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  • Almost a Mother
    Christy Wopat
    "After my infant twins died, I couldn’t find anything on the shelves at the bookstore that was actually honest."I found books about grief, sure. Books written by psychologists on the stages of grief and books that assured me that I would find my answers in prayer. This isn’t meant to replace those. Those books are necessary, but in the raw, emotional weeks and months after losi...
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    19,83 €

  • Couples by Intention
    Elliott Kronenfeld LICSW CST / LICSW CSTS Elliott Kronenfeld Ph.D.
    Wouldn’t it be great if relationships came easy? What if we all just knew intuitively what to do to make our marriages and committed partnerships the absolute best and deepest that they could be?But the reality is that none of us are pros, and even our best relationships can go deeper. We often use love and sex as measurements for how developed our relationships are, but in rea...
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    13,86 €

  • Inner Sky
    Steven Layer
    A conversation about resistance...to life's experiences. If I had one afternoon to spend with my friend Lily, just diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, what would I say?  I had been where she is now, yet against all the odds found the way to experience a complete and spontaneous healing. The secrets I was shown are the opposite of what society teaches us. This was not...
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    28,77 €

  • Spoiler Alert
    Jacquie Purcell / Korttany Finn
    One thing you can count on in life is the fact that you are going to die. How’s that for a buzzkill? Most people diligently ignore the reality of their future demise. Thinking about death somehow seems wrong. Luckily, a real life coroner challenged a few thousand internet strangers to do the thinking for you. The result is a collection of morbid and slightly embarrassing questi...
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    9,88 €

  • Permaculture Plants
    Jeff Nugent
    The comprehensive guide to edible  and useful Agaves and Cacti. Productive plants for land rehabilitation. Plants which survive uncertain rainfall. Drought and snow resistant plants. Staples  of  ancient  cultures. Low effort emergency food. Extensively  indexed. Over 400 useful species covered. ...
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    26,20 €

  • Studies In Structural Sociology
    Frank W Young
    This collection of articles and essays embodies a new approach to sociology based on the original meaning of the word. Its central concept is 'community,' which is defined to cover units as small as the household and as large as the nation-state. Individuals are a special case of community. So defined, communities account for almost all the independent social organization of th...
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    18,65 €

  • KING OF SPORTS
    GREGG EASTERBROOK
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    19,74 €

  • Canibalismo en la Cueva de Malamuerzo
    Ana Solari Giachino / Inmaculada Alemán Aguilera / Miguel Botella López
    This volume focuses on: the identification of indelible traces recorded on bones; on human actions associated with these marks; and finally on human behaviours that led to actions performed on bodies around the time of death. The research joins a long line of studies focused on cannibalism recognition, as one of the behaviours associated with death carried out by different soci...
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    80,05 €

  • Indigenous Knowledge
    Sarah Johnson
    The third volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history, by means of theoretical essays and case studies. Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures in...
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    38,83 €

  • Surrendering to Marriage
    Iris Krasnow
    In the New York Times best-seller Surrendering to Marriage, Iris Krasnow offers a raw and penetrating portrait of modern marriage and the backbreaking work required to make it last. With joyous, sexy, and shocking stories of real marriages, real affairs, and real divorces, Surrendering to Marriage moves far beyond a how-to manual; Krasnow shows us that a successful marriage has...
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    17,95 €

  • Race Relations at the Margins
    Jeff Forret
    "Forret... has deepened our understanding of the complexity of relations between slaves and poor whites." -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret's findings ...
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    44,45 €

  • Soils and Societies
    Described in Nature as ’a delight for the soil aficionado’, this multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. F...
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    50,36 €

  • Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities
    Edited by H. L. Cobb, F. Coward, L. Grimshaw and S. Price.This volume stems from sessions at the 2004 Theoretical Archaeology Conference at Glasgow University, entitled "Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory" and "Hunting for Meaning: Interpretive Approaches to the Mesolithic". The sessions came about as a response to a continuing lack of appreciation of new developments in theo...
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    60,70 €

