Resultados para "Elias" en Ciencias sociales

Este libro reúne los mejores y más celebrados escritos de Simón Elías: piezas breves y bravas, escritas, en muchos casos, a veinte grados bajo cero, y que dan cuenta de sus pareceres sobre la vida en general y de sus andanzas por los caminos en particular. A medio camino entre la crónica de viaje, la reflexión sobre la escalada, el golferío nocturno, la filosofía básica y la épica del deporte de nulo rendimiento estos textos harán las delicias no solo de aficionados a la montaña, sino de cualquier aficionado a pasar un buen rato con un libro.

Muslim men are stereotyped as either oversexed Casanovas willing to die for 72 virgins in heaven or controlling, big-bearded husbands ready to rampage at the hint of dishonor. The truth is, there are millions of Muslim men trying to figure out the complicated terrain of love, sex, and relationships just like any other American man. In Salaam, Love, Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi provide a space for American Muslim men to speak openly about their romantic lives, offering frank, funny, and insightful glimpses into their hearts—and bedrooms.

AI and Self-Discovery: Risks and Opportunities addresses the complex and multifaceted relationship between AI and spirituality, exploring both the potential dangers and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead. From a spiritual perspective, the ongoing development of AI raises important questions about the nature of consciousness and the role of technology in shaping our understanding of the world. On the one hand, the ability to create machines that can process large amounts of data raises important ethical and moral dilemmas.

Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you’ve been told about transgender history Highlighting influential individuals from 1850-1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares 30 remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and mystery to...

Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way."

A penetrating examination of the insidious effects of the Internet on our personalities - online and off. Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it.

In Brilliant Imperfection, Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds.

Some of baseball's rebels are widely recognized, but most of them are either little known or known primarily for their baseball achievements—not their political views and activism. Many players, owners, reporters, and other activists challenged both the baseball establishment and society's status quo. Baseball Rebels tells stories of baseball's reformers and radicals who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's broader political and social protest movements, making the game—and society—better along the way.

Negli stessi anni in cui Virginia Woolf esortava le studentesse di Cambridge a procurarsi indipendenza economica e una stanza tutta per sé con lo scopo di scrivere e fare della scrittura un mestiere, le donne del Nuovo Pensiero pubblicavano saggi e fondavano riviste.

An intersectional examination of the ways in which nonmonogamy can break down traditional power structures to be particularly empowering to marginalized people.

Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population.

Rescue offers riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness. The result is a collection of first-rate prose read by masterful narrators that makes for compulsive listening.

Enquanto o mundo manifestava-se nas redes sociais e nas ruas após a notícia do assassinato de George Floyd, nos Estados Unidos – um crime de racismo -, uma das autoras deste audiolivro vivia sua própria “inquisição” ao ser questionada pelo filho, um menino negro de pele clara, o que ela, enquanto mulher branca, tinha feito para que Zumbi dos Palmares não fosse também assassinado. Essa interpelação aconteceu em maio de 2020, quando esta autora lia, para seu filho, o livro Amoras, do rapper e escritor Emicida, e em uma das páginas Zumbi aparece com uma fala potente: “Não foi em vão!”

Le migliori pubblicazioni della settimana, le classifiche, ma anche i motivi di una scelta o di un'esclusione: ecco come nasce il prestigioso inserto del sabato della Stampa, punto di riferimento per liberi lettori.

Cada vez que comemos tenemos el poder de transformar radicalmente el mundo en que vivimos. Nuestras elecciones pueden ayudar a aliviar los problemas más acuciantes a los que nos enfrentamos hoy en día: la crisis climática, las enfermedades infecciosas y crónicas, la explotación humana y...

"Devils in the Details" is a thought provoking and insightful book that delves into the complex issues of race, class, and privilege in America. Focusing on the experiences of Foundational Black Americans. The book explores how these individuals are impacted by systemic inequalities and the ways in which their lives are shaped by the social and economic structures of our society.

In War in the Hearts of Men, Eli Coberly details his lifelong quest to understand the Maya culture and its impact on the present. The author shares his discovery of the artistry of stone-carved symbols on the heels of his extensive travels to both Central and South America.

Following a successful run on Radio 7, Miriam Elia's fantastical Sony Radio Academy Award nominated comedy sketch series transfers to Radio 4 for a second series, with new characters and a few familiar faces.

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s...

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation.