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by María Victoria Uribe Alarcón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
"La propuesta que hace la autora de este libro es interpretar la figura del Ángel de la Historia desde un ángulo antropológico y hacer una lectura de la IX Tesis de Benjamín donde aparece dicha figura, a partir de consideraciones que provienen de una antropología de la guerra y el conflicto....
by Marcela Gutiérrez Quevedo, María Del Pilar Salamanca Santos, Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Este libro es el producto de las investigaciones de 2014 que se socializaron en el Congreso Nacional de Política Criminal y "Prevención" en el que se presentaron diferentes posturas y críticas al concepto de "prevención" del delito. La primera parte del libro la hemos denominado...
Memorias en lucha
Recuerdos y silencios en contextos de subordinación y alteridad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2016
¿Cómo se construye la memoria en contextos de subordinación? Los inmigrantes limítrofes, los afrodescendientes y los pueblos indígenas, entre otros, despliegan sus palabras y reflexiones sobre su propia memoria. En el contexto aportado por las luchas sociales y la vida cotidiana, se estimulan...
by Floyd Merrell, María Teresa DePaoli
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Las culturas y civilizaciones latinoamericanas has been updated. This textbook not only describes the history of Latin America, but it sets a mood that allows the reader to get a genuine sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations of this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of...
Engaging Students in Academic Literacies
Genre-based Pedagogy for K-5 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Engaging Students in Academic Literacies provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Informed...
Human Strengths and Resilience
Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Human Strengths and Resilience is intended to serve as a bridge between these two rapidly expanding disciplines by focusing on the critical issue of human strengths and resilience in cross-cultural and international perspective. To achieve these ambitious goals the editors have assembled an international...
Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes,...
Caspe 1412
Los relatos del compromiso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 21, 2013
A raíz de la muerte sin herederos del rey Martín I (Martín el Humano), se abría una etapa de incertezas en la Corona de Aragón, y por ende, en España. El problema se resolvió mediante lo que se conoce como el Compromiso de Caspe, un debate y votación del mejor y más legítimo candidato en...
by Antoni Marí, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2008
La nostalgia de las excursiones dominicales, la desolación por la muerte de un amigo, el trastorno de los sentidos al viajar por primera vez lejos de casa, el vértigo que provoca el riesgo de una travesura, la ebriedad de los primeros días de vacaciones...
Las emocionantes estampas que componen...
The American Family
From Obligation to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment.
by María Belén Ahumada, Ted Galen Carpenter, Khatchik DerGhougassian
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...
Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and...
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America
Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America examines the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina, considering their different political stances and musical deportments. The book analyzes the complex relationship that the aesthetic of the movement established between...
by Rita Marè, Engelize de Lange
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
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