Libros de Política 2617 resultados

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...

Gabriela Merlinsky

El Riachuelo se asocia inmediatamente con un paisaje urbano altamente contaminado, un territorio de asentamientos para la población más pobre y desprotegida de la ciudad y décadas de inacción de los Estados. Sin embargo, los problemas sociales vinculados a la contaminación permanecieron invisibles hasta 2006, cuando la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación declara su competenc...

Chantal Mouffe

Ernesto Laclau

Juan Pablo Scarfi

En El imperio de la ley, Juan Pablo Scarfi analiza la construcción y el desarrollo de un discurso moderno sobre el derecho internacional en Estados Unidos y su impacto en América Latina entre comienzos del siglo XX y fines de la década de 1930. De este modo, presenta un ensayo de historia intelectual acerca de la construcción de una hegemonía en el continente americano a partir...

Frank Schirrmacher

Vivimos en un estado permanente de subasta. Toda nuestra biografía, los logros conseguidos, nuestros sentimientos... todo se evalúa en un constante ?me gusta?. Los modelos mentales económicos han conquistado al resto de ciencias sociales, y la absurda idea de que ?el ser humano es egoísta? se ha convertido en algo así como una ley natural. Vivimos conectados a esas premisas, de...

Melissa Lane

In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of our political concepts from Socrates to Plutarch to Cicero, Lane reminds us that the birth of politics was a story as much of in...

Atilio A. Boron

El imperialismo de hoy no es el mismo de hace treinta años . Ha cambiado, pero no se ha transformado en su contrario, como nos propone la mistificación neoliberal, dando lugara a una economía "global" donde todos somos "interdependientes". Sigue existiendo y oprimiendo a pueblos y naciones, y sembrando a su paso dolor, destrucción y muerte. Pese a los cambios conserva su identi...

Manuel Castells

En enero de 2002, todavía recientes las impactantes imágenes de los atentados terroristas del 11 de septiembre y la guerra de Afganistán, la ciudad de Barcelona acogió el seminario «Guerra y paz en el siglo XXI. Una perspectiva europea», dirigido por Manuel Castells y Narcís Serra, y organizado por la Fundación CIDOB (Centre d'Informació i Documentació Internacionals a Barcelon...

Garry Kasparov

The ascension of Vladimir Putin--a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB--to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years--as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him--Putin has grown not only into a dictator but a global threat. With his vast resources a...

Otfried Hoffe

Otfried Höffe (Leobschütz, 1943) es un reputado especialista en la filosofía moral de Aristóteles y en el pensamiento de Kant que aúna su formación clásica con un conocimiento profundo de la filosofía política contemporánea. En Alemania hizo las veces de introductor de la filosofía de John Rawls y desde 1992 es catedrático de Filosofía en la Universidad de Tubinga. Entre sus ob...

Rafael Rodríguez

Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapo, es más que un personaje arquetípico del narcotraficante mexicano. Ha sido nombrado como uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo por la revista Forbes; está al nivel de los líderes de Al Qaeda u otras organizaciones terroristas en la nomenclatura de la justicia estadounidense; su mito incluye por igual grandes despliegues de generosidad y actos de ...

Michael Ratner

Apoyándose en documentación interna del Gobierno de los EEUU, en su mayoría nunca antes publicada, Michael Ratner y Michael Steven Smith aportan sus capacidades forenses para demostrar de manera irrefutable que la CIA no solo estaba al tanto y aprobaba la ejecución de Ernesto Che Guevara en Bolivia, sino que la Agencia fue el instrumento que la hizo posible.Con exhaustividad y ...

Dartnell,Lewis

Antonio Gramsci