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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started fro……続きを見る

Als Josefina Rivera in einer regnerischen Nacht in den Wagen von Gary Heidnik steigt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie sich damit einem Psychopathen ausliefert. Heidnik überwältigt die junge Frau und kettet……続きを見る

Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionab……続きを見る

A presente publicação direciona-se ao público em geral e, mais especialmente, aos professores e estudantes dos cursos de Ciências Sociais, Pedagogia e licenciaturas. O objetivo é envolver os leitore……続きを見る

"Que longo trajeto o da etnografia! De um conceito usado pelos antropólogos para se referir ao seu fazer, o que incluía o estranhamento, o trabalho de campo, mas também um diálogo teórico com autore……続きを見る

Consequentialism is the view that the rightness or wrongness of actions depend solely on their consequences. It is one of the most influential, and controversial, of all ethical theories. In this bo……続きを見る

Este libro de Joaquín Yrivarren nos propone una descripción curiosa y detallada del gobierno electrónico, aterrizando su concepto en la experiencia de la Municipalidad de Miraflores (2003-2006). Par……続きを見る

First published in 1991. Japanese attitudes to pollution and environmental protection were distinctly equivocal. The Japanese are a nature-loving people, yet they are responsible for widespread envi……続きを見る

A comprehensive, clearly structured and readable overview of the subject, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment has established itself as the leading introduction to EIA worldwide. This fi……続きを見る

Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derr……続きを見る

This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology. Emphasising the positive……続きを見る

Questo libro contiene la riproduzione anastatica integrale dell’opuscolo originale dal titolo Come abbiamo amministrato e come amministreremo Ferrara e il suo forese, con il sottotitolo Più voti al ……続きを見る

During the 2000s, the European Union has witnessed a significant change in terms of integration policies for immigrants. This book intends to address the relationship between, on the one hand, cultu……続きを見る

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels at……続きを見る

First published in 1999, this volume is the first full length study of one of the most important political institutions of the erstwhile Soviet political system – the Central Committee of the Commun……続きを見る

Periodicamente una città ha la necessità di guardarsi, ascoltarsi e riflettere su se stessa. Questo insieme di narrazioni è un contributo polifonico, composto da un gruppo eterogeneo di autori, che ……続きを見る

This book describes and analyzes the geological basis for the current world petroleum situation. It explains the formation and accumulation of conventional and unconventional oil and gas and the met……続きを見る

Demographers predict that by the end of the century Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be considered ……続きを見る

En México, el primer semestre de 2014 se vio marcado por los esfuerzos del Ejecutivo por controlar un país que, por momentos, parece escapársele de las manos. Muestra de ello es el envío de un comis……続きを見る

This book shows how necessary ritual is to human freedom and to social processes of liberation. It aims to reflect upon the deep human longing for ritual and to interpret it in the light of our phys……続きを見る

Recent disasters have demonstrated the critical role that re-housing victims play in communities’ long term disaster recovery. This book examines the history and theories of rehousing, the role of b……続きを見る

This book provides a unique understanding of the concept and practice of seva (service) in modern India. It examines social reform, key ameliorative programmes, seva organisations, nationalist polit……続きを見る

Este livro é produto de uma dissertação de mestrado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), realizada no âmbito do Grupo de Pesquisa CNP……続きを見る

Hacer justicia, desde el punto de vista andino, es restablecer vínculos. Esa es la principal conclusión a la que llegamos al término de nuestro trabajo con estudiantes y docentes de la Universidad N……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY LGBTQ SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR AWARD The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society-and must recl……続きを見る

Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, t……続きを見る

The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence and shaping of the twenty-first-century world. This ……続きを見る

Durante las últimas décadas han proliferado en el mundo una gran red de mecanismos para la promoción y fomento del comercio e inversión con base en los principios de la liberalización económica, los……続きを見る

Las Compañías Generales de Comercio o Sogo Sosha (en japonés) han representado una pieza clave en el desarrollo económico y en las estrategias comerciales de Japón desde su proceso de modernización ……続きを見る

This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integr……続きを見る