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La presente Breve historia de Oaxaca da cuenta de diversos aspectos políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales ocurridos desde los tiempos que la población humana ocupó este rincón del país hasta la actualidad. El autor construye una investigación que, incorporando las interpretaciones históricas...

Cada uno de los seis capìtulos que conforman esta obra, expone, examina y compara las políticas educativas -competencias, habilidades, currículo- adoptadas en distintos países: Chile, China, Estados Unidos, México, Singapur y la India. En estas páginas se ofrece un panorama de las políticas...

This innovative teaching atlas provides the reader with a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of the common and uncommon diseases that may involve the pancreatic gland. Its perspective is multidisciplinary, the authors being radiologists, surgeons, pathologists, and gastroenterologists...

We live in increasingly diverse societies. Human relations are increasingly maintained by widely-used virtual means, with the result that it is becoming more common to find people with various identities and feelings of belonging living in the same political space. Identity, linguistic, religious...

Based on archival research, this volume is concerned with the treatment of «fallen women» and prostitutes at the London Lock Hospital and Asylum throughout the nineteenth century. As venereally-diseased women, they were treated in the hospital for their physical ailments; those considered ripe for...

Discourse Perspectives in Organizational Communication brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities to look at discourse and how it shapes organizations and their social actors. Unlike others in the field, this book assumes that language creates and constitutes reality, rather...

This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who specialize in diverse methods ranging from ethnography, archival research, and oral histories, to quantitative data analysis and experiments used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological,...

The author of this book languished for forty years in spiritual darkness until the brightness of God’s light made her lamp shine. For centuries, God has been on a lookout for people willing to become part of His kingdom. Millions have responded. It does not matter what...

Told in alternating voices, the debut novel CHOOSE ME is the tumultuous story of a Latina woman and an African American man whose search for true romance takes a detour through the perfect love of God. Eva has no desire for romance. She's a self-reliant, celibate Christian who, despite a truly bad...

Continues Fordham's work to bring scholarship on medieval Iberia to an anglophone audience

Esta obra, básicamente un acercamiento a la historia de la España del siglo XX, intenta solucionar numerosos problemas que se les plantean a estudiantes y docentes universitarios cuando abordan esta asignatura u otras relacionadas con nuestra historia contemporánea. Nace de la experiencia docente...

Community-Based Health Interventions covers the skills necessary to change health in a community setting through the reduction of disease, disease conditions, and risks to health, as well as create a supportive environment for the maintenance of the behavior changes. The first section provides background...

This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures. Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories...

Josep Fontana ha exercit un fecund magisteri sobre nombroses generacions d historiadors i d universitaris en general. Aquest llibre, editat amb motiu del seu nomenament com a doctor honoris causa per la Universitat de València, reuneix algunes de les seues reflexions sobre l ofici d historiador i...