Catálogo de libros: Cuestiones y procesos sociales

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  • Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime
    In an age when computer crime is growing at a exponential rate and on a global scale, industry and government leaders are increasingly reliant upon answers from the academic and IT Security fields in order to keep cyber crime in check, and be ahead of the 'cyber criminal curve.' Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications addresses various as...
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    236,22 €

  • It`s Just Your Imagination
    Revital Shiri-Horowtiz / Shira Atik
     Did you always sense something is wrong but could not exactly point out what it is?Were you raised by a manipulative, liar mom who had her main priority set on her?Were you constantly told that “It`s only your imagination?”If the answer is yes, then this is the book you want to read. There is nothing more powerful than a mother’s love.” “Your mother will always love you, no ma...
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    11,03 €

  • Stark Truths
    Gillian P. Herbert
    “These linked stories trace a lesbian’s progress through the slowly changing face of homophobia in our lifetimes. From illegal lives filled with potential violence to the superficial equality that masks lingering prejudice, Gillian Herbert speaks bravely and honestly about one of the great issues of our time and how it impacted one woman’s life. This is a vital record that must...
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    11,45 €

  • On Fragile Wings
    Rose Holland Brown
    This book gives a counselor’s insight into some of the difficulties that young people have in reaching adulthood. The author was a player in high school integration issues in the South from the beginning until the present. Her first experience was in a school where Whites were in the minority, while Blacks and American Indians formed an approximately equal majority. In her subs...
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    23,91 €

  • DeFacto Feminism
    Judy Juanita
    Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna...
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    14,63 €

  • Unveiling the Silent Cries
    Sherry B Moss
    Unveiling the Silent Cries documents the events suffered by Sherry Bevill Moss at the hands of her husband.  Unthinkable abuse plagued Sherry during a nineteen year period while she endured eleven pregnancies, three of which ended in miscarriages.  The book details the types of abuse she suffered.  Sherry thought she alone suffered sexual abuse but discovered differently from o...
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    7,69 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • The Emotionally Resilient Expat - Engage, Adapt and Thrive Across Cultures
    Linda a. Janssen / Linda aJanssen
    Living abroad offers enriching experiences of growth, broadened perspective, enhanced cultural understanding. Yet its transition-rich, change-driven, cross-cultural nature can place considerable demands, leaving us stressed, disconnected, our identity in flux. Building on existing literature and benefitting from recent developments in psychology and brain-body connections, The ...
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    17,78 €

  • No Mercy
    Jaye Cheríe
    No Mercy follows the growing conflict between rich music producer, Byron Mercy, and his troubled, twenty-one year-old daughter, Erica. Their rift has deepened over the years due to her promiscuous behavior and the persistent rumors about her. The family tension reaches a boiling point when Erica becomes pregnant from a man she refuses to identify. Byron finally gives her an ult...
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    11,17 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...
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    37,06 €

  • Domestic Violence in Lebanon
    Maysar Sarieddine
    Lebanese women face discrimination and injustice shaped by their society’s overall values, beliefs, and identities. The purpose of this qualitative critical ethnography was to explore the Lebanese cultural unconscious, including cultural memory and communicative memory; and second, to inspire community transformation and social change to respond to the needs of women who have b...
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    13,09 €

  • Just The Word
    Avron Levine White
    Lifestyle, Cosmopolitan, Poetic Verse, challenging the fundamental elements of key stages in Family and Social Life. Provocative, motivational, analytical insight into sociological, philosophical, and psychological dimensions of individual lifestyle. Just the Word,  is a volume of poems that focuses on highlights of major life-changing events.  Along with the book is an origina...
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    13,98 €

  • Dealing With Bad In-Laws
    Ken McDonald
    Are you having trouble in your home due to “In-Laws”? Do you not know where or how to draw the line? Maybe you thought that families were to get along and you feel troubled about having bad feelings towards them. This study on “Dealing With Bad In-Laws” answers those questions and more. It takes you through the example of Laban, who was Jacob’s father in-law, and shows how to d...
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    7,07 €

  • 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 €

  • Gendered urban violence among Brazilians
    Cathy McIlwaine / Miriam Krenzinger Azambuja / Paul Heritage
    Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London. ...
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    157,19 €

  • Passages
    Michael J. Shapiro / Sam Okoth Opondo
    This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and ’consulate time’. ...
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    170,48 €

  • Thongs or Flip Flops?
    Kath Williams / Tanya Crossman
    There are about one million Australian citizens living outside Australia, including families with children. Some are sent abroad for work - with DFAT, the ADF, NGOs, multinational companies, or missionary organisations. Others take jobs in their fields outside Australia, and still others move to be near family in other parts of the world. Australian kids growing up outside Aust...
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    19,74 €

  • Living across connectivity
    This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migrants, advocating the necessity of understanding how they live their lives both onli...
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    158,45 €

  • Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge
    Developing the concept of disobedient knowledge, this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and borders. Drawing on empirical research in distinct European contexts, the chapters highlight the intertwined nature of racism and bordering, and the role of epistemic disobedience in challenging these. ...
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    157,29 €

  • Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology
    Carolyn Culbertson
    Explores Gadamer’s hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology. ...
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    127,20 €

  • 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 €

  • Disrupting White Mindfulness
    Cathy-Mae Karelse
    Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism. ...
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    29,46 €

  • EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century
    Sue Edney
    Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting. ...
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    35,77 €

  • Rise from the Shadows
    Emma Grace Taylor
    Rise from the Shadows: A Journey to Freedom is a heart-wrenching and inspiring memoir that chronicles the author’s harrowing experiences with domestic violence and her courageous journey to reclaim her life. From a childhood marred by a violent father, the author recounts terrifying nights and the lasting scars left on her psyche. As she grows older, the pattern of abuse contin...
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    10,77 €

  • Icelanders Arrive and Strive - A Manitoba Story
    Robert C. A. Frederickson
    Since the Viking era, Icelandic emigrants have been forging new paths and communities. Icelanders Arrive and Strive - A Manitoba Story shares, through the journey of one family, the story of how Icelandic immigrants settled in Canada and shaped the country’s history.Author Robert C. A. Frederickson connects a personal history-full of memorable characters at momentous moments-to...
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    40,16 €

  • Sanctuary
    Featuring contributions from Jean Shinoda Bolen, James Hollis, Tom Singer, Helen Marlo, Gilda Frantz, John Hill and many more.If you want to get to know someone, listen to their story of home. Intimacy builds as we ask: Where do you come from? What did you leave behind? Where do you feel safe? In Sanctuary, these questions are explored by Jungian analysts, architects and histor...
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    43,80 €

  • Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language
    Fernanda Carra-Salsberg
    This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations. ...
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    135,73 €

  • Chinese Espresso
    Grazia Ting Deng
    Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product—so much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO’s official list of intangible heritages of humanity. The coffe...
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    135,80 €

  • Maze Aflame
    M. L. Stark
    In the second instalment of the tumultuous story, based on actual events, we will experience how Mary’s life will continue to plunge her deeper into the abyss of Dr Bates’ deceit and treachery. The things between Paul and Mary’s once tender marriage turns sour, leaving their innocent children caught in the crossfire. Bates’ malevolent schemes have ensnared Mary as divorce looms...
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    29,34 €

  • The Failure of the Occident
    Laurent Sueur
    In times past, the Occident enlightened the world when confusion reigned; the crepuscular reason of some righteous nations used to restore order, but this lighthouse is diseased: it seems that it is unable to show societies the ways to reality and goodness. Unfortunately, if the Statue of Liberty drowns in the port of New York, there will be no future, for the rest of the world...
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    12,54 €


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