Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: maya

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  • COLLABORATION AND CO-CREATION IN MUSEUMS, HERITAGE, AND THE ARTS
    ANNA EDMUNDSON AND MAYA HAVILAND
    Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts examines collaborative practices in museums, heritage and the arts. It offers an interdisciplinary approach combining both practical and theoretical perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners to better understand and support co-creation and collaboration in the cultural sector. The volume is divided into...

    $1,240.00

  • PRACTICES OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN INDIA
    MAYA DODD
    This book represents examples of innovations in digital humanities (DH) efforts across India while theorizing disparate challenges and its negotiations. It examines DH projects that have spanned private and public efforts, institutionally sanctioned lab-work, and crowd-sourced programmes of public significance and shows how collectively they demonstrate the potential paths of D...

    $1,120.00

  • A SOCIOLOGICAL GENEALOGY OF CULTURE WARS
    MAYA AGUILUZ-IBARGÜEN / JOSETXO BERIAIN
    This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values. Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and meanings that constitute a semantic field in permanent dynamic tension. In this work we ...

    $1,240.00

  • LEARNING VUE
    MAYA SHAVIN
    Learn the core concepts of Vue.js, the modern JavaScript framework for building frontend applications and interfaces from scratch. With concise, practical, and clear examples, this book takes web developers step-by-step through the tools and libraries in the Vue.js ecosystem and shows them how to create complete applications for real-world web projects. You’ll learn how to hand...

    $681.00

  • THE POLITICS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY
    MAYA KALYANPUR / PADMINI BHUYAN BORUAH / SARINA CHUGANI MOLINA / SUNAINA SHENOY
    Based on policy analysis and empirical data, this book examines the problematic consequences of colonial legacies of language policies and English language education in the multilingual contexts of the Global South. Using a postcolonial lens, the volume explores the raciolinguistics of language hierarchies that results in students from low-income backgrounds losing their mother...

    $1,000.00

  • SCHOOL FARMS
    ALSHIMAA ABOELMAKAREM FARAG, SAMAA BADAWI, GURPINDER LALLI, AND MAYA KAMAREDDINE
    This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills. Hunger is one of the most pressing concerns we face today and there is a clear need to provide alternative...

    $1,100.00

  • PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME
    MAYA SCHENWAR
    With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But i...

    $319.00

  • ETHICAL GOVERNANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    LIZA IRENI-SABAN / MAYA SHERMAN
    This book argues that ethical evaluation of AI should be an integral part of public service ethics and that an effective normative framework is needed to provide ethical principles and evaluation for decision-making in the public sphere, at both local and international levels. It introduces how the tenets of prudential rationality ethics, through critical engagement with inters...

    $580.00

  • NURSING
    MAYA JOLLEY
    This book uncovers some of the hidden agendas which have inhibited nursing and nurses from making their full potential contribution to health care, and stimulates new and positive initiatives. It explores nurses' behaviour patterns; employing, psychological, educational and political perspectives. ...

    $1,060.00

  • CONVIVIAL CONSTELLATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA
    LUCIANE SCARATO / FERNANDO BALDRAIA / MAYA MANZI
    Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this book considers the ways in which Latin America, a continent marked by deep inequalities, has managed to afford, create, sustain, and contest forms of living together with difference across time and space. Interdisciplinary in approach and presenting studies from various nations across the continent – from the med...

    $1,200.00

  • EXPLORING DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN INDIA
    MAYA DODD / NIDHI KALRA
    This book explores the emergence of digital humanities in the Indian context. It looks at how online and digital resources have transformed classroom and research practices. It examines some fundamental questions: What is digital humanities? Who is a digital humanist? What is its place in the Indian context? The chapters in the volume: • study the varied practices and pedagogie...

    $1,240.00

  • JAVASCRIPT FOR DATA SCIENCE
    MAYA GANS / TOBY HODGES / GREG WILSON
    JavaScript is the native language of the Internet. Originally created to make web pages more dynamic, it is now used for software projects of all kinds, including scientific visualization and data services. However, most data scientists have little or no experience with JavaScript, and most introductions to the language are written for people who want to build shopping carts ra...

    $1,420.00

  • FERTILITY, HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS
    MAYA UNNITHAN
    Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups. Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this ...

    $1,200.00

  • GENDER, CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
    ORLY MAYA STERN
    This book conducts a gendered critique of the ‘principle of distinction’ in international humanitarian law (IHL), with a focus on recent conflicts in Africa. The ‘principle of distinction’ is core to IHL, and regulates who can and cannot be targeted in armed conflict. It states that civilians may not be targeted in attack, while combatants and those civilians directly participa...

    $1,260.00

  • ANALYZING HEALTH DATA IN R FOR SAS USERS
    MONIKA MAYA WAHI / PETER SEEBACH
    Analyzing Health Data in R for SAS Users is aimed at helping health data analysts who use SAS accomplish some of the same tasks in R. It is targeted to public health students and professionals who have a background in biostatistics and SAS software, but are new to R. For professors, it is useful as a textbook for a descriptive or regression modeling class, as it uses a publicly...

