Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: may

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  • FAT STUDIES: THE BASICS
    MAY FRIEDMAN
    Fat Studies: The Basics introduces the reading of fat bodies and the ways that Fat Studies, as a field, has responded to waves of ideas about fat people, their lives, and choices. Part civil rights discourse and part academic discipline, Fat Studies is a dynamic project that involves contradiction and discussion. In order to understand this field, the book also explores its int...

    $540.00

  • ETHNIC CLEANSING
    LARRY MAY
    Putting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities – especially ethnic and racial minorities – are treated by the majority, Larry May’s Ethnic Cleansing maintains that unjust ethnic cleansing is one of the greatest internal challenges to the modern institutions of pluralistic and multicultural states. In order to determine what ...

    $1,240.00

  • YOUTH VOICE AND PARTICIPATORY ARTS IN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
    THE MAY GROUP
    Youth Voice and Participatory Arts in Global Development looks at how arts-based methods can promote youth voice and engagement in global development. This book argues that engaging young people’s diverse voices, ideas and knowledges in matters that affect them is vital in enabling young people to become – and be recognised as – active citizens, developing more inclusive societ...

    $1,100.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO COLONIAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY
    CORY J. MAY
    Who were some of the early pioneers of colonial African-American Christianity? Were there specific doctrines that shaped colonial African-American evangelical theology? Did influential colonial African-American Christians prioritize their racial identity above and beyond their Christian identity? How did some African-American Christians construct their Blackness, sense of belon...

    $621.00

  • SOCIAL CONTROL OF SEX EXPRESSION
    GEOFFREY MAY
    First published in 1930, Social Control of Sex Expression is a study of the control exercised by Anglo American law over voluntary sex expression. Divided into three parts the book starts with the doctrine of sex repression among primitive peoples, among the ancient Hebrews and early Christians. It then explores the doctrine in English law and the problems of sexual morality an...

    $1,480.00

  • AQUAPELAGOS
    PHILIP HAYWARD AND MAY JOSEPH
    Aquapelagos is a cross-disciplinary volume that is geared to a general undergraduate and non-specialist readership while also being rigorous and theoretically exciting for doctoral and advanced researchers of climate and ocean studies. It foregrounds marine-terrestrial assemblages as philosophical, navigational, and knowledge-making interfaces. Drawing on ethnographic, geograph...

    $1,060.00

  • LANGUAGE ISSUES IN ENGLISH MEDIUM INSTRUCTION
    AMY BIK MAY TSUI
    Tsui and Macaro's volume addresses a central issue in English Medium Instruction (EMI) and draws on research and practice from both content teachers and language specialists. It covers a range of academic disciplines and contains contributions by internationally recognized researchers and practitioners in EMI, as well as covering both the theoretical orientations and pedagogica...

    $1,040.00

  • CLASS, SERVITUDE, AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN EARLY VICTORIAN LONDON
    ALLYSON N. MAY
    This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes. The murder of Russell by his valet François Benjamin Courvoisier was a cause cé...

    $1,240.00

  • THE TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON
    LYLE C. MAY / AMANDA K. COX / LISA M. CARTER
    This volume follows one man’s revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina’s death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education. By pairing Lyle May‘s engaging first-person account with current scholarly literature, this book examines the complex relationship between the United States’ educational and penal sy...

    $1,120.00

  • CHINA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    LEE PEI MAY
    Through a rigorous examination of “China’s rise”, Lee addresses an important question—Did China catch up? Or more specifically, can growth be automatically translated to catching up with the advanced industrialised countries or has it only allowed limited progress (if any) to be made? To answer these queries and the broader question of the possibility of the Global South conver...

    $1,240.00

  • IL DONO DEL PRESENTE
    W.J. MAY
    Il passato è una lezione. Il presente, un dono. Il futuro, una motivazione. Un colpo di pistola può cambiare tutto. Che cosa vedi in quei secondi? Ti passa tutta la vita davanti agli occhi? È stata bella? Ti penti di qualcosa? Cosa cambieresti? Dopo essere stato salvato dal più impensabile degli alleati, Gabriel Alden si ritrova ad un bivio a fissare le due possibili diramazion...

    $78.00

  • TRAFFICKING AND THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY
    LARRY MAY
    Human trafficking has become the scourge of the 21st century, with child trafficking arguably its worst form. As vulnerable children are lured into prostitution, pornography and other forms of exploitation, there is only a patchwork legal regime trying to deal with child trafficking. This book assesses this legal regime, arguing that a more coordinated and international respons...

    $1,060.00

  • HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL ASPECTS OF DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION FOR LIFE CARE PLANNING
    VIRGIL ROBERT MAY III
    This textbook is an essential resource for life care planners in understanding and assessing a range of medical disabilities, life care planning as a health care service delivery practice, certification under the International Commission on Health Care Certification, and the path to rehabilitation for mild to catastrophic injuries. Written by a team composed of expert physician...

    $2,320.00

  • VIVERE NEL PASSATO
    W. J. MAY
    Il passato è una lezione. Il presente, un dono. Il futuro, una motivazione. Questo spin-off della serie Le Cronache di Kerrigan scritto da W. J. May, autrice best-seller di USA Today, può essere letto anche autonomamente. Come puoi costruire un futuro, quando una parte di te è intrappolata nel passato? I problemi di Gabriel Alden sarebbero dovuti finire. L'uomo che l'aveva rido...

