Catálogo de libros: Grupos sociales

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  • Sleep Walks and Talks
    Madisyn Staggs
    Annette Stanton is NOT crazy.Does she think there’s an angry sleep demon trying to kill her? Maybe.But that’s not the point.Annette has always had sleep troubles, though nothing as sinister as after her family’s big move. Her dad assures her it’s only sleep paralysis. But something tells her that this sleep paralysis demon is no ordinary projection of the unconscious mind. No; ...
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    31,02 €

  • OF FIRE WATER EARTH
    Doody Richards
    Following a nasty split-up with his long-term partner, Doody Richards feels his broken heart will never heal, when-one night staring at his bedroom ceiling in the emptiness-suddenly decides to travel to Bali. Above of all, he has had enough of Sydney life; the glamour gay parties he leads and the superficial Sydney gay scene he lives in. So he gives up his job and flies to Bal...
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    30,53 €

  • Just a Thought about Social Justice
    Penny M. Closser
    Exploring Social Justice: Unveiling Governmental Aid, Church Assistance, and Educational Disparities in Urban and Suburban SchoolsDelve into the intricate world of social justice with this enlightening read. Just a Thought About Social Justice is a comprehensive exploration of the myriad ways in which social justice permeates our society. It sheds light on the often-overlooked ...
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    14,46 €

  • Politicising and gendering care for older people
    This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in different European contexts. It contributes to an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy at various societal and political levels. ...
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    169,63 €

  • Premodern ruling sexualities
    This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities - the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities - and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities. ...
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    169,56 €

  • 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 €

  • Ethno-knowledge in the use of Medicinal Plants in the 14th region of EMATER-PB
    Alberto Bandeira / Antônio Vitor Machado / Patrício B. Maracaja
    Ethnobotany is concerned with the study of the knowledge developed by society about the plant world, encompassing both the way they classify plants and the way they use them. It is likely that the use of medicinal plants as medicine is as old as man himself, and is more evident in developing countries, where most of the poor population does not have access to pharmacy medicines...
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    36,74 €

  • The resistance of female subjectivity
    Clara Terra Benevides Sanches
    The narrative investigates the place that mixed-race and black women occupy in the Mozambican social body and thus reflects on the immense existential emptiness that leads them on their journey. In Mia Couto’s work, the confession of the 'hidden lionesses' remains the order of silence as far as the plot is concerned, but through their speech, a cry echoes, almost like a cry for...
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    55,35 €

  • They Are The Gender They Are - Understanding your loved one’s gender
    AF Junior
    'They Are the Gender They Are! Understanding the Puzzle of Gender Identity' is a thought-provoking exploration of the intricate and deeply personal dimension of human experience known as gender identity. In this enlightening book, the author, drawing from their own experiences as an LGBTQIA+ individual, skillfully navigates the complexities of gender identity, likening it to a ...
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    28,19 €

  • The Chosen We
    Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
    Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education. ...
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    46,81 €

  • Revolutionary bodies
    Michael G Cronin / Michael G. Cronin
    An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics. ...
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    35,76 €

  • Conceiving bodies
    Dana Oswald
    The Old English remedies for women’s reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close examination of the remedies for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, stillbirth, and abortion reveal distinctions among them, where previously they were understood reductively as women’s medicine. ...
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    157,46 €

  • Agency in the Peripheries of Language Revitalisation
    This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages in Europe. The chapters investigate how grassroots actors shape revitalisation, and how individuals and groups negotiate historical factors, motivations, and institutionalised initiatives and policies in a variety of efforts. ...
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    112,99 €

  • Agency in the Peripheries of Language Revitalisation
    This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages in Europe. The chapters investigate how grassroots actors shape revitalisation, and how individuals and groups negotiate historical factors, motivations, and institutionalised initiatives and policies in a variety of efforts. ...
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    39,41 €

  • Skin Colored Pointes
    Nyama McCarthy-Brown
    Predominantly white casting in ballet has led many to wonder, 'Where are all the black swans?' This book sheds light on female dancers of color, including thirteen primary accounts from African American, Latina, and Asian women in ballet. Topics covered include dance training, casting (and color-casting), employment, discrimination, implicit bias, success, and achievement. D...
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    58,70 €

