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  • Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime
    In an age when computer crime is growing at a exponential rate and on a global scale, industry and government leaders are increasingly reliant upon answers from the academic and IT Security fields in order to keep cyber crime in check, and be ahead of the 'cyber criminal curve.' Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications addresses various as...
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    236,22 €

  • It`s Just Your Imagination
    Revital Shiri-Horowtiz / Shira Atik
     Did you always sense something is wrong but could not exactly point out what it is?Were you raised by a manipulative, liar mom who had her main priority set on her?Were you constantly told that “It`s only your imagination?”If the answer is yes, then this is the book you want to read. There is nothing more powerful than a mother’s love.” “Your mother will always love you, no ma...
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    11,03 €

  • Stark Truths
    Gillian P. Herbert
    “These linked stories trace a lesbian’s progress through the slowly changing face of homophobia in our lifetimes. From illegal lives filled with potential violence to the superficial equality that masks lingering prejudice, Gillian Herbert speaks bravely and honestly about one of the great issues of our time and how it impacted one woman’s life. This is a vital record that must...
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    11,45 €

  • On Fragile Wings
    Rose Holland Brown
    This book gives a counselor’s insight into some of the difficulties that young people have in reaching adulthood. The author was a player in high school integration issues in the South from the beginning until the present. Her first experience was in a school where Whites were in the minority, while Blacks and American Indians formed an approximately equal majority. In her subs...
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    23,91 €

  • DeFacto Feminism
    Judy Juanita
    Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna...
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    14,63 €

  • Unveiling the Silent Cries
    Sherry B Moss
    Unveiling the Silent Cries documents the events suffered by Sherry Bevill Moss at the hands of her husband.  Unthinkable abuse plagued Sherry during a nineteen year period while she endured eleven pregnancies, three of which ended in miscarriages.  The book details the types of abuse she suffered.  Sherry thought she alone suffered sexual abuse but discovered differently from o...
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    7,69 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • The Emotionally Resilient Expat - Engage, Adapt and Thrive Across Cultures
    Linda a. Janssen / Linda aJanssen
    Living abroad offers enriching experiences of growth, broadened perspective, enhanced cultural understanding. Yet its transition-rich, change-driven, cross-cultural nature can place considerable demands, leaving us stressed, disconnected, our identity in flux. Building on existing literature and benefitting from recent developments in psychology and brain-body connections, The ...
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    17,78 €

  • No Mercy
    Jaye Cheríe
    No Mercy follows the growing conflict between rich music producer, Byron Mercy, and his troubled, twenty-one year-old daughter, Erica. Their rift has deepened over the years due to her promiscuous behavior and the persistent rumors about her. The family tension reaches a boiling point when Erica becomes pregnant from a man she refuses to identify. Byron finally gives her an ult...
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    11,17 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...
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    37,06 €

  • Domestic Violence in Lebanon
    Maysar Sarieddine
    Lebanese women face discrimination and injustice shaped by their society’s overall values, beliefs, and identities. The purpose of this qualitative critical ethnography was to explore the Lebanese cultural unconscious, including cultural memory and communicative memory; and second, to inspire community transformation and social change to respond to the needs of women who have b...
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    13,09 €

  • Just The Word
    Avron Levine White
    Lifestyle, Cosmopolitan, Poetic Verse, challenging the fundamental elements of key stages in Family and Social Life. Provocative, motivational, analytical insight into sociological, philosophical, and psychological dimensions of individual lifestyle. Just the Word,  is a volume of poems that focuses on highlights of major life-changing events.  Along with the book is an origina...
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    13,98 €

  • Dealing With Bad In-Laws
    Ken McDonald
    Are you having trouble in your home due to “In-Laws”? Do you not know where or how to draw the line? Maybe you thought that families were to get along and you feel troubled about having bad feelings towards them. This study on “Dealing With Bad In-Laws” answers those questions and more. It takes you through the example of Laban, who was Jacob’s father in-law, and shows how to d...
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    7,07 €

  • The Burial of the Urban Poor in Italy in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire
    Emma-Jayne Graham
    The horror of the puticuli, the mass burial pits, and their traditional association with the poor, has often led to this socio-economic group being viewed as somehow ‘different’ to the rest of the ancient urban community in the Italy of the Late Roman Republic. This is the theory questioned by the author of this volume. Why should this part of the community care so little about...
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    64,06 €

  • A Woman’s Philosophy of Woman
    Jenny P. d’Héricourt
    'To emancipate woman is not to acknowledge her right to use and abuse love; such an emancipation is only the slavery of the passions; the use of the beauty and youth of woman by man; the use of man by woman for his fortune or credit. To emancipate woman is to acknowledge and declare her free, the equal of man in the social and the moral law, and in labor. At present, over the w...
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    17,76 €

