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From the war on poverty to the war on crime

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the land of the free become the home of the world s largest prison system? Challenging the belief that ...

Juego de Tronos

canción de hielo y fuego/1

Tras el largo verano, el invierno se acerca a los Siete Reinos. Lord Eddard Stark, señor de Invernalia, deja sus dominios para unirse a la corte de su amigo el rey Robert Baratheon, llamado el Usurpador, hombre díscolo y otrora guerrero audaz cuyas mayores aficiones ...

Capitalism

money, morals and markets

Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale.And ...

Understanding police intelligence work

This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used ethically to influence policing policy and practice. The author critically examines the development of intelligence structures and ...

The 2020 board

the future of company boards

In fast-paced, turbulent business markets, company boards need greater agility and will find it necessary to be conscious of innovation and technological progress. They ought to encourage companies to explore and value creativity at all levels, to remove red tape from the company's culture ...

Contract rules

decoding english Law

Contract Rules - Decoding English Law encapsulates the general part of the English contract system. For the first time this complex body of law is presented in an accessible and structured form.Marshalling the legal sources, it arranges the law into 22 parts comprising 200 Articles ...

Conflito lingüístico e ideoloxía na Galiza

a situación do galego como síntoma

Os leitores e leitoras teñen na man un libro fundamental na historia moderna do galego e unha peza clave na sociolingüística do noso país. A publicación en 1976 de Conflito lingüístico e ideoloxia na Galiza supuxo un fito na análise, interpretación e diagnóstico dos problemas ...

Syria burning

a short history of a catastrophe

Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee their homes. Militant Sunni groups, such ...

The new rulers of the world

ohn Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in ...

How did we get into this Mess?

politics, equality, nature

Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial, the libertarianism which grants freedom to the powerful at the expense of the powerless, undisclosed interests, complacency ...

La concepción cervantina del hablar

lenguaje y escala de valores en Don Quijote

La concepción cervantina del hablar explora la relación entre el decir y la posición moral del hablante. Los rasgos estilísticos de Cervantes remiten a la conciencia de su estar en el mundo y a una mirada, entre ácida y benévola, a su ambiente. La escritura ...

Chavs

the demonization of the working class

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have ...

The mercenary mediterranean

sovereignty, religion, and violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles, for agreeing to enter ...

Genoese trade and migration in the Spanish Atlantic, 1700-1830

The Republic of Genoa was once a major commercial power. Following the Republic's decline in the seventeenth century, Genoese merchants adapted and thrived in the changing Atlantic market. Scholars have examined how other foreign merchant groups operated within the Spanish empire, but until now ...

Public sphere and experience

analysis of the bourgeois and proletarian public sphere

The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In ...

Marx and human nature refutations of a legend

In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both explanatory and ...

Cleopatra VII: La creación de una imagen

representación pública y legitimación política en la Antigüedad

Es indudable que Cleopatra es uno de los personajes más evocadores de la historia y solo el escuchar su nombre transporta a nuestra imaginación a un mundo exótico, casi de ensueño, lleno de riquezas, placeres y aventuras. Sin embargo, esta visión de la reina egipcia ...

Democracy against capitalism

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference", and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical programme of historical materialism by redefining ...

El Consulado de Sevilla de Mercaderes a Indias

un órgano de poder

En 1503 se estableció por decreto real la Casa de Contratación de Indias en Sevilla, creada para fomentar y regular el comercio y la navegación con el Nuevo Mundo. Su denominación oficial era Casa y Audiencia de Indias Su funcionamiento quedó regulado en las Ordenanzas ...

Hold everything dear

dispatches on survival and resistance

From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour ...