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  • Refugiados
    Gil Loescher
    Los refugiados y otros migrantes forzados son uno de los grandes retos contemporáneos a los que se enfrenta el mundo. En todo el planeta, las personas abandonan sus países de origen para escapar de la guerra, los desastres naturales y la opresión cultural y política. Desgraciadamente, la comunidad internacional todavía lucha por brindar adecuada respuesta a esta enorme població...
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    12,43 €

  • Ciencia y religión
    Thomas Dixon
    Los debates sobre ciencia y religión rara vez dejan de ser noticia. Ya sea que se traten de lo que se enseña en las escuelas, de la encrucijada entre los valores religiosos y las recomendaciones médicas o de los cuestionamientos sobre cómo abordar nuestro cambiante medioambiente global, las emociones suelen estar a flor de piel y las respuestas no parecen satisfactorias. Sin em...
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    12,43 €

  • Memorias de tierra y mar
    Anton Daughters
    Separado del continente por mares interiores y canales sinuosos, el archipiélago de Chiloé ha sido durante siglos un territorio de identidad propia, forjado por la relación entre sus habitantes y el mar.A través de un enfoque etnográfico y un profundo trabajo de campo, Anton Daughters reconstruye la vida de generaciones de chilotes: desde los pueblos indígenas y las antiguas mi...
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    19,24 €

  • Pérdida y asombro en el fin del mundo
    Laura A. Ogden
    Pérdida y asombro en el Fin del Mundo nos sumerge en una etnografía íntima y profunda, para revelar cómo los paisajes australes han sido representados y transformados a lo largo del tiempo.A través de archivos coloniales, relatos de exploradores y experiencias contemporáneas, Laura A. Ogden reflexiona sobre cómo el “Fin del Mundo” ha sido imaginado como un territorio inhóspito,...
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    19,24 €

  • El viaje y la trama
    Andrea Freddi
    El viaje y la trama es un fascinante estudio etnográfico sobre la transformación de Todos Santos Cuchumatán, una comunidad indígena guatemalteca que ha experimentado cambios radicales debido al impacto de la guerra civil, la globalización y el flujo constante de migrantes hacia Estados Unidos.Andrea Freddi nos muestra cómo los todosanteros negocian sus lazos comunitarios en un ...
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    22,83 €

  • 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 €

  • The Theory of Chinese Modernization
    Zhongmin Wu / HE Jun / YU Jianping
    This open access book explores China’s unique path to modernization, highlighting its journey from ancient civilization to modern society. It examines China’s efforts from the mid-19th century’s internal and external struggles to its contemporary economic achievements. The book covers historical, social, and economic aspects, emphasizing the balance between autonomous developme...
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    204,98 €

  • 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 €

  • Das Tavistock-Institut für menschliche Beziehungen
    John Coleman
    Das Tavistock Institute for Human Relations hat die moralischen, spirituellen, kulturellen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Richtlinien der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und Großbritanniens nachhaltig beeinflusst. Es stand an vorderster Front beim Angriff auf die amerikanische Verfassung. Keine Gruppe hat mehr Propaganda produziert, um die Vereinigten Staaten zur Teilnahme a...
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    25,25 €

  • The Tavistock institute for human relations
    John Coleman
    The Tavistock Institute for Human Relations has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual, cultural, political and economic policies of the United States of America and Great Britain. It has been at the forefront of the attack on the American Constitution. No group produced more propaganda to encourage the United States to participate in the First World War at a time when t...
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    25,22 €

  • 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 €

  • Climate Justice and the University
    Jennie C Stephens
    A radical exploration of how higher education can advance transformative climate justice.Amid the worsening climate crisis and intensifying inequities, higher education can play a powerful role in addressing the intersecting crises facing humanity. Institutions of higher education hold untapped potential to advance social justice and reduce climate injustices. However, universi...
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    42,81 €

  • 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 €

  • Taoism and Contemporary Issues
    Chong Sun Kim
    Taoism and Contemporary Issues, compiled by Professor Chong Sun Kim, presents a thought-provoking anthology addressing the pressing challenges of modern society. This collection bridges the wisdom of traditional Taoist texts with contemporary insights, featuring voices from influential figures like E.F. Schumacher and Noam Chomsky. Through essays, articles, and interviews, the ...
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    40,32 €

  • Taoism and Contemporary Issues
    Chong Sun Kim
    Taoism and Contemporary Issues, compiled by Professor Chong Sun Kim, presents a thought-provoking anthology addressing the pressing challenges of modern society. This collection bridges the wisdom of traditional Taoist texts with contemporary insights, featuring voices from influential figures like E.F. Schumacher and Noam Chomsky. Through essays, articles, and interviews, the ...
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    33,60 €

  • 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 €

  • How Lucky Are You? Deconstructing the Myth of Meritocracy, Hard Work and Winning in Life
    Joseph Hover
    Ever wonder why some people seem to effortlessly rise to success, while others struggle despite hard work and talent? 'How Lucky Are You?' challenges everything you thought you knew about achievement, exposing the unseen forces that shape our lives: luck, timing, and circumstances beyond our control. In this eye-opening exploration, we dismantle the myth of meritocracy and take...
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    20,19 €


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