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  • A Comprehensive Guide to Moving to Moldova
    William Jones
    Embark on a journey of discovery and adventure with 'A Comprehensive Guide to Moving to Moldova' by William Jones. Whether you’re planning a short visit, an extended stay, or a permanent relocation, this comprehensive guide offers everything you need to know to make the most of your time in this beautiful country.From navigating Moldova’s rich history and diverse culture to und...
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    14,57 €

  • The Fatter Sex
    Sacha Jones
    The notion of ’body positivity’ is widely promoted in the modern West as a feminist ideal empowering women to reject the unhealthy pressures of the thin body-beauty standard. But is it really as empowering as it sounds?In The Fatter Sex, former ballerina Sacha Jones brings a fresh perspective to this contentious issue by highlighting the extra weight and body confidence challen...
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    23,39 €

  • Exploring CQ
    Wilbur Sargunaraj
    Embark on a transformative journey to develop your cultural intelligence and build meaningful relationships with people from different cultures. In Exploring CQ, Cultural Intelligence Facilitator Wilbur Sargunaraj uses insightful and humorous stories from his travels to explore cultural values, cultural clusters, and the subtleties of unconscious bias. This book is an invitatio...
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    17,64 €

  • Reclaiming Time
    Tanya Ann Kennedy
    Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation. ...
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    44,64 €

  • The fraud of feminism
    Ernest Belfort Bax
    By Modern Feminism I understand a certain attitude of mind towards the female sex. This attitude of mind is often self-contradictory and illogical. While on the one hand it will claim, on the ground of the intellectual and moral equality of women with men, the concession of female suffrage, and commonly, in addition thereto, the admission of women to all professions,offices and...
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    11,65 €

  • Hopelessly Alien
    Louis Corsino
    An in-depth sociological investigation of 'hope' as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950. ...
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    127,28 €

  • Mental Health Resilience
    Abigail Gosselin
    Examines the forms of support, resources, and opportunities a person with mental illness requires to have the resilience needed for mental health recovery. ...
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    126,92 €

  • Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
    Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women. ...
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    169,60 €

  • Tent City, Seattle
    Tony Sparks
    Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments in the city, a type of community that has become more common throughout the West Coast and the United States in the interveni...
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    135,10 €

  • A Parade of Grief
    Robert Fraga
    Fraga '... traces America’s history ... from the days of Bleeding Kansas to the long tradition of political assassination; exploring the ways that American gun culture has become more radical over time. Related issues of racism; police violence; mental health; and suicide are discussed; as are the numerous ways that efforts to legislate gun control have been stymied at all leve...
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    29,12 €

  • Living in Freedom!
    Nery Barnet Kircher
    This book chronicles the journey of an immigrant family as they escape the stifling grip of the Communist regime in Cuba and embark on a quest for freedom in the land of liberty. It depicts their navigation through the vast terrain of American culture and customs, as well as their experience of sharing these insights with their immigrant students through the teaching profession...
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    21,85 €

  • Prisoners of Poverty Abroad
    Helen Campbell
     The studies which follow, the result of fifteen months’ observation abroad, deal directly with the workers in all trades open to women, though, from causes explained in the opening chapter, less from the side of actual figures than the preceding volume, the material for which was gathered in New York. But as months have gone on, it has become plain that many minds are also at ...
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    13,36 €

  • Canada’s Legacy
    Valerie Anderson
    Canada’s Legacy offers a compelling exploration of the entrenched reality of racism in Canada through the lens of Valerie Anderson. Drawing from her own experiences with racism and discrimination, as well as those of other visible minority groups, Anderson unveils a poignant narrative that delves into the complexities of systemic prejudice and its enduring impact.Through meticu...
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    19,40 €

  • How to Move to Lithuania
    William Jones
    Embark on your expatriate journey with confidence! 'How to Move to Lithuania: A Comprehensive Guide' is your essential companion for navigating the process of relocating to this beautiful Baltic nation. Written by expatriate expert William Jones, this comprehensive guide offers practical advice, insider tips, and valuable insights to help you make a smooth transition to life in...
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    14,55 €

  • Raising Nathan Against All Odds
    Christine E. Staple Ebanks
    CHRISTINE STAPLE EBANKS DEMONSTRATES A POSITIVELY EXCEPTIONAL 'MISSIONARY ZEAL' IN FOSTERING SUPPORT FOR THE HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES.Raising Nathan: Discovering the Blessings, Joy, and Purpose in Raising a Child with Disabilities is a poignant testament to the power of faith, hope, and family bonds in the face of daunting adversity. Given he...
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    18,74 €

