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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 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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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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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 In October 1978, I was an Intelligence Unit detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department. I was assigned to scan the two daily newspapers for any reports of information concerning any hint of subversive activity that might impact the safety and well-being of Colorado Springs.
#2 I answered an ad placed by the KKK, and two weeks later I spoke to Ken O'Dell,...
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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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#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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#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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During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences. Robert Bannister provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of this "objectivism" within the matrix of the evolutionism of Lester Ward and other founders of American sociology.Objectivism meant confining inquiry to the observable externals of social behavior and quantifying the...
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For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to work in unexpected places, yielding...
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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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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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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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National Matters investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice. Examining a range of "things"-from art objects, clay fragments, and broken stones to clothing, food, and urban green space-the contributors to this volume explore the importance of matter in making the nation appear real, close, and important to its citizens. Symbols and material objects do not just reflect...
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#1 I was trying to be humane, by creating a different awful situation, by telling my new husband to divorce me. I didn't want to ruin his life.
#2 The wedding is often the most important thing in a woman's life, eclipsing all of her accomplishments. And while we've made great strides in America to not be obsessed with weddings, we're still a society that loves them.
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L'objectif principal du livre L'Amérique du Nord : une histoire des identités et des solidarités est d'explorer l'histoire transnationale des trois partenaires nord-américains au cours des XIXe, XXe et XXIe siècles. Les réflexions proposées dans cet ouvrage permettent de voir que, si l'intégration s'avère fragile sur certains terrains, elle laisse entrevoir également des liens nord-américains beaucoup plus durables, ainsi que des contacts...
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Malgré certains incidents de parcours, le doctorat fut l'expérience la plus marquante de ma vie intellectuelle. Un doctorat, c'est fait par du monde, mais ce projet exige une grande persévérance et de l'acharnement au travail. Surtout, condition première, il faut aimer lire, écrire et rechercher l'étincelle de la découverte.
Ce livre a été écrit du point de vue des doctorants. Il couvre les différents aspects du doctorat, de l'inscription...
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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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In challenging social science's established orthodoxies, this first in a series of books is a call for its disciplines to embrace new theoretical paradigms and research methods to better, understand the reality of life in a post-COVID world. By offering a detailed insight into the harmful effects of neoliberalism before the pandemic, as well as the intervallic period the world is currently living through, the authors show how it is more important...
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This book urges respect for solitary dissent rather than censure. It equips a wide audience to understand what previously seemed unimaginable, much less comprehensible. It shows the reader how to reach beyond those first conclusions and into the heart of the matter.
The lone voice explains that something has been hidden away, something which the individual now dissenting can no longer acquiesce in. It raises the possibility that more may be seriously...
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