Libros de Política 2620 resultados

Camila Vallejo

Durante su período como presidenta de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile y representante de la Confederación de Federaciones de Estudiantes de Chile, entre 2010 y 2011, el rostro, la voz y el pensamiento de Camila Vallejo se convirtieron en la carta de presentación internacional del movimiento contra el aumento de la mercantilización de la educación en Chil...

Alejandro Agudo / Marco Estrada Saavedra / Varios Autores

"¿Es el Estado un "monstruo" poderoso y anónimo, o bien un remedo del mismo construido cotidianamente en diversos márgenes físicos, sociales y simbólicos, alejados de los centros de dominación política y económica? Si se trata más bien de lo último, entonces ha de admitirse que dicha fabricación cotidiana tiene también efectos concretos de poder. A diferencia de mucha de la bib...

Robert Goodin

Los problemas relacionados con el diseño y el rediseño institucionales, con la estructuración y reestructuración de las instituciones, han adquirido particular vigencia en relación con los recientes sucesos que se han producido en regiones como el este de Europa o el sur de África. Especialistas de diversas disciplinas -como ciencia política, economía, sociología, historia y fi...

Ziauddin Sardar

¿Por qué la percepción de los norteamericanos se aparta tanto de la del resto del mundo? ¿Por qué la presunción de inocencia y de rectitud es tan importante para su autoimagen? ¿Por qué el pueblo norteamericano es tan extremadamente ignorante sobre los asuntos internacionales? ¿Por qué intenta imponer su cultura como si fuera la única posible? Sardar y Wyn Davies toman estas pr...

Noam Chomsky

The world s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rightsIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion t...

Jamie Bartlett

An "Independent" and "New Statesman" Book of the Year Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism...

Sanjuana Martinez

Desde su llegada a Los Pinos, la Primera Dama, Angélica Rivera, se ha visto envuelta en distintos escándalos relacionados con la adquisición de propiedades y el tráfico de influencias, además de provocar la indignación en amplios sectores de la sociedad por sostener un tren de vida ostentoso. En este contexto, la periodista Sanjuana Martínez ha escrito un perfil de La gaviota q...

Carlos Humberto Castillo Y Castillo

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Zygmunt Bauman

"Toda la argumentación de este libro se encuadra dentro de la idea de que la libertad individual sólo puede ser producto del trabajo colectivo (sólo puede ser conseguida y garantizada colectivamente). Hoy nos desplazamos hacia la privatización de los medios de asegurar-garantizar la libertad individual; si ésa es la terapia de los males actuales, está condenada a producir enfer...

Maurice Duverger

El autor de Los partidos es figura sobresaliente en las investigaciones de sociología y ciencia política y su reconocido prestigio queda demostrado en este estudio tan difícil y al mismo tiempo tan necesario, en el cual enfoca los partidos no a la manera fotográfica de otras épocas, sino, por así decir, cinematográficamente , en su movilidad, en su dialéctica humana.Con esta ob...

John Rawls

En Liberalismo político, John Rawls continúa revisando la idea de lajusticia como imparcialidad, tal como la presentó en su obra Teoría de la justicia, pero modifica su interpretación filosófica en forma fundamental. En su obra anterior, Rawls presuponía lo que llamó ?una sociedad bien ordenada?: relativamente homogénea, es table en sus creencias morales básicas y en la que hay...

Carol M. Anderson

From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian...

Horowitz, David

Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America — and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author, and a mentor to many of Donald Trump's key advisers, David Horowitz presents a White House battle...

Wead, Doug

Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen by the self-denial of the group.Here is an explanation of why the national media and their c...

Brog, David

No history is so disputed as the history of Israel. Some see Israel's creation as a dramatic act of justice for the Jewish people. Others insist that it was a crime against Palestine's Arabs.Author David Brog untangles the facts from the myths to reveal the truth about the Arab-Israeli conflict. In Reclaiming Israel's History you'll learn how the Jewish people have maintained a...

Peter Gelderloos

According to Worshiping Power, we need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, the State has never been anything other than a tool to accumulate power. This innovative and partisan study of human social complexity cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to uncover social practices and institutions that have stif...

Bill Ayers

In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a political system offering more of the same, radical social transformation has never been more urgent--or seemed more remote. A manifesto for movement-makers in extraordinary times, Demand the Impossible! urges us to imagine a world beyond what this rotten system ...

Thompson, Nato

One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century l...

Clint Emerson

These 100 skills, adapted for civilians from actual field experiences of special forces operations, offer a complete hands-on and practical guide to help you survive in the wild no matter the climate or terrain; be prepared for any crisis; and have the critical life-saving knowledge for staying safe in any hostile environment or disaster.Yesterday's survival guide is no longer ...

Peter Joseph

In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal destabilization will make "personal success" virtually meaningless. Yet our broken social sys...

Solnit, Rebecca

A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them--and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose ...

Susan Bordo

A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo. The Destruction of Hillary Clintonis an answer to the question we've all been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate--whose victor...

Mauricio Rojas

Tim Marshall

From the renewed sense of nationalism in China, to troubled identities in Europe and the USA, to the terrifying rise of Islamic State, the world is a confusing place right now and we need to understand the symbols, old and new, that people are rallying round. For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colors. A...

Raymond Wacks

In this highly topical introduction, Professor Raymond Wacks explains and evaluates the leading theories of justice that have shaped our societies and their legislative and judicial systems, and explores the extent to which fundamental notions like fairness, equality and freedom are reflected in contemporary society.By analysing some of the world's most pressing challenges, inc...

Bini Adamczak

Communism for Kids, by Bini Adamczak, is in fact for everyone, an inspired and necessary book especially now, a moment when people feel that we are on the verge of the destruction of the world, and without any new world to hope for, or believe in. Have two hundred years of capitalism brought us freedom? Or just more inequality than has ever been experienced by humans on earth? ...

Galeano, Eduardo

"Escribí Las venas para difundir ideas ajenas y experiencias propias que quizás ayuden un poquito, en su realista medida, a despejar los interrogantes que nos persiguen desde siempre: ¿es América Latina una región del mundo condenada a la humillación y a la pobreza? ¿Condenada por quién? ¿Culpa de Dios, culpa de la naturaleza? ¿No será la desgracia un producto de la historia, h...

Marisa Revilla

El presente libro pretende introducir algunas reflexiones acerca de la relación entre ONG y la política, que alimenten un debate sobre estas organizaciones y sobre lo que pueden aportar a la vida política denuestras sociedades. Su contenido se articula en torno a tres grandesejes del análisis: la solidaridad como valor central y legitimador detoda la cultura no gubernamental. e...

Constant, Benjamin

«J'ai défendu quarante ans le même principe, liberté en tout, en religion, en philosophie, en littérature, en industrie, en politique : et par liberté, j'entends le triomphe de l'individualité, tant sur l'autorité qui voudrait gouverner par le despotisme, que sur les masses qui réclament le droit d'asservir la minorité à la majorité. Le despotisme n'a aucun droit. La majorité a...

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." --Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential e...