Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sterling

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  • EL VIAJE DE AUTODESCUBRIMIENTO
    NORA STERLING
    En un mundo que evoluciona constantemente, el camino hacia el crecimiento y desarrollo personal se ha vuelto más crucial que nunca. El crecimiento personal se refiere al proceso continuo de superación personal, autodescubrimiento y autoconciencia. Abarca la búsqueda de conocimientos, habilidades y experiencias que mejoran nuestra comprensión de nosotros mismos y del mundo que n...

    $20.00

  • THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN FICTION
    STERLING A. BROWN
    Excerpt: "The treatment of the Negro in American fiction, since it parallels his treatment in American life, has naturally been noted for injustice. Like other oppressed and exploited minorities, the Negro has been interpreted in a way to justify his exploiters I swear their nature is beyond my comprehension. A strange people!—merry ’mid their misery—laughing through their tear...

    $39.70

  • TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH RESOURCES
    JAMES K. BRACKEN / CHRISTOPHER H. STERLING
    As the telecommunication and information field expands and becomes more varied, so do publications about these technologies and industries. This book is a first attempt to provide a general guide to that wealth of English-language publications -- both books and periodicals -- on all aspects of telecommunication. It is a comprehensive, evaluative sourcebook for telecommunication...

    $1,100.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL AFRICANA WOMEN’S FICTIONS
    CHERYL STERLING
    This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the margins of gender and race hierarchies. The book demonstrates how in discourse and theory Africana women are the centers of their own knowledge production and agency, as the artists ...

    $1,200.00

  • HOW BOOKS, READING AND SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARIES DEFINED COLONIAL CLUBLAND IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
    STERLING JOSEPH COLEMAN, JR.
    How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the "select people"—clubbable settler elite—to vet the "proper sort"—clubbable indigenous el...

    $1,240.00

  • HERITAGE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE AFFECTIVE PAST
    COLIN STERLING
    Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book sheds new light on the role photography has played in the emergence, expansion, and ar...

    $1,140.00

  • BLACK GLOBALISM
    STERLING JOHNSON
    First published in 1998, Black Globalism: The International Politics of a Non-state Nation examines the international political behaviour of African-Americans. From the slave revolts of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, to the influence of the Congressional Black Caucus on US foreign policy, the author examines the impact of the domestic racial environment on the international inte...

    $3,200.00

  • A GRAMMAR OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
    R. STERLING
    Published in 1904, this book provides accessible Arabic language structure and grammar for a universal readership. ...

    $980.00

  • LITERACY, STORYTELLING AND BILINGUALISM IN ASIAN CLASSROOMS
    ALICE STERLING HONIG
    Contrary to previously held beliefs that bilingualism wonder hinder cognitive and language development in children, research has shown that bilingual children show enhanced cognitive flexibility and an ability to better focus their attention. This book explores both emergent literacy and bilingualism in children in four Asian countries - Hong Kong, Singapore, Myanmar, and Taiwa...

    $1,380.00

  • WAR AND WARFARE SINCE 1945
    STERLING PAVELEC
    Beginning with an exploration into the question of what war is, War and Warfare since 1945 provides a chronological analysis of military history since the end of World War II extending through to an analysis of the limits of modern warfare in the nuclear age with the purpose of examining why war occurs and how it is carried out. Among the types of conflict considered within the...

    $1,120.00

  • RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF U.S. AGRICULTURE
    PIERRE R. CROSSON / STERLING BRUBAKER
    Originally published in 1982, this report explores long-term trends in demand for U.S. agricultural production, energy prices and agricultural technologies and their effect on natural resources such as land and water in the United States. Crosson and Brubaker also discuss possible policy modifications in order to lessen the environmental impacts expected to emerge from these tr...

    $680.00

  • RETHINKING THE FEDERAL LANDS
    STERLING BRUBAKER
    The federal government is by far the largest landowner in the United States. It is somewhat of an anomaly for the federal government to hold vast acreages of land in an economy where the prevailing ideology favours private ownership. The Reagan administration’s (1981-1989) proposal to increase energy and mineral development on federal lands, to accelerate timber harvesting in n...

    $780.00

  • THE ARTIFICIAL KID
    BRUCE STERLING
    In a future world of rampant inequality, a martial-arts video star finds himself in a real fight for survival, in this novel by the author of Schismatrix. Founded centuries ago by the enigmatic genius Moses Moses, the planet Reverie can either be heaven or hell, depending on whether you live on or above it. The superrich orbit the world in luxury abodes, keeping their sometimes...

