Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rockwell

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  • THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
    RICK ROCKWELL
    From the deserts of northern Mexico to as far south as the Rio Plata in Argentina, this book traces the history of journalism in Latin America from its earliest roots and examines how it relates to the modern importance of media in the twenty-first century. By exploring mestizo roots, The History of Journalism in Latin America examines Indigenous foundations, pre-colonial metho...

    $1,100.00

  • FACT IN FICTION
    JOAN ROCKWELL
    First published in 1974, Fact in Fiction states that literature does not ‘reflect’ or ‘arise from’ society but is as much a functioning part of it as any social structure, institution or set of norms. The author shows that, however fantastic the content of fiction, it is a representation of social fact, not the mere random issue of private fantasy. Because of this, there is a r...

    $840.00

  • DEVAS, DEMONS AND BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY IN SRI LANKA
    ACHALA GUNASEKARA-ROCKWELL
    This book examines the worship of devas and demons in Sri Lanka, illustrating how diverse influences interacted to create the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology. The work explains the processes by which apotheosis plays an important role in revitalizing that cosmology. The author offers an examination of holy sites associated with the worship of Hūniyam. These sacred spaces each have a...

    $1,160.00

  • FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATIONS: AN ENGINEERING GUIDE
    EDUARD NAUDASCHER / DONALD ROCKWELL
    Designed for engineers, this work considers flow-induced vibrations. It covers topics such as body oscillators; fluid loading and response of body oscillators; fluid oscillators; vibrations due to extraneously-induced excitation; and vibrations due to instability-induced excitation. ...

    $5,100.00

  • GLOBAL ENGINEERING ETHICS
    HEINZ LUEGENBIEHL / ROCKWELL CLANCY
    Global Engineering Ethics introduces the fundamentals of ethics in a context specific to engineering without privileging any one national or cultural conception of ethics. Numerous case studies from around the world help the reader to see clearly the relevance of design, safety, and professionalism to engineers. Engineering increasingly takes place in global contexts, with in...

    $1,196.00

  • THEBES
    NICHOLAS ROCKWELL
    Thebes offers a scholarly survey of the history and archaeology of the city, from 1600 BCE – 476 CE. Discussions of major developments in politics, war, society and culture form the basis of a chronological examination of one of Greece’s most powerful and dynamic cities. By taking a broad view, the book’s account speaks to larger trends in the ancient Mediterranean world while ...

    $1,280.00

  • THE LEARNING COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    SUSAN MARY PAIGE / AMITRA A WALL / JOSEPH J MARREN / BRIAN DUBENION / AMY ROCKWELL
    Offering an interdisciplinary qualitative approach, this book examines and evaluates the role and benefits of a Learning Community (LC), a high-impact practice for student retention in higher education. Grounded in in-depth case studies and first-person student experiences, the authors studied four student cohorts (sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate students) who participa...

    $1,160.00

  • THE LIFE OF VOICES
    B. HANNAH ROCKWELL
    The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communica...

    $1,260.00

  • N BY E
    ROCKWELL KENT
    A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original. When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published  N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. ...

    $274.00

  • COMPARING ETHNOGRAPHIES
    KATHYRN ANDERSON-LEVITT / ELSIE ROCKWELL
    Comparing Ethnographies presents cross-national comparisons that give researchers and students a fresh look at familiar concepts. How does it matter, for example, to think in terms of "majorities" rather than "minorities, "migrants" rather than "immigrants, or"intercultural education" rather than "multicultural education"? How does indigenous education or the work of teachers l...

    $511.11

  • LA ESCUELA COTIDIANA
    ROCKWELL ELSIE
    Los estudios reunidos en este libro describen ciertas facetas del trabajo escolar, difíciles de percibir, que constituyen parte clave del funcionamiento de escuelas de una ciudad de provincia, así como aspectos del manejo de los contenidos académicos en escuelas de la ciudad de México. ...
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    $131.00

  • MAFIA III: PLAIN OF JARS
    JEFF MARIOTTE / MARSHEILA ROCKWELL
    A mobster's adopted son sees action in the Vietnam War and as a CIA operative in this pulp-fiction-inspired prequel to the hit video game. Before Lincoln Clay laid waste to New Bordeaux in his quest for vengeance against the Italian mob, he did an equally action-packed tour of Vietnam. In this authorized prequel to the hit game Mafia III, Clay learns the skills he will use back...

    $119.00

  • WILDERNESS
    ROCKWELL KENT
    The artist and adventurer chronicles his seven-month excursion to a remote cabin on Alaska's Fox Island with his nine-year-old son. In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his nine-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, ...

    $229.00

  • OPEN THE DOOR TO LIBERTY!
    ANNE ROCKWELL
    The story of revolution leaderToussaint L'Ouverture of St. Domingue (now Haiti). The island now known as Haiti was once a French colony called St. Domingue, where white plantation owners forced hundreds of thousands of African slaves to farm sugar cane. Toussaint L'Ouverture was one of those slaves . . . but not for long. The day would come when L'Ouverture would lead his islan...

    $145.00

  • A HOME IN THE WEST
    M. EMILIA ROCKWELL
    This is the first novel published in Iowa. Printed in Dubuque in 1858, it was written to recruit emigrants to Iowa; what makes it unique among emigration literature is the fact that it was directed at women, using the form of a domestic novel loaded with gentle mothers and stalwart fathers, flower-gemmed prairies and vine-draped cottages, and lots of tender words and humble wed...

    $278.78

  • LA EXPERIENCIA ETNOGRAFICA
    ROCKWELL
    Agotado

    $399.00

  • NUESTROS PASOS POR LA ESCUELA LO QUE QUEDA Y LO QUE CAMBIA
    ROCKWELL
    Agotado

    $209.00

  • APRENDIENDO PROGR.C/MS WINDOWS DNA EN 21 DIAS
    ROCKWELL
    Agotado

    $285.00