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The main purpose of the CTS education is to promote literacy in science and technology so that the citizens can participate in the democratic process of the taking of decisions and to promote civic action in the resolution of problems related with science and the technology in our society.

The Secret Sex of Money throws the spotlight on female forms of dependence such as Money, Sex, Power and Subordination. As has always been the case, economic independence is no guarantee of a woman's autonomy. This book offers a lucid analysis of money from the Western perspective of relationships between women and men in the context of a patriarchal culture; relationships that are sometimes governed by power and domination, even in the innermost recesses of our daily lives. Clara Coria denounces the discrimination that women face in their acquisition, management and production of money. A...

With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive...

Esta obra aborda una temática de gran actualidad como es la discriminación en razón de género. Para ello, se trazan unas directrices claras para su tratamiento: partiendo del lenguaje como hecho social, se une el mismo a la cultura y al hecho que supone la discriminación. Una vez que se ha analizado la situación actual con respecto al tema abordado, se proporcionan pautas para la acción didáctica y se aportan sugerencias prácticas para tratar de mejorar las situaciones de igualdad de oportunidades entre el género masculino y el femenino. Sin duda, los aspectos tratados en este libro ...