  • NOT GOING AWAY!
    DEE KEARNEY
    Description:This hard hitting but humorous Amazon No 1 Best selling novel will make you smile and then break your heart. Its foundation in truth, makes it more compelling a read and offers a glimpse into the lives of ordinary women facing extraordinary hardship. Set against the backdrop of the women’s pension scandal, which unfairly impacted millions of 1950s-born women in the...
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    14,22 €

  • Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation
    Caitlin Mollica
    Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders. ...
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    126,81 €

  • The Wish List
    Dominika Caddick
    Lucy Blackbird is thrown into a world of mystery and secrets when she discovers the unusual inheritance left to her by her late mother - Maya. Embarking on a journey to unravel the mysteries left behind, Lucy finds herself in unfamiliar territory as she must convince an uncooperative recluse, John Harris, to keep the promise he made to her mother.As secrets of Maya’s past come ...
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    11,45 €

  • Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
    Ipek Demir
    This book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as ’the global south in the global north’, as well as providing a case study of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe. ...
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    36,06 €

  • Intimacy and injury
    Intimacy and injury offers an original perspective on the #MeToo movement from South Africa and India. It overturns the dominance of western debates on #MeToo by foregrounding diverse southern feminist takes on the possibilities and limits of this movement in the global south. ...
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    43,73 €

  • Africa at Crossroads
    Welsh journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley described Africa as the Dark Continent on account of its mysterious interiors, native traditions that defied understanding by western minds and mostly imagined savagery that explorers expected to encounter. This picture of Africa was despite hundreds of years of mapping and documenting of the continent by colonial powers that a...
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    66,16 €

  • Navigating the United States of America
    Betty Olela
    Every year, millions of new immigrants step out in faith and leave their home countries to migrate to the United States of America. Though it is both exciting and daunting, a large percentage of those immigrants have nothing or no one to prepare them for the hardships of living the American Dream.In Navigating the United States of America, Betty Olela outlines key steps to take...
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    8,77 €

  • The Political Brain
    Matt Qvortrup
    We have politics on our mind-or, rather, we have politics in different parts of our brains. In this path-breaking study, Matt Qvortrup takes the reader on a whistle stop tour through the fascinating, and sometimes frightening, world of neuropolitics; the discipline that combines neuroscience and politics, and is even being used to win elections.Putting the ’science’ back into p...
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    28,26 €

  • Metamorphustice
    Megan Fuciarelli
    In Metamorphustice™: From Savior to CHANGEmaker, readers are guided through the foundational principles of social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion work before being prompted to explore their own stage within the transformation of justice. In this engaging read, Megan discusses the trajectory of social justice reform and empowers readers to drive meaningful change throu...
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    17,23 €

  • Many Rivers to Cross
    Elaine P. Rocha
    Since the first contact with Europeans, the Americas have been a continent of immigrants as much as a continent of continuous migrations. Black migrations represent more than the transit of people between countries and regions and from rural areas to urban centers. It contributed to constructing networks that made survival possible, creating neighborhoods and cultural expressio...
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    54,37 €

  • Revisiting Diaspora Spaces in India
    Joydev Maity
    This edited volume is a detailed and critical study of Indian diaspora writings and its diverse themes. It focuses on dynamics and contemporary perspectives of Indian diaspora writings and analyzes emerging themes of this field like the experience of the Bihari diaspora, migration to Gulf countries, the relation between diasporic experience and self-translation, uprootedness an...
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    48,22 €

  • How the other half lives
    How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility. ...
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    35,73 €

  • USCIS Writing Vocabulary for the Naturalization Test - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
    U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Serv / USCIS
    The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has produced new reading Vocabulary Flash Cards to help immigrants study for the English reading portion of the naturalization test. These flash cards contain all the words found in the English reading portion of the naturalization test. The flash cards can be used in the classroom as an instructional tool for citizenship pr...
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    10,06 €

  • Political Bodies
    The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero. ...
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    126,71 €

  • Gendered Infrastructures
    Yaffa Truelove
    Brings together feminist and geographical approaches to the gendered dimensions of various types of infrastructure across the globe. The first book to take a feminist geographical approach to infrastructure, Gendered Infrastructures delves into the complex relationships between identity, social relations, and infrastructure. By drawing on feminist scholarship to enable new fra...
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    40,18 €


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