Catálogo de libros: Cuestiones y procesos sociales

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  • Homeless
    Marcia A. Murphy
    This book addresses the tragic suffering of the homeless. When we can get to the root causes of homelessness, identify them, and address them, this is helpful in assisting those who are unhoused. By sharing the story of one extraordinary individual, the author illustrates how many factors are involved in a person’s past that are interrelated and which influence each other’s out...
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    12,10 €

  • Homeless
    Marcia A. Murphy
    This book addresses the tragic suffering of the homeless. When we can get to the root causes of homelessness, identify them, and address them, this is helpful in assisting those who are unhoused. By sharing the story of one extraordinary individual, the author illustrates how many factors are involved in a person’s past that are interrelated and which influence each other’s out...
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    25,05 €

  • Las Crosses
    Apple An
    If you crave stories of resilient people who follow their heads, hearts, and dreams, and if you like light-hearted humor and fast-paced page-turners, then you’ll love Apple An’s inspirational account.Fleeing the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 and fueled by a burning desire for a better life, Apple embarks on a daring journey to pursue her doctoral education...
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    23,05 €

  • Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders
    Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy. ...
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    68,92 €

  • Maggie
    Dr. Lynn Phillips
    A Heartbreaking Odyssey through America’s Darkest Hours: The Tragedy of Maggie UnveiledIn the annals of American history, there exists a chapter so harrowing it reverberates through time - the era of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Eugenic movement. Maggie: Trapped in The School for the Feeble Minded meticulously unravels this dark period through the eyes of Maggie...
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    17,75 €

  • Medicalising borders
    Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power techniques that originate in European modernity. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Bounty Layer People
    Viggo Hansen
    America became a super nation largely because of its immigrants and education. Their offspring - Bounty Layer People - are the fortunate recipients. This book tells the story of one such person whose parents came from Denmark and began as sod busters in Montana, moving on to the Midwest. He later became a soldier, teacher and author. His concerns are America’s public education ...
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    20,21 €

  • Vietnam’s Modern Day Boat People
    Shira Sebban
    In 2016, a newspaper published an article about four childrendue to be sent to an orphanage after their parents were punished for attempting to flee Vietnam. Among 46 asylum seekers trying to reach Australia by boat, they were intercepted by the Australian navy and returned to Vietnam, where intense retribution awaited. This newspaper article sparked a unifying response in p...
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    58,59 €

  • My Life Let Me be Free from Abuse
    Tracey Taylor
    This book is about domestic violence. Abuse in any form is wrong, but when so many people are speaking their opinions who do you listen to? My motto was; ’there’s no one out there to help me, so I found the strength to help myself’. I wrote this book from the heart as I, myself, have suffered abuse from childhood to adulthood. A cycle of abuse for 38 years. One day I found the ...
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    12,75 €

  • Hacking the Underground
    Raquel Velho
    Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures'Minding the gap' while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time. The extensive infrastructure of London’s public tr...
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    38,42 €

  • Hacking the Underground
    Raquel Velho
    Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures'Minding the gap' while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time. The extensive infrastructure of London’s public tr...
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    135,05 €

  • ’dis-ease’
    RN Richard Morris Evans
    A Remarkable Journey of Overcoming Racism, Bigotry, and Multiple Sclerosis.In ’dis-ease’, Richard Morris Evans, RN, shares his powerful and inspiring memoir of triumph against all odds. Born into a turbulent era of desegregation just over the river from Washington DC, Rick’s life was overshadowed by the presence of his racist, bigoted, and abusive police officer father-a form...
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    31,55 €

  • ’dis-ease’
    RN Richard Morris Evans
    A Remarkable Journey of Overcoming Racism, Bigotry, and Multiple Sclerosis.In ’dis-ease’, Richard Morris Evans, RN, shares his powerful and inspiring memoir of triumph against all odds. Born into a turbulent era of desegregation just over the river from Washington DC, Rick’s life was overshadowed by the presence of his racist, bigoted, and abusive police officer father-a form...
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    23,76 €

  • Yalla Feminists
    Lina AbiRafeh / Rebecca O’Keeffe
    The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women’s rights. Equality remains elusive for women and vulnerable groups in the region due to traditional patriarchal cultures, protracted crises, lack of religious freedom, discriminatory legal frameworks, and chronic insecurity. The strongest indicator of peace in any country is in ...
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    95,38 €

  • Effects & Affects of Gun-Related Trauma
    Sky Starr
    'There are many topics and issues around gun violence that must be addressed. There are few individuals with the depth and understanding, coupled with first-hand experience, who can do so. Rev. Sky Starr, in her second book series, Therapeutic Prescriptions for Fractured Communities, provides practical solutions for victims of gun violence. This must be in the hands of policy m...
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    18,51 €

