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Esta investigación explora la posibilidad de que la educación que imparten los profesores se encuentre determinada por múltiples factores algunos inherentes al maestro: la edad, el sexo, la condición física, el talento, la inteligencia, la forma de ser, la preparación académica, entre otros. Además, se estudia la probabilidad de que factores, ajenos al profesor, es decir, el ambiente, determinen su labor educativa, por ejemplo, aspectos económicos,...
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Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide may be uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become an epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide Notes, the sociologist Terry Williams pours over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind...
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Celebrating Native California food gathering and preparation across the seasons, Kathleen Rose Smith reveals the practices handed down through generations of her Bodega Miwuk and Pomo ancestors, and shares how these traditions have evolved into the contemporary ways her family still enjoys wild foods. Her knowledge and personal reflections are expressed through recipes, stories, and artwork, recording not only the technical aspects of food gathering,...
84) Caravanas
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Las caravanas son la estrategia migratoria más reciente adoptada por las personas provenientes fundamentalmente de Centroamérica -si bien existen antecedents, con una doble finalidad: escapar de las condiciones de diversas violencias, persecuciones, problemas medioambientales, pobreza y hambre de sus lugares de origen y, al mismo tiempo, enfrentar los crecientes riesgos y minimizar los costos que implica el tránsito por el territorio mexicano -secuestros,...
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The addictions treatment field is reaching a tipping point that is revolutionizing the ways that behavioral health leaders think about people with alcohol and other drug problemsand how services and systems are developed. Recovery Management / Recovery Oriented Systems of Care contains six monographs by renowned recovery advocate William L. While and colleagues. These monographs provide insight and analysis of the topics important to todays addiction...
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Los Servicios Sociales son un sistema del Bienestar Social amplio, complejo y multinivel. En este libro se analizan los dos niveles del sistema desde una perspectiva territorial. Para el nivel de Servicios Sociales generales se presentan datos sobre su organización y funcionamiento, fruto de una encuesta realizada a todos los centros municipales de Servicios Sociales de la provincia. El nivel de Servicios Sociales especializados se ha investigado...
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#1 In 2014, Sharnalle Mitchell was arrested and brought to court because she owed the city of Montgomery money for traffic tickets. The judge ordered her to pay or stay in jail. She decided to stay in jail to protect her children.
#2 There are 2. 2 million people confined in prison and jail cells in the United States today. About 500,000 of those people are presumptively...
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Ce livre plonge au cœur de la vie religieuse de quatre communautés au Québec: des bouddhistes d'origine cambodgienne, des hindous d'origine tamoule sri lankaise, des musulmans d'origine maghrébine et des pentectistes originaires d'Afrique subsaharienne. Des spécialistes tentent de comprendre le processus de recomposition identitaire de ces nouveaux citoyens.
89) Bridges
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Bridges: Anglo-Japanese Cultural Pioneers 1945-2015 cover interviews with ten prominent people in the field of Anglo-Japanese exchange, showing the rich culturaldiversity and interaction between professional people in the UK, Europe and Japan during the last 70 years since 1945. Coming from diverse backgrounds, diplomats, scholars, musicians, business people, journalists, gardeners, and humanitarian activists, all of whom have made an impact in the...
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DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE Ideas, like blades of prairie grass, sprout in abundance everywhere. Equal at their inception, all of them have the potential to develop beneficially. From mere scribbled notes, to books blossoming from imprisoned authors, to worldly Montaignes, ideas can encourage us, even to flourish in inhospitable places. Ideas to fit our particular lives. Elementary thought, the ordinary, the eccentric, all are conditional at first. Cultivated...
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Être mineur fait partie des emplois les plus à risque pour la santé. Comment les mineurs de fond perçoivent-ils les risques inhérents à leur métier et comment réagissent-ils en situation de travail? À partir des résultats d'entrevues semi-dirigées avec des mineurs de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Sylvain Beaupré lève le voile sur cette question.
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#1 The director of the Clinic for Radiation Medicine in Moscow, Angelina Gus'kova, was the first person to hear about the Chernobyl accident. She treated patients who were nauseous and weak, with reddened skin, and one who was already vomiting. The diagnosis was typical signs of acute radiation sickness.
#2 In the 1950s, the first civilian nuclear power plants...
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La noción de inteligencia emocional se popularizó en la década de 1990 como una forma de gestionar eficazmente los sentimientos en todas las facetas de la vida. Sin embargo, el capitalismo ha sabido apropiarse de este cambio de paradigma. Lo que en El arte de amar, de Erich Fromm, se postuló como una búsqueda de sentido y un estudio de la naturaleza del amor, en la sociedad del marketing emocional se convierte en una herramienta para realzar...
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Not all incidents related to race should be considered instances of racism. And not all people who make comments about race are racists. In Its Not Always Racist but Sometimes It Is, author Dionne Wright Poulton, PhD, argues that society misuses these termsracism and racistand that this misuse of language damages society. She advocates engaging in ongoing, open, and honest dialogue. Through this discussion, Dr. Poulton shows why the United States...
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#1 Ageism is the discrimination against older people, and it is pervasive in American society. It is a combination of prejudicial attitudes towards older people, old age, and aging itself.
#2 As modernity took root in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, older members of society were reduced to a status of social inferiority. The young United States was a gerontocracy, where older...
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The East End is one of the most famous parts of London and it has had its own distinctive identity since the district was first settled in medieval times. It is best known for extremes of poverty and deprivation, for strong political and social movements, and for the extraordinary mix of immigrants who have shaped its history. Jonathan Oatess handbook is the ideal guide to its complex, rich and varied story and it is an essential source for anyone...
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From a medical-scientific standpoint, madness is characterized as biophysical imbalances and neurological malfunctions that cause symptoms ranging from frenzied behavior to utter insanity. But from a sociological perspective, madness is rooted in multifaceted cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental circumstances that create imbalances, not in the biochemistry of the brain, but in the living conditions of individuals-and societies-that go mad by...
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The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal reforms could help protect markets from financial breakdowns. Sitting at the nexus between the legal system and the market, corporate bankruptcy law ensures that the casualties of capitalism are treated in an orderly way. Halliday and Carruthers show...
99) Digital Bodies
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In the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our embodied selves into contact with digital media technologies....
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#1 As a child growing up in the seventies and early eighties in New York, Wisconsin, and Northern Virginia, I was often the target of curiosity from white children and adults. They wanted to make sense of me, so they asked where I was from.
#2 I am the Wooly-Haired, Medium-Brown-skinned offspring typical when Blacks and whites have sex. I come from people who broke...