  • Disrupting White Mindfulness
    Cathy-Mae Karelse
    This book offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the mindfulness industry, namely whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. At the same time, an emergent movement rooted in indigenous, Global South and queer knowledges is decolonising mindfulness and decentring whiteness. ...
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    29,46 €

  • EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century
    Sue Edney
    Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting. ...
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    35,77 €

  • Bncc Na Prática
    Valdira Abreu Magalhães Nina Lee De Sá
    BNCC aplicada na práticaé um guia fundamental destinado a educadores, gestores escolares e profissionais envolvidos no processo educativo que almejam entender e implementar a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) de forma eficaz e inovadora em suas práticas pedagógicas. Este livro de não-ficção surge como uma ferramenta crucial para orientar os leitores através das alterações m...
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    10,05 €

  • Maze Aflame
    M. L. Stark
    In the second instalment of the tumultuous story, based on actual events, we will experience how Mary’s life will continue to plunge her deeper into the abyss of Dr Bates’ deceit and treachery. The things between Paul and Mary’s once tender marriage turns sour, leaving their innocent children caught in the crossfire. Bates’ malevolent schemes have ensnared Mary as divorce looms...
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    29,34 €

  • The Failure of the Occident
    Laurent Sueur
    In times past, the Occident enlightened the world when confusion reigned; the crepuscular reason of some righteous nations used to restore order, but this lighthouse is diseased: it seems that it is unable to show societies the ways to reality and goodness. Unfortunately, if the Statue of Liberty drowns in the port of New York, there will be no future, for the rest of the world...
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    12,54 €

  • A Comprehensive Guide to Moving to Moldova
    William Jones
    Embark on a journey of discovery and adventure with 'A Comprehensive Guide to Moving to Moldova' by William Jones. Whether you’re planning a short visit, an extended stay, or a permanent relocation, this comprehensive guide offers everything you need to know to make the most of your time in this beautiful country.From navigating Moldova’s rich history and diverse culture to und...
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    14,57 €

  • The Fatter Sex
    Sacha Jones
    The notion of ’body positivity’ is widely promoted in the modern West as a feminist ideal empowering women to reject the unhealthy pressures of the thin body-beauty standard. But is it really as empowering as it sounds?In The Fatter Sex, former ballerina Sacha Jones brings a fresh perspective to this contentious issue by highlighting the extra weight and body confidence challen...
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    23,39 €

  • Desconexão Do Mundo Contemporâneo
    Sandro Alex Batsta
    Este livro é uma compilação de uma coletânea de textos escritos em meu blog no período de 2005 a 2021. Nestes textos são abordados diferentes assuntos que incluem crônicas, poesias, narrativas filosóficas, política, economia, tecnologia outros. Cada texto traz em si uma particularidade autoral para fazer com que o leitor possa refletir e se deleitar com os textos. Abordo temas ...
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    20,56 €

  • Exploring CQ
    Wilbur Sargunaraj
    Embark on a transformative journey to develop your cultural intelligence and build meaningful relationships with people from different cultures. In Exploring CQ, Cultural Intelligence Facilitator Wilbur Sargunaraj uses insightful and humorous stories from his travels to explore cultural values, cultural clusters, and the subtleties of unconscious bias. This book is an invitatio...
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    17,64 €

  • La vuelta a la tribu
    Esteban Monasterio
    ¿Qué nos pasa en Occidente? ¿Hacia dónde nos dirigimos como sociedad? Asistimos atónitos a una serie de movimientos, frecuentemente violentos y fanatizados, que niegan cualquier validez a la visión del mundo que nos legó la vieja Europa. El movimiento woke, las políticas identitarias, la ideología de género, el animalismo, el transhumanismo y un largo etcétera parecen decididos...
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    23,46 €

  • Reclaiming Time
    Tanya Ann Kennedy
    Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation. ...
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    44,64 €

  • The fraud of feminism
    Ernest Belfort Bax
    By Modern Feminism I understand a certain attitude of mind towards the female sex. This attitude of mind is often self-contradictory and illogical. While on the one hand it will claim, on the ground of the intellectual and moral equality of women with men, the concession of female suffrage, and commonly, in addition thereto, the admission of women to all professions,offices and...
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    11,65 €

  • Hopelessly Alien
    Louis Corsino
    An in-depth sociological investigation of 'hope' as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950. ...
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    127,28 €

  • Mental Health Resilience
    Abigail Gosselin
    Examines the forms of support, resources, and opportunities a person with mental illness requires to have the resilience needed for mental health recovery. ...
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    126,92 €

  • Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
    Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women. ...
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    169,60 €