  • REVEALED
    Tamara Lucas Copeland
    From the perspective of a Black woman, Copeland reveals lessons about history, the invisibility of racism, and the insidiousness of prejudice and bias, all in just a weekly five-minute read. Revealed is a resource for those committed to better understanding racism, prejudice, and bias. This tool will aid those who have been through racial equity training and want to continue th...
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    12,77 €

  • Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families
    Sarah Cox
    This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual approach, which combines translanguaging principles, decolonising methodology and linguistic hospitality, provides a more accessible starting point than current monolingual pedagogies. ...
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    48,00 €

  • Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families
    Sarah Cox
    This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual approach, which combines translanguaging principles, decolonising methodology and linguistic hospitality, provides a more accessible starting point than current monolingual pedagogies. ...
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    169,60 €

  • Sound-Blind
    Alex Benson
    In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from 'sound-blindness.' The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of litera...
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    126,98 €

  • Sound-Blind
    Alex Benson
    In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from 'sound-blindness.' The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of litera...
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    44,66 €

  • Pathways to Hope and Healing
    LPCC-S M.A. McCarty
    The content of this book is a training program developed to not only bring hope and healing to survivors of abuse and trauma but for training others to use this systematic approach to healing. This workbook has been developed for survivors of abuse and trauma of all kinds. Most survivors of abuse are silenced either by their abuser or by their shame and guilt­­. This shame and ...
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    21,07 €

  • Domestic Detention
    Rodney Pemberton
    In this gripping true story, after his mother’s telephone numbers and addresses kept constantly changing before she suddenly disappeared, her son was convince that there was more to the story, and took it upon himself to leave St. Vincent and the Grenadines and journey to the United States in search of her, and found her paralyzed from below her waist, trapped in a home with he...
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    27,66 €

  • PARADIGMS POWERING CHINA’S RISE
    BELAL EHSAN BAAQUIE
    The primary aim of this book is to understand the ground-breaking paradigms and policies that have powered China’s remarkable rise: from an agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse and a leading nation - and that too in a span of merely forty years from 1979 to 2019. The book covers the rise of China up to 2019 and is divided into five parts. The first part takes a stra...
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    93,68 €

  • The Sabotage
    GEW Reports & Analyses Team.
    'The Sabotage' comprehensively examines the geopolitical competition between China and the United States. It focuses on these powers’ strategic initiatives and manoeuvres to assert their global influence.Introduction: The book outlines the intensifying global competition, with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a focal point. This monumental project, envisioned by Chines...
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    31,73 €

  • Homeless Prevention - Evidence-Based Interventions and Strategies
    Carolyn Flowers / Cornel Stemley
    'Explore ’Unveiling the Unseen: A Novel Approach to Homelessness’ on Lulu Book Publishing and major bookstores worldwide. Authored by Dr. Cornel D. Stemley, this self-published work provides fresh insights into homelessness, analyzing Homeless Outreach Team perspectives. From historical roots to effective solutions, this book offers a compelling narrative. ...
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    24,50 €

  • The Dedollarization Paradigm
    Jarrel E.
    The Dedollarisation Paradigm: Rethinking Global Financial SystemsIn an age of profound economic transformation, the world is witnessing a fundamental shift away from the once unassailable dominance of the United States dollar (USD) in global finance. The pages of history are being rewritten as nations, economies, and financial institutions grapple with the challenges and opport...
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    8,74 €

  • African Womanhood and the Feminist Agenda
    Within academic circles, there is a longstanding issue concerning the portrayal and understanding of African womanhood. Frequently, these narratives are crafted by outsiders, predominantly Western scholars, often distorting the lived experiences and unique perspectives of African women. This has led to a skewed and sometimes negative perception of African women, reinforcing ste...
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    301,50 €

  • African Migration
    Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo / Victor Ojakorotu
    The issue of African migration since the Covid-19 pandemic depended on novel influences and determinants. The chapters in this edited volume evaluate recent variables that instigated the migration of Africans and assess implications for Africans, Africans in diaspora, and their global reverberations. The volume unites well-researched and theoretically informed empirical studies...
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    199,73 €

  • Ashes to Dust
    Melody Star
    What adventures and stories would your dehydrated mind create? This is a true story about how shrimp led Ash down a metaphoric rabbit hole when food poisoning deprived her of nutrients and sleep. It tells a tale of what her mind created. Fun for readers, but don’t be fooled! It’s a cautionary tale of how quick ones life can go from normal to tragic and imprisoned when a hospita...
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    34,33 €

  • A Belated Industry
    Jane Addams
    At the turn of the 20th century, social reformer Jane Addams provides a thought-provoking look at the economic vulnerabilities facing young working women in America’s industrial centers. Addams’ account draws on her groundbreaking work at Chicago’s Hull House settlement, casting an empathetic yet unflinching eye on the harsh realities of poverty and gender inequality.Through pi...
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    5,26 €


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