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De la democracia rural a la contrarrevolución autoritaria

República, guerra y dictadura en Andalucía

El presente libro elabora un estudio integral sobre las bases sociales e institucionales que sustentaron el régimen franquista en Andalucía partiendo del análisis del proceso de acentuación de las luchas agrarias y las fracturas políticas e ideológicas que acabaron provocando una profunda división en la ...

La contaminación lumínica

El cielo oscuro no solo constituye un importante patrimonio científico y cultural, sino también un eje en torno al que desarrollar actividades de turismo sostenible y cuya carencia, derivada de la contaminación lumínica, afecta a nuestra salud y a la de los ecosistemas. El estudio ...

¿Cómo tengo que hablarle para que me entienda?

entender, comunicar e impactar con el método PCM

Este manual ofrece una ayuda valiosa para toda persona que quiera mejorar sus capacidades de comunicación. ¿Por qué hay buen rollo entre dos personas? ¿Cómo hacerse entender por alguien que comunica de forma distinta? ¿Cómo transmitir un mensaje en una situación de estrés? Estas son ...

Il governo dei giudici

L’indipendenza è divenuta autogoverno. Familismo ed ereditarietà hanno aumentato separatezza e autoreferenzialità. Ci si attendeva razionalità e si è avuto populismo giudiziario. Ci si attendeva giustizia e si sono avuti giustizieri. La situazione della giustizia in Italia è peculiare. Da un lato si assiste ...

La politica come mestiere

non-manuale per carriere, militanze e cittadinanza

Una volta c'erano i partiti, ormai persi nella notte della memoria collettiva, che risultavano rassicuranti per la loro continuità. Oggi chiamiamo partiti dei 'brand' effimeri, concepiti con gli stessi criteri di un prodotto commerciale destinato a durare una stagione o poco più. La loro ...

Parlamento in chiaro scuro

Shrimp to whale

South Korea from the forgotten war to K-Pop

Charts the incredible rise of South Korea, from colonisation and civil war to today's thriving nation. South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its ...

Disruption

the future of banking and financial services : how to navigate and seize the opportunities

One of the worst recessions for the past 100 years, businesses failing, a revolution in technology, increasing financial constraints, compliance stifling the ability to be nimble, changing consumer behaviour, and a market driving products towards commoditization - this is the perfect storm facing the banking industry ...

Waves of global terrorism

from 1879 to the present

Terrorism is a persistent form of political violence, but it appears intermittently, afflicting certain places in certain eras while others remain unscathed. Since the late nineteenth century, it has risen and fallen in recurrent generation-long spasms in which hundreds of short-lived groups wreak havoc. Why ...

The embrace of capital

capitalism from the inside

The "spectre of communism" which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare, without form or substance. This is because working people have developed a love-hate relationship with capitalism. They hate insecurity, inequality, and greed, and love ...

The end of capitalism

the thought of Henryk Grossman

Henryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory - let alone the mass of working people around the world - have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman, a Polish Jew born in 1881, deserves recognition as the most sophisticated defender of ...

Fixing Social Security

the politics of reform in a polarized age

How Social Security has shaped American politics-and why it faces insolvency Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends-longer lifespans and declining birthrates-mean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue ...

The presidency of Donald J. Trump

a first historical assessment

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White House The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings ...

Justice and the politics of difference

A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political life Justice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice, critically analyzing basic concepts underlying most theories of justice such ...

The man who understood democracy

the life of Alexis de Tocqueville

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward ...

Porcelain

a history from the heart of Europe

Porcelain was invented in medieval China-but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony's revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain's ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of ...

The economics of belonging

a radical plan to win back the left behind and achieve prosperity for all

A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society today Fueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed the widespread rejection of the economic and political order that Western ...

Sunnis and Shi'a

a political history of discord

A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had inspired ...

Western Europe's democratic age

1945-1968

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe ...

What can we hope for?

essays on politics

Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost ...