Libros de

Metropolice

seguridad y policía en la ciudad neoliberal

Londres, Nueva York, Pekín, Metropolice podría ser cualquier ciudad neoliberal desgarrada por la desigualdad, atravesada por la precarización del trabajo, las políticas de fronteras y el desmantelamiento de los servicios públicos. Metropolice es un territorio fracturado, atravesado por la fragilización de los vínculos sociales, en ...

Gasear, mutilar, someter

la política de las armas no letales

A primera vista, el aumento del uso de armas no letales por parte de la policía garantizaría menos muertos y heridos graves en las protestas civiles. El tono eufemístico del concepto apunta en esa dirección. Sin embargo, ocurre justo al contrario. ¿Por qué? La utilización ...

Parques y jardines de Madrid

Este libro se concibe como una guía divulgativa ilustrada para dar a conocer y poner en valor los parques y jardines públicos más importantes de Madrid, que se distribuyen por todos los distritos y barrios conformando una potente infraestructura verde que dota a la ciudad ...

Grammatica del costituzionalismo

Costituzione, sovranità, democrazia, stato di diritto. Quante e quali sono le parole del costituzionalismo moderno? Scritta a più mani da costituzionalisti e filosofi del diritto, questa «grammatica» non si concentra su un ordinamento giuridico in particolare, ma enuclea le idee fondamentali che hanno attraversato la ...

Los cronógrafos

la era de los transportes devoradores de tiempo

Jean Robert, filósofo mexicano nacido en Suiza, escribió este libro hace 40 años. Su visión cuasi profética visibilizó desde entonces la pesadilla que hoy vivimos aherrojados a nuestros vehículos: "ataúdes metálicos", como él los llamó con su imaginación creativa y crítica. Los transportes motorizados y ...

La cuestión femenina en nuestros medios

Como trabajadora y poetisa integrante del movimiento anarquista y feminista, Lucía Sánchez Saornil fue blanco de la amnesia histórica dado que, a pesar de la gran importancia que tuvo en el movimiento anarquista y anarcosindicalista español en la primera década del siglo XX, aún es ...

La biología del odio

retóricas fundamentalistas y otras violencias de género

Una lucha por la igualdad y la diversidad se está produciendo en Perú y en el mundo. Las violencias contra las mujeres y las disidencias salen del espacio privado al que estaban confinadas y saltan a la esfera pública. La diferencia es un campo de ...

Tecnologie e diritti

Il volume rappresenta uno dei libri più importanti dell’intera produzione scientifica di Stefano Rodotà, in cui netta si manifesta l’intuizione che le profonde trasformazioni tecnologiche avrebbero cambiato il quadro dei diritti civili e politici, ridisegnato il ruolo dei poteri pubblici, mutato i rapporti ...

Diritto delle amministrazioni pubbliche

una introduzione

ll volume rappresenta un efficace strumento di comprensione dei fondamenti del complesso diritto vivente delle amministrazioni pubbliche. La nuova edizione propone un itinerario didattico rinnovato e si aggiorna agli ultimi sviluppi della materia. Le frequenti esemplificazioni, i riferimenti ai testi normativi e alla giurisprudenza, unitamente ...

The political vocation of philosophy

It is time for philosophy to return to the city. In today’s crisis-ridden world of globalised capitalism, increasingly closed in on itself, it may seem harder than ever to think of ways out. Philosophy runs the risk of becoming the handmaiden of science and ...

Gerrymandering

the politics of redistricting in the United States

For nearly as long as there have been electoral districts in America, politicians have gerrymandered those districts. Though the practice has changed over time, the public reaction to it has remained the same: gerrymandering is reviled. There is, of course, good reason for that sentiment ...

Philosophy, politics, and economics

an introduction

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics offers a complete introduction to the fundamental tools and concepts of analysis that PPE students need to study social and political issues. This fully updated and expanded edition examines the core methodologies of rational choice, strategic analysis, norms, and collective choice ...

Bank investing

a practitioner´s field guide

Bank Investing: A Practitioner's Field Guide offers you the essential toolkit to become a successful bank investor. It packages practical lessons, theoretical knowledge, and historical context, all into one compelling and hopefully entertaining book. The book includes conversations with investors and management teams. Investors ...

Strategic risk management

designing portfolios and managing risk

Having just experienced a global pandemic that sent equity markets into a tailspin in March 2020, risk management is a more relevant topic than ever. It remains, however, an often poorly understood afterthought. Many portfolios are designed without any thought given to risk management before ...

Rethink Property Investing

become financially free with commercial property investing

Rethink Property Investing offers practical advice for both new and established investors looking to move beyond traditional residential real estate and enter the profitable world of commercial properties. Scott and Mina O’Neill, Australia’s leading commercial property investors and founders of Rethink Investing, show ...

New pandemics, old politics

two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed – repeatedly. Europe first declared ‘war’ on cholera in the 19th century. It didn’t defeat the disease but it served purposes ...

The myth of private equity

an inside look at Wall Street's transformative investments

Once an obscure niche of the investment world, private equity has grown into a juggernaut, with consequences for a wide range of industries as well as the financial markets. Private equity funds control companies that represent trillions of dollars in assets, millions of employees, and ...

Postliberal politics

the coming era of renewal

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues that ...

How social movements (sometimes) matter

This incisive book explains how groups of ordinary individuals can affect the world, what makes it possible when it works, and why it sometimes doesn't go to plan. Digging into previous scholarship on social movements, David S. Meyer looks at the origins of social ...

The dignity of labour

Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues ...