ilość książek w kategorii: 2008
Mexican Business Culture: Essays on Tradition, Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Commerce and the State
ISBN: 9781476663081 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Western businesses are increasingly interested in doing business in Mexico. Yet few have thoroughly investigated the business climate and culture in Latin America's largest economy. This collection of new essays by contributors who work in and research the business culture of Mexico takes a combined academic and real-world look at the country's vibrant and dynamic commerce.
Western businesses are increasingly interested in doing business in Mexico. Yet few have thoroughly investigated the business climate and culture in L...
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185,49 zł |
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race
ISBN: 9781138020726 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of perspectives, the book is divided into three sections: first, it summarizes the theoretical approaches that scholars have adopted to analyze the complexities of media messages about race and ethnicity, from the notion of "representation" to more recent concepts like Critical Race Theory. Second,... The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to unde... |
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1211,36 zł |
Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families: Culturally Responsive Practice
ISBN: 9780231172851 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for students of social work, public policy, ethnic studies, community development, and migration studies, Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families provides the best knowledge for culturally responsive practice with immigrant children, adolescents, and families. This textbook summarizes the unique circumstances of Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino, South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern immigrant and refugee populations and the challenges faced by the social service systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, education, health, and mental health care, that attempt to serve...
Designed for students of social work, public policy, ethnic studies, community development, and migration studies, Immigrant and Refugee Children and ...
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185,96 zł |
Mexicans on the Move: Migration and Return in Rural Mexico
ISBN: 9781137559937 / Angielski / Twarda / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes and analyzes migration of individuals from San Cosme Mazatecochco in central Mexico to a new United States community in New Jersey. Based on four decades of anthropological research in Mazatecochco and among migrants in New Jersey Rothstein traces the causes and consequences of migration and who returned home, why, and how return migrants reintegrated back into their homeland.
This book describes and analyzes migration of individuals from San Cosme Mazatecochco in central Mexico to a new United States community in New Jersey...
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194,08 zł |
Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Cultural Competence in Action! an Asset-Based Approach
ISBN: 9781442258495 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations. The authors focus on their areas of expertise including academic, school, public libraries, health sciences, archives, and special collections to show the importance of understanding how cultural competence effects the day-to-day communication, relationship building, and information provision with Latinos. They acknowledge the role of both tacit and...
Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the eve...
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499,42 zł |
Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Cultural Competence in Action! an Asset-Based Approach
ISBN: 9781442258501 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations. The authors focus on their areas of expertise including academic, school, public libraries, health sciences, archives, and special collections to show the importance of understanding how cultural competence effects the day-to-day communication, relationship building, and information provision with Latinos. They acknowledge the role of both tacit and...
Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the eve...
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292,22 zł |
Kentiba Mender the God of Thunder and Lightning: How Kentiba Mender Liberated Africa from the Clutches of the British Empire and Defeated the Colonialists, During the Scramble for Africa
ISBN: 9781514461761 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mender was a wonderful man who followed in the dictates and aspirations of the Lord. He fought vigorously to ensure that Africa did not fall into the hands of the British Empire. His history is a story of a brave and a daring African who singlehandedly decided to liberate Africa from the hands of colonialist Britain. I know no other person that had done so much for the continent of Africa as Mender in our entire history. Mender's name is not a household name for obvious reasons as could be understood from reading of this book, but his legacy shall remain etched in the hearts of all Africans....
Mender was a wonderful man who followed in the dictates and aspirations of the Lord. He fought vigorously to ensure that Africa did not fall into the ...
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214,96 zł |
Kentiba Mender the God of Thunder and Lightning: How Kentiba Mender Liberated Africa from the Clutches of the British Empire and Defeated the Colonialists, During the Scramble for Africa
ISBN: 9781514461754 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mender was a wonderful man who followed in the dictates and aspirations of the Lord. He fought vigorously to ensure that Africa did not fall into the hands of the British Empire. His history is a story of a brave and a daring African who singlehandedly decided to liberate Africa from the hands of colonialist Britain. I know no other person that had done so much for the continent of Africa as Mender in our entire history. Mender's name is not a household name for obvious reasons as could be understood from reading of this book, but his legacy shall remain etched in the hearts of all Africans....
Mender was a wonderful man who followed in the dictates and aspirations of the Lord. He fought vigorously to ensure that Africa did not fall into the ...
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104,46 zł |
Adios, Mi Pequena Habana
ISBN: 9781940761206 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La revolucion arranco de raiz a Cecilia, con apenas seis anos, de su comodo hogar de clase media en Cuba y la planto en el vecindario de bajos recursos de la Pequena Habana en Miami. Su padre mujeriego se enfoco en reconstruir su carrera, persiguiendo la promesa americana de riquezas y liberacion del pasado. Su madre cayo en el precipicio de la locura tratando de mantener a la familia unida y recuperar a su marido. Desatendida y atrapada, Cecilia se rebelo en contra de su cultura conservadora y adopto la contracultura de 1960 -buscando amor, atencion y un lugar propio en los Estados Unidos....
