Abismos Editorial
Abismos Editorial is located in Mexico. This publishing house offers both national and international distribution. Abismos has published over 100 titles: essay, fiction, poetry, and children’s literature.
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Abiva Publishing House
Abiva Publishing House Inc., is committed to promote quality education through the development, publication and distribution of excellent educational materials. Founded in 1936, we are the oldest and most enduring textbook publisher and bookseller in the Philippines. We pioneered in publishing preschool, high school, senior high school and college textbooks in all learning areas, supplementary books, reference materials. We are the sole distributor of SRA materials of Mcgraw Hill, Japanese Language books from Japan Foundation, and Spanish ESL books from Edinumen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2023Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan
Young men and the digital economy
by Hannah Schilling
Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep the gig economy running. This book presents a comparative ethnography of young men making a living through digital technologies: selling mobile airtime in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and app-based delivery riders in Berlin, Germany. These case studies explore the significance of symbolic capital in urban youth's social existence and organisation of livelihood in the digital economy, and the technological mechanisms producing a new form of urban precarity. Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan puts forward an original comparative approach to develop a global urban sociology for the digital era. It provides an innovative analytical toolbox that decentres discussions of precarity from the standard of a normal employment contract. With its focus on symbolic capital, the ethnography shows the consequences of the proliferating gig economy for status struggles among urban youth, and carefully embeds the densification of software and services into the socio-material relations on which these new urban infrastructures are built.
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FictionAugust 2014DEBOUT-PAYÉ
by GAUZ
NOVEL A social satire with a keen eye on the excesses of the contemporary commercial world. A funny, rich and uncompromising portrait of French and African societies. Debout-Payé is Ossiri's novel, an Ivorian student who became a security guard after landing without papers in France in 1990. It is a song in honour of a family where, from father to son, one becomes a security guard in Paris, in honour of a mother and more generally in honour of the African community in Paris, with its failings, its sufferings and its differences. It is also the political history of an immigrant and his views of our country, through the evolution of the security guard profession since the 1960s - the triumphant Françafrique - after September 11. AWARDS/SHORTLISTED - Gibert Joseph 2014 Prix des libraires- Best début novel of the year 2014 by Lire magazine.- Kaïlcedra Grand Prix des lycéens et collégiens, in Abidjan- Grand Prix des lycéens 2015
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FictionOctober 2015ARC-EN-CIEL
by MARIE JULIE NGUETSE
Summary: This is the twenty-first century. This is the era of globalization. Theworld is changing and things are buzzing. Did you say the Internet?You said virtual world? Did you say information and communicationtechnologies? So Africa! Especially not to be left out! And at therendezvous of giving and re-conceiving, when the continents, bymutual agreement laughing out the universal song, perhaps the resultwill be a better world! And what will science do? And what will lovedo?
