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Una de las principales tendencias contemporáneas en el manejo del territorio, sobre todo en la región latinoamericana, se ve expresada en la dedicación de grandes áreas a un solo cultivo, así lo expresa el escritor y político cubano José Martí, para quien la dependencia de un pueblo a un solo producto acarrea consecuencias negativas que se ven reflejadas en las condiciones sociales y en su medio físico natural. En el marco de explotación...
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La Academia Ecuatoriana de la lengua y el Grupo América presentan algunas reflexiones con ocasión del bicentenario de la batalla del Pichincha, como una contribución a la celebración de ese magno suceso.
Este libro recoge artículos tanto de miembros de la Academia como del Grupo América que han querido contribuir con sus investigaciones y reflexiones a la comprensión cabal del significado, consecuencias y lecciones de ese hecho histórico.
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Competencias del directivo de instituciones de educación superior es producto del proyecto de investigación titulado "Análisis al directivo universitario en Colombia: estudio desde la perspectiva del comportamiento organizacional y la gestión del conocimiento" con código de proyecto 8126, desarrollado en el Grupo de Investigación Humanismo y Gestión de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Administración de la Universidad del Valle. Esta investigación...
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An accessible, user-friendly handbook for all amateur genealogists seeking their Scottish roots. With an emphasis firmly on the practical, this handy little book is designed to be used as a reference guide while actually working in record offices and other repositories of genealogical information. It provides detailed guidance on the variety of religious, governmental and other records available and is packed with hands-on advice on navigating the...
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Este libro es un producto del Convenio entre la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador PUCE y el Real Instituto Elcano, de España RIE. Contiene materiales resultantes de las actividades de investigación del Programa Democracia, Seguridad y Defensa, auspiciados por la Dirección de Investigaciones de la PUCE; del Laboratorio sobre Crimen Organizado del RIE, y del II Foro Internacional "Crimen Organizado y Tráficos Ilícitos", realizado en...
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Desde la antigüedad, la ciudad ha sido representada por sus artistas y escritores con el propósito de reconstruirla para la retina del ojo. No basta con habitar la ciudad real, con sus bloques de hormigón que se levantan verticalmente y su enjambre de automóviles corriendo sobre sus avenidas. El ser humano necesita representarla con su imaginación para así poder conservarla en el centro de la memoria. A partir de Homero y Virgilio, quienes cantaron...
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A menudo se dice que las "querellas sobre la mujer" comenzaron en Francia en 1402 con la crítica que Christine de Pisan le dirigió a Jean de Meun por su poema misógino "Romance de la rosa", pero en nuestro continente podríamos decir que las contiendas sobre género comenzaron en el siglo XVI, cuando varias culturas originarias se enfrentaron con el desprecio europeo hacia las mujeres. Por su parte, los europeos tendían a trasladar ese desprecio...
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This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.
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Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative research: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case...
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The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on this topic. Here are assembled papers that discuss various aspects of this subject. As it happens all deal with football (soccer) largely in Egypt but including other Middle Eastern countries. Some are historically or politically oriented while others take a more sociological approach. Papers deal with...
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A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past
Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and their descendants have lived in North America. Contemporaries and later writers and scholars up to the present day have explored the meaning of slavery as a system of labor, an ideological paradox in a "free" political and social order, a violent mode...
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Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention. With...
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There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still dominated by medical interests. Bringing together leading...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching political and social consequences across the globe. Published in collaboration with the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book addresses the greatest social challenges facing the world as a result of the pandemic. The authors propose public policy solutions to help refugees, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking, indigenous populations and the invisible poor of the Global South....
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Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being a human and one that is culturally mediated. Archaeology has tended to marginalise the study of care, and debates surrounding our ability to recognise...
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Si l'expression « réseau social » fait son apparition dans le langage populaire en même temps que les Facebook, LinkedIn et autres plateformes d'échange, le concept est présent dans les sciences sociales depuis au moins les années 1930. De fait, les premières applications formelles de techniques d'analyse des réseaux sociaux (ARS), notamment dans les travaux sur les prisons et les maisons de réforme, sont apparues à la fin des années 1990....
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Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during prehistorical and historical times, and that history defines mountain landscapes as we know them today. Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes contains twenty contributions by forty-one specialists currently researching mountain areas in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The different...
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Waste represents a category of 'things', which is familiar and ubiquitous but rarely reflected in archaeological and cultural studies. Perception of waste changes over time and practices associated with waste vary. The ambiguity of waste challenges traditional archaeological approaches that take advantage of refuse to infer past behavior. Recent developments in research in the social sciences and humanities indicate that waste offers many more dimensions...
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¿Cómo afectarán la robótica y las nuevas tecnologías a nuestro trabajo, a nuestras vidas? Una respuesta desde una mirada joven y ecológica
Mires donde mires, hay alguien alabando o criticando el impacto que la interconexión tecnológica está teniendo en nuestras vidas. Pero no se trata de casos aislados o de adicción a las pantallas, sino de algo más grande. Sin que haya finalizado la Tercera Revolución Industrial, nos encontramos en un...