Социология
5875 кн.
El Derecho es un orden normativo constituido por todo tipo de reglas que tienen por objeto regular la conducta humana en sus relaciones con otros seres y, también, con otros entes. En tal sentido, este libro resalta los aspectos fundamentales del Derecho para que quienes no estén vinculados al mundo de las leyes o a los vericuetos de los tribunales tengan algunas nociones básicas que les ayuden a superar los obstáculos diarios de la vida.
| Автор | Martín Belaunde Moreyra |
Many people on the spectrum never get “the talk” from their parents, and suffer from “information deficit.” This book goes a long way toward filling in the gaps in their knowledge. It takes a candid look at aspects of sex and relationships as they apply to people on the autism spectrum: building self-confidence, dating, personal grooming, cleanliness, explicit advice on how to initiate sex with a partner. Also covered: avoiding pregnancy and STDs, dealing with rejection, how to build a loving...
| Автор | Jerry Newport |
This book is an exercise in the recovery of historical memory about a set of thinkers who have been forgotten or purposely ignored and, as a result, never made it into the canon of Western political philosophy. Penny Weiss calls them “canon fodder,” recalling the fate of soldiers in war who are treated by their governments and military leaders as expendable. Despite some real progress at recovery over the past few decades, and the now-frequent references to a few female...
| Автор | Penny A. Weiss |
What is the true meaning of happiness? Lynne Segal explores the radical potential of being together Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others? In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost...
| Автор | Lynne Segal |
A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape. From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Cultural critic Mithu Sanyal is picking up where Susan Brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book Against Our Will . In fact, she argues that the way we understand rape hasn't changed since then, even as the world has changed beyond recognition. She...
| Автор | Mithu Sanyal |
Demonology and Devil Lore is a work on demonology which analyzes how different cultures and religions have interpreted demons and devil along history. The author's survey of myths, folktales, superstitions and rituals across cultures is very methodical. Each topic is thoroughly researched and it is explained how a certain theme is viewed in demonic myths throughout the world. The book is a kind of a treatise on the historical development of the idea of Evil.
| Автор | Moncure D. Conway |
What we talk about when we talk about gentrification Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston’s South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the...
| Автор | Sylvie Tissot |
Crisis, what crisis? How governments and corporations profit from disaster Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. ...
| Автор | Antony Loewenstein |
“A landmark manifesto” – Susan Faludi, New Yorker. An international bestseller, originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women’s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics. Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the expansion of the franchise in...
| Автор | Shulamith Firestone |
Tackling the myth of a post-racial society. Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history,...
| Автор | Karen Fields |
Abarca el desarrollo histórico del trabajo social, bases conceptuales y estrategias de intervención, que en la experiencia de las autoras han sido relevantes en su práctica profesional, tanto desde el punto de vista del trabajo social como de otras disciplinas cuyo interés o foco es la familia.
| Автор | Nidia Aylwin |
En este Análisis Plural convergen varias perspectivas que aportan elementos para desentrañar el acontecer social y para valorar la pertinencia y viabilidad de las decisiones tomadas desde la llamada 4T.
| Автор | Diego Arredondo Ortiz |
The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains. From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A founding text of transnational feminism For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against...
| Автор | Kumari Jayawardena |
The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance. In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis – input mechanisms, processes of transformation, output flows – to advance a substantive Marxist analysis of state power and...
| Автор | Göran Therborn |
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory. Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life’s work represents a patient, exemplary commitment to the building of a socialist future. This book brings together important early writings including “Culture is Ordinary,”...
| Автор | Raymond Williams |
Eine wahre Geschichte über eine junge Frau, wie sie aus einem depressiven Menschen, der sich fast selbst aufgab eine Optimistin wurde, die Angst nicht als Feind ansieht, voll auf Weisheitssprüche und Barbie steht und lernte sich selbst so zu akzeptieren, wie sie ist und bis heute ihr eigenes Ding durchzieht, egal was andere darüber sagen. Sie zeigt, dass ein Kampf niemals vergeblich ist und dass man an sich glauben soll. Paula erzählt, wie sie das Leben sieht.
| Автор | Paula Krueger |
