Author: Sapiens Editorial Publisher: Sapiens Editorial ISBN: 3962556869 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 30
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DESCRIPTION OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK. Thinking, fast and slow is a book in which we ́re presented with a synthesis of studies carried out by the author, Daniel Kahneman. Daniel won a Economics Nobel Prize award. The main topic of the book is the way humans think, which influences our daily lives. The work presents the dichotomy between two ways of thinking, which the author calls 'systems'. The first system is fast, instinctive and emotional, the second one is slow, more rational and logical. Each of these entails cognitive and behavioural characteristics. From a highly original and logical hypothesis, a vision is presented which shapes the routine of decision-making that people make in their daily lives. This book is recommended for professionals in the psychology field. As well as for anyone interested in knowing themselves better and the processes involved in their decisions, with the means to acquire tools which allow them to reach the path leading to their happiness.
Author: Cynthia Cockburn Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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"The authors follow the microwave's life trajectory from the design office to the factory and thence to the shops and household. Examining the different jobs women and men do, the different kinds of knowlege they contribute and the unequal importance they are ascribe in the evloution of the microwave, this book shows how technology relations continue to disadvantage women"--Back cover.
Author: Lorraine Code Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113478726X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 560
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The path-breaking Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories is an accessible, multidisciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought. The Encyclopedia contains over 500 authoritative entries commissioned from an international team of contributors and includes clear, concise and provocative explanations of key themes and ideas. Each entry contains cross references and a bibliographic guide to further reading; over 50 biographical entries provide readers with a sense of how the theories they encounter have developed out of the lives and situations of their authors.
Author: Sadie Plant Publisher: ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 334
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Plant presents an intelligent, provocative and accessible investigation of the intersection between women, feminism, machines and, in particular, information technology. She argues that the telecoms revolution is also a sexual revolution.
Author: Robert J. Cottrol Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820344761 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 388
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Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system’s legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination— a belief that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas. And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil rights activists throughout the Americas.
Author: Giuseppe Bonaviri Publisher: Crossings ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 216
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Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the Italian by Barbara De Marco. In SARACEN TALES, Italian-born Giuseppe Bonaviri brings a wild newness to the tale of the life of Jesus. In this succession of stories, Bonaviri explores all manners of the known and unknown, the archetypal, the mythological, the symbolic--the life of Jesus is both his material and his point of departure. Part surrealism, part folklore, readers will be amazed at the originality and creativity with which a long-familiar tale is presented. "Bonaviri is a myth-maker, looking simultaneously to the historical past and to the future, to arrive at the a-historical, at cosmic universality"--Franco Zangrilli. Giuseppe Bonaviri was born in 1924 in Sicily. He began writing when he was ten and continued through high school, college, and in his professional life as a doctor, health official, and cardiologist. His work has been widely translated.
Author: Marie-Theres Albert Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 311030838X Category : Art Languages : de Pages : 212
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The publication is the first in a new series on existing and innovative paradigms in Heritage Studies. The series aims at systematising and developing the academic discourse on heritage, which has yielded a wealth and breadth of contributions over the past few years. The publication offers its own emphasis by developing heritage studies with a perspective towards and as a contribution to human development. It thus offers a vision for the construction and establishment of a new discipline. The academic mainsprings and research interests of this repositioning of heritage studies as an academic discipline are discussed by internationally renowned thinkers and heritage practitioners. The publication thus establishes first important points for discussion. Central to this publication are questions concerning the sustainable protection and use of heritage, focussing on the world cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage, but equally questions on the relation of heritage and memory and how these could mutually enrich our understanding of heritage.
Author: Sapiens Editorial
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