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Tierra de nadie: cómo pensar (en) la sociedad global

by Campillo, Antonio

fromPensamiento Herder

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Este ensayo se plantea una doble pregunta: cómo pensar la sociedad global para conseguir que la Tierra siga siendo un hogar para todos y, de otro lado, cómo pensar en la sociedad global, es decir, de qué modo los cambios en el mundo globalizado afectan e interpelan a la propia a…

Rethinking black motherhood and drug addictions: counternarratives of black family resilience

by Tivis, Tierra B.

fromBlack studies & critical thinking

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"These people are suffering": help versus incarceration -- Tools for understanding drug addiction and black mothers' standpoint -- Origin of the crack ho': Mammies, Jezebels, controlled images, and prosecution of addiction -- "From suga to shit": the drug business and destructio…

In the absence of the sacred: the failure of technology and the survival of the…

by Mander, Jerry

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Examination of how the utopian promises of technological society have proven false and how Indian societies are still resisting the promise.

How to build a habitable planet: the story of earth from the big bang to humankind

by Broecker, Wallace S., Langmuir, Charles H.

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Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, "How to Build a Habitable Planet" has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civ…

Proceedings of the first International Conference on Rammed Earth Conservation, Restapia 2012, Valencia, Spai…

by International Conference on Rammed Earth Conservation, Valencia)

0 Type: Book

RESTAPIA 2012 es un congreso internacional sobre la arquitectura de tapia y su restauración y, de forma más general, sobre las técnicas constructivas de tierra y su restauración, que tendrá lugar los días 21, 22 y 23 de Junio 2012, en Valencia. Este encuentro pretende favorecer …

Construyendo territorios: narrativas territoriales aymaras contemporáneas

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Abstract: El presente libro analiza de manera comparativa la manera en que las comunidades Aymaras peruanas y bolivianas constituyen territorios en la zona del lago Titicaca. A partir del desarrollo de los conceptos interrelacionados de: espacio social, narrativa territorial y t…

The little book of planet Earth

by Meissner, Rolf

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Presenting a concise description of the geological evolution of Earth from its formation, the author describes in detailed but accessible prose not just the planet's features, but the tools that modern geologists use to explore and track the ever changing subterranean and surfac…