Virginia - Social & Cultural Studies 7

Este libro tiene por objetivo presentar propuestas de política de desarrollo, cohesión social e inserción internacional conjunta que permitan la reactivación de la integración multidimensional latin……続きを見る

La historia de la humanidad es la historia de los tejidos, tan antigua como la propia civilización. Desde que se hiló la primera hebra, la necesidad de obtener tejidos ha servido de impulso para la ……続きを見る

Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by the Ingarikó in Northern Amazonia. Tracing th……続きを見る

Should workers ever lose their job because of their political views or affiliations? Should female employees be entitled to wear a headscarf in the workplace for religious reasons? Can it ever be ri……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf’s pioneering work of feminism, “probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century” (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xoc……続きを見る

In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global ……続きを見る

The rise of hybrid ventures is proof that another way of doing business is possible. Many developments in the last 15 years highlight the significance of social entrepreneurship: the 2006 Nobel Peac……続きを見る

WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Astra Taylor, author of The People's……続きを見る

Existe en la actualidad una creencia o más bien una “esperanza” de que el endurecimiento de las penas pueda ser la solución a todos los problemas de la sociedad. El castigo al culpable se torna en u……続きを見る

By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World ……続きを見る

It's your choice, right? Whether or not you have a career and children? Can today's women really have it all', or have we all been duped? When did the superwomen of the 80s become the wondering wome……続きを見る

“Aguinaldos y villancicos, recetas, tradiciones de Navidad”ーsongs, recipes, and traditions of Christmas from the nineteen Spanish-speaking countries of Middle and South America, as well as from the……続きを見る

Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the val……続きを見る

Candid, first-hand accounts of couples who stay together despite highly emotional gender issues. Head Over Heels gives voice to thirty ordinary women who live extraordinary lives as partners to cros……続きを見る

The Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexualityーtwo areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation. The second edition of this……続きを見る

Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and politic……続きを見る

The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee is a collection of essays that seeks to redefine the "legacy" of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study in light of recent findings fr……続きを見る

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,……続きを見る

Guatemala has undergone an unprecedented conversion to Protestantism since the 1970s, so that thirty percent of its people now belong to Protestant churches, more than in any other Latin American na……続きを見る

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent……続きを見る

The first systematic attempt to account for all the names of the counties, cities, town, water courses, bodies of water, and mountains that appear on readily available maps of Alabama In dictionary ……続きを見る

'A landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece' Guardian Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of pover……続きを見る

Kenya's Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire, by Robert M. Maxon, is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was put into effect as Kenya's history as a col……続きを見る

A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, has long been recognized as a landmark feminist essay. It was based upon two college lectures Woolf gave in 1928, after she had been asked to speak on the top……続きを見る

This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproducti……続きを見る

Nursing Education in Thanatology is an excellent source book for planning thanatology courses or for integrating concepts of thanatology into a nursing curriculum. As the formal teaching of thanatol……続きを見る

'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...' In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passion……続きを見る

Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, commun……続きを見る

What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge when the ……続きを見る

Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has played on the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in higher education. Narr……続きを見る