Este libro se centra en la región norte del estado de Jalisco, ámbito espacial en donde se encuentran una sociedad de rancheros mestizos y el pueblo wixárika.
¿Quién no recuerda la imagen de Francisco lavando los pies a los prisioneros el Jueves Santo o arrodillado ante los líderes de Sudán del Sur suplicándoles que trabajen por la paz en su país?
Este libro analiza las principales innovaciones y desarrollos de los cibermedios en España, sobre la base de experiencias reales llevadas a cabo en más de una veintena de casos de estudio seleccionados.
Con un llamativo repertorio de nuevas categorías en el análisis sociológico y político, el autor nos conduce en un recorrido por la ádeiocracia, la lumpenización de las élites interrcontinentales, la mudanza de la riqueza, la destrucción de la biodiversidad, tema tan cercano a su obra literaria, el feminismo y la admisión sin reservas de la diversidad, los corredores económicos y el nuevo mapamundi, sin esquivar la crítica política ni quedarse en la mera retórica de la denuncia.
Todos hemos vivido humillaciones en distintos momentos de nuestras vidas, cuando papá, mamá, un profesor, nuestra cónyuge, o un jefe nos recriminó duramente por algo que habíamos hecho o, peor, que no habíamos hecho; cuando un grupo de compañeros de colegio se burló de nosotros en el momento en que tropezamos y caímos; cuando revelamos nuestros sentimientos más íntimos a alguien, y luego descubrimos que él o ella había traicionado nuestra confianza y se los había contado a otros.
'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of MosquitoSummer 1939.
Discover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns'A fully immersive experience.
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies.
A groundbreaking book that gathers key wartime intelligence reportsDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School-Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer-worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA.
Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory-why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse?
From the New York Times to Gawker, a behind-the-scenes look at how performance analytics are transforming journalism today-and how they might remake other professions tomorrowJournalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares.
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude.
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.
En las trincheras de Stalingrado es una pieza fundamental de la literatura bélica y uno de los primeros textos escritos en la antigua Unión Soviética que aborda con honestidad incontestable el que, probablemente, sea el episodio más importante de la Gran Guerra Patria: la batalla por Stalingrado.
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice?
'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence.
The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written.
Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing.
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution.
From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age.