    $1,380.00

  • SIDE BY SIDE?
    MAYA LOLEN DEVEREAUX HAVILAND
    A new wave of community arts projects has opened up exciting areas of cross-cultural creativity in recent years. These collaborations of local people, arts facilitators, anthropologists and supporting organisations represent a flourishing new form of arts-based collaborative anthropology that aims to document the stories and cultures of local people using creative art forms. Of...

    $1,340.00

  • PERFORMING THE EVERYDAY IN HENRY JAMES'S LATE NOVELS
    MAYA HIGASHI WAKANA
    Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical ...

    $1,240.00

  • CRITICAL JOURNEYS
    GEERT DE NEVE / MAYA UNNITHAN-KUMAR
    Through an 'ethnography of ethnographers', this volume explores the varied ways in which anthropologists become and remain attracted to the discipline. The contributors reflect on the initial preconceptions, assumptions and expectations of themselves as young anthropologists, and on the ways in which early decisions are made about fieldwork and about the selection of field loca...

    $1,380.00

  • ACTS OF PASSION
    NINA RAPI / MAYA CHOWDHRY
    The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines essays, dialogues, and performance texts from theater directors, performers, t...

    $1,200.00

  • MEDIA AND THE MAKE-BELIEVE WORLDS OF CHILDREN
    MAYA GOTZ / DAFNA LEMISH / HYESUNG MOON / AMY AIDMAN
    Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United States, Germany, Israel, and South Korea, it offers an innovative look at media's r...

    $1,120.00

  • REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM
    MAYA SINGH
    Authored by a professor with many years of university teaching experience and two textbooks to his name, this is an up-to-date and detailed introduction to all the most important types of reactive intermediates in modern organic chemistry. The chapters are arranged according to the type of intermediate and are clearly structured, providing information on the formation, characte...

    $768.00

  • MY PARENT HAS CANCER AND IT REALLY SUCKS
    MARC SILVER / MAYA SILVER
    Real-life advice from real-life teens Currently one million American teenagers live with a parent who is fighting cancer. It's a hard blow for those already navigating high school, preparing for college, and becoming increasingly independent. My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks is the first book written especially for teens to help during this tough time. Author Maya Silve...

    $223.00

  • A TALE OF TWO LOVERS
    MAYA RODALE
    A notorious lord and a scandal-seeking lady turn their public rivalry into a passion beyond repute in this delightfully dishy Regency romance. Lord Simon Roxbury is a godsend to gossip columnists everywhere. This notorious rake has recently been caught in an extremely compromising position by none other than  The London Weekly's Lady of Distinction. Rumor also has it that Lord ...

    $164.00

  • THE QUEEN JADE
    YXTA MAYA MURRAY
    There is a legend of the New World that has endured for centuries: the strange, tragic tale of a King, a Witch . . . and a blue gem of intoxicating beauty said to grant extraordinary power to whoever possesses it. Archaeologist Juana Sanchez, convinced that she's discovered the key to unlocking the mystery of the fabled Queen Jade, ventures into the Central American jungle alon...

    $109.00

  • MAGIC TIME: ANGELFIRE
    MARC ZICREE / MAYA KAATHRYN BOHNHOFF
    The world has changed -- forever. Across America, technology has been eclipsed by magic, and people are changing into the embodiments of their darkest desires and deepest fears. In this new time, former lawyer Cal Griffin has united a small group of outcasts to battle the chaos. Searching for the source of the unholy phenomenon -- and to save Cal's sister, Tina -- these unlikel...

    $164.00

  • THE KING'S GOLD
    YXTA MAYA MURRAY
    One look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez—a brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop—into the adventure of an already adventurous lifetime. The ancient writings tell of a stolen fortune in Montezuma's gold—and of the thief's transformation from conquistatore to alchemist . . . to werewol...

    $200.00

  • SISTERS OF THE SWORD: JOURNEY THROUGH FIRE
    MAYA SNOW
    Sometimes a samurai's most dangerous opponent is herself. Ever since their father's murder, Kimi and Hana have honed their fighting skills and prepared for vengeance against their vicious uncle Hidehira. They have become true warriors with the hearts of samurai. Now their fight has become more than just a personal vendetta. As Hidehira's quest for power continues, he is destroy...

    $164.00

  • SISTERS OF THE SWORD
    MAYA SNOW
    I see you blink with surprise. A girl? you are thinking. Surely a girl cannot be asamurai. But you are wrong. Kimi dreams of being a great samurai warrior, but she and her sister, Hana, are young ladies of ancient Japan, daughters of the Jito of the province. Her future seems clear: Girls do not become samurai. Then, a murderous betrayal shatters the sisters' world. Suddenly, K...

    $119.00

  • SISTERS OF THE SWORD: CHASING THE SECRET
    MAYA SNOW
    We held our weapons ready. I felt power humming through my limbs. Kimi and her sister, Hana, disguised themselves as boys to learn the ways of the samurai—and to prepare themselves to take revenge on the uncle who murdered their father and older brothers. After receiving word that their mother and younger brother are alive and in hiding, the sisters set off on a treacherous jou...

    $109.00

  • HINDU SELVES IN A MODERN WORLD
    MAYA WARRIER
    This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom devotees worship as an avatar and a healer ...

    $1,240.00


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