Социология
5875 кн.
Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage when they are living apart? More importantly, do parents' relocations yield the intended results? Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Joanna...
| Автор | Joanna Dreby |
The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and Costa Rica. Others traveled far north, to Mexico, the United States, and Canada in search of safety. Over two million of those who fled Central America during this period settled in these three...
| Автор | Maria Cristina Garcia |
Planerische Entscheidungen auf kommunaler Ebene werden immer vielschichtiger. Ein Grund hierfür liegt darin, dass das Regelwerk komplexer geworden ist: umfangreiche rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen des Landes-, Bundes- und des EU-Rechts müssen berücksichtigt und eingehalten werden. Damit steigt nicht nur der Arbeitsaufwand von Planungsverfahren für die Verwaltung, sondern auch von außen sind die Abläufe der Verfahren nur noch schwer nachzuvollziehen. Dieser Band zeigt auf, wie es gelingen kann, die...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva Meijer develops a new, ground-breaking theory of language and politics, arguing that non-human animals speak—and, most importantly, act—politically. From geese and squid to worms and dogs, she highlights the importance of listening to animal voices, introducing ways to help us bridge the divide between the human and non-human world. Drawing on insights from science, philosophy, and politics, Meijer provides...
| Автор | Eva Meijer |
After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the “star” of the Michael Moore documentary <I>Roger & Me.</I> Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the world’s highest per capita income levels but had become one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned...
| Автор | Gordon Young |
This magnificently produced atlas provides a unique visual survey of the profound economic, political, and social changes taking place in China, as well as their implications for the world at large. <br /><br />China has the world's fastest-growing economy and is the second-largest trading nation. With its pro-entrepreneurial outlook and population of 1.3 billion, it offers unique opportunities for domestic and overseas investors. This dynamic volume provides an abundance of...
| Автор | Robert Benewick |
Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. <i>The Dialectical Imagination</i> is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the...
| Автор | Martin Jay |
Drawing on research from around the world, this atlas gives shape and meaning to statistics, making it an indispensable resource for understanding global inequalities and an inspiration for social and political action. Inequality underlies many of the challenges facing the world today, and <i>The Atlas of Global Inequalities</i> considers the issue in all its dimensions. Organized in thematic parts, it maps not only the global distribution of income and wealth, but also inequalities...
| Автор | Ben Crow |
Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, even the most respected publications present numbers that are miscalculated, misinterpreted, hyped, or simply misleading.<br> <br> This new...
| Автор | Joel Best |
With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the circumstances of cultural production. Responding to social-science notions of ideology that incorporate power but disregard the ways ideas respond to cultural promptings, he demonstrates how...
| Автор | Eric R. Wolf |
Die honger reisiger is pragtig geillustreerde reisverhale en ’n reseptebundel “sonder saaits”. Dis saamgestel uit die skrywer en haar sielsgenoot-man, Chris, se eksotiese reise na lande soos Turkye, Eritrea, Ethiopië, Frankryk, Egipte, Rusland met resepte wat ook van vriende afgebedel is.Niks is besonder uitheems of lastig om te maak nie. Dis sielskos, trooskos, en veral – kuierkos.
| Автор | Dr Marie Heese |
A fearless take on the state of our nation from one of South Africa’s most controversial commentators. This collection of Rhoda Kadalie’s best columns include sections on public figures such as Cyril Ramaphosa, Allan Boesak and Winnie Mandela, “troubled transformation”, “media meekness”, “foreign fumbles” and more.
| Автор | Rhoda Kadalie |
Op 26 Februarie 1988, ‘n Vrydagaand, het Douwleen Bredenhann haar dogter Liesl by die balletklas gaan haal en begin kosmaak. Minute later is Liesl in hul agterplaas vermoor terwyl sy haar hondjie gaan kosgee het.’n Hemelhoë hekkie is Douwleen se hart-verskeurende ware verhaal van skok, pyn en ’n geleidelike soort heling. Die vertelling is onverskrokke en skreiend eerlik. Dit sal jou waarskynlik lewenslank bybly.
| Автор | Douwleen Bredenhann |
North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. This book provides the facts regarding the true force of North Korean Army and gives an assessment of its capability to harm the United States. North Korea's Military Threat Conventional Forces Unconventional Forces Overall Conclusions The North Korean Ballistic Missile...
| Автор | Donald Trump |
El libro recoge estudios con una clara vocación interdisciplinar: la filosofía, la teología, las ciencias sociales y la literatura provocan intersecciones fecundas y también puntos de fuga. Razón, lenguaje y reconocimiento son las referencias para un posible diálogo donde el objeto de estudio siempre es América Latina, con sus múltiples potencialidades que logren siquiera visibilizar una historia transida de injusticias y desigualdad.
| Автор | Oscar Pacheco |