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  • Extractivismo y región
    Vários Autores
    En este análisis sobre los procesos que han constituido la ficción teórica del Alto Cauca, una región que incluye municipios de los departamentos del Cauca (Santander de Quilichao, Buenos Aires y Suárez) y el Valle del Cauca (Jamundí), se trabajaron, a la vez, dimensiones como el desarrollo y la producción agrícola, la distribución desigual de la tierra, la gestión y el manejo ...
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    16,40 €

  • Las balas de abril
    Francisco Olivares
    Los sucesos del 11 de abril de 2002 constituyen sin duda el acontecimiento más importante del gobierno de Hugo Chávez. La violencia tomó la palabra, diecinueve personas fallecieron y cerca de ciento cincuenta resultaron heridas por armas de fuego durante aquella masiva manifestación.Las balas de abril analiza lo ocurrido en la manifestación del 11 de abril del 2002 y la violenc...
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    20,80 €

  • What WE Lost | Inside the Attack on Canada’s largest Children’s Charity
    Tawfiq Rangwala
    WE Charity had changed the game. In its 25 years, the international development charity and youth empowerment movement impacted lives the world over. Innovation was at its core: while most charities focus on making the world a better place for our children, WE Charity focused on making better children for our world. Founded by the ubiquitous Kielburger brothers, WE Charity oper...
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    32,95 €

  • Short Stories in a Long Journey
    Richard R. Troxell
    Richard R. Troxell’s book Short Stories in a Long Journey blends his personal story with the life of an activist for ending and preventing homelessness. This book highlights the structural defects in our system and laws and proposes common-sense economic solutions to the problems of homelessness and substance abuse, such as the Universal Living Wage to address income inequality...
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    19,01 €

  • Media and Terrorism in the 21st Century
    Media plays a specific role within modern society. It has been and continues to be a tool for spreading terrorist messages. However, it can just as easily be used as a tool for countering terrorism. During these challenging times where both international and domestic terrorism continue to threaten the livelihoods of citizens, it is imperative that studies are undertaken to exam...
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    216,12 €

  • Winning Hearts and Minds
    Sue-Ann Chia
    When we think of diplomacy, we often envisage Heads of State at formal settings or official meetings. In reality though, everyone can play a positive role in diplomacy.Public diplomacy, also referred to as people diplomacy, is about building friendships and understanding between peoples of different countries. Traditionally meant to promote national interests and advance foreig...
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    44,63 €

  • Winning Hearts and Minds
    Sue-Ann Chia
    When we think of diplomacy, we often envisage Heads of State at formal settings or official meetings. In reality though, everyone can play a positive role in diplomacy.Public diplomacy, also referred to as people diplomacy, is about building friendships and understanding between peoples of different countries. Traditionally meant to promote national interests and advance foreig...
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    27,53 €

  • Central Asia is Teetering on the Brink
    Musa Khan Jalalzai
    The establishment of Taliban’s Suicide Brigade once more generated pain in the neck of Central Asia, Russia and Europe. Deployment of suchlike Suicide Brigade next door to their borders is a major mainspring of consternation in the region. Central Asia and Europe refused to recognise the Taliban government and forewarned deployment of over 6,000 fighters of Suicide Brigade. Rec...
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    50,67 €

  • eL DERECHO A LA PEREZA 2ª EDICIÓN
    PAUL LAFARGUE
    Una extraña locura se ha apoderado de las clases obreras de los países en que reina la civilización capitalista. Esa locura es responsable de las miserias individuales y sociales que, desde hace dos siglos, torturan a la triste humanidad. Esa locura es el amor al trabajo, la pasión moribunda del trabajo, que llega hasta el agotamiento de las fuerzas vitales del individuo y de s...
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    8,32 €

  • Traitors Within
    James Rosone / Miranda Watson
    From the Top 100 Amazon Best Selling Authors of the Red Storm Series...The Trojans defeated Troy by hiding soldiers inside the belly of a wooden horse disguised as a peace offering. What if America’s enemies repeated that strategy?As the Caliphate of the Middle East continues to crumble, ISIS turns their eyes to a new strategy to waging war. But what if ISIS was just a puppet, ...
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    16,48 €

  • Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching
    Amy Jo Minett / Didem Ekici / Sarah E Dietrich / Sarah E. Dietrich
    This book maps person to person peacebuilding as it intersects with, and is embedded in, intercultural communication. It foregrounds the voices and discourses of participants in an intercultural online service-learning project focused on peace through education in Afghanistan, primarily through synchronous English language tutoring. ...
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    48,19 €

  • Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching
    Amy Jo Minett / Didem Ekici / Sarah E Dietrich / Sarah E. Dietrich
    This book maps person to person peacebuilding as it intersects with, and is embedded in, intercultural communication. It foregrounds the voices and discourses of participants in an intercultural online service-learning project focused on peace through education in Afghanistan, primarily through synchronous English language tutoring. ...
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    169,80 €

