Marc Simon: 15 books
The Tejano Diaspora
Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they...
Secrets d'Afrique
Le témoignage d'un ambassadeur
Language: French
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Témoignage.
À travers dix récits, Jean-Marc Simon,un ambassadeur qui a consacré près de trente ans de sa carrière aux relations franco-africaines, nous emmène de N'Djamena à Abidjan, en passant par Bangui et Pretoria. Il y évoque les interventions de l'armée française en Centrafrique ou...
Coaching on the Axis
Working with Complexity in Business and Executive Coaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book offers an approach to business and executive coaching that properly aligns the practice in the culture of business through the use of a relational "coaching axis" that helps to manage the complexity of the organisation and the individual as dual clients. Business and executive...
Ethnography as Risky Business
Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts offers a hands-on, critical appraisal of how to approach ethnographic fieldwork on socio-political conflict and collective violence, focusing on the global south. The volume’s contributions are all based on extensive...
by Marc Simon
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Set in Pittsburgh in the early 1900s, The Leap Year Boy is the story of a working class family and an extraordinary boy named Alex Miller, born in the familys home on February 29, 1908. What makes Alex so remarkable is that even though hes full-term at birth, he weighs just two pounds one ounce, and...
by Marc Simon Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In the 1960s and 1970s, an energetic new social movement emerged among Mexican Americans. Fighting for civil rights and celebrating a distinct ethnic identity, the Chicano Movement had a lasting impact on the United States, from desegregation to bilingual education.
Rethinking the Chicano Movement...
The Challenge of Legal Pluralism
Local dispute settlement and the Indian-state relationship in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance.
This book argues that, because ordinary Indians are not...
The Deferment of Hope
A Story of Exile, Faith, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
I approached The Deferment of Hope with high expectations and did not come away disappointed. Minister Marc Simon writes from a deep and compassionate space within himself. His intimate journals strategically placed throughout the book tell the story of a life lived on the run, and in confinement,...
Passez au salon
150 anecdotes de salons du livre
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Solitude des premiers salons du livre, erreurs sur la personne, séances de dédicaces interminables, cadeaux des lecteurs, témoignages émouvants, insultes et humiliations, séjours à l’étranger, fêtes et durs lendemains de veille, moments décisifs et consécrations, péripéties de tout acabit…...
A Charm of Magpies
An ebook bundle of The Science Magpie, The Antiques Magpie and The Nature Magpie
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The Science Magpie is Simon Flynn’s bestselling collection of enthralling facts, stories, poems and more from science’s history, from the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton.
With Antiques Roadshow regular Marc Allum as your guide, go in search of stolen masterpieces,...
by Patrick Miroux, Raphaëlle Benveniste, Dominique Pateron
Language: French
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Cet ouvrage traite des urgences médicales et chirurgicales de manière exhaustive et sous un angle pragmatique.
Il comporte près de 200 fiches et est organisé en 4 parties:
- partie 1: des fiches de conduites à tenir qui suivent un plan identique en détaillant la prise en charge infirmière,...
Labour, Finance and Inequality
The Insecurity Cycle in British Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncertainty produced a momentary return to "Keynesian" policies. But as soon as emergency stimuli – and bank bail-outs – appeared...
by Lonely Planet, Simon Richmond, Mark Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Russiais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Brush up on your Soviet and imperial history in Moscow and St Petersburg, explore European...
Jewish Theology in Our Time
A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
A powerful and challenging examination of what Jews believe today—by a new generation's dynamic and innovative thinkers.
At every critical juncture in Jewish history, Jews have understood a dynamic theology to be essential for a vital Jewish community. This important collection sets the next...
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