"Si lográbamos comprender el mecanismo y los resortes de la mentalidad colectiva, ¿acaso no podríamos controlar a las masas y movilizarlas a voluntad sin que ellas se dieran cuenta? La manipulación consciente, inteligente, de las opiniones y los hábitos organizados de las masas juega un rol crucial en una sociedad democrática. Quienes manipulan ese mecanismo social imperceptible forman un gobierno invisible que realmente dirige el país." Edward Bernays Edward L. Bernays es doble sobrino...
This eBook edition of «Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "I venture to write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater words, in the hope that I may strike here and there a half-tone, newer even if slighter, up from the heart of my problem and the problems of my people." William Edward Burghardt «W. E. B.» Du Bois (1868 – 1963) was an American sociologist,...
The Fairy-Folklore in Celtic Countries is a study by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, American anthropologist who studied Celtic mythology and folklore. He performed ethnographic fieldwork collecting fairy folklore in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man, and in this book he published his degree thesis. His goal was to elucidate the phenomenon of the Celtic belief in fairies. Some of the theories he came across are that the fairies were a cloistered race of dwarfs, that they are a...
La expectativa de cumplir como hombre en la sociedad es modelada por la cultura y las emociones son dispositivos para que esto se logre. ¿Cómo se conjugan la masculinidad y las emociones, ambas socialmente definidas? Las emociones impactan las distintas maneras de asumirse como hombre, como sujeto masculino. Cuando la expectativa no se cumple o no se cumple a cabalidad, cuando se ponen en cuestionamiento por los propios hombres o por terceras personas, las emociones juegan un papel central. Se...
In 1919, while traveling in Japan on sabbatical leave, John Dewey was invited by Peking University to visit China. Dewey and his wife, Alice, arrived in Shanghai on May 1, 1919, just days before student demonstrators took to the streets of Peking to protest the decision of the Allies in Paris to cede the German held territories in Shandong province to Japan. Their demonstrations on May Fourth excited and energized Dewey, and he ended up staying in China for two years, leaving in July 1921. In...
"The 1997 CIA World Factbook" by United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
This ebook collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Apart from the autobiographies and biographies of the most influential suffragettes, this edition includes the complete 6 volume history of the movement – from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist,...
This eBook edition of «THE VESTED INTERESTS & THE NATURE OF PEACE» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Vested Interests and The Nature of Peace are two books by Thorstein Veblen that go hand in hand. Veblen's main critique in The Vested Interests and the Common Man that business prospers by limiting supply in order to allow capitalists to dictate the highest possible prices, making theirs and interests of the government...
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Suffrage Movement collection. The history of suffrage movements is produced by women's suffrage leaders: the Great Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage & Ida Husted Harper. It presents the complete history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States. This edition presents the major source for primary documentation about the women's suffrage movement from its beginnings...