Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: karen smith

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  • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    ARLENE B. TICKNER / ‎KAREN SMITH
    This exciting new textbook challenges the implicit notions inherent in most existing International Relations (IR) scholarship and instead presents the subject as seen from different vantage points in the global South. Divided into four sections, (1) the IR discipline, (2) key concepts and categories, (3) global issues and (4) IR futures, it examines the ways in which world poli...

    $1,100.00

  • WRITING SUCCESSFUL UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
    FRANCIS JEGEDE / CHARLOTTE HARGREAVES / KAREN SMITH / PHILIP HODGSON / MALCOLM TODD / JULIA WALDMAN
    A practical guide for students undertaking their dissertation, Writing Successful Undergraduate Dissertations in Social Sciences uses a mixture of exercises, strategies, case study material and further reading to give hints and tips on beginning and managing a research project and working with supervisors. Providing an accessible overview of the essential steps in conducting re...

    $680.00

  • DIALOGUES IN DYING
    CONNIE WISKIN / JOHN SKELTON / KAREN MORRISON / PAULINE SMITH
    This is a unique resource to improve this difficult and highly sensitive area of communication, ideal for both individual use and by groups or in teaching. It offers a visual, interactive training experience, linking with supportive care frameworks. It is accompanied bya DVD which contains filmed scenes illustrating a range of challenging dialogues between health workers and a ...

    $1,660.00

  • FROM INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION TO GLOBAL SURROGACY
    KAREN SMITH ROTABI / NICOLE F. BROMFIELD
    Intercountry adoption has undergone a radical decline since 2004 when it reached a peak of approximately 45,000 children adopted globally. Its practice had been linked to conflict, poverty, gender inequality, and claims of human trafficking, ultimately leading to the establishment of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (HCIA). This international private law along with...

    $1,460.00

  • INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
    KAREN SMITH ROTABI
    Intercountry adoption represents a significant component of international migration; in recent years, up to 45,000 children have crossed borders annually as part of the intercountry adoption boom. Proponents have touted intercountry adoption as a natural intervention for promoting child welfare. However, in cases of fraud and economic incentives, intercountry adoption has been ...

    $1,660.00

  • TIME IT WAS
    KAREN MANNERS SMITH / TIM KOSTER
    What was it like to live through the Sixties?  The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants i...

    $1,900.00

  • EVENT VOLUNTEERING.
    KAREN A. SMITH, LEONIE LOCKSTONE-BINNEY, KIRSTEN HOLMES AND TOM BAUM
    Volunteers make important contributions across the spectrum of event settings, most visibly at high profile mega events such as the Olympic Games they are volunteers are lauded as ‘Games makers’, ’unsung heroes’ and the like. Less visibly volunteers are the heart and soul of community events and festivals, often undertaking multi-faceted roles from event leadership through to o...

    $1,460.00

  • HANDBOOK OF LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT
    BERG, LAWERENCE / FINGERMAN, KAREN L. / ANTONUCCI, TONI C. / SMITH, JACQUI / BERG, CYNTHIA
    "The handbook is an impressive collection of research studies and theories provided by knowledgeable contributors on life-span development from conception to old age."--Anthropology and Aging Quarterly The doubling of our average life span since the turn of the 20th century is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important changes in human existence. This definitiv...

    $2,748.00

  • UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD)
    IAN TAYLOR / KAREN SMITH
    Ian Taylor and Karen Smith present a much-needed and full examination of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), covering its history and current activities. All the key areas are covered by accessibly written chapters, including: an overview of UNCTAD: what it is, why it was formed and why it is important how the organization operates today: what it do...

    $1,160.00

  • LEARNING TO TEACH IN AN AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
    ARTHUR T. COSTIGAN / KAREN KEPLER ZUMWALT / MARGARET SMITH CROCCO
    This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and years working in schools in the New York City metropolitan area. The issues they grapple ...

    $1,280.00

  • SUPPORTING EARLY LITERACIES THROUGH PLAY
    KATE SMITH / KAREN VINCENT
    Bringing together two key areas within early childhood— play and literacy — this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacies within the context of children’s play. This book: Introduces students to contemporary theory and research in the field Explores the debates surrounding young children’s play and how language and literacies are created through a range of pla...

    $967.36

  • HER HONOR-BOUND LAWMAN
    KAREN ROSE SMITH
    Rugged, hardworking Sheriff Tucker Malone is as upright as the weather vane on Gertie Anderson's roof! So who better to shelter sweet, virginal Emma—the amnesiac who surfaced in Storkville without a nickel or last name—while he investigates her past? Still, the broad-shouldered lawman seems mighty distracted since Emma started spending nights. And he gets downright testy when o...

    $109.00

  • TWINS UNDER HIS TREE
    KAREN ROSE SMITH
    She'd just gone into labor… …seven weeks early! Now Dr. Lily Wescott was the proud mother of twin baby girls. But she couldn't have done it without Mitch Cortega. The decorated combat surgeon was with her every step of the way. And the young widow was finding it awfully hard to resist Mitch's overpowering masculinity…. Spending time with Lily and her infant daughters was making...

    $109.00