    $109.00

  • SCHISMATRIX PLUS
    BRUCE STERLING
    The Nebula-nominated novel of "a brave new world of nearly constant future shock"—plus all the short fiction of the Shaper/Mechanist universe ( The Washington Post).   Acclaimed science fiction luminary and a godfather of the genre's remarkable offspring—cyberpunk—Bruce Sterling carries readers to a far-future universe where stunning achievements in human development have been ...

    $164.00

  • ASCENDANCIES
    BRUCE STERLING
    Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists "Sunken Garden" and "Dori Bangs." Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as "one of America's best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Sterling's abilities ...

    $119.00

  • INVOLUTION OCEAN
    BRUCE STERLING
    A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boards a whaling vessel to hunt the drug he craves. The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua. It was John Newhouse's addiction to the substance that made him a...

    $119.00

  • TOPOGRAPHIES OF GENDER IN MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN ARTHURIAN ROMANCE
    ALEXANDRA STERLING-HELLENBRAND
    This book explores the metaphor of topography as a mechanism for the inscription of gender roles in Arthurian romance. ...

    $1,420.00

  • ENHANCING COUNSELOR INTERVENTION STRATEGIES
    STERLING K. GERBER
    Prepares future professionals by presenting a practical guide to theory and practice. Teaches a vast range of treatment options, the rationale behind each intervention strategy and the ability to anticipate realistic outcomes. ...

    $800.00

  • THE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN RADIO
    CHRISTOPHER H. STERLING
    The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio presents the very best biographies of the internationally acclaimed three-volume Encyclopedia of Radio in a single volume. It includes more than 200 biographical entries on the most important and influential American radio personalities, writers, producers, directors, newscasters, and network executives. With 23 new biographies an...

    $5,300.00

  • LORD OF PUBLISHING
    STERLING LORD
    A frank and insightful memoir of a life spent in publishing, by one of literature's most legendary agents Sterling Lord has led an extraordinary life, from his youth in small-town Iowa to his post-war founding and editing of an English-language magazine in Paris, followed by his move to New York City to become one of the most powerful literary agents in the field. As agent to J...

    $274.00

  • SEX/GENDER
    ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING
    Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling provides an introduction to the biochemistry, neurobiology, and social construction of...

    $1,160.00

  • STERLING'S GOLD
    ROGER STERLING
    Quips and quotes from one of Mad Men's sharpest wits. Multiple Emmy winner Mad Men continues to captivate viewers around the world with its brilliant portrayal of the 1960s and its stylish characters, including the dashing advertising mogul Roger Sterling, who's acquired a reputation for his quips, barbs, and witticisms over the show's many season. This book, presented as Roger...

    $229.00

  • SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
    PAULA JONES / DAVID SELBY / STEPHEN STERLING
    How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior ma...

    $1,460.00

  • THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN RADIO
    STERLING, CHRISTOPHER H. / O'DELL, CARY
    The average American listens to the radio three hours a day. In light of recent technological developments such as internet radio, some argue that the medium is facing a crisis, while others claim we are at the dawn of a new radio revolution. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio is an essential single-volume reference guide to this vital and evolving medium. It brings tog...

    $1,460.00

  • SHAPING AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    CHRISTOPHER STERLING / PHYLLIS W. BERNT / MARTIN B.H. WEISS
    Shaping American Telecommunications examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a detailed account of major events that have marked development of the sector in th...

    $2,060.00

  • SWEET DREAM BABY
    STERLING WATSON
    Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted, gossip-driven town. Delia's secrets go beyond what Travis can understand, but he...

    $344.00

  • STAY TUNED
    CHRISTOPHER STERLING / JOHN MICHAEL KITTROSS
    Since its initial publication in 1978, Stay Tuned has been recognized as the most comprehensive and useful single-volume history of American broadcasting and electronic media available. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to bring the story of American broadcasting forward to the 21st century, affording readers not only the history of the most important a...

    $4,000.00

  • A SOUTHERN STORY
    STERLING VINSON
    This book is an examination of a southern white family's relations with people of color in the United States from about 1650 to the present. Part autobiography, part social history, we were slaveowners, Confederate soldiers, Klansmen, and responsible for at least one lynching. During the last two generations we befriended Nisei during World War II, and since then have been incr...

    $213.00

  • HEAVY WEATHER
    BRUCE STERLING
    A near-future eco-thriller from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine.   The Storm Troupers are a group of weather hackers who roam the plains of Texas and Oklahoma, hopped up on adrenaline and technology. Utilizing virtual reality, flying robots, and all-terrain vehicles, they collect data on the extreme storms ravaging an America decimated by cl...

    $119.00

  • HOLY FIRE
    BRUCE STERLING
    Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "haunting and lyrical triumph" from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus ( Time).   In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy—if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for ...

    $119.00


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