Catálogo de libros: Cuestiones y procesos sociales

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  • Reading Women in the New Testament Letters
    This volume explores the differing views expressed in the New Testament letters about the position of women in first- and second-generation Christian communities. Contributors place the letters in their broader Jewish and Greco-Roman cultural, religious, and social contexts to better understand how gender roles, family life, and women’s responsibilities for spreading the gospel...
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    92,72 €

  • Why Mommy? Mommy Why?
    Joe A Bass / Joe A Bass
    Why Mommy? Mommy Why? is not your typical children’s book. Designed for adults, this poignant and thought-provoking story acts as a gentle wake-up call for parents everywhere. It reflects on how easily the noise of daily responsibilities can drown out the quiet yet powerful signals from our kids-the subtle changes in their laughter, their habits, and the way they see the world....
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    21,72 €

  • Federalism and Decentralization in Africa
    Andrey Zakharov / Leonid Issaev
    This book examines the challenges and opportunities of administrative and territorial reconstruction in Africa from independence until the present time. In light of the rise of separatist movements in various African states and the ethnic, linguistic, and religious heterogeneity of many African societies, the book sheds new light on the fragmentation and decentralization of the...
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    167,43 €

  • Cultures of Sustainable Peace
    With an emphasis on addressing gender-based violence and the role of women and cultural work in peacebuilding, the chapters in this book represent the fruit of collaborative work across borders, between artists, activists and academics, bringing a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on situations of violence and precarity. ...
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    38,82 €

  • Cultures of Sustainable Peace
    With an emphasis on addressing gender-based violence and the role of women and cultural work in peacebuilding, the chapters in this book represent the fruit of collaborative work across borders, between artists, activists and academics, bringing a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on situations of violence and precarity. ...
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    146,98 €

  • Scenario Planning and Tourism Futures
    Albert Postma / Ian Yeoman / Stefan Hartman
    This book offers a practical guide for scenario planning to make sense of the future of tourism for practitioners, researchers and students. A variety of case studies are presented which demonstrate how scenario planning is deployed. They include learning points and questions to help readers understand key concepts, theories and applications. ...
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    56,40 €

  • Scenario Planning and Tourism Futures
    Albert Postma / Ian Yeoman / Stefan Hartman
    This book offers a practical guide for scenario planning to make sense of the future of tourism for practitioners, researchers and students. A variety of case studies are presented which demonstrate how scenario planning is deployed. They include learning points and questions to help readers understand key concepts, theories and applications. ...
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    170,32 €

  • Black Teachers of English(es) in Japan
    Gregory Paul Glasgow
    This book examines the trajectories of a transnational group of teachers of African descent who live and teach English in Japan. The author argues that while multiculturalism and diversity within ELT in Japan may seem to be gradually improving, raciolinguistic native-speakerism still affects the livelihood of racialized teachers. ...
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    67,74 €

  • Black Teachers of English(es) in Japan
    Gregory Paul Glasgow
    This book examines the trajectories of a transnational group of teachers of African descent who live and teach English in Japan. The author argues that while multiculturalism and diversity within ELT in Japan may seem to be gradually improving, raciolinguistic native-speakerism still affects the livelihood of racialized teachers. ...
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    181,66 €

  • BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
    Stephen McCutchan
    This book wrestles with the tension between a gospel that proclaims peace and love and a society that frequently chooses violence to resolve their differences. The novel enables us to put words on chaotic feelings and draw truths forward that can guide our lives. ...
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    16,92 €

  • Exiled Intellectuals
    Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it perceives as a threat to its rule, especially academics, journalists, politicians, actors, directors, i.e. the intellectuals who produce oppositional art and critical knowledge, criminalizing them as enemies of the state. The authoritarian...
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    205,71 €

  • The 48 Laws of Power for Women Fed up with Male Workplace Dominance
    Mary Robbins / TBD
    Ladies, Master the Strategies and Tactics to Grow, Defend, and Navigate Power!Workplace politics are an inescapable reality that affects us all. Whether we acknowledge it or not, the game is always in play, and if you choose not to engage, you risk being negatively impacted by others’ strategies. Now more than ever women are under extreme pressure. Get the tools you need to nav...
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    17,24 €

  • The 48 Laws of Power for Women Fed up with Male Workplace Dominance
    Mary Robbins
    Ladies, Master the Strategies and Tactics to Grow, Defend, and Navigate Power!Workplace politics are an inescapable reality that affects us all. Whether we acknowledge it or not, the game is always in play, and if you choose not to engage, you risk being negatively impacted by others’ strategies. Now more than ever women are under extreme pressure. Get the tools you need to nav...
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    41,39 €