La revolucion arranco de raiz a Cecilia, con apenas seis anos, de su comodo hogar de clase media en Cuba y la planto en el vecindario de bajos recurso...
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85,43 zł |
Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States
ISBN: 9780813062563 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A truly excellent contribution that unearths new and largely unknown evidence about relationships between Puerto Ricans and African-Americans and white Americans in the continental United States and Puerto Rico. Alamo-Pastrana revises how race is to be studied and understood across national, cultural, colonial, and hierarchical cultural relations. Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores, author of Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City
Puerto Rico s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants... A truly excellent contribution that unearths new and largely unknown evidence about relationships between Puerto Ricans and African-Americans and whit...
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484,64 zł |
Blacktino Queer Performance
ISBN: 9780822360650 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices. As the volume's framing device, "blacktino" grounds the specificities of black and brown social and...
Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness an...
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156,47 zł |
From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print
ISBN: 9780813583792 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic viability and visibility on the margins of the American publishing industry, while Chicana/o writers have grappled with editorial practices that compromise their creative autonomy. From the Edge...
Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identiti...
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171,61 zł |
From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print
ISBN: 9780813583808 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic viability and visibility on the margins of the American publishing industry, while Chicana/o writers have grappled with editorial practices that compromise their creative autonomy. From the Edge...
Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identiti...
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676,35 zł |
Blacktino Queer Performance
ISBN: 9780822360506 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices. As the volume's framing device, "blacktino" grounds the specificities of black and brown social and...
Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness an...
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642,87 zł |
Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990
ISBN: 9780700622542 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Someday," Candelaria Garcia said to the author, "you will get all the stories." It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred years. But these were the stories, and this was the world, that David Wallace Adams set out to map, in a work that would capture the intimate, complex history of growing up in a Southwest borderland. At the intersection of memory, myth, and history, his book asks what it was like to be a child in a land...
"Someday," Candelaria Garcia said to the author, "you will get all the stories." It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontie...
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313,47 zł |
The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
ISBN: 9781442637528 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino's life in Granada, Iberia's last Muslim metropolis, from his early clandestine education as a slave in a noble household to his distinguished career as a schoolmaster at the University of Granada. When intensifying racial discrimination and the chaos of the Morisco Revolt threatened Latino's hard-won... In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval ba... |
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272,56 zł |
Re-Membering Anzaldua: Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory--Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global
ISBN: 9781888024234 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. his Summer 2006 (IV, Special) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes the proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Social Theory Forum (STF), held on April 5-6, 2006, at UMass Boston on: "Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory: Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global Transformations." Walking along and crossing the borderlands of academic disciplines, contributors engaged with Anzaldua's gripping and creative talent in bridging the boundaries of academia and everyday life, self and global/world-historical...
his Summer 2006 (IV, Special) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes the proceedings of the Third Annual Mee...
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473,84 zł |
Re-Membering Anzaldua: Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory--Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global
ISBN: 9781888024814 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Summer 2006 (IV, Special) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes the proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Social Theory Forum (STF), held on April 5-6, 2006, at UMass Boston on: "Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory: Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global Transformations." Walking along and crossing the borderlands of academic disciplines, contributors engaged with Anzaldua's gripping and creative talent in bridging the boundaries of academia and everyday life, self and global/world-historical...
This Summer 2006 (IV, Special) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes the proceedings of the Third Annual Me...
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670,09 zł |
Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families: Culturally Responsive Practice
ISBN: 9780231172844 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for students of social work, public policy, ethnic studies, community development, and migration studies, Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families provides the best knowledge for culturally responsive practice with immigrant children, adolescents, and families. This textbook summarizes the unique circumstances of Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino, South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern immigrant and refugee populations and the challenges faced by the social service systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, education, health, and mental health care, that attempt to serve...
Designed for students of social work, public policy, ethnic studies, community development, and migration studies, Immigrant and Refugee Children and ...
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600,37 zł |
The Communist Party in South Africa: Racism, Eurocentricity and Moscow, 1921-1950
ISBN: 9781482809657 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is the history of communism in a country at the bottom of the African continent still important enough to warrant this book? South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that still has a strong communist party whose views are not only taken into account by the government, but whose members hold important positions in both the cabinet and in government offices. This is the first account of the history of the Communist Party of South Africa based on archival sources. The initial accounts were written by party members and had very little to do with reality. The months that Mia Roth...
Why is the history of communism in a country at the bottom of the African continent still important enough to warrant this book? South Africa is one o...
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137,26 zł |