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  • A Break in the Silence
    Donald T Hardison
    'Donald T. Hardison II does it again!'A Break in the Silence is yet another heart-wrenching, powerful, and impactful memoir by Donald T. Hardison II!'Donald T. Hardison II doesn’t write to impress-he writes to heal. And in doing so, he helps others to heal too.'This book is highly recommended for fans of emotionally honest memoirs and faith-driven narratives. It is a powerful t...
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    16,15 €

  • A Break in the Silence
    Donald T Hardison
    'Donald T. Hardison II does it again!'A Break in the Silence is yet another heart-wrenching, powerful, and impactful memoir by Donald T. Hardison II!'Donald T. Hardison II doesn’t write to impress-he writes to heal. And in doing so, he helps others to heal too.'This book is highly recommended for fans of emotionally honest memoirs and faith-driven narratives. It is a powerful t...
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    23,93 €

  • Areial Pardo: O Peso Invisível Da Ausência
    José Ediê Ribeiro Duarte
    Areial Pardo: O Peso Invisível da Ausênciaé uma narrativa densa e poética que explora o tema do esquecimento e da memória através da história de um protagonista que retorna a sua vila natal, Areial Pardo, apenas para descobrir que o lugar está sendo gradualmente apagado da existência. Casas, pessoas e até mesmo o cemitério desaparecem sem deixar rastros, e os habitantes sequer ...
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    24,96 €

  • A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning
    This volume addresses the critical gaps in developmental research on childhood learning by advocating for a more inclusive and cross-cultural approach. Recent studies highlight a concerning over-reliance on data from post-industrialized Western countries, raising questions about the broader applicability of findings. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive solution, bridging...
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    73,87 €

  • Beyond the Silk Roads
    Magnus Marsden
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    47,69 €

  • An Indelible History
    Alejandro Casas
    For centuries, the religious landscape of the Caribbean has been examined through the lens of African and European influences, often overlooking the full extent of the enduring contributions made by the region’s first peoples. An Indelible History challenges this historical omission, offering the first comprehensive exploration of Amerindian religious influence on Afro-Caribbea...
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    25,66 €

  • The Belt and Road Initiative
    This open access book presents the main theme which advances the significance of cultural dialogue between China and Europe. The essence of the historical ties between China and Europe has resurfaced, much because of the Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013 by China’s President Xi Jinping. The Belt and Road Initiative aims to bring China closer to Europe, Africa, and other...
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    75,15 €

  • Devaneios
    Flavio Xavier
    Devaneios – Crônicas de um Louco Contemporâneoé um olhar mordaz e filosófico sobre a modernidade e suas contradições. Em textos ágeis e provocativos, Flávio Xavier disseca a superficialidade das relações, a terceirização do pensamento e a fragilidade das certezas em um mundo hiperconectado, mas paradoxalmente solitário. Entre reflexões afiadas, ironia e um toque de melancolia, ...
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    10,35 €

  • Magic’s Translations
    Margaret J. Wiener
    'Do you believe in magic?' This familiar question suggests magic is easily recognized but unreal. In Magic’s Translations, Margaret J. Wiener argues that such views are shaped by historical power struggles, especially in Europe’s relations with the wider world. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch interactions with Indonesians, Wiener reveals how colonial agents ...
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    35,21 €

  • The Psychology of Liberty
    Barbara A. Kerr
    This book introduces a new concept of liberty, based on the idea that being free means being the humans we evolved to be in our first 200,000 years. With perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and sociology, the author shows how throughout history, dominant individuals and status hierarchies have injured our psychological and physical well-being. Readers discover simple be...
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    64,44 €

  • Funding White Supremacy
    Robert B. Williams
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    132,85 €

  • Funding White Supremacy
    Robert B. Williams
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    43,19 €

  • Sites of Statelessness
    Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks, that determines statelessness.Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of statelessness Sites of Statelessness examines the entanglements of citizenship policies and practices with the spread...
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    44,58 €

  • Sex, Risk, and Society
    Sarah H. Pollock
    When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts. Proposed definitions of 'abnormal' and 'dangerous' and their impact on public policies and practices are evaluated, as are our cont...
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    163,87 €

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity...
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    204,18 €

  • Participating in the Global Enterprise
    Fulvia D’Aloisio
    Viewed through an anthropological lens, Automobili Lamborghini, the renowned Italian factory of super cars, presents a compelling case study. As an ethnography spanning three years, the book focuses on the different perspectives of the managers and the workers and the effects of the organization on their lives. It highlights the increasing value of Automobili Lamborghini for th...
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    204,43 €