  • Cypriana
    'A restoration of Justina’s place in the Cyprianic pantheon.' -JHDSAINT CYPRIAN of Antioch and (to a far lesser extent) SAINT JUSTINA of Antioch have experienced a resurgence of interest in the English-speaking world. It has been remarked that they stand at a crossroads of the so-called Old and New Worlds, forming an intermediary nexus of Christian thaumaturgy and older pagan m...
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    51,75 €

  • Footy Grounds to Grandstands
    Sam Duncan
    Play in the Australian Football League is not what it was. At the game’s founding, Australian football was exactly what the AFL’s Latin motto tells us it is today – ‘the game of the people, for the people’. In its formative years it was played and watched by Australians who loved the game because they understood the way it was played. It was made by them, in the image of their ...
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    21,43 €

  • Localism in the Mass Age
    In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing. So-called Conservatism has abandoned all pretense of conserving anything at a...
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    26,75 €

  • The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas
    Robert Grant Haliburton
    Robert Grant Haliburton spent his last years proposing the existence of a distinctive tribal group of small stature within the Atlas Mountains and vicinity. He collected local stories and eyewitness accounts of this 'dwarf people,' debated critics, and published theories. These curious tales disappeared (or at least were never investigated fully) after Haliburton died, but he l...
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    18,62 €

  • Amar de diferentes maneras
    Fernando Marín Soto
    Una madre ama a su hijo y un hijo ama a su madre. El vecino ama a su vecino, aunque no sea de su familia. Nuestras mascotas nos aman incondicionalmente porque nosotros así las amamos. Yo amo a Dios y Dios me ama a mí. El amor está en todas partes. ?En este libro se tratan las diferentes formas de amar y la manera en que este amor nos lleva inevitablemente a comprobar la existen...
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    17,68 €

  • Una deidad tenaz
    Gabriel Espinosa Pineda
    Este libro compendia las transformaciones y extrañas formas que encarna una antigua deidad prehispánica; sostiene la tesis de que precede incluso a casi todos los dioses conocidos de las culturas mesoamericanas: Para los humanos fue un dios mucho antes del descubrimiento de la agricultura. Desde entonces debió tener un culto y una forma de ser imaginado, sin duda representado. ...
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    83,72 €

  • Refugiados
    Gil Loescher
    Los refugiados y otros migrantes forzados son uno de los grandes retos contemporáneos a los que se enfrenta el mundo. En todo el planeta, las personas abandonan sus países de origen para escapar de la guerra, los desastres naturales y la opresión cultural y política. Desgraciadamente, la comunidad internacional todavía lucha por brindar adecuada respuesta a esta enorme població...
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    12,43 €

  • Ciencia y religión
    Thomas Dixon
    Los debates sobre ciencia y religión rara vez dejan de ser noticia. Ya sea que se traten de lo que se enseña en las escuelas, de la encrucijada entre los valores religiosos y las recomendaciones médicas o de los cuestionamientos sobre cómo abordar nuestro cambiante medioambiente global, las emociones suelen estar a flor de piel y las respuestas no parecen satisfactorias. Sin em...
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    12,43 €

  • Cultural Influences and International Students
    Kruti S. Chaliawala
    Navigating the intricate landscape of U.S. higher education can be profoundly challenging for international students. This groundbreaking work offers a vital, dual perspective, interweaving deeply personal lived experiences with rigorous academic research to illuminate the multifaceted journey of cultural and academic adaptation.Beyond the author’s compelling narrative in the p...
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    55,87 €

  • Enajenario. Las locuras que hay en la locura
    Carlos DÍAZ HERNANDEZ
    PRÓLOGO de Amando de Miguel // ENAJENARIO, Carlos Díaz /¿Tiene sentido la Realidad, o es la Realidad la que está loca? /¿Podemos saber absolutamente todo lo que va a pasar? /La vida, ¿más preguntas que respuestas? /La inhumanidad /Sentirse extraño ¿es estar loco? /¿Es la knock-on-the-door la nueva sabiduría, o el progreso de la locura? /Fracasología y locura /Miedo angustioso /...
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    15,08 €

