Libros de Política 2601 resultados

Couso, Javier

Ideas about law are undergoing dramatic change in Latin America. The consolidation of democracy as the predominant form of government and the proliferation of transnational legal instruments have ushered in an era of new legal conceptions and practices. Law has become a core focus of political movements and policy-making. This volume explores the changing legal ideas and practi...

Dolors Marin

El anarquismo sobresale por encima del resto de ideologías por una razón clara; no existe como tal si la práctica no va unida a la teoría. Una persona anarquista, cooperativa, mutualista, individualista, naturista, atea, neomalthusiana o humanitarista puede siempre comportarse como tal en la vida pública y privada, en cualquier entorno cotidiano. Basta con que que desafíe poder...

Shetreet, Shimon

This volume offers an in depth analysis of current issues of culture of judicial independence in comparative perspective by senior academics, judges and practitioners across jurisdictions. It deals with central topics that stand high in the academic and public discourse on the role of judges in society and in the system of government, their constitutional position, and the rela...

Noam Chomsky

Chomsky rescata el venerable legado anarquista de las brumas utópicas o las añoranzas derrotadas para colocarlo en el centro del debate. Para conducirlo con lucidez al nuevo campo de batalla. Noam Chomsky es uno de los pensadores más influyentes del último medio siglo. Mientras su teoría lingüística minaba los pilares que s ostienen la visión convencional de la naturaleza human...

Jorge Volpi

Ficciones criminales: estampas de la crisis (2008-2014) son una puesta ante el espejo del pasado más inmediato, pretérito que es casi presente todavía, en tanto el mundo vive aún bajo los efectos con que estos convulsos años han contaminado una realidad nunca antes tan compleja. Siempre a mitad de camino entre el ensayo, la crónica, el reportaje y el divertimento, estas páginas...

Jessica Stern / Berger, J M

Drawing on their unprecedented access to intelligence sources and law enforcement, and on groundbreaking research, two of America's leading experts on violent extremism and terrorism explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State--and how we can fight itIn a world where terrorist groups have become a fixture of contemporar...

Sacristán Luzón, Manuel

Cualquiera que sepa algo de Manuel Sacristán y de su polifacética personalidad como lógico y filósofo de la ciencia, militante comunista, traductor y estudioso de la obra de Marx, y temprano introductor de la ecología política o el pacifismo antinuclear en nuestro país tiene por fuerza que sentirse interpelado, entre otras cosas, por su capacidad de anticipación. Sacristán estu...

Noam Chomsky

Publicado por primera vez en noviembre de 2001, tan solo dos meses despues del atentado que marco un antes y un despues en la historia contemporanea, el breve libro de Chomsky ponia entonces el dedo en la llaga sobre muchos temas de los que casi nadie queria hablar y mucho menos debatir.Ahora, diez años despues de aquel ate ntado, esta edicion conmemorativa en la que el autor h...

Jaime Osorio

La multiplicación de consultas electorales bajo la preeminencia de formas procedimentales, hace que los votos estén lejos de incidir en las decisiones centrales del poder político en la región. Los proyectos de transformación del orden existente reclaman atender los problemas del poder; de ahí que sea necesario discutir diversas nociones sobre la sociedad civil y dar una amplia...

Dromómanos / Varios Autores

En diciembre de 2011, tres periodistas en un auto usado emprendieron un viaje de 55 mil kilómetros por Latinoamérica. A pocos meses de iniciada la travesía, decidieron enfocarse en reportear el tráfico de drogas, quizás el único fenómeno que cohesiona a toda la región.Esta es la crónica de un recorrido que nos confronta con lo ineludible. La fuerza del crimen organizado eviden...

Loretta Napoleoni

«Claro, conciso e inequívoco. En este libro, la autora analiza la peligrosa deriva del terrorismo internacional, hasta ahora completamente malinterpretada por Occidente y sus aliados». Michael Chandler, coautor de Countering Terrorism y presidente y exmiembro del Equipo de Seguimiento del Comité de Sanciones a Al Qaeda en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU Desde su aparición a f...

García Picazo, Paloma

Savater, Fernando

Una llamada a recobrar la dimensión política de cada uno y todos en la palestra democrática.Ser político en el sentido auténtico del término, no en el insultante y pueril, es preferir enmendar errores a linchar culpables. Actualmente, en España, los debates políticos giran en torno al rechazo abrupto a los gobernantes por i neficaces o corruptos, la desconfianza en las instituc...

Andres Danza / Ernesto Tulbovitz

Machiavelli, Niccolo (Maquiavelo)

Su extraordinaria capacidad de observación coloca a Nicolás Maquiavelo (Florencia, 1469-1527) entre los primeros. Más allá de las diversas reacciones morales que despertaron sus máximas para gobernantes reunidas en El Príncipe, siempre aconsejó lo que creyó más conveniente para controlar la estructura social en forma práctica y técnica. ...

Leon Trotsky

Stiglitz, Joseph

In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter America s growing problem. With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities.Gathering his writings for popular outle...

Karl Marx

Esta Antología, cuya edición estuvo al cuidado de Horacio Tarcus, uno de los más reconocidos historiadores del pensamiento de las izquierdas, está destinada no a los especialistas sino a los estudiantes y lectores en general que buscan acercarse a la obra de Marx por primera vez. Y viene a salvar una ausencia, ya que textos emblemáticos como el Manifiesto Comunista o El Diecioc...

Hajari, Nisid

Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody — it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protégé and the political leader of India, believed Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a s...

Ford, Martin

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today's industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that this is absolutely not the case. A...

Victoria Carty

The emergence of new communication technologies—such as the Internet and social media networking sites and platforms—has strongly affected social movement activism. In this compelling and timely book, Victoria Carty examines these movements and their uses of digital technologies within the context of social movement theory and history.With an accessible and unique mix of theory...

Engler, Mark, And Engler, Paul

Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States, a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, a wave of uprisings against dictatorship in the Middle East, or a tent city on Wall Street that spreads throu...

Roy, Arundhati

"Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again." "Time Magazine""Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race' and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed." Noam Chomsky"Roy is one of the mos...

Noam Chomsky And Ilan Pappé, Edited By Frank Barat

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international c...

Danny Katch

Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S. prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being declared dead and buried for decades, socialism has come to mean little more than something vaguely less cruel and stupid than what we have now. That's not exactly going to inspire millions to storm the barricades. Danny Katch brings together the two great Marxist traditions of Karl ...

Mazzucato, Mariana

Companies like Google and Apple heralded the information revolution, and opened the doors for Silicon Valley to grow into an engine of dazzling technological development, that today champions the free market that engendered it against the supposedly stifling encroachment of government regulation. But is that really the case? In this sharp and controversial expose, The Entrepren...

The Economist / Andrews, John

In the last decade, the USA and its allies have invaded Afghanistan; Russia has sent troops into Ukraine; Britain and France helped topple a regime in Libya; the militant group ISIS has emerged in the Middle East; and across West Africa, the quest for precious minerals has both financed and caused conflicts.Other conflicts are less bloody, but still dangerous - the nervous stan...

Founding Fathers, The American

"The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings" is part of the "Word Cloud Classics" series and a collection of the crucial documents that established the United States. In addition to the Constitution, readers can study supplementary texts like the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Papers, and even important speeches by early Pr...

Duany, Andres

For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the movement, and even their critics, ...

Speck, Jeff

"Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading." --The Christian Science MonitorA Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape ArchitectsJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. Making downtown in...