    $67.00

  • LA SEPTIÈME MARQUE
    W.J. MAY
    À l'instar de la plupart des adolescents, Rouge cherche à comprendre qui elle est et ce qu'elle veut devenir. Avec peu d'informations sur son passé, elle a des questions auxquelles elle n'a jamais tenté de répondre. Tout bascule lorsqu'elle se lie d'amitié avec une famille étrangement captivante. Les frères et sœurs, Grace et Michael, semblent détenir des secrets liés à Rouge, ...

    $50.00

  • RUSSIA, AMERICA, THE BOMB AND THE FALL OF WESTERN EUROPE
    BRIAN MAY
    First published in 1984, Russia, America, the Bomb and the Fall of Western Europe offers a dual approach to unilateral nuclear disarmament. While it systematically analyzes and rejects stock arguments for retaining nuclear weapons, from the supposed threat of Soviet invasion to fears of Finlandization and the loss of mineral resources, it examines the issue within the context o...

    $860.00

  • THE INDONESIAN TRAGEDY
    BRIAN MAY
    First published in 1978, The Indonesian Tragedy is a controversial book that argues that Indonesia’s lack of economic development is due to the blind attempt to force a Western economic model on a population, whose culture and psychology are unsuited to it. The author demonstrates the ‘Indonesian Tragedy’ not so much by argument, as by depicting the country as he experienced it...

    $860.00

  • THE AVOCADO DEBATE
    HONOR MAY ELDRIDGE
    Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit? This book does not seek to demonise the avocado and its many enthusiasts. Instead, it will illuminate consumers on the often unseen impacts of foods. A staple of cafes, restaurants, homes, and social media channels,...

    $640.00

  • THE THIRD WORLD CALAMITY
    BRIAN MAY
    First published in 1981, The Third World Calamity is a controversial book on the social conditions, politics, economics and cultural barriers that have, according to the author, stagnated Western-style socio-economic development in the Third World. The book deals particularly with India, Iran and Nigeria, where the author has gathered a large part of the material. The content o...

    $960.00

  • HOSPITAL SKETCHES
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. ...

    $9.00

  • MOODS
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. ...

    $19.00

  • TRAVELS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    MAY VIVIENNE
    Travels in Western Australia is a delightful account of May Vivienne's tour through the South-West and the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Written at a time when the Colony was astonishing the world with its riches, travels continues to fascinate readers, showing a people with faith in their future and their new land. ...

    $39.70

  • AQUATOPIA
    MAY JOSEPH / SOFIA VARINO
    Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater’s ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes, colonial histories, climate change, and public space across New York City, Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin. The volume uses Harmattan’s site-specific performances as a point of departure to consider climate change and rising sea levels as geographical, ...

    $580.00

  • KARRIKADJURREN
    SALLY K. MAY
    Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book explores the artistic community surrounding the primary place of art creation and sale in the region, Injalak Arts, an art centre established in the remote Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches including archaeological anal...

    $1,160.00

  • THE MONGOL WORLD
    TIMOTHY MAY
    Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. Contributing authors consider how intercontinental environmental, economic, and intellectual t...

    $1,280.00

  • CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND EDUCATION
    KATIE FITZPATRICK / STEPHEN MAY
    In this book, Fitzpatrick and May make the case for a reimagined approach to critical ethnography in education. Working with an expansive understanding of critical, they argue that many researchers already do the kind of critical ethnography suggested in this book, whether they call their studies critical or not. Drawing on a wide range of educational studies, the authors demon...

    $1,160.00

  • THE SAS 'DENIABLES'
    TONY MAY
    With names changed for security reasons, this book reveals the true story of Australian SAS soldiers acting in secret across the globe. During the Vietnam war, the Australian Army sent a team of Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers to conduct covert missions into Cambodia. They were co-opted into the Defense Intelligence Organization (DIO) repertoire of Plausibly Deniable assets...

    $319.85

  • EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICAL OPTICS
    M. FRANCON / N. KRAUZMAN / J.P. MATHIEU / M. MAY
    Experiments in physical optics for undergraduate and graduate classes. Provides the theoretical basis of each experiment and describes the apparatus required and necessary adjustments. Most of the experiments require only lenses, prisms, mirrors, and polarizers, and can be projected on a lecture screen or viewed by television. ...

    $10,100.00

  • HUMORIST OF THE PENCIL: PHIL MAY
    PHIL MAY
    Excerpt: "Lucullus Brown (on hospitable purpose intent). “Are you Dining anywhere to-morrow night?” Jones (not liking to absolutely “give himself away”). “Let me see”—(considers)—“No; I’m not Dining anywhere to-morrow.” Lucullus Brown (seeing through the artifice). “Um! Poor chap! How Hungry you will be!”" ...

    $39.70

  • THE FUTURE IS FAT
    RINALDI, JEN, FRIEDMAN, MAY, LIND, EMILY R.M., KOTOW, CRYSTAL AND TIDGWELL, TRACY
    Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all. In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered t...

    $1,200.00