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The Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions offers a toolbox drawn from normative ethics which finds applications in public governance, primarily focusing on policy making and executi……続きを見る

This book provides humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with a manual for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work. Drawing on extensive research, the book demonstrates in practical……続きを見る

Le récit d'une vie, d'un film, au travers d'une fable humaniste au service de la nature. Alma, jeune et talentueuse pianiste, revient s'installer dans la maison de son enfance, perdue sur une île dé……続きを見る

Escrita um ano antes da Revolução de Outubro e publicada no calor das jornadas revolucionárias de 1917, Imperialismo, estágio superior do capitalismo é considerada uma das obras mais importantes do ……続きを見る

This book makes an original contribution to credential sociology by analysing how high school certificates become and remain valuable in a context of mass high school participation (i.e. credentiali……続きを見る

Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pha……続きを見る

In Schulen und Universitäten von ehrgeizigen Karriere-Dozent:innen gedrängt und getrieben, zu Hause von statusbewussten Eltern unter Druck gesetzt, in den Betrieben von immer ausgeklügelteren Kontro……続きを見る

Maurício Tragtenberg é um nome ímpar na intelectualidade brasileira. Tanto em suas relações pessoais quanto em suas atividades profissionais e políticas, se destacou por não seguir o hegemônico e os……続きを見る

Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells.……続きを見る

Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ‘primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective. How do M……続きを見る

Os textos reunidos nesta coletânea foram elaborados a partir das falas revisadas dos autores no Curso Livre Marx-Engels: 200 anos de Engels. Os trabalhos aqui impressos refletem, em registros divers……続きを見る

História e desenvolvimento inaugura uma série de publicações do historiador marxista Caio Prado Júnior que a Boitempo publicará ao longo dos próximos anos, sob coordenação de Luiz Bernardo Pericás. ……続きを見る

Representation of geographical data using graphs, diagrams and mapping techniques is a key for geographers and for researchers in other disciplines to explore the nature of data, the pattern of spat……続きを見る

Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organ……続きを見る

Esta coletânea objetiva trazer elementos para análise da política social no Brasil, destacando inflexões, inovações e impasses postos por questões de ordem estrutural, aliadas à dinâmica dos process……続きを見る

**The preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time A Penguin Classic** Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history ……続きを見る

This book explains the increasing incidences and normalisation of Islamophobia, by analysing the role of signifiers of free speech, censorship, and fatwa during the Satanic Verses affair in problema……続きを見る

Los escritos de Eduardo Lemaitre son apasionantes, breves y están escritos con encanto. Como las notas sobre los primeros homosexuales que se mencionan en la historia de Colombia... la escandalosa r……続きを見る

Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary Afric……続きを見る

A timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and ……続きを見る

Even in the best of circumstances, women are all too often excluded from formal peacemaking and peacebuilding processes and relegated to the sidelines as observers or limited to informal peacebuildi……続きを見る

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural exis……続きを見る

How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to……続きを見る

A key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa. Even in the best o……続きを見る

This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds on both sid……続きを見る

Penser le point de rencontre entre les pratiques sociales généralisées et les pratiques transformatrices, qui modifient les espaces socionumériques et leur permettent de devenir autre, implique de m……続きを見る

Ce livre illustre la capacité innovante des universités en regard de la troisième composante de leur mission : l’extension universitaire et les services à la collectivité. Il apporte une contributio……続きを見る

Qu’est-ce qu’une institution aujourd’hui ? Les conceptions théoriques de l’institution sont aussi variées que les représentations mobilisées par les intervenants sociaux dans le feu de l’action. Le ……続きを見る

Esta obra busca comprender los procesos políticos actuales de América Latina. Se estudia la relación geopolítica post-guerra fría y las reformulaciones de las políticas de Estados Unidos hacia la re……続きを見る

Two peaceful African parents discover the hardest way that four of their five children are homosexuals. A dreadful and devastating storm in their social environment that sweeps everything away and l……続きを見る