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Una cooperativa. 280 trabajadores, 160 de ellos con discapacidad o enfermedad mental. Vacas de raza premiadas por su calidad. El mejor yogur de la granja. Mermeladas y helados extraordinarios. Y todo ello con rentabilidades que permiten crecer día a día. ¿Cómo se consigue? ¿Por qué es un caso de estudio en universidades de prestigio como Harvard?
Este libro nos permite conocer la historia de esta renombrada cooperativa y entender cómo ha sido...
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How to get a good reputation-deserved or not!-and why we care what other people think
Why does a fish only bite another fish if no one else is watching? Why do people overshare online? Why do some people meet trivial insults with extreme violence? Why do so many gods have multiple eyes? In People Will Talk, science writer John Whitfield shows how reputation helps answer all of these questions, and more. What is the secret to getting get a good reputation?...
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The definition of data in qualitative research is expanding. This book highlights the value of embodiment as a qualitative research tool and outlines what it means to do embodied research at various points of the research process. It shows how using this non-invasive approach with vulnerable research participants, such as migrant, refugee and asylum seeking women can help service users or research participants to be involved in the co- production...
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En este libro hay una variedad de voces que reflexionan sobre medios, redes y tecnologías de la comunicación desde la contrahegemonía. Aquí convergen las ideas y los pensamientos de autoras y autores que transitan entre espacios académicos, medios comunitarios, movimientos sociales, instituciones educativas, barrios y comunidades de América Latina. La obra se constituye a partir de un tejido de diálogos que muestran las luchas, las negociaciones...
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#1 The American people are deeply divided about one thing: the belief that Washington is rife with government corruption. The concern over widespread corruption is growing.
#2 The new form of corruption in Washington involves large sums of money that are being funneled to the families and friends of politicians who are making influential decisions that affect everything...
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El despojo paramilitar y su variación: quiénes, cómo, por qué recoge los resultados de investigación del programa "Observatorio de restitución y regulación de derechos de propiedad agraria" financiado por Colciencias. Esta investigación analiza la variación regional del despojo de tierras activo paramilitar en Colombia, los mecanismos a través de los cuales tuvo lugar y las alianzas con elites agrarias que posibilitaron esta masiva transferencia...
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Mediadas por su interés en los estudios subalternistas, el autor aborda la crítica cultural rearticulando una idea básica: el concepto sin intuición es vacío, y la intuición sin concepto es ciega. Así, Kraniauscas sugiere que la crítica ideológica sin la cultural es vacía, y que ésta sin aquélla es ciega, y se entra en diálogo con conceptos clave como "estudios culturales", "hibridez", "transculturación", "imperio", "desarrollo" o "subalternidad";...
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#1 The rock art at Mulka's Cave is unique in the region for being so densely packed with images. It is difficult to date, but it is believed that the cave was created by indigenous Australians around 60,000 years ago.
#2 The world is not what it seems. It's a home that is more lived in than any other that I can imagine. Countless generations have absorbed and built upon...
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#1 I remember being seven years old, checking out books with my mother, and having the librarian ask me if my name was really Austin. I realized that white people thought my name was strange.
#2 I had gotten used to white people assuming that I was male. They would always call me by my male name, and when I answered the librarian's question about my little library card,...
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Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical presence of globalization and how it has organized migration and social networks. With a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and London, this book explains migration patterns through...
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Pionero de la sociología cultural, Alexander ha creado un nuevo modelo sociológico para aproximarse al estudio del tradicional problema del binomio cultura-sociedad. Este volumen reúne una serie de influyentes ensayos de amplio alcance, donde el autor insiste en que, a pesar de la racionalización y de la diferenciación, el mundo moderno continúa "encantado" en aspectos fundamentalmente significativos; que el pensamiento mágico e irracional...
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En el mundo occidental actual, se escribe y se dice mucho acerca de la violencia contra la mujer. Se crean instituciones, convenios y se aprueban leyes que velan por su integridad, por ejemplo, la Unión Europea creó el "Convenio de Estambul" que busca prevenir y luchar contra este flagelo. Esto está bien.
Sin embargo, por culpa de un pasado que sometió y mantuvo a muchas mujeres en condiciones infames de humillación y a unos pocos hombres desequilibrados,...
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Terrified and Defenseless is a story about one man's crusade to dish out his own form of vigilante justice. But his aim is not at child molestors or rapists or arsonists or someone who has harmed him personally. His aim is at those who willingly participate, fund or support cruelty towards animals. With his new found wealth, he has dedicated his life to not only helping those who can't help themselves, not only to avenging the torture and murder of...
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Como una suerte de desafío a la antropología clásica, la presente investigación muestra que las perspectivas intimistas pueden contribuir al entendimiento de los fenómenos sociales. El punto de partida es la historia personal de la autora y el método empleado implica el reconocimiento de un problema compartido con la alteridad que se propone abordar. No se trata de un relato autobiográfi co sino de un intento por encontrar, en el diálogo con...
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This book brings revolution to the African continent. It makes it clear that for Africans to advance in life they require a different approach to life. The book uses proverbs and wise sayings from Africa to enhance the notion that Africa as a continent appreciates issues about change and other players from outside the continent get a buy-in into change management. It is now generally accepted that from Cape to Cairo one sees a continent pregnant with...
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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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El análisis del discurso es hoy en día un campo interdisciplinario y muy heterogéneo de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. La diversidad de los rápidos desarrollos en el campo teórico y metodológico internacional dificulta la identificación de las aportaciones propias de cada disciplina. Por ello, este libro se interesa por teorías y métodos específicamente sociológicos del análisis del discurso. Los estudios sociológicos del discurso...
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Love them or hate them, most of us have an opinion about cars. If not the cars themselves, then it's driver competence and behavior that can offend us. And then, there's modification: alloy wheels, custom audio systems and bespoke paint jobs. For some, changing the look, feel and sound of a car says something about themselves, but for others, such enhancements signify a lack of taste, or even criminality. In subtle and complex ways, cars transmit...
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Title of the book “Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and APJ Abdul Kalam-Exemplary legends for All Times” is a clear indication of what the book contains. Both these great sons of India shall always be, remembered for their respective contributions to our country. Maulana Azad will be, remembered for his spiritual intellect and political achievements, as also for, the sacrifices he made for the country, particularly in an extremely adverse pre-partition...
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En esta entrega se documenta cómo el sistema político local incidió de manera directa o indirecta en el sistema de medios informativos jaliscienses, a partir de un punto de vista analítico se reflejan las complejas relaciones entre los sistemas de medios y el político, en el año 2018, que se caracterizó por la competencia político electoral en la que se renovaron los poderes Ejecutivo y Legislativo federal, así como la gubernatura, el Congreso...
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