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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 m...
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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    44,51 €

  • Home Ownership in America
    Lawrence Samuel
    A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around homeownership from the 1920s to today. ...
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    80,38 €

  • The Heat En Sus Ojos (In Their Eyes)
    Marcelo Sosa
    The Heat En Sus Ojos is a dreamlike allegory of a story where the vital grounding of human nature (the 'desert') is set against the detachment of a human construct (the 'city'). Where the inventions of wealth and class fabricate an unnatural kind of 'heat' in the human world: 'not the rippling hot of an umbrella sun raining from the sky to toast you evenly, but the kind that st...
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    25,63 €

  • Evacuation
    Peter Adey
    In Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval...
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    36,57 €

  • The Inner Life of Race
    Leerom Medovoi
    In The Inner Life of Race, Leerom Medovoi turns away from conventional views of race as a politics of the phenotypical body to theorize race instead as a politics of populational threat. Racism’s genealogy, argues Medovoi, invokes longstanding theological distinctions between the body and the soul. While the body can be seen and marked, the soul signals potentially threatening ...
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    35,38 €

  • 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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    80,20 €

  • Instead of modernity
    Andrew Ginger
    When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped and underpinned their most influential thoughts, its legacy insinuated into institutionalized theories of culture. In this new book, that vision implodes, as if in a cultural supernova, i...
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    28,23 €

  • Violence
    David Wästerfors
    This book examines how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined and explored by social researchers and thinkers. ...
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    76,47 €

  • Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease
    This book explores the phenomenon of ’liminal politics’, considering the manner in which emergency measures introduced to counter the spread of Covid-19 - and repeated from jurisdiction to jurisdiction - exemplify processes of technological mimetism, that reorganise social life in a manner that threatens its ordinary patterns. ...
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    75,94 €

  • A Sociology of Seeking
    Kieran Flanagan
    This book explores the remains of Christianity that lurk as portents in a progressively de-Christianised society, examining both the place of sociology in Christian theology and the failure of theology to connect to its surrounding culture, asking how the two disciplines might meld profitably together. ...
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    77,02 €

  • The Politics of the Soul
    John Dickson
    This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century, who inherited and responded to the spiritual problematic left by Nietzsche. ...
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    73,48 €

  • Cultural Capital and Creative Communication
    Oana Șerban
    This book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its evolution and definitions, as well as the relationship between cultural, social and human capital, the distinctions between capital and capitalism, and the conflicts that exist among the various critical theories that engage with Bourdieu’s thought. ...
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    38,51 €

  • Contemporary Readings in Marxism
    Ravi Kumar
    This volume straddles between being a compilation of chapters exploring the fundamental conceptual categories within Marxism while engaging with those categories at the same time demonstrating the dynamic ability of the Marxian theoretical paradigm to evolve. ...
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    75,32 €


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