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  • Romancing Through Italy
    Robert James Connors
    Romancing Through Italy is an intimate cultural journey that reveals not just the places, but the people and mysteries of an ancient land. In these true stories, discover the humor, beauty, heroes, friends, and misadventures of traveling through Italy. Emperors and cave-dwellers, elderly goat-herds and ghost towns come to life in visits to the hidden corners of the cradle of mo...
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    22,20 €

  • Global Perspectives on Media Events in Contemporary Society
    Andrew Fox
    Media events have been described as broadcasts that involve an engaged audience viewing the same event simultaneously; though this definition is still relevant, the way media outlets interact with and react to their audiences has greatly changed. This is in part due to the emergence of social media platforms which allow a participatory audience, something that genre-specific te...
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    216,65 €

  • 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 €

  • Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation
    Online education has the potential to utilize cutting-edge technologies in order to bring together learners, e-facilitators, and e-contents. The Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality discusses the potential for transformative models to liberate online education. With a focus on the societal, social, political, economi...
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    348,20 €

  • Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish
    Jesus Nez Romay / Jesus Nunez Romay / Jesus Nzqez Romay
    Because the first socialist revolution in the Americas took place in Cuba, this country has also seen the rise of new terms and the introduction of new, very specific meanings for old terms, adopted as required to express new realities. How can these neologisms be rendered in English, when no English-speaking country has as yet carried out a Marxist-Leninist social revolution a...
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    11,00 €

  • The Moon Year - A Record of Chinese Customs and Festivals
    Igor Mitrophanow / Juliet Bredon
    The Moon Year is a facinating recording the mysterious and somewhat elusive traditions of the Chinese. Juliet Bredon and Igor Mitrophanow trace their way through the intimate life of Chinese religion, superstitions, philosophies, customs, and society. Only after a year’s residence in China are the authors able to gather an intimate perspective on this age-old civilization that ...
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    22,63 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm
    Mei-Ling Hopgood
    A tour of global practices that will inspire American parents to expand their horizons (and geographical borders) and learn that there’s more than one way to diaper a baby. Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mom from suburban Michigan-now living in Buenos Aires-was shocked that Argentine parents allow their children to stay up until all hours of the night. Could there really be soc...
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    13,53 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemoration...
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    39,33 €

  • Manifesto Pró-liberdade
    Joel Santos Ferreira
    Especificando, essa equivocada analise de eventos se manifesta quando, curiosamente, aqueles que produzem empregos e renda por meios de seus esforços e capacidades são marginalizadas por políticos, movimentos sociais, sindicatos e boa parte de intelectuais. A caça às bruxas acontece em algumas salas de aula em que professores com ligação partidária afirmam que esses trabalhador...
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    8,47 €

  • When to Rob a Bank
    Steven D. Levitt
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    18,68 €

  • Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
    Yong-Chool Ha
    South Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation’s economy. Leader Park Chung Hee’s sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change i...
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    134,50 €

  • Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
    Yong-Chool Ha
    South Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation’s economy. Leader Park Chung Hee’s sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change i...
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    40,49 €

  • El coleccionismo numismático en mujeres
    Luciana G. Aldana
    Barreras sociales, culturales y económicas han influido históricamente para que el acceso de la mujer al coleccionismo numismático sea restringido. Hay mayor presencia de mujeres en la investigación numismática y quizás hasta en el comercio numismático, pero coleccionistas, pocas.Así es como en mayo de 2023, la psicóloga y numismática argentina Luciana Aldana, comienza una inve...
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    19,24 €

  • Reflexões Filosóficas
    Rogério Corrêa
    Nas últimas décadas o mundo transformou-se profundamente. Estamos vivendo um momento de incertezas e crises em quase todos os campos. Nesta obra o filósofo Rogério Corrêa traz a baila alguns temas complexos e inquietantes, como o retorno da Filosofia; política deliberativa na democracia; a alma e a felicidade; A política ética de Maquiavel; Ética na política é uma necessidade e...
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    11,44 €

  • Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations
    This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations. ...
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    60,34 €

  • Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations
    This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations. ...
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    181,95 €

  • Campeonas
    Bruno Rivas Frías / María José Castro Bernardini
    Campeonas. Nada las detiene sigue la serie de Campeonas. Cambiando las reglas del juego (Editorial UPC, 2022) al presentarnos los perfiles de las atletas ganadoras de la segunda edición del premio Igualdad, Mujer y Deporte (IMD), otorgado por la Fundación Deporte en Igualdad (FDI) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).Las protagonistas de esta entrega son Kimberl...
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    17,68 €

