Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • Birth controlled
    Amrita Pande
    This book analyses the world of selective reproduction - interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition - by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies. ...
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    43,62 €

  • Humans as Third Dimensional Beings
    Mahmoud Dhaouadi
    Explore a fresh lens on human identity in ’Humans as Third Dimensional Beings’, where the author introduces a unique dimension that sets Homo sapiens apart - the Third Human Dimension (THD). Traditionally viewed as bi-dimensional entities encompassing body and soul, this book ventures beyond, inspired by a rich blend of cultural insights, social science theories, and Islamic pe...
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    10,93 €

  • Heritage and healing in Syria and Iraq
    Zena Kamash
    This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for healing. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Human Evolutionary Demography
    Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines.By bridging the boundaries betwee...
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    120,09 €

  • Human Evolutionary Demography
    Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines.By bridging the boundaries betwee...
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    137,90 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
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    50,60 €

  • Cultural Crossroads
    T.J. Ravenscroft
    Step into the vibrant world of global traditions with T.J. Ravenscroft’s 'Cultural Crossroads: A Deep Dive into Global Traditions.' This captivating exploration journeys through the delicate balance between modernity and timeless traditions. An adherent of the Slow Movement, Ravenscroft raises profound questions about the sustainability of indigenous ways of life amid rapid glo...
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    12,49 €

  • Gulf Women’s Lives
    This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how Gulf women construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist in public and private spaces, and how voice and agency are part of their conversations. ...
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    145,38 €

  • The Philosophy of Silence in Different Cultures
    Megan Dennis
    'The Philosophy of Silence in Different Cultures' explores the concept of silence, examining its various forms, historical perspectives, and cultural significance across Eastern, Western, and Indigenous cultures. With insights into the role of silence in spirituality, art, education, and everyday life, this thought-provoking book seeks to foster a deeper understanding of oursel...
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    83,53 €

  • Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture
    Ardi Kia
    This book documents the prehistoric and ancient cultural accomplishments influencing the Golden Ages of Inner Eurasia in the medieval era. ...
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    54,66 €

  • The Handshake
    Kevin B DiBacco
    'The Handshake Around the World' is a captivating exploration of one of the most universal and significant gestures in human interaction: the handshake. This book takes readers on a fascinating journey through the diverse customs, traditions, and meanings surrounding handshakes across various cultures worldwide.Author Kevin B. DiBacco delves deep into the origins and evolution ...
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    7,06 €

  • Practical Boat-Sailing
    Douglas Frazar
    Practical Boat-Sailing: A Concise and Simple Treatise, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These ...
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    16,35 €

  • Touring Afoot
    Claude P. Fordyce
    Touring Afoot, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of ...
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    15,42 €

  • Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside, or Amusements for young and old
    Caroline L. Smith
    Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside, or Amusements for young and old, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped a...
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    20,56 €

  • The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage - Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arra
    G. R. M. Devereux
    The word Courtship has an old-world sound about it, and carries the mind back to the statelier manners of bygone days. Nowadays we have no leisure for courtly greetings and elaborately-turned compliments. We are slackening many of the old bonds, breaking down some of the old restraint, and, though it will seem treason to members of a past generation to say it, we are, let us ho...
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    12,52 €

  • An Anthropology of Crosslocations
    Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki / Samuli Lähteenaho / Sarah Green
     An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the ...
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    47,15 €

  • EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century
    Sue Edney
    Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting. ...
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    35,77 €

  • The anthropology of ambiguity
    This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories. ...
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    169,60 €

  • The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple
    A. Marsh
    'This small Treatise which I here present unto thee is the fruit of some spare hours, that my cogitations, after they had been for a small time, between whiles, hovering to and fro in the Air, came fluttring down again, still pitching upon the subject of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage, in each of which I hope thou wilt find somthing worthy of thy acceptance, because I am sure ’t...
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    16,15 €

  • Resisting Olympic evictions
    Adam Talbot
    Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega-event’s spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons on building democratic and just cities across the Global South. ...
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    157,72 €

  • The Playboy of the Western World-A New Version
    Bisi Adigun Adigun / Roddy Doyle
    Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin’s Abbey Theater in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2009. The new version is set in a contemporary Dublin pub and features the character of a Nigerian asylum-seeker in the lead role. Under the coauthorship of ...
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    89,15 €

  • The Playboy of the Western World-A New Version
    Bisi Adigun / Roddy Doyle
    Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin’s Abbey Theater in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2009. The new version is set in a contemporary Dublin pub and features the character of a Nigerian asylum-seeker in the lead role. Under the coauthorship of ...
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    44,72 €

  • Chinese Espresso
    Grazia Ting Deng
    Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product—so much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO’s official list of intangible heritages of humanity. The coffe...
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    135,80 €

  • Chinese Espresso
    Grazia Ting Deng
    Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product—so much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO’s official list of intangible heritages of humanity. The coffe...
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    37,56 €

  • Disability Worlds
    Faye Ginsburg
    In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition...
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    134,65 €

  • Disability Worlds
    Faye Ginsburg
    In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition...
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    35,41 €

  • My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
    Henry M. Stanley
    My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are...
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    18,27 €

  • Told on the Pagoda
    Mimosa
    Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made...
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    13,93 €

  • My Book of Indoor Games
    Clarence Squareman
    My Book of Indoor Games, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned ...
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    16,94 €

  • The Gift of Love
    Nabil Marshood
    Unleash the Heart’s Potential: The Gift of Love - A Transformative Guide to Empowerment and Self-DiscoveryEmbark on a transformative odyssey with The Gift of Love: Insight Into The Art of Empowerment and Self Discovery by Nabil Marshood, Ph.D., a distinguished Fulbright Scholar and Professor Emeritus. This soul-stirring exploration delves into the profound realms of love, offer...
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    28,96 €


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