Catálogo de libros: Cuestiones y procesos sociales

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  • The Last Real Immigrant
    Joe Galliani / Kristen Queenan
    In 'The Last Real Immigrant,' Joseph Galliani paints a vivid and moving portrait of his family’s journey through immigration, Italian-American history, and the lasting impact of his father’s legacy. This powerful book takes readers on a journey through two generations, beginning with his father’s experiences and culminating with Joe’s own life. Through their story, Galliani hig...
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    15,83 €

  • Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South
    Peggy Ann Spitzer
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Reimagining intersectional research, this book addresses the urgent need to develop gender-just solutions that empower those who are experiencing environmental degradation in their communities. ...
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    43,31 €

  • CHINESE WAY, THE
    FABIO MASSIMO PARENTI
    The book aims to communicate to readers in a clear, fluent, and well-documented fashion the new role that China plays in the geography of world power, evaluating its weight, influence, and impact on future developments. China’s ambition and its vision of international affairs can be summed up in Beijing’s desire to 'build a community of common destiny for mankind'. Behind this ...
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    58,23 €

  • Pandemic, Politics, and a Fairer Society in Southeast Asia
    Syaza Shukri
    Employing the Malaysian case as a starting point for examining a wider trend in Southeast Asia, this book delves into how politicians and policymakers navigate political uncertainty and the impact of their decisions on creating and maintaining a fairer society. ...
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    149,74 €

  • Implications of Marginalization and Critical Race Theory on Social Justice
    Harish C. Chandan
    Critical race theory is an emerging transdisciplinary, race-equity methodology that originated in legal studies and is grounded in social justice. Critical race theory questions the very foundation of the liberal order including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism, and neutral principles of the constitutional law. It deals with a broad perspective that ...
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    216,17 €

  • Implications of Marginalization and Critical Race Theory on Social Justice
    Harish C. Chandan
    Critical race theory is an emerging transdisciplinary, race-equity methodology that originated in legal studies and is grounded in social justice. Critical race theory questions the very foundation of the liberal order including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism, and neutral principles of the constitutional law. It deals with a broad perspective that ...
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    282,03 €

  • Confessions of the Accused
    Derrel Moore Jr.
    Confessions of the Accused (COTA) is the gritty autobiographical tale of Derrel Moore Jr., a street kid from Buffalo, NY who ended up serving a life sentence at the age of 16. COTA is a riveting, heart wrenching, and hopeful tale of a kid whose past traumas transformed him into someone he himself did not recognize. It is 'true crime' meets 'coming of age'. COTA paints a vivid p...
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    30,54 €

  • Confessions of the Accused
    Derrel Moore Jr.
    Confessions of the Accused (COTA) is the gritty autobiographical tale of Derrel Moore Jr., a street kid from Buffalo, NY who ended up serving a life sentence at the age of 16. COTA is a riveting, heart wrenching, and hopeful tale of a kid whose past traumas transformed him into someone he himself did not recognize. It is 'true crime' meets 'coming of age'. COTA paints a vivid p...
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    19,92 €

  • Lion’s Roar
    Kenneth Caraballo
    'Lion’s Roar: Unveiling the Majesty of the King of the Jungle' takes readers on an immersive journey into the captivating world of the lion, the iconic King of the Jungle. This enthralling nonfiction book offers a comprehensive understanding of lions by exploring their remarkable characteristics, social dynamics, and ecological significance.Through vivid storytelling and well-r...
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    37,95 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob Riis
    'How the Other Half Lives' by Jacob Riis sheds fascinating light on how our immigrants in the 1800’s lived in New York City. A must-read for Americans whose family has been in the U.S. for only a few generations, this book tells what it was really like in the slums. Whether Irish, Italian, Jewish, Chinese or Polish, German, Russian, hordes of refugees ended up in New York on th...
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    10,28 €

  • Crimson Roses & Purple Irises
    Jonathan Ian Elliott
    'Never tell anyone what goes on in this house.'For young John Elliott Pitts, his mother’s words would forever echo like the hills and valleys amongst which he was raised. And for years, nobody would know about the goings on of his home life-his father’s alcoholism and beatings, his mother’s resilience and resulting explosive temper, months spent as an outsider in his grandmoth...
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    16,29 €

  • The Journey of Josephine
    BAMBI Lynn
    Every year for Christmas my mom would make my sister and myself a special new doll. Some of them were knitted, crochet, and some were made with beads and other materials, But there was nothing that compared to my rag-doll Josephine. She was a special doll to me. I named her after a girl in the 1979 orphan train movie. They called her JP for short. She was an orphan in NYC. A ci...
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    22,69 €

  • The Demb Family Journey - from Mlynov to Baltimore
    Howard I Schwartz
    In this deeply personal investigation, a trained historian unearths the journey of his father’s familyfrom a tiny shtetl in what was western Russia (then Poland and now Ukraine), to the thriving port ofBaltimore. With little knowledge at the start, the author reaches back to the lives of his great-greatgrandparents in the 1860s and traces what became of each of their six childr...
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    43,06 €