  • Argentina and Her People of To-day
    Nevin O. Winter
    'The Spaniards who first visited the coast of Argentina, and sailed up the broad and imposing river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean, were so impressed with the outlook and prospects, that they named the country Argentina, which means silvery or silver-like, and bestowed upon the majestic stream the name Rio de La Plata, which means river of silver. When their prospectors f...
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    17,73 €

  • Early Jazz
    Fumi Tomita
    A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes. ...
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    127,05 €

  • Using Influencer Marketing as a Digital Business Strategy
    Using Influencer Marketing as a Digital Business Strategy presents a comprehensive exploration of the burgeoning world of digital influencers, whose impact on consumer behavior and brand promotion is rapidly transforming the marketing landscape. This book delves into the most relevant topics in the field, providing a valuable contribution to both management and academia alike. ...
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    262,07 €

  • India - What can it teach us?
    F. Max Müller
    A must-read for every Indian. What Can It teach us? is a compilation of lectures delivered by Max Muller at Cambridge.F. Max Müller in lectures portrays India; specially the Vedic India; as an epitome of virtuosity & morality; whose glory is equal if not greater to the classical Greek or Roman Civilizations.F. Max Müller urges the Westerners to come out of their supreme colonia...
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    17,01 €

  • Cocoa Woman
    Johnny Coomansingh
    COCOA WOMAN: a narrative about cocoa estate culture in the British West Indies speaks to the discomfort, the pain, the suffering, and what a young man now speculates to be the abuse he endured while spending weekends and school vacations on his godmother’s cocoa plantation. In retrospect, it was nothing short of child slave labor. He feels that he stomached 'slave labor' just b...
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    12,78 €

  • Torturous Etiquettes
    Daniel Varndell
    Explores the 'torture' of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema. ...
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    44,47 €

  • Jazz with a Beat
    Tad Richards
    The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s-60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature. ...
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    26,78 €

  • Jazz with a Beat
    Tad Richards
    Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of small group swing jazz. Coming into being in the early 1940s, small group swing answered the need in the Black community for a form of jazz that was more accessible (and more danceable) than the new bebop. An adaptation of the big band Black swing (Erskine Hawkins, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick ...
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    127,15 €

  • Por todos los caminos
    Celio Turino
    Desde que dejó el Ministerio de Cultura de Brasil, en 2010, Célio Turino ha sido invitado a viajar a distintos países de Latinoamérica para hablar sobre este modelo de política pública que ayudó a crear y que ha establecido nuevos parámetros de gestión y democracia, aplicando conceptos como Estado-red (Manuel Castells) y Estado ampliado (Antonio Gramsci). Teniendo como base de ...
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    73,70 €

  • Don patrimonio y la Quebrada
    Clara Mancini
    En el año 2003 la Quebrada de Humahuaca fue incluida en la lista de Patrimonio de la Humanidad de la Unesco en la categoría de Paisaje Cultural. Entre los aspectos ponderados estuvo la profundidad temporal de su ocupación, una cantidad importante de sitios arqueológicos e históricos y de otros bienes considerados patrimoniales.En Don Patrimonio y la Quebrada, Clara Mancini inve...
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    21,84 €

  • The Itching Palm
    William Rufus Scott
    Fed up of walking around like a money sieve, draining money everywhere you go because of the constant pressure to tip? Take a taxi? Tip. Hotel porter? Tip. Baggageman? Tip. Bellboy? Tip. Elevator boy? Tip. Hatboy? Tip. Lunch? Tip. Room service? Tip. Uber? Tip. Parking attendant? Tip. And as if this were not enough, we have now reached the point where even self-checkout machines...
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    39,43 €

  • Homenagens E Recordações
    Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Dutra
    Este livro reúne textos, desde pequenos apontamentos até artigos de maior fôlego, escritos em diferentes momentos com o fito de homenagear personagens e eventos do cotidiano que, apreendidos pela crônica do escrevinhador, inspiram agradecimento e conclamam posicionamentos ao sabor do tempo em que vivemos.É uma tentativa, quiçá, ingênua de recuperar, a partir do cotidiano das re...
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    13,37 €


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