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  • Medicalising borders
    Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power techniques that originate in European modernity. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Tiemblen, las brujas hemos vuelto
    Yanina Vidal
    Este ensayo es un análisis de las diversas prácticas artísticas que se desarrollaron durante la conmemoración del 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer, en el espacio urbano. El arte es una forma de expresar la lucha política y ha sido usado por distintas colectivas, activistas y artistas, quienes han utilizado sus cuerpos para multiplicar las voces de las mujeres y disiden...
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    13,52 €

  • Bounty Layer People
    Viggo Hansen
    America became a super nation largely because of its immigrants and education. Their offspring - Bounty Layer People - are the fortunate recipients. This book tells the story of one such person whose parents came from Denmark and began as sod busters in Montana, moving on to the Midwest. He later became a soldier, teacher and author. His concerns are America’s public education ...
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    20,21 €

  • My Life Let Me be Free from Abuse
    Tracey Taylor
    This book is about domestic violence. Abuse in any form is wrong, but when so many people are speaking their opinions who do you listen to? My motto was; ’there’s no one out there to help me, so I found the strength to help myself’. I wrote this book from the heart as I, myself, have suffered abuse from childhood to adulthood. A cycle of abuse for 38 years. One day I found the ...
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    12,75 €

  • Hacking the Underground
    Raquel Velho
    Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures'Minding the gap' while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time. The extensive infrastructure of London’s public tr...
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    38,42 €

  • Hacking the Underground
    Raquel Velho
    Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures'Minding the gap' while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time. The extensive infrastructure of London’s public tr...
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    135,05 €

  • La Querella de las mujeres
    Ángela Muñoz Fernández / Xenia von Tippelskirch
    El estudio del peso de la religión y más específicamente de la Biblia en los contenidos de la polémica de los sexos constituye un importante filón de análisis escasamente abordado por la historiografía dedicada a la Querella de las mujeres. Este importante hilo temático tampoco ha sido abordado en su amplitud desde la tradición de los estudios bíblicos y la teología feminista.E...
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    43,15 €

  • Effects & Affects of Gun-Related Trauma
    Sky Starr
    'There are many topics and issues around gun violence that must be addressed. There are few individuals with the depth and understanding, coupled with first-hand experience, who can do so. Rev. Sky Starr, in her second book series, Therapeutic Prescriptions for Fractured Communities, provides practical solutions for victims of gun violence. This must be in the hands of policy m...
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    18,51 €

  • REVEALED
    Tamara Lucas Copeland
    From the perspective of a Black woman, Copeland reveals lessons about history, the invisibility of racism, and the insidiousness of prejudice and bias, all in just a weekly five-minute read. Revealed is a resource for those committed to better understanding racism, prejudice, and bias. This tool will aid those who have been through racial equity training and want to continue th...
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    12,77 €

  • Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families
    Sarah Cox
    This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual approach, which combines translanguaging principles, decolonising methodology and linguistic hospitality, provides a more accessible starting point than current monolingual pedagogies. ...
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    48,00 €

  • Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families
    Sarah Cox
    This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual approach, which combines translanguaging principles, decolonising methodology and linguistic hospitality, provides a more accessible starting point than current monolingual pedagogies. ...
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    169,60 €

  • Sound-Blind
    Alex Benson
    In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from 'sound-blindness.' The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of litera...
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    126,98 €

  • Sound-Blind
    Alex Benson
    In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from 'sound-blindness.' The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of litera...
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    44,66 €

  • Domestic Detention
    Rodney Pemberton
    In this gripping true story, after his mother’s telephone numbers and addresses kept constantly changing before she suddenly disappeared, her son was convince that there was more to the story, and took it upon himself to leave St. Vincent and the Grenadines and journey to the United States in search of her, and found her paralyzed from below her waist, trapped in a home with he...
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    27,66 €

  • The Sabotage
    GEW Reports & Analyses Team.
    'The Sabotage' comprehensively examines the geopolitical competition between China and the United States. It focuses on these powers’ strategic initiatives and manoeuvres to assert their global influence.Introduction: The book outlines the intensifying global competition, with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a focal point. This monumental project, envisioned by Chines...
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    31,73 €

  • Homeless Prevention - Evidence-Based Interventions and Strategies
    Carolyn Flowers / Cornel Stemley
    'Explore ’Unveiling the Unseen: A Novel Approach to Homelessness’ on Lulu Book Publishing and major bookstores worldwide. Authored by Dr. Cornel D. Stemley, this self-published work provides fresh insights into homelessness, analyzing Homeless Outreach Team perspectives. From historical roots to effective solutions, this book offers a compelling narrative. ...
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    24,50 €

  • The Dedollarization Paradigm
    Jarrel E.
    The Dedollarisation Paradigm: Rethinking Global Financial SystemsIn an age of profound economic transformation, the world is witnessing a fundamental shift away from the once unassailable dominance of the United States dollar (USD) in global finance. The pages of history are being rewritten as nations, economies, and financial institutions grapple with the challenges and opport...
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    8,74 €