  • Central Asia is Teetering on the Brink
    Musa Khan Jalalzai
    The establishment of Taliban’s Suicide Brigade once more generated pain in the neck of Central Asia, Russia and Europe. Deployment of suchlike Suicide Brigade next door to their borders is a major mainspring of consternation in the region. Central Asia and Europe refused to recognise the Taliban government and forewarned deployment of over 6,000 fighters of Suicide Brigade. Rec...
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    52,78 €

  • From Changing Diapers to Changing the World
    Cynthia Changyit Levin
    Cynthia Changyit Levin cared deeply about global poverty and hunger even before becoming a parent. But mothering her own children toughened her resolve to stand up for her values and work to become a better world for all kids. In this inspirational book 'From Changing Diapers to Changing the World:  Why Moms Make Great Advocates and How to Get Started,' Levin offers step-by-ste...
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    24,33 €

  • Children of Communism
    Sándor Horváth / Thomas Cooper
    As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the myth of the most notorious juvenile gang in Budapest was born. The origin of the Great Tree Gang became an elaborately cultiv...
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    121,59 €

  • Children of Communism
    Sándor Horváth / Thomas Cooper
    As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the myth of the most notorious juvenile gang in Budapest was born. The origin of the Great Tree Gang became an elaborately cultiv...
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    45,55 €

  • Pride in prejudice
    Paul Jackson
    Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to the varied extreme right groups active in Britain today. The book examines the extreme right movement in terms of ideology and appeal, organisational styles, online and offline activism, approaches to leadership, types of supporters and gendered dynamics. ...
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    26,04 €

  • Technologies of Human Rights Representation
    Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it. ...
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    121,82 €

  • Destructive Twin Visions of ISIS & Al-Qaeda
    Richard Miriti
    The accurate description of terrorism is a complex phenomenon to conceptualize primarily due to the ideological interpretations. The best approach to undertake is starting by the point that the main objective of terrorism is to terrorize. This is a role that is often assumed by various regimes, a state (especially for despotic regimes), organized force, or state. Terror has bee...
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    18,96 €

  • Platform Socialism
    James Muldoon
    Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for ext...
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    127,25 €

  • Reconstructing lives
    Vanja Kovacic
    Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation process in all its complex forms: physically, emotionally and symbolically. ...
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    145,42 €

  • Jihadist Tendencies and Global Terrorism on Soft Targets
    Saron Messembe Obia
    This book explores the origin of jihad, terrorism, and global challenges from the West to Africa. It examines the 19th-century jihad in West Africa as a religious movement prone to respect of Islam. An example is the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria in 1804, in which many Nigerians were granted scholarships to study abroad, which strengthened and united the community at the...
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    14,21 €

  • A Sourcebook for Engaging with Civil Society Organizations in Asian Development Bank Operations
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides guidance on how civil society organizations (CSOs) can be more effectively engaged in Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations to maximize the benefits for its developing member countries.With their unique strengths and specialized knowledge of their communities and constituencies, CSOs have an essential role to play in creating a more prosperous, inclu...
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    44,64 €

  • The European Radical Left
    Giorgos Charalambous
    Is today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional understanding of a ’new left’, drawing out continuities with earlier movements and parties. Charalambous...
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    126,55 €

  • Jihadist Tendencies and Global Terrorism on Soft Targets
    Saron Messembe Obia
    Saron Messembe Obia holds an MSc in Security Studies and a PGD in Criminology and Security Management from the Pan African Institute for Development- West Africa (PAID-WA), Buea, Cameroon and a counter-terrorism analyst for the Islamic Theology of Counter-Terrorism, United Kingdom (ITCT, UK) and author of ’The Criminal Mind in The Age of Globalization’. ...
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    14,50 €

  • 9/11 With POTUS
    Chris Carlson
    Imagine, you’re with the President in Florida, when America was attacked on 9/11. Buckle your seat belt - You’re in the White House Travel Pool. It’s gonna get wild! As told by Cameramen, Reporters, and WH Staff - All with the President, The week of 9/11. Revealing NEW stories! News Cameraman, Chris Carlson was there, and is your guide. On the morning of 9/11, The Bush White Ho...
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    15,36 €

  • Free Speech and Koch Money
    Isaac Kamola / Ralph Wilson
    In recent years hundreds of high-profile ’free speech’ incidents have rocked US college campuses. Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable protest, with many being disinvited from speaking. These incidents are widely circulated as examples of the academy’s intolerance towards conservative views. But this response is not t...
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    126,99 €

  • Destructive Twin Visions of ISIS & Al-Qaeda
    Richard Miriti
    The accurate description of terrorism is a complex phenomenon to conceptualize primarily due to the ideological interpretations. The best approach to undertake is starting by the point that the main objective of terrorism is to terrorize. This is a role that is often assumed by various regimes, a state (especially for despotic regimes), organized force, or state. Terror has bee...
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    12,47 €

  • Avoiding the Terrorist Trap
    Tom Parker
    For more than 150 years, nationalist, populist, Marxist and religious terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: provoke states into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result. Yet, state after state falls into the trap that terrorists have set for them.Faced with a major terrorist threat...
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    91,59 €

  • Anarchism and the Black Revolution
    Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
    ’A powerful - even startling - book that challenges the shibboleths of ’white’ anarchism’. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so’ - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda Report Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst...
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    127,12 €