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Examining an intramural conflict that erupted within the English Faculty at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, this book develops a theoretical analysis of disputes as they unfold within the academy and explores the broader historical shifts within Higher Education and how these related to dev... More

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals. It presents a critical exchange between two leading contemporary social theorists, Patrick Baert and Simon Susen, advancing debates at the cutting edge of scholarship on the changing rol... More

In 2014 a new progressive party, Podemos, emerged on the Spanish political scene. Within just over two years it had become the country’s third-biggest party, winning a slew of seats in parliament and regularly making headline news. While some see Podemos as the saviour of Spanish democracy, others h... More

Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as ‘knowledge societies’, which indicates the extent to which ‘science’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘knowledge production’ have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to inve... More

Powerful and unfiltered, this fictional account of a teenage boy's addiction to online pornography is equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful.The first time a link to a porn video pops up on his computer screen, Lucas is startled. He was simply trying to stream a superhero movie. Transfixed by the sce... More

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation. The objective of this book is two-fold: on the one hand it offers a detailed and systematic account of central normative concepts often used, but rarely explicated nor justified, within conservation biology. Such co... More

This edited collection analyses the reception of a selection of key thinkers, and the dissemination of paradigms, theories and controversies across the social sciences and humanities since 1945. It draws on data collected from textbooks, curricula, interviews, archives, and references in scientific ... More

S. XVIII. Una realidad silenciada por la Iglesia. Un sacerdote que hará lo imposible por revelar un secreto oculto desde hace demasiado tiempo... Roma, 1798. Los bibliotecarios del Vaticano, entre los que se encuentra el sacerdote francés Antonin Fages, intentan salvar algunos de los libros prohi... More

Un thriller de denuncia que narra con toda su crudeza una realidad escalofriante: las descarnadas mafias de adopción. Ciudad de Guatemala. Dos mujeres yacen en un descampado. Una está muerta y la otra ha sobrevivido milagrosamente a los disparos de unos desconocidos, pero le han arrebatado a su h... More

Impregnada del aliento de las grandes sagas, Las cenizas del exilio es una novela extraordinaria y un canto al valor de las mujeres cuyo feroz deseo de vivir vence a la miseria, la guerra y la muerte.Lea Soler es una joven luchadora y decidida que vive con los suyos inmersa en la miseria rural de la... More

Ciudad de Guatemala. Dos mujeres yacen en un descampado. Una está muerta y la otra ha sobrevivido milagrosamente a los disparos de unos desconocidos, pero le han arrebatado a su hija y no va a cejar en su empeño por recuperarla.Un joven aspirante a reportero decide iniciar la investigación del caso,... More

Originally published in 1993, Urban Land and Property Markets in the Netherlands provides a detailed explanation of how the land and property markets of the Netherlands work. This book describes the scene extensively and goes deeper to explain the situation in the Netherlands, with commercial real e... More

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives. Authors Julie Hicks Patrick, Bert Hayslip, Jr., and Lisa Hollis-Sawyer use principles of lifespan deve... More

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives. Authors Julie Hicks Patrick, Bert Hayslip, Jr., and Lisa Hollis-Sawyer use principles of lifespan deve... More

Dieses Fachbuch gibt einen kompakten Überblick über die wichtigsten Techniken und Methoden, die Verantwortliche im Management, aber auch Projektverantwortliche und Berater in ihrer täglichen Arbeit gewinnbringend einsetzen können. Neben klassischen Instrumenten wie Kreativitätstechniken, Moderations... More