  • Desert Haven
    Penelope Starr
    Women Empowered, Enlightened and TransformedStep back in time to the revolutionary 1970s with Desert Haven, a compelling exploration of a hidden facet of history. Born at the crossroads of feminism, sexual liberation, lesbian separatism, and a return to nature, this novel breathes life into the movement that sought to forge self-governed women-centered societies within intentio...
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    14,31 €

  • Woman and Womanhood
    C.W. Saleeby
    Delve into the profound exploration of femininity and the essence of womanhood with C.W. Saleeby’s enlightening masterpiece, 'Woman and Womanhood.' In this groundbreaking work, Saleeby delves deep into the complexities of gender identity, societal roles, and the timeless allure of the feminine spirit.Through meticulous research and insightful analysis, Saleeby unveils the multi...
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    17,07 €

  • From the surreal to exile
    Ixchel Martínez Rodas
    The large number of studies that have been done on avant-garde art turn out to be a valuable source of historical, social and esthetic research, due to the appearance of several artists who contributed to shape new plastic possibilities of proposals and studies that have been done on the period.The historiographic studies carried out on avant-garde art in Spain point with speci...
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    111,65 €

  • 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 €

  • Class-Conscious Coal Miners
    Alan J. Singer
    Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania’s coal miners during the post-World War One era. ...
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    126,99 €

  • The elementary structuring of patriarchy
    Menara Guizardi
    Through life histories of Indigenous women, the volume bridges classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically-informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution to the study of border territories. ...
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    194,07 €

  • Published by the Author
    Bryan Sinche
    Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. Because nineteenth-century Black Americans knew that publication could empower them, and because they faced numerous challenges getting their writing into print or the literary market, many published their own books and pam...
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    126,91 €

  • Published by the Author
    Bryan Sinche
    Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. Because nineteenth-century Black Americans knew that publication could empower them, and because they faced numerous challenges getting their writing into print or the literary market, many published their own books and pam...
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    44,60 €

  • The Violent World of Broadus Miller
    Kevin W. Young
    In the summer of 1927, an itinerant Black laborer named Broadus Miller was accused of killing a fifteen-year-old white girl in Morganton, North Carolina. Miller became the target of a massive manhunt lasting nearly two weeks. After he was gunned down in the North Carolina mountains, his body was taken back to Morganton and publicly displayed on the courthouse lawn on a Sunday a...
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    127,02 €

  • The Violent World of Broadus Miller
    Kevin W. Young
    In the summer of 1927, an itinerant Black laborer named Broadus Miller was accused of killing a fifteen-year-old white girl in Morganton, North Carolina. Miller became the target of a massive manhunt lasting nearly two weeks. After he was gunned down in the North Carolina mountains, his body was taken back to Morganton and publicly displayed on the courthouse lawn on a Sunday a...
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    38,16 €

  • Kapyate
    Linda Wilson / Steven Mudusu
    Kapyate can run like a cheetah, which earns him respect from the feral youths known as ’Street Kings’. It also saves him from the many horrendous experiences suffered by ’streetkids’, living miserable existences in Jinja, Uganda. Steven Mudusu was abandoned at the tender age of 3 years and throughout his childhood and youth, was known as ’Kapyate’. He vowed to rise above street...
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    12,57 €

  • The Home as Laboratory
    Liz Mason-Deese / Luci Cavallero / Verónica Gago
    The home has become a laboratory for capital but also for forms of financial disobedience. It has become increasingly clear that home is not a site of private life and isolation, but a battleground where the conflict over the reorganization of working days, over what even counts as labor, is waged. In the very spaces that capital historically sought to portray as an 'unproducti...
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    13,09 €

  • Rural Wealth and Welfare
    George Thompson Fairchild
    In giving these pages to the public I offer no apology for a restatement of fundamental principles always requiring adjustment to new life and circumstances; but economic literature has usually dealt too exclusively with the phenomena of manufactures and commerce to gain the sympathy of rural people. An experience of more than thirty years in handling such subjects at the Michi...
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    17,01 €

  • Cracks in the Outfield Wall
    Chris Holaday
    The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the game in the Jim Crow South at all professional levels. Chris Holaday offers readers the first book-length history of baseball’s...
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    126,90 €

  • Rap and Redemption on Death Row
    Alim Braxton / Mark Katz
    Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina’s death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes as a form of therapy and to advocate for prison reform, particularly by calling attention to the plight of the wrongfully incarc...
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    127,04 €


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