  • African Migration
    Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo / Victor Ojakorotu
    The issue of African migration since the Covid-19 pandemic depended on novel influences and determinants. The chapters in this edited volume evaluate recent variables that instigated the migration of Africans and assess implications for Africans, Africans in diaspora, and their global reverberations. The volume unites well-researched and theoretically informed empirical studies...
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    199,73 €

  • Preconceito De Marca X Preconceito De Origem Na Atualidade
    Jorge Hilton
    Qual é o cerne deste livro de bolso (formato pocket)? Por conta da chamada one drop rule (regra de uma gota), ainda hoje paira na mentalidade de boa parte dos brasileiros a ideia de que nos Estados Unidos o racismo é definido muito mais pela origem dos indivíduos, do que pelo fenótipo. Enquanto membro do Hip-Hop esse pensamento há muito intriga o autor, pois não é o que suas vi...
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    7,66 €

  • O Respeitável Mercado Musical Mais Racista De Todos Os Tempos
    Jorge Hilton
    Há tempos que muitas pessoas vêm manifestando indignação diante de um fenômeno silenciado na grande mídia: a ausência de negros e indígenas de sucesso na música sertaneja. Após a morte do cantor João Paulo, que fazia dupla com Daniel, este mercado impôs uma barreira para os artistas não-brancos, promovendo uma exclusão sem precedentes no gênero, que em seu embrião e desenvolvim...
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    22,88 €

  • Miradas a todo color
    Cecilia González-Andrieu / Kochurani Abraham / Kwok Pui-lan / Lucia Vantini / Maricel Mena López / Maricel S. Ibita / Marilou S. Ibita / Marilú Rojas Salazar / Mireia Vidal Quintero / Silvia Martínez Cano / Wonhee Anne Joh
    Desde las Filipinas a México, y desde la India a los Estados Unidos, las autoras aquí reunidas invitan a expandir los colores de nuestra mirada al identificar y analizar las estructuras profundas de la colonialidad y las prácticas de dominio, marginación y exclusión que comportan, siempre desde una clave teológica feminista que nace precisamente de su experiencia.El estado de g...
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    29,00 €

  • Paradigms Powering China’s Rise
    Belal Ehsan Baaquie
    The primary aim of this book is to understand the ground-breaking paradigms and policies that have powered China’s remarkable rise: from an agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse and a leading nation - and that too in a span of merely forty years from 1979 to 2019. The book covers the rise of China up to 2019 and is divided into five parts. The first part takes a stra...
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    93,68 €

  • Movilidad humana y derechos sociales en américa del sur
    Cécile Blouin
    Este libro reúne aportes teóricos sobre derechos sociales en la movilidad humana en la migración internacional, con estudios de caso en Argentina y Chile, desde una perspectiva pluridisciplinaria. Esta publicación no solo ofrece un riguroso análisis legal del grado de protección y garantía de los derechos sociales para las personas migrantes y refugiadas, sino que invita a una ...
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    10,04 €

  • Liberated
    Jill E. Schultz
    In Liberated, Jill E. Schultz courageously shares her story, shedding light on a taboo topic untouched until now. She bravely opens up about the aftermath of her own childhood trauma that led her down a curious path of experimentation with other children when she was only a child herself, and the years she spent in shame and self-loathing. Inside these pages, you’ll meet brave ...
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    25,03 €

  • Liberated
    Jill E. Schultz
    In Liberated, Jill E. Schultz courageously shares her story, shedding light on a taboo topic untouched until now. She bravely opens up about the aftermath of her own childhood trauma that led her down a curious path of experimentation with other children when she was only a child herself, and the years she spent in shame and self-loathing. Inside these pages, you’ll meet brave ...
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    17,63 €

  • Reclaiming Time
    Tanya Ann Kennedy
    Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation. ...
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    126,95 €

  • Surviving A Narcissist
    Christy Brandon
    You don’t have to feel like your best isn’t good enough. Take back your voice and start leading a life that aligns with your own values instead of someone else’s.If you yearn to make a change and end years of abuse and toxicity, then are already a step ahead of your abuser.Perhaps you question if there was something in you that attracted the narcissistic abuser to your life.Yet...
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    23,47 €

  • The spatiality and temporality of urban violence
    This interdisciplinary edited volume studies practices and representations of urban violence from a spatiotemporal perspective. It discusses how the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban can produce and shape violence, and how practices as well as memories of violence transform spatialities and temporalities of cities. ...
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    169,41 €

  • How to Unite the Left on Animals
    John Tallent
    Similar to how Trump and QAnon supporters and climate change denialists ignore or outright do not understand reality, Leftists also ignore or have been misinformed about reality. The truth is that our understandings of diet, environmentalism, animal cognition, veganism, animal rights, nutrition, and many other things are severely incorrect. Our abilities to use logic are too of...
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    19,32 €

  • Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka
    S. Janaka Biyanwila
    Fusing the regional with the global, this book widens its perspective from a distinct, national moment to an international interdependency with the power to ripple across every corner of the globe. ...
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    149,71 €


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