Catálogo de libros: Cuestiones y procesos sociales

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  • First World Hunger Revisited
    First World Hunger Revisited exposes the hidden functions and limits of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as primary responses to widespread domestic hunger and income poverty in twelve rich ’food-secure’ societies and emerging economies: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the UK and the USA. Who win...
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    132,64 €

  • Rethinking School Bullying
    Ronald B. Jacobson
    This book takes a new angle on a much-studied phenomenon, focusing on the role of domination and identity construction, understanding and self-knowledge, moral transformation and the social community, systems of training and hierarchy used by schooling, and the role they play in bullying. Exploring typical narratives of value within schooling (i.e., who counts and who doesn’t?)...
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    92,50 €

  • The Remaking of Social Contracts
    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human rights. In The Remaking of Social Contracts, leading thinkers and activists address a wide range of concerns - global economic governance, militarism, ecological tipping points, the nation state, movement-building, sexuality and repr...
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    140,83 €

  • The European Union in Global Security
    Roy H. Professor Ginsberg / Susan E. Penksa
    Does the EU matter in international security? How can the deployment of EU crisis management operations to different regions of the world be explained? What have been their effects on the EU and its member states, on host states and societies, and on other international security providers? The authors identify and explain the drivers of and brakes to EU foreign security action ...
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    66,12 €

  • Regimes of Social Cohesion
    Andy Green / Jan Germen Dr Janmaat
    Building on Green and Janmaat’s previous work on education, equality and social cohesion, this book, now in paperback, analyses the various mechanisms that hold different societies together and how these are withstanding the strains of the current economic crisis. In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, drawing on evidence from historical sociology,...
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    66,42 €

  • Philosophy of Pornography
    Even as it skirts mainstream contemporary culture, pornography remains a social taboo; there still exist strong biases both in favor and against it. With chapters addressing imagination, gender, power relationships, truth claims, aesthetics, and both pro and anti-porn slants, this book presents a balanced view of pornography in modern society. ...
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    121,96 €

  • This Far By Faith
    Faith Fowler
    Through reports nationwide, including the Wall Street Journal and TV news, Americans are discovering Faith Fowler's ideas for transforming lives in Detroit. Known for her deep faith and creative ideas, Faith serves as one of the city's leading pastors and as a nonprofit entrepreneur. As a co-founder of a wide array of Cass startups, Faith and her Cass community are turn...
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    25,20 €

  • People of the Scottish Burghs
    David Dobson
    The town of Montrose in the 17th and 18th centuries was a major Scottish port and market town. Typically, each of the roughly 2,000 entries in this volume identifies a Montrose inhabitant by name, occupation, date and source, and oftentimes by one or more of the following attributes: name(s) of family member(s), places visited, university attended, and ships traveled upon. ...
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    19,02 €

  • Sleeping Dogs
    Ruby McPhail
    This book is not for the faint at heart, nor for the ordinary reader. It serves a purpose for those in the field of social work, police work, psychology and certainly for women’s shelters and departments of Child & Family Services.I came to an unexpected point in my life when I found the love of a very sweet man, which caused memories to come back and haunt me. In order to le...
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    20,45 €

  • Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience
    In a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering as a result of natural hazards, local level disaster risk reduction efforts are of increasing importance. With reference to examples in the Philippines, this book analyses a local disaster risk resilience approach and suggests an effective model for enhancing such efforts in the future. ...
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    246,14 €

  • Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India
    Barbara A. Sims / Ravi Sodhi / Sudershan Goel
    Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India is a comparative study of the domestic violence laws in India and the United States, seeking to illuminate the critical issues of intimate partner violence through the lenses of these two societies. Sims, Goel, and Sodhi believe society at large and systems of justice define and address domestic violence, and that both play ...
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    65,93 €

  • From Globalization to World Society
    Since the 1970s, various approaches have tried to conceptualize 'the global,' yet few have addressed the full spectrum of social relationships. Exponents of the global approach have instead focused on particular domains such as politics or the economy. Under the label of 'world society,' some have suggested alternatives to the predominant equivocation of society and the nation-...
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    254,05 €

  • Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1783. Consolidated Edition (Consolidated)
    Peter Wilson Coldham
    Originally published between 1995 and 1996 the five volumes of 'Settlers of Maryland' had a profound impact on colonial Maryland genealogy. Starting at the point where Gust Skordas’s famous 'Early Settlers of Maryland, 1633-1680' left off, it identified all grants of land in Maryland made by purchase, a process involving the drafting of three distinct documents--warrants, certi...
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    89,13 €

  • Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666
    Nell Marion Nugent
    This is one of the most outstanding records of early emigrants to Virginia. It records under the name of the patentee or grantee, the earliest Virginia land grants and patents from 1623 to 1666, giving the number of acres, locations and dates of settlement, and names of family members, and it further provides references to marriages, wills, and other legal instruments. It also ...
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    83,74 €

  • Globalization and Borders
    Leanne Weber / Sharon Pickering
    Winner of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Christine M Alder Book Prize 2013Controlling border crossing has become an urgent concern under conditions of globalization, leading Western governments to introduce increasingly coercive control measures. Far from eradicating spontaneous border crossing, this defensive geography has fuelled illicit people-smugglin...
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    66,42 €

  • Getting Real about Alzheimers
    Kassandra King
    Getting REAL About Alzheimer's proposes a shift away from the negative beliefs that contribute to a downward spiral of dementia. A shift is possible, and you can see when it happens. The difference is huge! 'Getting REAL' is a reference to Rementia through Engagement, Assistance, and Love. As a guide for family and friends of persons with Alzheimer's as well as for professional...
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    11,09 €

  • Belonging in Oceania
    'I am impressed by the direction and content of this book. It offers a timely engagement with the important social science concepts of movement, place-making, and multiple-identifications. But whereas in other recent studies these notions have usually been theorized and empiricised as isolates, here they are triangulated in an intellectually original and productive way.' · T...
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    184,35 €

  • Wild Words from Wild Women
    Autumn Stephens
    Words of Wisdom from Wild WomenIn Wild Words from Wild Women, author and feminist August Stephens compiles words of wisdom from much loved famous feminists. Hilarious, inspiring, and empowering, this pocket book of quotes is the perfect gift for all the nasty women with something to say.Some tongues just can’t be tamed. This ribald compilation of powerful women quotes everythin...
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    12,80 €

  • Getting Saved in America
    Carolyn Chen
    What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity after immigrating. But Americanization is more than simply a process of Christianization. Most Taiwanese American Buddhis...
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    37,72 €

  • Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs
    Peer Smets
    Contemporary urban and suburban dwellers seem to be constantly on the move - commuting to work and travelling for leisure as well as moving homes. Does this mean that people are rootless and lack a sense of belonging to particular places, and especially to the neighbourhoods in which they live? Or does enhanced mobility co-exist with feelings of community, belonging and being-a...
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    65,03 €

  • Little Vast Rooms of Undoing
    Blumenthal / Dara Blumenthal
    Little Vast Rooms of Undoing explores the relationship between identity and embodiment in public toilet spaces. ...
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    61,30 €

  • Imperial Subjects
    Colin Mooers
    This highly original work posits that the changes in the nature of citizenship caused by neoliberal globalization must be understood as the result of an ongoing imperial project.Although they may seem admirable, policies such as humanitarian and citizenship rights are really an imperial venture led by global institutions and corporations in order to export capitalist market for...
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    193,88 €

  • Reporting at the Southern Borders
    This interdisciplinary, international volume fills a major gap in political science and communication literature on the role of news media in public debates over immigration by providing unique insider’s perspectives on journalistic practices and bringing them into dialogue with scholars and immigrant rights practitioners. The contributors’ comparative reflections on the profes...
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    35,05 €

  • Passaic
    Daniel Künstler
    The plight of Hemnauth Mohabir, a Guyanese immigrant caught in the clutches of the U.S. deportation system, is an exemplary instance of the hardship inflicted upon many thousands by our laws and misuse of our prison apparatus. The chronicle of Hemnauth's immigrant experience dominates Passaic: The True Story of One Man's Journey Through American Immigration, Detention and Depor...
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    14,07 €

  • Willful Subjects
    Sara Ahmed
    In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed ligh...
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    36,45 €

  • Social Justice through Citizenship?
    Aleksandra Lewicki
    The accommodation of Islam in European societies has received a great deal of negative publicity, especially since Al-Qaeda terrorism became increasingly perceived as a ’home grown’ issue in Europe. In addition to heightened surveillance and policing, European governments implemented novel ’integration measures’ focusing on Muslim communities. This book is concerned with the di...
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    65,16 €

  • Best Interests of the Children
    M. a. Robert and Miriam Fertig / MaRobert and Miriam Fertig
    What should professionals?judges, lawyers, teachers, social workers, and Guardian ad Litem or CASA volunteers ?consider in pursuing the Best Interest of Children who have been abandoned, neglected or abused? How can Department of Children and Families improve their systems? Best Interests of the Children explains that the ethical principles of Beneficence and Non-Maleficence ex...
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    15,89 €

  • Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England
    Sarah Apetrei
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    54,01 €

  • Hints on Self-Help
    Jessie Boucherett
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    46,11 €

  • The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship
    Examining popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media. Shaping a critical discussion of ...
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    64,97 €


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