  • Breaking The Chains
    Latoya Braswell
    Breaking the Chains: Escaping Abuse, Cults, and Finding True Love’ is a gripping memoir that showcases the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Latoya shares her courageous journey of breaking free from an abusive relationship and escaping the clutches of a manipulative cult church. Latoya’s inspiring story is a testament to the power of resilience, the pursuit of love, ...
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    18,29 €

  • Border abolitionism
    Martina Tazzioli
    This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning. ...
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    145,33 €

  • Globalisation and COVID-19
    Globalisation and COVID-19 examines how the simultaneous immobilisation of billions created a temporary hold on the mobility which constitutes the very irrigation of globalisation. ...
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    169,21 €

  • The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies
    Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, the chapters in this book link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access. They present powerful evidence of how marginalized speakers reclaim their voices and challenge power relations. ...
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    60,21 €

  • Historical and Political Analysis on Power Balances and Deglobalization
    Emily Brynn Stacey
    Historical and Political Analysis on Power Balances and Deglobalization delves deeper into the author’s previous work, Contemporary Politics and Social Movements in an Isolated World, to explore the pressing issues currently faced by the international community. Through an academic lens, this book examines how these issues are reshaping the global order, encompassing supply cha...
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    268,73 €

  • Passport island
    Theodoros Rakopoulos
    This book shows how instead of an isolated case, the Cyprus Papers are a new version of the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers: the global trade in passports is the continuation of offshore financial processes by other means. ...
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    157,23 €

  • Convergence as Adaptivity
    Zhiyuan Wang
    Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence. ...
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    121,94 €

  • Suitcase
    D. N. Chadha
    The memoir of an ordinary man . I am not a rich businessman or famous celebrity but an ordinary man who came to America with only a Suitcase.My story is the story of all Immigrants who came to America with only a suitcase ...and some Extraordinary dreams .You have a desire and goals to succeed in your career ,business and education in order to have a better life for you and you...
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    24,45 €

  • Suitcase
    D. N. Chadha
    The memoir of an ordinary man . I am not a rich businessman or famous celebrity but an ordinary man who came to America with only a Suitcase.My story is the story of all Immigrants who came to America with only a suitcase ...and some Extraordinary dreams .You have a desire and goals to succeed in your career ,business and education in order to have a better life for you and you...
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    42,69 €

  • Mixed Race Life Stories
    Jillian Paragg
    Framing a new theoretical analysis in a field with limited data, Mixed Race Life Stories: The Multiracializing Gaze in Canada builds an understanding of the affective lived experiences of mixed race people, the different ways they are racialized and how that may impact a politics of mixed race moving forward. ...
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    143,20 €

  • Border images, border narratives
    This interdisciplinary volume written by experienced scholars in border studies explores the political role of images and narratives addressing borders, borderscapes and migration. The volume offers new methodologies to approach the political aesthetics of the border and related issues such as borderland identities and border-crossings. ...
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    35,56 €

  • Collective emotions and political violence
    Maéva Clément
    Analysing primary textual, audio and video data, this book argues that Islamist organisations in Germany and the UK perform collective emotions in and through narrative when turning to political violence. The book offers a provocative account departing from conventional interpretations of radicalisation and reminds us of the power of emotions. ...
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    42,85 €

  • Immigrant Physicians
    Ghazi Rayan MD
    Ghazi Rayan, MD delivers this pivotal and immersive history detailing the growth of medical progress and its connection to the movement of people and ideas across borders. From the desk of acclaimed speaker and academic Ghazi Rayan, MD comes a broad and ambitious work of both history and culture.Beginning with the origins of medical practice in ancient history and continuing to...
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    19,47 €

  • Immigrant Physicians
    Ghazi Rayan MD
    Ghazi Rayan, MD delivers this pivotal and immersive history detailing the growth of medical progress and its connection to the movement of people and ideas across borders. From the desk of acclaimed speaker and academic Ghazi Rayan, MD comes a broad and ambitious work of both history and culture.Beginning with the origins of medical practice in ancient history and continuing to...
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    28,41 €

  • Why Women Deserve Better
    Daria Galek / Daria Gałek
    'Why Women Deserve More' is an inspiring book that emphasizes the importance of gender equality and explains why it is not just a matter of justice but also a driving force for a better society. In a accessible manner, the author presents arguments and evidence for why women deserve better conditions and treatment in all aspects of life. Weaving together thorough analysis with ...
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    12,04 €

  • The Sciences of Change
    Ian Clarke
    Question...Have you ever been affected by hatred and want to know the truth? Have you lost something or someone you love prematurely due to disease, disorder or the selfish actions of the dreadful?If so, I wrote this book for youTwo years ago, I sacrificed my 14-year Financial Services career to abide the law and help others. Project Speak Up 2021 garnered me 7 world records fo...
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    80,98 €

  • The Sciences of Change
    Ian Clarke
    Question...Have you ever been affected by hatred and want to know the truth? Have you lost something or someone you love prematurely due to disease, disorder or the selfish actions of the dreadful?If so, I wrote this book for youTwo years ago, I sacrificed my 14-year Financial Services career to abide the law and help others. Project Speak Up 2021 garnered me 7 world records fo...
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    70,88 €


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