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Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes...

This influential work examines how enduring dispositions or traits affect the process of aging and shape each individual’s life course. From two well-known authorities in the field, the volume is grounded in a growing body of empirical evidence. Critically reviewing different theories of personality...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored...

(A5, 144 P.) - Almost every human being, to achieve its called age of reason, in the meeting of social life with other men and/or even simply for having been launched in the world without request and/or without knowing the reason, nor the because, at a given moment of its existence (in some cases...

EMANCIPATED & MEDIOCRE IN THE FAMILY was born from a rereading, the need to give a new meaning to the paradox between the thought of the two great philosophers: Aristotle, thinker of origin Macedonia, divergent disciple of Plato, of ancient Greece, (b.c. ); and Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) existentialist...

Paolo Manfredi is an affirmed paediatric surgeon who lives and works in Paris. Born in Torre dell'Isola, a town not too far from Palermo, after high school he left Sicily, a land then upset by serious upheavals, to pursue his ambitions. After thirty years, he comes back with his wife and his children...

The ONLY up to date guidebook and ULTIMATE resource to Universal Orlando's theme parks, hotels and beyond. This guide is obsessively updated and concise cutting out all the marketing speak and telling you how to maximize your vacation. This 2017 edition of the guide has been completely revised...

Alors qu’il l’avait confondue avec une escort au bar de son hôtel, John Smith, homme d’affaires milliardaire à l’élégance ravageuse, entretient désormais une relation suivie avec Elizabeth Atchinson, qui a fini par lui avouer sa véritable identité. Il a la certitude qu’elle...

Lizzie et John ont d’abord passé la nuit ensemble sur un malentendu, car il croyait avoir affaire à une escort. La jeune femme joue le jeu, car c’est la seule façon d’approcher cet homme séduisant qui fuit les relations stables. À force de jeux érotiques, un lien puissant se tisse entre...

This book clarifies the musical dramaturgy of comedy writer and musician Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1815-48) – a notion that encompasses both the theatrical text and its performance. The corpus for this analysis is composed of twelve comedies by Martins Penna written between 1833 and 1846, divided...

Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.   War and...

The intent of this book is to present recent results in the control theory for the long run average continuous control problem of piecewise deterministic Markov processes (PDMPs). The book focuses mainly on the long run average cost criteria and  extends to the PDMPs some well-known techniques related...

No Brasil, tem-se enfrentando os problemas conceituais e metodológicos da cultura visual desde meados da década de 1990. Um esforço que envolve, especialmente, professores universitários ligados a programas de história e artes visuais, mas também museólogos e artistas, responsáveis por pesquisas...