  • Project 2025 Women’s Study Bible for Liberation
    Esme Mees / Petra Nein
    Project 2025 Women’s Study Bible for Liberation isn’t your grandma’s devotional-it’s a challenge to the patriarchy wrapped in scripture, rebellion, and unapologetic truth. Inspired by the aggressive and repressive new Project 2025 policies, which are an affront to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happpiness, Esme Mees and Petra Nein strip away centuries of oppressive interpret...
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    12,70 €

  • White Lies
    Daniel Hill
    White Christians are waking up to the pervasive bias for White culture that shapes every aspect of society. Many are eager to confront White supremacy--but what steps should be taken to make good, lasting change? Pastor Daniel Hill offers White Lies, a practical guide for dismantling White supremacy in a healthy, effective way. ...
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    17,31 €

  • In the Gaps
    Brian Klausner MD
    Why is the growing crisis of chronic homelessness, and its associated cost, so misunderstood and mismanaged?If there was ever a time to address the chronically unhoused and bridge the gap between our ideals and actions, it is now. Drawing on years of experience caring for homeless populations, public health physician Brian Klausner, MD, shares the profoundly human stories hidin...
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    23,48 €

  • Bartered bridegrooms
    Suriyah Bi
    This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity. ...
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    157,58 €

  • 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.While some take Gadamer’s Truth and Method to be a departure from epistemological questions and concerns, author Carolyn Culbertson reads Gadamer’s work as offering a valuable reflection on the nature of understanding-...
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    43,58 €

  • Diversity and Inclusion Challenges for Leaders of International Schools
    Leaders of international schools face complex challenges when it comes to facilitating diversity and inclusion within their communities. With students, faculty, and staff from a wide range of cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, school leaders must create an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. This challenge is increased by various...
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    361,26 €

  • Diversity and Inclusion Challenges for Leaders of International Schools
    Leaders of international schools face complex challenges when it comes to facilitating diversity and inclusion within their communities. With students, faculty, and staff from a wide range of cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, school leaders must create an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. This challenge is increased by various...
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    275,82 €

  • (Un)Settling Place
    People who are 'on the move,' particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote. (Un)Settling Place recentralizes these 'out-of-the-way' places as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. Ranging from the surveillance and care that migrants experience to the re-creation of social ties and the...
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    184,27 €

  • Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
    Thomas Wentworth Higginson
    'Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson is a collection of essays written in the late 19th century. In these essays, Higginson addresses the evolving role of women in society and explores the intellectual and moral challenges they face in a world that is slowly but surely shifting in terms of gender equality. The essays are deeply reflective, ...
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    14,54 €

  • Woman Man’s Equal
    Thomas Webster
    Woman Man’s Equal explores themes of gender equality, women’s rights, and social justice, arguing for the equal treatment of women and men in all aspects of life. It challenges traditional views that have placed women in subordinate roles, insisting that any perceived inferiority is not natural but the result of societal oppression. The text emphasizes the importance of grantin...
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    13,10 €

  • International Academic Transformations and Cross-Border Collaborations
    Mustafa Kayyali
    International academic transformations and cross-border collaborations reshape higher education for universities looking to enhance their global competitiveness and address complex societal challenges. Relationships that cross national boundaries are essential when facilitating the exchange of knowledge, research, and best practices, allowing institutions to share resources and...
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    348,11 €

  • International Academic Transformations and Cross-Border Collaborations
    Mustafa Kayyali
    International academic transformations and cross-border collaborations reshape higher education for universities looking to enhance their global competitiveness and address complex societal challenges. Relationships that cross national boundaries are essential when facilitating the exchange of knowledge, research, and best practices, allowing institutions to share resources and...
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    262,66 €

  • Lives in Motion
    Francesca Decimo
    This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from the private sphere of individuals and reverberate to the point of transforming the composition of national populations. Delving into the interrelation of migration and life courses, the volume investigates how individual mobility paths...
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    47,26 €

  • The conspirator’s hierarchy
    John Coleman
    Certainly many of us are aware that the people who run our government are not the people who really control political and economic issues, domestic and foreign. This has led many of us to seek the truth in the alternative press, those newsletter writers who, like me, have investigated, but not always found, the reasons why the United States is so seriously ill. The injunction ’...
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    25,24 €

  • Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously
    Letizia Palumbo
    This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European countries provide a standard for protecting migrant workers. It moves from a socio-legal and theoretical perspective and builds on critical studies on vulnerability, exploitation, trafficking and migrant labour regimes - along with re...
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    75,49 €

  • Cities of Migration
    Asya Pisarevskaya / Peter Scholten
    This open access book develops a typology of cities by exploring how current levels of migration-related diversity and segregation relate to three groups of factors: international mobilities, inequalities and political-institutional aspects of local governance. Based on both quantitative and qualitative data from 16 cities in four European countries (France, Germany, The Nether...
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    75,98 €

  • A History Of The Iranian Women’s Rights Movement
    Donya Ahmadi
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    15,53 €