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  • Una creencia puede cambiarlo todo
    Cora Panizza
    En este ensayo descubrirás las posibles respuestas a estas preguntas desde una perspectiva psicológica, donde se enfatiza que la imagen de «ser humano» que hemos construido está basada en una imagen contrapuesta de lo que creemos que son los animales. En la exploración de estos fenómenos mentales y de las interacciones de nuestra especie con otros animales, la autora formula un...
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    13,77 €

  • Antero
    Sebastián Barreto
    Antero nació con una gran belleza: es un hombre con un cuerpo fornido que haría suspirar a quien se cruce en su camino. A pesar de eso, no está conforme con su vida. Lo que odia de sí mismo es el simple hecho de haber nacido en medio de una familia de muy bajos recursos económicos.Sin embargo, el destino cambiará el camino que ya veía trazado en su vida. Antero conocerá a una d...
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    17,67 €

  • A History of the Iranian Women’s Rights Movement
    Donya Ahmadi
    Reductionist tales, recalling orientalist essentialism, portray Muslim women as passive recipients of politics, who blindly follow the authority of religious men in their pursuit of political power. This book shows that Iranian women have been all but passive victims, and that their political contributions and organizing have been key to any progress made on behalf of sociopoli...
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    16,41 €

  • A History Of The Iranian Women’s Rights Movement
    Donya Ahmadi
    Iranian women have a rich and long-standing legacy of political activism. The origins of the Iranian women’s movement can be traced back to the emergence of independent women’s groups and periodicals during the constitutional revolution of the early twentieth century. Despite women’s active presence and contributions to global political developments of the past century, contemp...
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    16,41 €

  • Broken Hope
    Lynn Tramonte / Suma Setty
    What if you were forced to pack your belongings and leave your family, friends, career, home, and life behind? Could you say good-bye to everyone and everything you love, not knowing if you will see them again? That is what deportation is: permanent banishment from your home, family, friends, and job, from a life built over years. It is an extreme action that causes lasting har...
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    22,87 €

  • The Life and Work of Ante Dabro, Australian-Croatian Sculptor
    Peter Read
    Ante Dabro believes that the ability to see what other people don’t see is a real gift. He says, ’It’s like a star wheeling round the earth, fertilising the imagination as it goes.’ This book explores the different ways he has liberated an essence of humanity by releasing the soul of a human form from its imprisoning substance, whether it be from wood, marble, stone or plaster....
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    57,06 €

  • Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Matter
    Bin Srinidhi
    This book integrates the current research on diversity, equity, and inclusion with corporate practice and describes how these initiatives affect organizations’ morale, performance, and output. Academic researchers, corporate executives tasked with implementing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), and regulators face the problem of balancing DEI initiatives, which could generate...
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    202,89 €

  • The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants
    Peter H Tu / Suman Gupta
    The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. The book ensures that specialist concepts in AI research are made comprehensible to a humanities researcher, while humanities theories can be easily grasped by an AI engineer.The authors establish ground rules to design an AI-Assistant, tha...
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    45,46 €

  • The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants
    Peter H Tu / Suman Gupta
    The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. The book ensures that specialist concepts in AI research are made comprehensible to a humanities researcher, while humanities theories can be easily grasped by an AI engineer.The authors establish ground rules to design an AI-Assistant, tha...
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    105,59 €

  • The Streets Of Lagrange
    Jimmy Mcphail
    For more than three decades Jimmy McPhail has listened with an ear of disbelief as minority victims and witnesses shared their stories. While the plot and the characters changed, the theme always remained the same. Themes of injustice, hatred and discrimination were the three most reoccurring themes. From verbal and physical abuse, workplace discrimination and even police bruta...
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    8,68 €

  • Meu Filho Cão
    Roger Cardoso
    O número de cães no mundo já ultrapassa um bilhão, esses animais que caminham ao nosso lado há mais de quinze mil anos participam cada vez mais das nossas vidas, porém o mundo moderno com seus conflitos torna essa convivência cada vez mais conturbada. Este livro propõe uma nova abordagem para solução de problemas comportamentais e estabelece um novo padrão de convivência entre ...
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    22,03 €

  • ANGER IN / ANGER OUT
    Maria L Vega
    In this anger management educational workbook you will venture out onto a road that will take you on a journey toward better understanding and management of your emotions. We have all felt fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and displeasure, regardless of culture or life experience. Emotions are universal and do not always follow rules of logic. Even a strong emotion like anger...
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    36,68 €

  • Take Out the Jocks
    Michael Wallace Nest
    Ever wondered what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men, not young women?Kate, Carly, and Seyram, friends since childhood, are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress with the #MeToo movement in their conservative community. They decide to reverse gender freedoms by targeting the town’s jocks in a series ...
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    15,31 €

  • Homeless
    Marcia A. Murphy
    This book addresses the tragic suffering of the homeless. When we can get to the root causes of homelessness, identify them, and address them, this is helpful in assisting those who are unhoused. By sharing the story of one extraordinary individual, the author illustrates how many factors are involved in a person’s past that are interrelated and which influence each other’s out...
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    12,10 €

  • Homeless
    Marcia A. Murphy
    This book addresses the tragic suffering of the homeless. When we can get to the root causes of homelessness, identify them, and address them, this is helpful in assisting those who are unhoused. By sharing the story of one extraordinary individual, the author illustrates how many factors are involved in a person’s past that are interrelated and which influence each other’s out...
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    25,05 €

  • Las Crosses
    Apple An
    If you crave stories of resilient people who follow their heads, hearts, and dreams, and if you like light-hearted humor and fast-paced page-turners, then you’ll love Apple An’s inspirational account.Fleeing the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 and fueled by a burning desire for a better life, Apple embarks on a daring journey to pursue her doctoral education...
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    23,05 €

  • Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders
    Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy. ...
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    68,92 €

  • 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 €


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