Across the world, children are the most vulnerable population. The threats to them may vary, but wherever one looks, children are endangered and exploited. Susan Mapp examines thre...9999903049944Susan C. Mapp
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
An Approach to Emergency SituationsRelief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use thei...9999903049913Médecins sans frontières
Macmillan
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
The Mental Demands of Modern LifeIf contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher...9999903047797Robert Kegan
Harvard University Press
sábado, 9 de diciembre de 2023
Why Americans Can't Think Straight about RaceIn this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into belie...9780300073942Benjamin DeMott
Yale University Press
miércoles, 30 de agosto de 2023
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An absolute must-read . . . Emmanuel Acho dives into important subjects like cultural appropriation and white privilege, urging you to find a way...9999902974285Emmanuel Acho
Penguin
jueves, 20 de abril de 2023
Transforming Lives, Creating OpportunityAn essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad--a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be. In their number one New York Tim...9999902962497Nicholas D. Kristof Shery...
DoubleDay
viernes, 17 de marzo de 2023
New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private LifeThe Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to...9999902957318Shere Hite
New York : Seven Stories Press, c2006.
jueves, 2 de marzo de 2023
Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other InitiationsIn a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida's Girls on the Verge explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order t...9999902940945Vendela Vida
Picador
viernes, 27 de enero de 2023
An Anthology of Childhood ChristmasesA fun-packed, festive anthology to help everyone relive the joy of Christmas through a child's eyes From Washington Irving's Christmas Day in 1820 to the 20th century, this lively ...9999902921845Anne Harvey
Stroud : History, 2009.
miércoles, 7 de diciembre de 2022
When More is Not EnoughDespite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, d...9999902913130Peter C. Whybrow
W. W. Norton & Company
sábado, 12 de noviembre de 2022
Reflections on the Liberation of AnimalsForeword by Ward Churchill; cover design by Sue Coe The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, Terrorists or Freed...9999902791097Steven Best Anthony J. No...
Editors Varis
martes, 4 de enero de 2022
A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and ScientificTraces the social history of marijuana from its emergence in the 1960s culture wars through the 1996 legalization of medicinal marijuana in California, profiling the multibillion-d...9999902765692Martin A. Lee
Simon & Schuster Export
viernes, 5 de noviembre de 2021
Stories from a Bangladeshi VillageKaty Gardner???s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifu...9999902735237Katy Gardner
Pluto Press
viernes, 6 de agosto de 2021
Communication Technology and the Information Have-less in Urban ChinaAn examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China. The i...9999902564189Jack Linchuan Qiu
The MIT Press
viernes, 24 de enero de 2020
What are alternative media? What roles do alternative media play in pluralistic, democratic societies? What are the similarities and differences between alternative media, communit...9999902564172Olga G. Bailey Bart Camma...
Open University Press
viernes, 24 de enero de 2020
"We must consider that we shall be A City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people upon us," John Winthrop told his Pilgrim community crossing the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Ba...9999902542231Frances FitzGerald
Pocket
miércoles, 11 de diciembre de 2019
Ireland's New EliteMeet the Pope???s Children - the new Irish generation, born either side of the Pope???s visit, who have been squeezed into the middle and lifted up by the Celtic Tiger. David McWil...9999902446355David McWilliams
Pan Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2019
Toys, Tv, and Children's Culture in the Age of MarketingThis timely and innovative book provides a detailed history of marketing to children, revealing the strategies that shape the design of toys and have a powerful impact on the way c...9999902411155Stephen Kline
Verso Books
jueves, 28 de febrero de 2019
Legal and Linguistic IssuesThis volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization, bringing together scholars from a wide range of specialities all accentuating language. The boo...9999902151259Ariel Loring Vaidehi Rama...
Editors Varis
domingo, 22 de abril de 2018
Life in the Roaring TwentiesBright Young Things is a thoroughly entertaining non-fiction account of 'the real Downton Abbey', which brings to life the historical backdrop of the series in an informative, fun ...9780753540978Alison Maloney
Virgin Books
viernes, 2 de marzo de 2018
Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and DevelopmentThis anthology offers a multicultural, international look at the issues of environment, development, and population control. Feminist scholars and activists reveal the racism behin...9999902021996Jael Miriam Silliman Ynes...
South End Press
domingo, 17 de diciembre de 2017
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