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I have seen the future of slang dictionaries, and its name is urbandictionary.com." --Times (London)
* Move over Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and American Heritage; your version of truthiness has hit the marble ceiling.
Compiled from the wildly popular Web site urbandictionary.com, Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined includes more than 2,000 of the latest contemporary slang entries.
* Since the site's founding in 1999, more than...
3) Defining US
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This Documentary takes us inside the nations largest schools and to the front lines of a divisive war over race, education and national identity.
4) This Land
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The lives of a diverse array of everyday Americans - including a Native American man grappling with his past, a bi-racial same-sex couple on opposite sides of the aisle, a Trump supporter fighting to bring his deported wife back home to their son, and more - are chronicled and examined in this fly-on-the-wall film shot on Election Day 2020 in nearly every state.
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""The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country--and whose citizens provide a model for achieving excellence while leading a well-rounded life. Norwich, a charming Vermont town of roughly three thousand residents, has sent an athlete to almost every Winter Olympics for the past thirty years--and three times that athlete has returned with a medal. How does...
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India, the Eternal' is a book written towards peace, prosperity and harmony of all humanity. As means to achieve that, three key steps are discussed: redefining the human identity system, reminding ourselves about the concept of Dharma (Ethics) and finally, redefining an individual's success. These methods are then employed to prescribe solutions to a severe problem of the modern world, the situation in the Indian subcontinent. The first chapter of...
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which...
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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«Esta es una breve autobiografía de dos, unas memorias del entrecruce entre una pareja y un momento fundamental de la vida jurídica y política colombiana; se trata de dos mujeres jóvenes y enamoradas, en el momento en que deciden ser pareja y mamás en un país que reconoce formalmente sus derechos, pero en una sociedad todavía muy dividida y problematizada en relación con las parejas entre mujeres. En ese contexto social, los nuevos derechos...
12) Georg Simmel
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Georg Simmel nimmt in Bezug auf die Wissenssoziologie den Status eines »Wegbereiters« ein. Er formulierte soziologische, erkenntnistheoretische und kulturphilosophische Problemstellungen, die (posthum) in die sich formierende Wissenssoziologie hineinwirkten.
Die wissenssoziologischen Pionierleistungen Simmels sind vielfältig. So stehen im Zentrum seiner relationistischen Sozialtheorie die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Individuen und der dynamische...
13) Ciudadanía digital y desarrollo local: Experiencias y procesos de participación en la Unión Europea
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Hoy las Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación ofrecen múltiples herramientas para la gobernabilidad y el desarrollo de las ciudades. Con la irrupción de estas tecnologías se han roto las formas tradicionales de articulación ciudadana, proliferando distintas iniciativas de apropiación tecnológica y autonomía por parte de los movimientos sociales, además de más o menos acertadas políticas públicas que persiguen la integración...
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Somos víboras, cerdas, hijas de perra, gatas en celo o incluso "más putas que las gallinas". Son muchos los insultos machistas y, curiosamente, muchos están relacionados con el mundo animal.
Este es un compendio crítico y necesario de "animaladas machistas", que el escritor y la ilustradora abordan con ironía y humor. ¡Un imprescindible!
15) Modern Socialism
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Modern socialism has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This...
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La perra está de bajón… Nos recuerda que esto no es un libro infantil.
-Oye, cerda, ¿qué te pasa?
-Pues que no lo entiendo... ¿Por qué hay tantos cuentos con protagonistas perros, cerdos, lobos y zorros, pero no podemos aparecer nosotras en ellos?
La perra, la cerda, la zorra y la loba tienen mucho que decir. ¡Están hartas!
¿Por qué hay tantos insultos y palabras despectivas hacia las mujeres con nombres de animales?
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Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.
Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...
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As mankind is moving onto the next stage of its evolution, spiritual maturity in order to reach balance, which will be a golden age, human beings will have to choose, with a united voice, to transcend the current paradigm of division and violence. It is thus paramount that each individual understands his or her role for the advent of this future. There are decisions to be made at two levels: collective action and individual action. At the collective...
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Este libro se inicia con el intento de ofrecer una respuesta a la enorme cuestión de por qué existen en el mundo países ricos y países pobres. A través de estas páginas, el lector podrá acercarse a la dolorosa realidad que tiene la Argentina desde una perspectiva histórica, económica y también psicológica. Porque no se trata de discutir políticas de partidos políticos, ni tampoco debatir hasta el infinito sobre hechos estrictamente económicos....
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Are men and women equal? Have we really progressed as a society? Is equality possible? Are children accorded the status of "human beings" in our society. Are they entitled to basic human rights as adults are? What are the problems faced by women and children in our country? Do women and children get their due rights. Is there something we can do? The Unheard Predicament is a series of reflections on these questions. It is an attempt to find solutions...
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