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Presents advice on traveling to different countries of the world as a way of increasing our understanding of different cultures and political systems, and appreciating the interconnectedness within the global community. In his third edition, the author considers the new political reality of Brexit, Refugees, Erdoğan, and Trump, as well as populism, nativism, terrorism, and climate change and explains why travel has never been more relevant.
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"Discourses on Livy", which was first published posthumously in 1531, is Niccolo Machiavelli's analysis of the first ten books of Livy's monumental work of Roman History, which details the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Machiavelli believed that by examining the exemplary greatness in Roman history, practical lessons could be applied to the politics of the present day. The Italian renaissance was causing people...
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"Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben...
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Similar to Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores another facet of good living by outlining the best governing practices that benefit the majority, and not the minority. In The Politics, he defines various institutions and how they should operate within an established system.
The Politics provides an analysis of contemporary government as it relates to all people. Aristotle discusses the positive and negative qualities of authority and how they affect...
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'Labor to keep alive in your breast that little celestial fire called conscience.' 'Run not in the streets. . .nor with mouth open; go not upon the toes nor in a dancing fashion.' George Washington was known as a remarkably modest and courteous man. Humility and flawless manners were so ingrained in his character that he rarely if ever acted without them. The 'Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior' that governed Washington's etiquette were by turns...
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A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world
Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. In the first book of its kind, the manifestos are shown to contain feminist theory and recommend actions for change, and also to expand our very conceptions of feminist thought and activism. Covering...
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El presente libro parte de la siguiente pregunta: ¿habrá derrotado el capitalismo a la democracia representativa? La respuesta se da a partir del análisis de los nuevos contextos surgidos a con posterioridad al año 2000, en que la democracia deja de ser algo pensado por y para las elites, y se asiste a una popularización de la misma, a su arraigo en el imaginario popular, consecuencia de diversas luchas locales y globales.
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Entre los conceptos que se repiten con frecuencia en los textos de relaciones internacionales y ciencia política, pocos son tan populares como el de "hegemonía", pese al poco acuerdo que hay sobre cuál sea exactamente su significado.
En lo que constituye el primer estudio de calado histórico de la suerte diversa que ha corrido el concepto de hegemonía, Perry Anderson rastrea su aparición en la antigua Grecia y sitúa su redescubrimiento durante...
10) Enfoques para el análisis político: Historia, epistemología y perspectivas de la ciencia política
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Esta obra se presenta como un estudio comparado de veinte perspectivas actualmente en uso por parte de la ciencia política, para acercarse a escudriñar los fenómenos políticos. El libro sobresale por su redacción clara y pedagógica, pr la presentación de criterios sólidos para investigar el mundo político y, a partir de ellos, por un esfuerzo para tender puentes entre los distintos paradigamas hoy pugna.A partir de un mismo esquema conceptual,...
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¿Qué cambió y qué pervivió en el Perú después de la ruptura de la Metrópoli hispana? ¿Cuál fue, entonces, su entorno geográfico y cuáles sus vicisitudes internacionales? ¿Qué hitos relevantes pueden señalarse del incipiente quehacer político? ¿De qué manera se expresaron las opciones ideológicas de la élite pensante criolla? ¿Cuál fue el desempeño de las corrientes libertadoras tanto del sur como del norte? ¿Quiénes fueron...
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As the serial disasters of capitalism's current crisis-economic, political, and environmental, continue to batter the world, Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe is a device for recording, analyzing, and transmitting events as they happen. But, it offers neither dire predictions nor false hopes. Instead, it embraces the mystery of what might transpire. The word "catastrophe" has not always signified "disaster"; during the sixteenth century, especially...
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Esta compilación recoge una muestra del trabajo de un pensador que responde a la urgencia de las injusticias a partir de una forma de relacionarse con el derecho la cual, antes de redundar en la banalidad de un imposible-definir qué es el derecho, resalta la posibilidad actual de resistir al y desde el derecho. Los escritos abordan un tema que no deja de ser crucial: las relaciones entre el derecho y la justicia. Sin embargo, su trabajo afronta...
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"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America—just, fair, and caring—and then to struggle for it."—Bill Moyers
"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is particularly heartbreaking.
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These essays, written between 1966 and 2010 by lifelong Israeli activist and theorist Moshé Machover, cover diverse aspects of Israeli society and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Elaborating on the ideas of the Socialist Organization in Israel (Matzpen), two interrelated themes appear throughout the collection: the necessity of understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a regional context and the connection between Palestinian liberation...
16) Maxims
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These maxims, of the French Duc, remain one of the best books of its kind, and have been translated into many languages, and frequently into English. The present edition by John Heard, noted translator of Ronsard, von Hofmannsthal, Clemenceau, and others, was originally published by Houghton Miflfin, and long since out-of-print.
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The must-read summary of Zbigniew Brzezinski's book: "Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower".
This complete summary of "Second Chance" by Zbigniew Brzezinski, a renowned political strategist and former presidential adviser, presents his assessment of the George Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and how they led America from unprecedented power and prestige at the end of the Cold War through gradual...
19) Summary: America Between the Wars: Review and Analysis of Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier's Book
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The must-read summary of Chollet and Goldgeier's book: "America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror".
This complete summary of "America Between the Wars" by Derek Chollet, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and James Goldgeier, a renowned political professor, presents their examination of how the decisions made in the 12 years between the fall of the...
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Canadian federalism, as a particular form of political organization for a complex society-with multiple economic, political, geographic, cultural, and national divides-faces important challenges. The political realignment that brought the Conservative Party to power in the last quinquennium has set in motion a significant transformation of the Canadian state and its federal system of governance.
The contributors in this collection focus on three...
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