Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • One Hundred Years of Argonauts
    Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextual...
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    53,74 €

  • Squatter Life
    Javier Auyero
    In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofía Servián detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina’s urban poor rely on to survive. Blending three years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with personal narratives of Servián’s experience growing up and living in a squatter settlement, the authors examine how Argentina...
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    128,45 €

  • The Media Reader on Representations of Race, Gender, Disability, Body Size, Age, and Sexuality
    Caroline Heldman / Rebecca Bargiachi
    This reader is the first comprehensive look at representations of race, gender, disability, body size, age, and sexuality in US entertainment media. The 'bible' of media representation, it weaves contemporary media examples together with quantitative data and qualitative case studies in a way that is accessible to students, industry insiders, and media advocates. Using over twe...
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    107,52 €

  • The Human World Shapers
    Azhar ul Haque Sario
    Dare to question everything you thought you knew about history’s most influential figures.This book, The Human World Shapers, isn’t just another list. It isn’t a ranking. It’s a deep dive. We explore lives of people like Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius. We examine Newton, Einstein, Gutenberg, and Columbus. We also look at lesser known, like Cai Lun. We go beyond biographies....
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    17,12 €

  • The (Dis)Information Age
    Jonathan A. Austad
    There has yet to be a strong consensus regarding when and if postmodernism ended. As such, there is no agreement about the new age’s name, origins, or tenets. Nealson’s ’Post-Postmodernism: or The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism’ leaves out the impact of the internet and social media. Other books fail to explore post-postmodernism within a larger social-political fram...
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    78,67 €

  • ECHOES OF HERITAGE THE CULTURAL TAPESTRY OF THE UAE
    Jana Al Ramahi
    Echoes of Heritage: The Cultural Tapestry of the UAE takes readers on a captivating journey through the rich and diverse history of the United Arab Emirates. From the legacy of the Bedouins and the values of family and hospitality, to the modern achievements of the nation’s architectural wonders and artistic expression, this book delves into the UAE’s unique ability to harmoniz...
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    16,15 €

  • Untangling Whiteness
    Jennifer Gale de Saxe
    With the prominence of workshops, trainings, and anti-racist books popping up over the past few years, it may seem confusing as to what it really means to engage in deliberate and meaningful learning that challenges the many facets of racism and whiteness. ’Untangling Whiteness’ directly interrogates the assumption that the teaching and learning about race and whiteness, partic...
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    56,96 €

  • Remembering What Matters Most
    Susan McNamara
    Are You Called To Protect Your Children’s Childhood While Living According To What Matters Most To You?We’re in the midst of an unprecedented and far-reaching experiment on childhood in The Age of Technology that is changing what our children value, how they socialize, how they feel about themselves, and so much more.In this call to courage, parents are supported in raising the...
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    23,60 €

  • Transforming Struggles into Success
    Alida Vizcaino / José Lobo-F
    This publication brought together the voices of novice TEFL undergraduate researchers who were committed to making a difference in EFL education. It highlighted their efforts to support low-income students in the Colombian Caribbean, addressing challenges of vulnerability and limited resources. Through their work, these research practitioners were aiming to transform adversity ...
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    119,64 €

  • Love Lessons
    Heidi B. Friedman
    Have you ever wondered what true love looks like? How would it feel to meet your actual partner? How do you know that the relationship you are in is the right one for you? How can you be sure you do not settle? Love Lessons: 104 Dates and the Stories that Led Me to True Love shares the results of a research project designed to help answer these questions through many conversati...
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    24,20 €

  • Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
    Laura Huttunen
    The book explores missing person issues and human disappearances from an anthropological perspective. It analyses reasons behind disappearances and the political and practical ways of dealing with them, suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding disappearances across varying political and cultural contexts. ...
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    157,61 €

  • 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 €

  • The Maasai - Essays on Culture, Conservation, and the Pastoral Predicament
    Kaj Arhem
    The Maasai: Essays on Culture, Conservation and the Pastoral Predicament gathers together a selection of anthropological essays on the pastoral Maasai, based on the author’s fieldwork in Ngorongoro, Tanzania, in the 1980s. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area, world-famous for its exceptionally rich wildlife, is also the home of a large population of Maasai livestock herders.The es...
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    32,55 €

  • It takes a little crazy to make a difference (Dafna’s Version)
    Dafna Michaelson Jenet
    It’s amazing what you can learn couch surfing America.It’s even more amazing how empowered you can become when you realize that people who look like you, sound like you, have the same amount of money and education as you are making a difference to things that matter, to you. I have the stories. I met the people. I (don’t do this at home kids) slept on the couches of people I me...
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    23,26 €

  • Research Methodology
    Marcia Rodrigues
    Understanding the processes of segregation and exclusion experienced by migrants in the municipality of Serra also promotes the investigation of issues related to identity and the social relationships entered into with and by these migrants. In the case of the study by Márcia Rodrigues et. al, the nickname 'baiano' reflects a conceptualization that is the result of evidence of ...
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    66,45 €

  • Divine Themes in Hindu Cosmology
    Farshid Haghi / Kirushahari Gnanaretnam
    Presents a comprehensive exploration of Hindu cosmology, focusing significantly on the roles of the deities within the TrimurtiThis introduction sets the stage for a deeper examination of Hindu philosophy and the essential teachings derived from the narratives surrounding these primordial figures, fostering an appreciation for the complexities and beauty of creation as perceive...
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    92,80 €

  • Multiverse Analysis
    Cristobal Young / Erin Cumberworth
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    41,75 €

  • Multiverse Analysis
    Cristobal Young / Erin Cumberworth
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    126,47 €

  • The Colonial and National Formations of the National College of Arts, Lahore, circa 1870s to 1960s
    Nadeem Omar Tarar
    The book, using archival sources, examines the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan through the National College of Arts, founded as the Mayo School of Arts in 1875. It deconstructs art history and anthropology frameworks embedded in imperial and national discourses, policies, and pedagogy. ...
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    50,11 €

  • A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1
    ... Cook (Contributor: Tobias Furneaux)
    A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1' is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdom is never lost, Alpha Editions has carefully preserved it by republishing it in a modern, accessible format for both present and future generations. Thoughtfully reformatted, retyped, and newly designed, this edit...
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    17,79 €

  • A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 1; Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty’s ship the Investig
    Matthew Flinders
    A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 1; Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty’s ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner' is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdo...
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    21,10 €

  • Zigzag Journeys in Europe
    Hezekiah Butterworth
    Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands' is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdom is never lost, Alpha Editions has carefully preserved it by republishing it in a modern, accessible format for both present and future generations. Thoughtfully reformatted, retyped, and newly designed, this edit...
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    17,70 €

  • A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 2; Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty’s ship the Investig
    Matthew Flinders
    A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 2; Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty’s ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner' is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdo...
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    21,98 €

  • A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora
    David Moore Lindsay
    A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora' is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdom is never lost, Alpha Editions has carefully preserved it by republishing it in a modern, accessible format for both present and future generations. Thoughtfully reformatted, retyped, and newly designed, this edition offers a clear...
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    15,30 €

  • A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2
    ... Cook (Contributor: Tobias Furneaux)
    A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2' is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdom is never lost, Alpha Editions has carefully preserved it by republishing it in a modern, accessible format for both present and future generations. Thoughtfully reformatted, retyped, and newly designed, this editi...
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    17,52 €

  • A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; In His Majesty’s ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
    John Atkins
    A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; In His Majesty’s ships, the Swallow and Weymouth' is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdom is never lost, Alpha Editions has carefully preserved it by republishing it in a modern, accessible format for both present and future generations. Thoughtfully reformatted, ret...
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    15,06 €

  • Statistics for Lawyers
    Bruce Levin / Michael O. Finkelstein
    This classic text, first published in 1990, is designed to introduce law students, law teachers, practitioners, and judges to the basic ideas of mathematical probability and statistics as they have been applied in the law. The fourth edition includes fourteen new sections, four inserts to the statistical text, and six new answer sections, on topics including the following: Use ...
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    210,16 €

  • Integral Research and Societal Regeneration in Africa
    Anselm Adodo / Lessem Ronnie
    This study guide and workbook complement Integral Research and Societal Regeneration in Africa by Anselm Adodo, Ronnie Lessem, and Alexander Schieffer, providing structured support for students, researchers, and academics. It offers a systematic approach to engaging with key ideas, theories, and methodologies through interactive exercises and critical reflections.Book Layout an...
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    32,40 €

  • A Brother’s Duty
    J.D. Langton
    For thousands of years, households with more than one wife were commonplace in Africa, just as they were among God’s people since the beginning of time. In recent centuries, European and American missionaries have caused immeasurable harm to African communities-especially their women-by claiming the Bible teaches that a man can have only one wife.This unbiblical teaching has re...
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    7,19 €

  • A Christian Defense Of Polygamy Through The Centuries
    J.D. Langton
    Households that include more than one wife have existed since the beginning of mankind, and until the rise of the Greco-Roman empire and the subsequent Catholic Church, nobody, not even Christians, questioned the legitimacy or normalcy of having more than one wife in a family. Despite the overwhelming presence of what we call 'polygamy' in the Bible and God’s direct endorsement...
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    30,76 €