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La antropologia de la migración
Niños y jovenes migrantes en la globalización
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Este volumen representa un avance para tratar de solucionar situaciones inmediatas en torno a la migración de niños y jóvenes —subsistencia, reunificación, contribución a la economía familiar—, y los autores concuerdan en que el proceso migratorio es un paso importante para conocer los acuerdos...
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
by Raúl Pérez Guerra, Severiano Fernández Ramos, Raúl Pérez Guerra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Los estudios universitarios en Turismo, plasmados en el actual Grado en Turismo, contemplan la necesaria adquisición por el alumno de determinadas competencias relacionadas con la ordenación legal de las actividades, servicios y productos turísticos, así como de las políticas turísticas desarrolladas...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
Pedagogía crítica latinoamericana y género
Construcción social de niños, niñas y jóvenes como sujetos políticos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Los textos que conforman y dan vida al presente libro, enmarcan una reflexión amplia sobre diferentes lecturas de entrada a la discusión sobre el género desde las posibilidades de la pedagogía crítica latinoamericana, asumiendo en ella una apuesta por la educación en un proceso histórico, social,...
by Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación A.C., Cooperativa La Joplin, Justino Compeán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2016
En un fascinante recorrido de 220 páginas, a través de una selección de más de 300 imágenes de 65 archivos de América, Europa y Asia, la Federación Mexicana de Fútbol se propuso celebrar de forma inédita y lúdica una de las grandes aportaciones de México a la humanidad: la pelota. La primera...
International Business Basics
Learn What You Need in 2 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Importing, exporting, buying or selling parts and services‚ businesses of all kinds, including start-ups and small businesses, are becoming more active outside their home countries—often by necessity.
If you want to take your business global, you must do your homework, get advice, make...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...