  • The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops
    Celia Plender
    National politics has a significant impact on organizing and accessing community welfare. This book engages with notions of everyday politics within two London-based food co-ops emerging from different political environments and ideologies. It provides a careful and engaging examination of the experiences of political and economic change in Austerity Britain, revealing how nati...
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    184,35 €

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity...
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    53,31 €

  • Cartas a los delincuentes
    Concepción Arenal
    Publicada en 1865, Cartas a los delincuentes es una obra fundamental de Concepción Arenal, en la que la autora rompe con las concepciones tradicionales sobre el crimen y el castigo. Arenal, reconocida por su incansable labor humanitaria y social, plasma en sus cartas una perspectiva innovadora, proponiendo que los delincuentes sean tratados con dignidad y respeto, más allá de s...
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    16,99 €

  • Fire on the Island
    Tom Bratrud
    In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ’spiritual vision’. However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the society’s problems were hung by persons fearing for the island’s future security. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork o...
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    47,28 €

  • Positives Altern und Prekarität
    Irina Catrinel Crăciun
    Dieses Buch untersucht positives Altern aus der Perspektive der Prekarität und zielt darauf ab, Theorien des positiven Alterns in aktuellen sozialen Kontexten zu verankern. In den letzten Jahren war die Forschung zum Thema Altern von wachsenden Meinungsverschiedenheiten zwischen Befürwortern des Modells des erfolgreichen Alterns und kritischen Gerontologen geprägt, die auf die ...
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    154,35 €

  • Bordering social reproduction
    Eve Dickson / Rachel Rosen
    Bordering social reproduction explores how migrants subjected to policies that seek to deny them the means of life endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. It develops innovative theorisations of welfare bordering and advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother’s and children’s life-making practices under duress. ...
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    43,22 €

  • New Worlds, Year Eight
    Marie Brennan
    Worlds without end . . .From weathered ancient megaliths to the glory of a solar eclipse, from the tricks of propaganda to the world’s oldest profession, award-winning author Marie Brennan leads writers of science fiction and fantasy through far-flung corners of society and culture in the eighth volume of her NEW WORLDS series of worldbuilding guides.This volume collects essays...
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    12,00 €

  • Philosophy of Education in the Anthropocene
    Nathanaël Wallenhorst / Renaud Hétier
    This book develops a philosophy of education for the Anthropocene, proposing that we think about education in the light of contemporary bioclimatic challenges. Education is seen as the political means of choice for containing the runaway Earth system change and ensuring the sustainability of human life in society. In this book, Hétier and Wallenhorst continue their work on the ...
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    179,90 €

  • Women’s Empowerment, Population Dynamics, and Development
    Dennis Hodgson
    This book assumes that 'women’s empowerment' is a social movement aimed at producing political, economic and social change. It traces the changing relationship among three unprecedented trends experienced in the 'developing world' since 1950: declining levels of mortality and fertility, socioeconomic development, and women’s empowerment. It offers two policy analyses of the con...
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    64,22 €

  • Towards A Leisureable Life
    Romeo Costa
    Towards a Leisureable Lifeexplores the profound impact that leisure can have on modern society, offering a fresh perspective on how to reclaim balance and well-being.Author Romeo Costa takes readers on a journey through history, from ancient civilizations that celebrated leisure as a path to intellectual and personal growth, to today s technology-driven world where the boundari...
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    29,64 €

  • Modeling Social Processes of Aggregation
    Lawrence Hazelrigg
    This book demonstrates, via formal statements and empirical illustrations, that nonlinearities in social processes can be modeled systematically to create solutions with practical applications in the institutional forms of paid employment, schooling, and familial relations including marital and kinship ties and the rearing of children. It shows how social processes can be model...
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    209,13 €

  • Authoring Female Identities in Spanish and Latin American Art and Media
    This edited volume places the work of Spanish and Latin American female artists in, between, and across genres, media, spaces, identities, disciplines, and worlds. Its aim is to curate a series of interconnected studies on women artists across diverse media, and to position and redefine our understanding of female authorship. This is a timely intervention both in and beyond the...
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    208,82 €

  • On the Semicivilized
    Julia Elyachar
    On the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped-and blocked-sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire. Drawing on thirty years of ethnographic research in Cairo, family archives from Palestine and Egypt, and research on Ottoman debt and finance to rethink catastrophe and potentiality ...
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    132,18 €

  • Escarceos Literarios
    Fernando Lolas Stepke
    Ensayos sobre creación literaria y disciplinas de las humanidades que abordan cuestiones de relevancia cultural universal. ...
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    19,71 €