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Este libro tiene como objetivo la reflexión teórica y metodológica sobre los imaginarios sociales. Esta obra es el resultado de tres propuestas de investigación autónomas e independientes, cuya articulación genera una lectura multidisciplinar sobre los diversos contextos de aplicación y análisis que se pueden encontrar en una sociedad como la colombiana, la cual se enfrenta a la coexistencia de diversos imaginarios sociales al momento de representar,...
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#1 I was always trying to prove my national and cultural origins. When I told the kids at my public school that my family was from Palestine, the response was always the same: Palestine. Where's that.
#2 If you are Black in America, you visibly belong to a particular group. You can claim your culture with pride, and no one questions you. But me, I was so ambiguous that...
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#1 The Nazis were not simple nationalists, and their nationalist propaganda was directed toward their fellow-travelers and not their convinced members. The Nazis had a genuine and never revoiced contempt for the narrowness of nationalism, the provincialism of the nation-state, and they repeated time and again that their movement was more important than any state.
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Man has long searched for the cause and meaning of mental illness. This book attempts to answer those questions. The author/compiler has spent 47 years investigating these problems and his conclusion is that severe unconscious bisexual conflict and confusion lie at the root of all mental illness, as difficult to comprehend as this idea may be. The book itself consists of 639 quotations, from a variety of sources, all of which point to the unshakable...
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If you want to know why our nation's leaders have failed to solve America's crime problem, these essays expose a number of areas where either not enough thought is being given, or the thinking is just wrong. While crime dominates America's media and political scene, there is very little intelligent insight on the topic coming from those who would know most about it, criminals. These essays change that. The essays begin by addressing crime as part...
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This early work by Beatrice Potter Webb was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Apprenticeship Vol. I.' is the second volume of fascinating work on Victorian society. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858. Both her mother and brother died early in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her father, Richard Potter. He was a successful businessman with large...
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Connected-by Nature's Law presents a comprehensive picture of reality and the process that humanity is undergoing. The book offers tools for using the major personal and social shifts we're going through to our benefit. It also offers a "healthcare program for humanity" by solidifying the ties between us on all levels-family, community, national, and international. The sooner we implement the program, the sooner we will find ourselves enjoying tranquil,...
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Amitai Etzioni is University Professor at The George Washington University. A past President of the American Sociological Association, he is the author of nineteen books, including The Moral Dimension (The Free Press), The Limits of Privacy (Basic Books), and The New Golden Rule (Basic Books), which won the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 1997 Tolerance Book Award. He was recently awarded the Sociological Practice Association's Outstanding Contribution...
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Foreclosures are hitting record highs; Americans are declaring bankruptcy at rates ten times that during the great Depression; more college students drop out because of debts than due to poor grades; reports of debtor suicides proliferate in the media. In other words, it's a great time to be in the banking business.
Maxed Out takes us on a road trip that is sometimes hysterical and often horrifying: from Las Vegas to the Bible Belt, from the backwoods...
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"Winner of the 2010 Theory Prize, American Sociological Association" John Levi Martin is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated...
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#1 Raisuddin worked at a mini-mart in Dallas, selling Americans three tamales for a dollar. The economy around the store was desolate, and it wasn't the economy of the legendary firms where third-world boys like him fantasized about working.
#2 Raisuddin grew up with America on his television screen, and thought of the place as a land of opportunity. But when he first...
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Este libro es una crónica del funesto capítulo que está escribiendo Europa sobre la inmigración y de cómo el intento de conseguir una vida mejor por parte de los subsaharianos se ha convertido en el último holocausto europeo. En los últimos años más de 16.000 personas han muerto en el Mediterráneo cuando intentaban alcanzar Europa. El libro analiza los motivos que hacen que los inmigrantes se embarquen en un viaje de futuro incierto y por...
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#1 President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the first known affirmative action speech for black students at Howard University in 1965. He stated that the country had overcome legal segregation, but that the disparity between white and black Americans had widened after the Second World War.
#2 By the start of 1965, the Selma voting rights campaign had already been going on for...
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Imagine places ideas in society and gets readers thinking critically about their most cherished beliefs and values. The topics are vast and varied: abortion, immigration, gay rights, love, mentorship, and sustainable development. There is no right answer. We must come to our own conclusions. If we can listen and learn from each other, we can accept our differences. Everyone has ideas on how to make the world a better place and fill humankind with...
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Los avatares de las formas discursivas aludidas, serán abordados bajo unos interrogantes problematizadores que controvierten algunas de las formas en prejuicio racial hacia los y las afrodescendientes y sus reivindicaciones políticas y culturales. En lo que se refiere a la invención del negro(a), esta será abordada desde dos interrogantes: 1) hablar de negro(a), en cuanto forma discursiva bajo la que se ha definido a un ser humano, ¿nace con...
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What is CSR? Can there be a single definition possible?
What is CSR anyway?
Until, last few decades of twentieth century, there was no explicit mention of the term Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR anywhere, though it was present. So this book will give in-depth overview of the theoretical aspects such as definitions, evolution, and philosophical impetus of the term CSR.
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#1 When I was 11, my father was forced to retire from the Navy after 25 years, and we moved to La Grange, North Carolina. My father began drinking heavily, and he took his rage and frustration out on my mother. We never knew when he was going to explode in anger and bitterness.
#2 I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, with my mother and two brothers after my father died....
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Countries that at different times in history were among the worlds greatest powers, such as Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Britain, and Germany, have gradually shifted their sights either in the wake of defeat or after protracted periods of grappling with decline, from winning the great power sweepstakes to topping the lists of nations offering the best quality of life. David Rothkopf One critical measure of the health of a modern democracy is it...
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¿Está en crisis la universidad pública argentina? Considerando que desde 1984 hasta hoy el presupuesto ha crecido, la cantidad de instituciones se ha ampliado, la oferta académica es más diversa y los programas de posgrado se multiplican, diríamos que no.
Sin embargo, aunque todavía se sostengan facultades y centros de excelencia dispersos a lo largo del país, el conjunto del sistema ha ido quedando a la zaga del mundo y está lejos de poder...
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A mother, Mary, who didnt want her son, Joseph, to know he had a father, did everything she could to prevent anyone from talking about his father. She didnt even talk to Joseph about his father herself. But when the little boy started his preschool year, he soon found out that he must have a father because some of the other children had fathers who would bring them to the classroom and would pick them up in the afternoon. After few weeks of observation,...
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