  • La Flexibilidad del ser humano - Sociología de la felicidad y la inteligencia
    Ismael Aguillón León
    En un mundo marcado por la incertidumbre y el cambio constante, La flexibilidad del ser humano: Sociología de la felicidad y la inteligencia propone una reflexión profunda sobre una de las capacidades más determinantes de nuestra especie: la habilidad de adaptarnos, transformarnos y reconstruirnos frente a nuevas realidades.Desde una perspectiva sociológica y humanista, la obra...
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    12,48 €

  • Rosa Torre González. Paisajes de su biografía
    José Antonio Escalante Chan
    ’Rosa Torre González. Paisajes sobre su biografía’ es la primera investigación publicada sobre esta figura clave del feminismo yucateco y mexicano. En 1923, Rosa Torre hizo historia al ocupar un cargo de elección popular en México, treinta años antes de que el voto femenino se reconociera a nivel nacional. Sin embargo, su vida, pensamiento y legado han sido relegados a notas al...
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    12,48 €

  • Aborto voluntario y relaciones de género: políticas del cuerpo y de la reproducción
    Susana Rostagnol
    Aborto voluntario y relaciones de género: políticas del cuerpo y de la reproducción presenta un análisis del vínculo entre las representaciones y prácticas del aborto voluntario y las relaciones de género, desde la antropología feminista. A lo largo de las páginas, se pasa revista a lo sucedido con el aborto en el siglo XXI, su situación sanitaria y magnitud, las discusiones pa...
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    14,51 €

  • Trashumancias
    Emilia Calisto
    Trashumancia es movimiento, cambio, caminar. Nada es esta´tico, la bu´squeda es permanente por eso hay que se- guir andando. Nunca es en solitario. Nadie escribe, piensa o siente solx; siempre lo hacemos con otrxs, en dia´logos, confrontaciones, cuestiona´ndonos, acompan~a´ndonos. Asi´ entendemos el trabajo acade´mico. Fuimos encontra´ndonos en nuestros diversos feminismos. Alg...
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    8,27 €

  • El (des)encanto institucional adolescente ¿es posible superar las herencias familiares?
    Juan Pablo Móttola Peluffo
    Para comprender las condicionantes que rodean la participación educativo-laboral de los adolescentes en zonas urbanas vulnerables ¿es suficiente tomar en cuenta aspectos del origen familiar tales como la estructura o la acumulación de capitales familiares?, ¿qué otros elementos pueden ayudar a desencadenar o reforzar la baja participación educativo-laboral (no estudiar ni traba...
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    10,35 €

  • Brasil, 5 Séculos De Apagamento Do Povo Bantu
    Jeusamir Alves Da Silva
    Esta Obra Aborda Dados, Desde A Vinda Dos Negros Bantos Que Foram Arrancados Do Seu Hábitat, A África Centro-Ocidental, E Aqui Introduzidos Para O Trabalho Escravo, Desde O Século Xvi Até O Xix E Perpassando Pelos Seus Descendentes Dos Pós-Escravidão Até Os Dias Atuais. Segundo Bezerra (2011), Dos Quase Três Milhões De Escravizados Que Entraram Pelos Portos Do Sudeste Do Brasil...
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    20,75 €

  • Pentecostalismo, Fuzil E Voto
    Washington Carlos Silva
    Este Livro É O Resultado Da Minha Dissertação De Mestrado Em Sociologia Política Para O Instituto Universitário De Pesquisas Do Rio De Janeiro (Iuperj-Ucam). Tentei Seguir A Formatação Exigida Pela Academia, Sem, Contudo, Renunciar A Uma Linguagem Acessível A Quem Este Trabalho É Direcionado: Aos Que Estejam Ligados Aos Interesses Da Criança E Do Adolescente E Em Sua Proteção, ...
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    14,04 €