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  • Cartas a los delincuentes
    Concepción Arenal
    Publicada en 1865, Cartas a los delincuentes es una obra fundamental de Concepción Arenal, en la que la autora rompe con las concepciones tradicionales sobre el crimen y el castigo. Arenal, reconocida por su incansable labor humanitaria y social, plasma en sus cartas una perspectiva innovadora, proponiendo que los delincuentes sean tratados con dignidad y respeto, más allá de s...
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    16,99 €

  • El visitador del pobre
    Concepción Arenal
    Publicada en 1863, El visitador del pobre es una obra clave que ofrece una profunda reflexión sobre la pobreza y la importancia de una empatía activa. Arenal, pionera en la defensa de los derechos sociales en el siglo XIX, no solo observa la miseria, sino que nos insta a comprender sus raíces y actuar en consecuencia. La obra es un testimonio de su incansable defensa de los der...
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    12,99 €

  • Art And Society
    Hamilcar
    This book unravels the threads of social hierarchies, cultural traditions, economic currents, and political undercurrents that pulse through the veins of artistic creation, dissemination, interpretation, and reception.The sociology of art is an interdisciplinary field that examines the dynamic relationship between art, artists, and society. It analyses how social structures, cu...
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    48,53 €

  • Value and Worthlessness
    Don Kalb
    Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using 'global ethnography' and 'hidden histories' as the keys to social discovery. Kalb’s anthropology of value and worthlessness lays bare the logics that currently produce right wing, popul...
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    197,25 €

  • Resituating Crisis
    The world is increasingly influenced by ongoing crisis, or at least this is what mainstream media and politics wants us to believe. When portrayed here, crisis most often comes in the form of situations challenging a sense of normality, such as with violent conflicts, pandemics, or forced migration. However, crisis is not just a situation twisting normality but can become const...
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    184,10 €

  • Last Chance to Save Our Republic
    Hannah Faulkner
    In Last Chance to Save Our Republic, Hannah delivers a powerful wake-up call to Americans of all ages and backgrounds, urging them to fight for the Republic that so many have sacrificed their lives to protect. She confronts the moral decay threatening the nation, from the breakdown of the family to the absurdity of leaders who can’t define basic truths like 'What is a woman?' H...
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    24,84 €

  • The construction of public opinion in a digital age
    Catherine Happer
    This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure. ...
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    157,58 €

  • Understanding Business Offenders
    Christopher Hamerton / Petter Gottschalk
    Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology. The book con...
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    184,35 €

  • Haunting Futures
    Marek Pawlak
    The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis. It offers i...
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    184,62 €

  • Family Beyond Family
    Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range ...
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    184,14 €

  • Self Help for American Billionaires A Parody
    Esme Mees
    Imagine a world where the absurdity of wealth hoarding meets sharp wit and unapologetic satire. Self-Help for American Billionaires A Parody is your one-way ticket to that world. With biting commentary and brilliant black-and-white woodblock print illustrations that evoke the stark truths of history, Esme Mees pulls no punches. This is not a guide to becoming a better billionai...
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    12,73 €

  • Toward a New Art of Border Crossing
    The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This border-crossing challenges us to do creative, aesthetic, ethical, political and spiritual work in the fields of not only physical borders and bounded territories but also cultural, social, intellectual and civilizational borders. ...
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    157,99 €

  • Police Brutality
    Steve Martinot
    This book is about the culture of the US police, and what it is that allows them to be as violent as they are. It approaches the elements of police culture by analyzing how they respond to incidents called by people who need help (calls to 911) and that contain no danger, and no urgency. Such situations begin peacefully, with no need for law enforcement. Yet someone gets shot a...
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    28,93 €

  • Between Care and Justice
    Elena Pulcini / Antonio Calcagno / Silvia Benso
    Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.Elena Pulcini (1950-2021), an internationally renowned philosopher of care, was at the forefront of thinking and creating a new ethical framework to respond efficacio...
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    44,80 €

  • Where is the Good in the World?
    Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to fo...
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    47,18 €

  • Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion
    Marianne Blom Brodersen
    This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ’society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices. ...
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    197,58 €

