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NPR's "All Things Considered," calls Queer Ducks "teenager-friendly. It's a Printz Honor young adult book filled with comics and humor and accessible science, and it's filled with research on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world."
This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer is a well-researched and
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The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions...
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"Winner of the George Terry Award" United States Army LTC Scott A. Snook serves as an Academy Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership at the United States Military Academy. He also directs West Point's Center for Leadership and Organizations Research.
On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard....
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Esta publicación surge de la investigación planteada por la Universidad EAFIT en el año 2017 y desarrollada por un grupo interdisciplinario compuesto por ingenieros, abogados y arquitectos llamada: "CORE. Incidencia de los modelos de densificación en la habitabilidad de la vivienda social colectiva en altura en Medellín", en la cual se abordó la problemática de la densidad en función de la habitabilidad.
En primer lugar, se desarrolló un...
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Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it's all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics French, and it's all organized by the Italians. RTÉ's Tony Connelly has produced an intriguing, thought-provoking, hilarious and sometimes poignant grand tour through European stereotypes. From the bailouts to the Euro-crisis, from the rise...
7) Sistema Territorial en la Materialidad de la Desaparición Forzada. Departamento de Antioquia-Colombi
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La investigación que aquí se presenta se suscribe en el departamento de Antioquia, espacio que trasciende su formalidad física al develarse su dimensionalidad geográfica desde el análisis de la materialidad que expone la desaparición forzada y su sentido violento en los territorios. De igual manera, se ubica en una temporalidad, que más allá de definirse desde el planteamiento metodológico inicial, fue dictada por los casos de personas desaparecidas...
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Ricardo Gómez Giraldo se propuso aceptar la invitación de algunos historiadores para llenar un vacío a su juicio importante: la falta de estudios que vinculen la historia de las mentalidades con el abordaje de problemas de la sociedad. En este caso, con aquellos que son posiblemente los más significativos de una sociedad moderna: la educación, la ciencia y la tecnología.
Para esto, escudriñó los grandes debates que se dieron sobre esos temas...
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Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.
Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...
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As mankind is moving onto the next stage of its evolution, spiritual maturity in order to reach balance, which will be a golden age, human beings will have to choose, with a united voice, to transcend the current paradigm of division and violence. It is thus paramount that each individual understands his or her role for the advent of this future. There are decisions to be made at two levels: collective action and individual action. At the collective...
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For more than two centuries, America has taken stock every decade, producing a statistical self-portrait of our population. In Who We Are Now, Sam Roberts identifies and illuminates the trends and social shifts changing the face of America today.
America is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. The nation's complexion changed significantly over the twentieth century, creating more varied and intermingled identities, and with the baby boomers...
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La perra está de bajón… Nos recuerda que esto no es un libro infantil.
-Oye, cerda, ¿qué te pasa?
-Pues que no lo entiendo... ¿Por qué hay tantos cuentos con protagonistas perros, cerdos, lobos y zorros, pero no podemos aparecer nosotras en ellos?
La perra, la cerda, la zorra y la loba tienen mucho que decir. ¡Están hartas!
¿Por qué hay tantos insultos y palabras despectivas hacia las mujeres con nombres de animales?
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Cet ouvrage met en relief le nouvel essor des expressions culturelles autochtones et les conditions de leur réception. Il s'appuie sur des études et des analyses qui mettent en relief la manière dont nos sociétés se transforment, grâce à une véritable renaissance des cultures autochtones ayant cours depuis quelques décennies, et les enjeux et les défis que cela représente du point de vue de leur reconnaissance. Ce sont avant tout les relations...
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En el mundo, ningún Estado carece de un aparato que le proporcione servicios de inteligencia. Sin embargo, su estudio no es tan frecuente, ya que ninguno de ellos expone públicamente el total de las acciones encaminadas a preservar la seguridad nacional.
En este libro se analizan los servicios de inteligencia en México, contextualizándolos teórica, conceptual e históricamente para comprender las principales transformaciones en el mundo, estudiando...
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Theda Skocpol is Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Among her many works are Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States and States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China.
Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this...
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A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders
Forget about cocaine concealed in false-bottomed suitcases or swallowed in ovules resistant to gastric juices. When entire national economies are kept afloat by the money from cocaine smuggling, the quantities these tactics represent are meaningless. When a commodity like cocaine becomes a mainstay of the international...
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Un grupo de especialistas en estudios de género abordan en este volumen una diversidad de temas con variados enfoques: feminismos, educación con perspectiva de género desde la infancia, no binarismo y mirada trans, luchas por los derechos LGBTI y su registro histórico, construcción social de la masculinidad, escrituras de mujeres, hackfeminismo, labores de cuidado y presencia de las mujeres en el espacio público, entre otros. En conjunto los...
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India, the Eternal' is a book written towards peace, prosperity and harmony of all humanity. As means to achieve that, three key steps are discussed: redefining the human identity system, reminding ourselves about the concept of Dharma (Ethics) and finally, redefining an individual's success. These methods are then employed to prescribe solutions to a severe problem of the modern world, the situation in the Indian subcontinent. The first chapter of...
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Andrei S. Markovits is Professor of Politics in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe. Steven L. Hellerman is a sports journalist and a doctoral candidate at Claremont University's School of Politics and Economics.
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En los últimos años han sido numerosos los intentos de interpretar la deriva social, política y cultural de Occidente desde las ciencias sociales. Sin embargo, no ha sido tan frecuente abordar dicho análisis desde la producción y la construcción de los discursos de las grandes factorías de sentido, que no solo sirven para legitimar procesos como el de la desregulación sino que además modelan una subjetividad adaptada a un supuesto nuevo espíritu...
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