Este libro es un intento único por entender la política, captar sus posibilidades y limitaciones, descubrir sus secretos, develar sus mentiras y también iluminar su belleza. El oficio más antiguo del mundo recorre muchos de los temas que están en el centro del debate: el Estado y sus límites, Argentina y su relación tan particular con el pasado, la crisis de 2001 y sus efectos sobre los partidos, la integración latinoamericana como su sueño frustrado, el mito del ascenso de Brasil, la crisis del...
Faktastisch: Die Infotainer des Internets! Geballtes Wissen unterhaltsam verpackt. Faktastisch begeistert im Internet mit spannenden Fakten und wissenswertem oder unnützem Wissen. So berichten sie beispielsweise über Fische, die Gesichter erkennen können und stellen die Frage, warum Rädertierchen seit 80 Mio. Jahren keinen Sex haben und trotzdem noch nicht ausgestorben sind. In ihrer neuen Reihe haben die Autoren von Faktastisch ihre beliebtesten Fakten zusammengetragen und diese exklusiv mit...
Since it first aired in 1966, Star Trek has led American television into a more progressive era by presenting a diverse cast interacting as equals, demonstrating expertise and efficiency as they lead a starship across the galaxy. To this day, the Star Trek franchise strives to inspire viewers to find beauty in diversity and progress. In Social Movements and the Collective Identity of the Star Trek Fandom: Boldly Going Where No Fans Have Gone Before , David G. LoConto explores the development of...
The Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and such disciplines as cognitive science and cultural anthropology to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach. Building on this premise, Saulius Geniusas develops a novel conception of pain grounded in phenomenological principles:...
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro ...
Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches through centuries and generations to align this shadow organization and its secret rituals to world governments and religions? Myths persist and abound about the freemasons, Margaret C. Jacob notes. But what are their origins? How has an early modern organization of bricklayers and...
In Ensuring Poverty , Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground arguments advanced by feminists for a welfare policy that would respect single mothers' rights while advancing their opportunities and assuring economic security for their families. Kornbluh and Mink consider welfare policy in the broad intersectional context of gender, race, poverty, and inequality. They argue that the subject of welfare reform always has been single...
Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police...