Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • Understanding Policy Decisions
    Bruno Dente
    This book proposes a model for understanding how innovative policy decisions are taken in complex political and organizational systems as well as the possible strategies that the promoter of the innovation can employ in order to maximize the probability of successful adoption and implementation. It presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of decisional situations in ord...
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    85,44 €

  • Disrupting Science
    Kelly Moore
    In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells the story of how scientists formed...
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    42,99 €

  • Two Decades of Market Reform in India
    Sudipta Bhattacharyya
    This edited volume of essays investigates the series of neoliberal policy reforms implemented in India between 1991 and the present day, and assesses the impact this reform agenda has had upon both the Indian economy and the country’s population.  ...
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    142,14 €

  • Philosophy and Anthropology
    ‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations’ is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology - historically and presently – and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue. ...
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    186,96 €

  • BEYOND DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDENDS
    Fang Cai
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    118,15 €

  • Atlantic
    Simon Winchester
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    29,46 €

  • The Needs of the Dying
    David Kessler
    'This book serves the needs of the person sitting by the bedside as much as it does the person who is lying in the bed. In it you will find gentleness and peace in the experience of death.' -- Marianne WilliamsonIn gentle, compassionate language, The Needs of the Dying helps us through the last chapter of our lives. Author David Kessler has identified key areas of concern: the ...
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    17,44 €

  • New Methods in Social Justice Research for the Twenty-First Century
    The volume seeks to provide a source of innovative theories and data for researchers grappling with social justice methodology and research methods in an environment constrained by funding agendas. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. ...
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    88,04 €

  • Chinese Kinship
    Paul Chao
    First published in 1983. Professor Paul Chao writes Chinese Kinship in the line of the Chinese tradition; it is in this tradition that cultural complexes, such as family structure and kinship in relation to religious, political and economic organizations, are expounded by analysis of concepts and supported by historical documents. For the anthropological study of kinship is ind...
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    78,59 €

  • Introduction to Cultural Ecology
    E. N. Anderson / ENAnderson / Mark Q. Sutton / Mark QSutton
    Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships. ...
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    78,14 €

  • Introduction to Cultural Ecology
    E. N. Anderson / ENAndersen / ENAnderson / Mark Q. Sutton / Mark QSutton
    Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships. ...
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    191,60 €

  • Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China
    Guifu Chen / Shigeyuki Hamori
    This book studies some important issues in China’s labor market, such as rural labor migration, employment and wage discrimination, the new dual labor market, and economic returns on schooling, using the newer and representative data and advanced estimation models. This approach has yielded many interesting results, including a solution to the dilemma of two ongoing crises sinc...
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    67,05 €

  • Place Randomized Trials
    Robert F. Boruch
    The phrase 'evidence-based policy' is frequently used, but it’s crucial that such claims are scrutinized and validated. When the data on social and behavioral interventions are presented, high-quality evidence must be clearly defined and the methodology behind such studies held to rigorous standards. Both the Cochrane Collaboration -focusing on healthcare - and the internationa...
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    106,82 €

  • Conceptualizing Relational Sociology
    From networks to fields to figurations to discourses, relational ideas have become common in social science, and a distinct relational sociology has emerged over the past decade and a half. But so far, this paradigm shift has raised as many questions as i ...
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    145,05 €

  • Social Inequality in Japan
    Sawako Shirahase
    This book compares Japan with America, Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Taiwan in order to determine whether inequality really is a social problem in Japan. With a focus on impact demographic shifts, Shirahase asks whether increasing inequality and is uniquely Japanese, or if it is a social problem common across all of the societies included in this study. Crucially,...
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    254,44 €

  • Matriarchy and Power in Africa
    David Uru Iyam
    Capturing a dimension of the dominance and power of a Nigerian woman, Matriarchy and Power in Africa shows the diverse ways in which women controlled a variety of people in their society, asserted their power, and maintained their authority in spite of the ...
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    65,31 €

  • Matriarchy and Power in Africa
    D. Iyam
    Aneji Eko was technically illiterate, but she represents a resource for understanding the complexities of African and Nigerian cultures. This is an account of matriarchy and the complex ties of kinship, their influences in shaping childhood culture, and how they determined cultural expectations across ethnic groups. ...
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    66,80 €

  • Love American Style
    Kimberly Freeman
    A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, Love American Style traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel. This book draws upon popular, sociological, political and architectural history to illustrate how divorce reflects conf...
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    85,65 €

  • Growing Old in Cameroon
    Charles Che Fonchingong
    This book discusses the problems Cameroon faces in caring for its older population. It also proposes policy options that can make a difference in the lives of older citizens and finds that they are not a burden to society, but rather key players in the development process. ...
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    55,70 €

  • Feminist Activist Ethnography
    This collection reengages 20th century debates on feminist ethnography in a 21st century context. It serves as a critical dialog about the possibilities for feminist ethnography in the 21st century—at the intersection of engaged feminist research and collective activism. Contributors argue that feminist ethnography has much to offer contemporary debates over activist scholarshi...
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    62,26 €

  • How Real Is Race?
    Carol C. Mukhopadhyay / Carol CMukhopadhyay / Rosemary Henze / Yolanda T. Moses / Yolanda TMoses
    Drawing on biocultural perspectives, How Real Is Race? Second Edition employs an activity-oriented approach to engage readers in unraveling—and rethinking—the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. ...
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    70,50 €

  • The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies
    This book focuses on families and their changes in Taiwan and China. Traditional notions of what constitutes a family have been changing in China, Taiwan and other Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide interesting methodological and substantive contributions to the discourse on family and social change in Chinese societies. They also underscore the implications of ...
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    132,64 €

  • Introducing Qualitative Research
    Rosaline Barbour
    An ideal starter text for those new to the field, this second edition has new examples from a range of social science disciplines, as well as a brand new companion website, making it even more valuable to even more students ...
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    237,17 €

  • The Contribution of Young Researchers to Bayesian Statistics
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    208,47 €

  • Explaining Culture
    Loren Demerath
    This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness. ...
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    60,11 €

  • Historically Black College Leadership & Social Transformation
    Vickie L. Suggs / Vickie LSuggs
    Little research has been conducted to identify aspects of effective socialtransformation leadership in American college and university leadership. Theauthors of this book argue that while much less has been done at predominantlyWhite institutions to practically apply the processes of social transformation as aleadership model, HBCUs have historically relied upon strategies of s...
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    73,82 €

  • Historically Black College Leadership & Social Transformation
    Little research has been conducted to identify aspects of effective socialtransformation leadership in American college and university leadership. Theauthors of this book argue that while much less has been done at predominantlyWhite institutions to practically apply the processes of social transformation as aleadership model, HBCUs have historically relied upon strategies of s...
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    136,10 €

  • Migration and Remittances from Mexico
    Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, is an indispensable resource for Mexico-U.S. migration studies. It includes a review of the most important available databases for the study of migration from Mexico and Latin America to the United States. ...
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    63,62 €

  • Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Property Claims
    Karolina Kuprecht
    This book analyses the legal aspects of international claims by indigenous peoples for the repatriation of their cultural property, and explores what legal norms and normative orders would be appropriate for resolving these claims. To establish context, the book first provides insights into the exceptional legislative responses to the cultural property claims of Native American...
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    157,34 €

  • Buddhism, International Relief Work, and Civil Society
    Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups. Here, the contributors examine local Buddhist communities and international Buddhist organizations engaged in a variety of relief work in countries including India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. ...
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    66,54 €


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