  • Laberintos sociales
    Julio Cedrón
    La era digital ha muerto. DEP.La sociedad líquida de Bauman se vaporiza yéndose a vivir agaseosas nubes interconectadas.A Spinoza y a su ética le dedican peinetas en cada esquina. Y la clase política ha dejado al cínico Diógenes como un aprendiz de medio pelo. Dentro del laberinto cohabitamos junto con peligrosos virus: el académico es uno de ellos. Sus dogmas, son el Santo Gri...
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    13,00 €

  • Born in OC
    Greer Wylder
    For over a decade, I’ve been captivated by the idea of this book, which goes beyond profiling well-known locals in Orange County. It focuses on individuals who contribute significantly to the region’s culture and beyond, showcasing a diverse range of stories. Orange County isn’t just a location; it’s a hub of creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation-from surf culture to tec...
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    32,22 €

  • Aníbal Quijano
    Deni Alfaro Rubbo
    This book aims to contribute with analyses of Aníbal Quijano’s voluminous productions of contemporary dilemmas since his main theoretical and political concerns have always been linked to the mutations of world capitalism and its reverse paths. The book maps over sixty years of his intellectual trajectory. ...
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    227,69 €

  • Understanding Society through a Systems Approach
    Kim Dong-Hwan
    Kim offers an accessible, interdisciplinary textbook using systems theory as a framework to stimulate discussion about how the social sciences develop understanding of society and its evolution. It is designed for a wide range of students in sociology, politics and economics, encouraging interdisciplinary thinking and understanding. ...
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    227,65 €

  • Becoming Other
    David Berliner
    Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing experiences. From Napoleon doppelgangers to Philip Roth’s alter-ego Nathan Zukerman and Wonder Woman cosplayers to anthropologists going native, he delves into th...
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    164,04 €

  • Instead of modernity
    Andrew Ginger
    At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with “modernity” that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies. ...
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    28,23 €

  • Education and Upward Social Mobility in China
    Jin Jin
    Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu. ...
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    227,76 €

  • The New Australian Military Sociology
    Civil-military relations have changed over time with respect to changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, Industry-Defence cooperation, women in the armed forces and contemporary veteran wellbeing.The New Australian Military Sociology aims to provide an antipodean view to theorising civil-military entanglements and uses Australia’s unique geographi...
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    184,48 €

  • Social Stratification
    Joanna Hadjicostandi-Anang
    Social Stratification: Exposing Inequities and Pursuing Social Justice provides students with a collection of scholarly articles that explore inequalities observed within societies in the United States and across the globe. With a range of readings organized into eight cohesive units, the book draws connections between academic research and societal facets of inequality with pa...
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    153,47 €

  • Cultural Processes of Inequality
    Amanda Udis-Kessler
    Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between individuals, culture (as meaning systems) and larger social structures. ...
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    158,41 €

  • Egalitarian Dynamics
    Liminality: the state of being ’betwixt and between’ is one of anthropology’s most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality from within the Manchester tradition of Social Anthropology established by Max Gluckman. Turner’s work was grounded in ethnography and engaged with philosophical perspec...
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    197,36 €

  • Untangling Critical Race Theory
    Ed Uszynski
    What is Critical Race Theory, and how should Christians engage it? Ed Uszynski carefully unpacks what critical race theorists seek to accomplish and what Christians can learn from them. In this guide, he carefully explores CRT’s roots, context, and tenets, revealing common distortions and providing responsible answers to legitimate concerns. ...
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    24,30 €

  • A Systems Approach to Public Administration and Social Equity
    Todd Pooser
    A Systems Approach to Public Administration uses General Systems Theory - a cross-disciplinary scientific philosophy first articulated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy then refined by Ervin Laszlo, and covering fields that include but are not limited to human psychology, cell biology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, the theory of consciousness and the human mind, and physics - to f...
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    65,95 €

  • A Systems Approach to Public Administration and Social Equity
    Todd Pooser
    A Systems Approach to Public Administration uses General Systems Theory - a cross-disciplinary scientific philosophy first articulated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy then refined by Ervin Laszlo, and covering fields that include but are not limited to human psychology, cell biology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, the theory of consciousness and the human mind, and physics - to f...
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    129,60 €


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