In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore.
Cet ouvrage analyse la politique sociale concue et mise en uvre au Pays Basque, tant dans ses fondements, son organisation, sa gouvernance et son contenu que dans les defis auxquels elle est confrontee, les questions sociales etant au c ur des preoccupations des habitants comme de leurs representants.
This book embarks on a compelling journey to reinvigorate Freire's transformative ideas and apply them to the pressing challenges in twenty-first century education.
Cuando encontre a Ulises relata la aventura de un grupo de amigos que buscan la huella dejada por el heroe de la Odisea en el extremo oriental del Mediterraneo.
Auteur, co-auteur et directeur de plus d'une vingtaine d'ouvrages et de plusieurs centaines d'articles ou chapitres, Jean Copans est une figure incontournable des etudes africaines et de l'anthropologie en France, et au-dela.
This book embarks on a compelling journey to reinvigorate Freire's transformative ideas and apply them to the pressing challenges in twenty-first century education.
The second edition of Environment and Society: Concepts for a Just Transformation delivers a major, timely update to one of the field’s most respected concept driven environmental social science texts.
Que tienen en comun comportamientos tan dispares como la adoracion de personajes politicos como el Che Guevara, la obsesion por el consumismo, el miedo a la vejez y a la perdida de la juventud, la atraccion por la adrenalina y las emociones fuertes, el culto por el cuerpo perfecto, la adhesion a la rebeldia sin causa, la fascinacion por lo exotico y lo peregrino, la pasion por el futbol, la busqueda instantanea del exito y del dinero sin mucho tramite?
In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological and epistemological differences among these methods, offer suggestions for determining the appropriate methods for a given research project, and explain the step-by-step application of selected methods.
One of the most brilliantly original of American pragmatists, George Herbert Mead published surprisingly few major papers and not a single book during his lifetime.
In an era of escalating disaster risks and increasingly complex governance challenges, social organizations have become indispensable actors in disaster response and recovery.
Explores the formation of Islamic institutions and statehood beyond eurocentric models of sovereignty Islam and Statehood: Instituting the Ecumene offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of how socioreligious and political institutions took shape across the Islamic ecumene.
In an era of escalating disaster risks and increasingly complex governance challenges, social organizations have become indispensable actors in disaster response and recovery.
Why did affording universal access to hospital and medical care become the surpassing motive of national health reform in Canada during the postwar era?
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore.
Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intertwined cultural, historical, and geopolitical landscape of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) - two regions separated by the Line of Control (LoC) yet bound by deep-rooted connections.
El analisis de las tendencias a escala global enmarcadas por las secuelas de la crisis economica mundial de 2007-2008, la emergencia de nuevos riesgos socialesasociados a la economia postindustrial, la perdida de centralidad del trabajo como eje de la integracion social, el cambio tecnologico, la heterogeneidad historica de los sistemas de proteccion social y la evolucion de los niveles de gasto social, se conjugan con el examen a escala regional en America Latina en torno a las implicaciones sobre las agendas sociales de los dos giros politicos ocurridos en varios paises durante el transcurso del presente siglo primero a la izquierda y luego a la derecha , lo que lleva a plantear diferentes escenarios yproponer posibles rutas mas progresistas.
This book offers the most comprehensive and multidimensional examination to date of child marriage in India, situating the country's experience within global debates on gender, health, and development.
One of the most brilliantly original of American pragmatists, George Herbert Mead published surprisingly few major papers and not a single book during his lifetime.
In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological and epistemological differences among these methods, offer suggestions for determining the appropriate methods for a given research project, and explain the step-by-step application of selected methods.
This book is premised on the great expectation about small-scale fisheries globally as a means of providing food security and alleviating poverty among the millions of people in coastal and inland communities.
