. Die Autoren erläutern zunächst den Einfluss auf interne und externe Kommunikation, die Kommunikationsqualität in sozialen Medien und die Chan...
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    78,02 €

  • Mobile Learning
    Mobile Learning - das Lernen mithilfe von kleinen drahtlosen Geräten wie Smartphones - etabliert sich als Möglichkeit, selbstgesteuerte Lernprozesse in tägliche Arbeitsabläufe einzubinden, ortsunabhängig Zugang zu Informationen, sozialen Netzwerken oder Lern- und Arbeitswerkzeugen zu haben bzw. auf kleine Lerneinheiten für einen situativen Abruf zugreifen zu können. Unternehm...
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    48,05 €

  • Irish Masculinity on Screen
    Joseph Paul Moser
    Examining images of gender and violence, this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema--Ford, Sheridan and Greengrass--whose careers, taken together, span the period from 1939 to the present. These three explore fundamental questions about identity, patriarchy and violence within Irish and Irish-American contexts, and in the process upset...
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    42,90 €

  • What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?
    J. Yates / R. Burt
    What’s the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don’t read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark here on a project of un/reading the Bard, through both reverent and irreverent discourse. Addressing recent critical d ...
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    66,82 €