Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • Preventing Youth Violence
    V. Sundaram
    Young people explain, excuse and justify violence in a range of situations and view violence prevention as a difficult, if not impossible, endeavour. But how do young people form these views, and how can this knowledge be used by schools to reduce youth violence? This book explores these questions in a study with British teenagers. ...
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    48,65 €

  • Social Science Research
    Barbara Czarniawska
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    230,65 €

  • Intellectual Property Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions
    Luo Li
    The work reviews issues concerning the protection of folklore through the intellectual property legal system, then explores two main issues in the protection of Chinese folklore. The first issue is the influence of Chinese traditional culture on the Chinese intellectual property legal system and Chinese society. The second concerns the deficiencies of the Chinese intellectual p...
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    134,80 €

  • Creating Human Development Theories
    R. Murray Thomas / RMurray Thomas
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    44,65 €

  • Changing Generations
    Alan Sharp
    This is a powerful and insightful account with suggestions of what white society, especially men, can learn from women and darker skinned people. This book focuses on solutions which should be acted upon in order to achieve, in some way, Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of a just society. Find out what some white men really think about people of African descent ? Asians ?Latin Am...
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    24,69 €

  • Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic
    Nadia Sirhan
    Finding itself at the nexus of global interests in the Middle East, the sliver of land that is present-day Israel, West Bank and Gaza has generated innumerable books and textual studies, yet the Palestinian voice, in particular that of the Palestinian everyman, has been grossly under-represented, drowned out in the cacophony of other voices, claims and interests. Folk Stories a...
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    65,04 €

  • Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic
    N. Sirhan
    By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a narrator’s language use and linguistic behaviour. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged with narrative discourse, gender discourse, Arabic studies and linguistics. ...
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    47,92 €

  • Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
    Zoë Crossland
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    118,14 €

  • Conflicts in the Northeast
    Hanzarika
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    55,65 €

  • Families Beyond the Nuclear Ideal
    This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our societies.That children should be conceived naturally, born to and raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other, genet...
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    66,81 €

  • Student Financial Literacy
    College students are particularly vulnerable to making poor financial decisions. One method of addressing personal finances and financial stress among students of higher education is through university based financial education programs. Student Financial Literacy: Program Development presents effective strategies to assist in the implementation or the enhancement of a program ...
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    122,02 €

  • I Eat, Therefore I Think
    Raymond D. Boisvert / Raymond DBoisvert
    I Eat, Therefore I Think: Food and Philosophy radically rethinks the nature of key philosophical concerns by approaching the subject via a crucial but often overlooked prism: the stomach. Combining stomach and mind, this book allows us to chart new pathways for dealing with ethics, aesthetics, religion, social/political questions, and our general understanding of reality and th...
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    111,40 €

  • A Survivor’s Guide to R
    Kurt Taylor Gaubatz
    Focusing on developing practical R skills rather than teaching pure statistics, Dr. Kurt Taylor Gaubatz’s A Survivor’s Guide to R provides a gentle yet thorough introduction to R. The book is structured around critical R tasks, and focuses on applied knowledge, rather than abstract concepts. Gaubatz’s easy-to-read approach helps students with little or no background in statisti...
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    91,93 €

  • Neurovascular Coupling Methods
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    148,66 €

  • The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia
    Jie Yang
    Through ethnographic and media analyses, this book examines the affective dimensions of power in East Asia, in order to illuminate the dynamics of contemporary governance, and to overcome common Western assumptions about East Asian governmentality. In turn, it provides a framework for analyzing emerging phenomena in East Asia, such as the psychologization of social problems, th...
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    254,40 €

  • Social Identity
    Richard Jenkins
    The fourth edition of Social Identity builds on the international success of previous editions, offering a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories of identity for advance undergraduates and postgraduates. ...
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    82,65 €

  • Persisting Undernutrition in India
    Nira Ramachandran
    The book revisits the causes of persisting under nutrition in India, but moves away from the usual focus on women and children to a broader view of the entire population. It estimates the economic losses resulting from ignoring under nutrition in the adult working population and questions the current narrow focus of nutrition interventions, suggesting that a family-based approa...
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    132,65 €

  • Making Sense of Evil
    Melissa Dearey
    Should criminologists take evil seriously as a cause or explanation of crime, criminality, deviance and/or social control? This book seeks to answer this question by exploring a range of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies and anthropology to social psychology, political theory, law, radical feminism and criminology. Thr...
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    132,65 €

  • Civilian Strategy in Civil War
    S. Barter
    While typically the victims of war, civilians are not necessarily passive recipients of violence. What options are available to civilians in times of war? This book suggests three broad strategies - flight, support, and voice. It focuses on three conflicts: Aceh, Indonesia; Patani, southern Thailand; and Mindanao, southern Philippines. ...
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    66,45 €

  • Harold Garfinkel
    Dirk vom Lehn
    This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science, and a basic description of ethnomethodology, a research tradition that he created. ...
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    241,17 €

  • Civilian Strategy in Civil War
    Shane Joshua Barter
    While typically the victims of war, civilians are not necessarily passive recipients of violence. What options are available to civilians in times of war? Offering a modification of Hirschman’s class schema, this book suggests three broad strategies - flig ...
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    65,09 €

  • Embodiment and Mechanisation
    Daniel Black
    Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. At the same time, it draws upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought in order to highl...
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    254,63 €

  • Romani Routes
    Carol Silverman
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    48,01 €

  • Real Sadhus Sing to God
    Antoinette Elizabeth Denapoli
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    49,38 €

  • Caring for Our Own
    Sandra R. Levitsky
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    36,96 €

  • Race, Language and Culture
    Franz Boas
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    41,11 €

  • Using Software in Qualitative Research
    Ann Lewins / Christina Silver
    This essential introduction to the practice and principles of CAQDAS helps readers to choose the most appropriate package for their needs and get the most out of the software once they are using it. ...
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    75,78 €

  • Social Science Research
    Barbara Czarniawska
    Talking readers through each step in the research process, and providing practical advice based on years of experience, this text presents the practical realities of doing fieldwork ...
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    76,38 €

  • Playing with Languages
    Amy L. Paugh / Amy LPaugh
    Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded s...
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    37,93 €

  • Dark Trophies
    Simon Harrison
    Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel over the past two centuries, exploring its cl...
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    44,57 €


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