Ergebnis für "Victoria" in Soziologie

Un texto clásico y muy relevante del Budismo Tibetano en una versión accesible para todos los lectores. Con incontables ediciones a lo largo de los siglos, El libro tibetano de los muertos ha intrigado a millones de lectores interesados en el enfoque budista tibetano acerca del final de la...

Derrière les façades de luxueux immeubles parisiens, les immenses grilles de châteaux, les baies vitrées de vastes villas de la Côte d'Azur, se cache un personnel invisible mais présent quotidiennement au service des grandes fortunes. Gouvernantes, majordomes, femmes de chambre et de ménage, lingères, nannies, cuisiniers ou chauffeurs travaillent du matin au soir, et souvent la nuit, pour satisfaire les besoins et désirs des millionnaires qui les emploient à leur domicile.

Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset of the pandemic-and the many months, stretched into years, that followed. Journalist Victoria Law combines this storytelling with a trenchant analysis of the structural failures of the US carceral system: failures that made prisons uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, from overcrowding to solitary confinement, from insufficient healthcare to life sentences.

In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and intersectional examination of the history of marriage around the world. In this fascinating feminist history, Rachael Lennon tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from the...

This book covers many questions about how we as a country got to Black American racism. As I found more and more answers, I realized how many of them were totally new to me and how I felt that I had been so deceived about so much of our history. After talking to many people, Black and white, I knew that it wasn't just me who had been deceived. There is so much that has been done to Black Americans over the ages, not just slavery, that I felt everyone could understand better if various truths were revealed.

Having grown up in rural Norfolk, author Victoria Connelly never thought she'd ever live in London. But after surviving 11 years in the noisy suburbs, she finally persuades her husband to move to Suffolk - to a county with no motorways, a village with no shops, and a cottage with no main drainage.