"e;We are no longer living in a world defined by a clash of civilizations, but rather by a clash of architectures—where competing systems of technology, finance, and security vie to dictate the terms of human survival.
En contextos atravesados por la persistencia de la violencia, la construccion de paz exige algo mas que acuerdos: demanda instituciones capaces de prevenir, anticipar y transformar los riesgos que amenazan la vida, la libertad y la integridad de las comunidades.
In this study of the breakdown of traditional party loyalties and voting patterns, prominent comparativists and country specialists examine the changes now occurring in the political systems of advanced industrial democracies.
From the Korean War to the current conflict in Iraq, Paying the Human Costs of War examines the ways in which the American public decides whether to support the use of military force.
Here Christina Wolbrecht boldly demonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights.
Unforgettable Independent Fresh and gripping TelegraphTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London.
The shocking story of how PFAS, the ';forever chemicals' found in everyday household products, poisoned an entire nationPoisoning the Well draws on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters' own files to trace an ugly history of corporate greed and devastated human lives.
The shocking story of how PFAS, the ';forever chemicals' found in everyday household products, poisoned an entire nationPoisoning the Well draws on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters' own files to trace an ugly history of corporate greed and devastated human lives.
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violenceand a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it.
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violenceand a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it.
'A superb book' - Observer'Gripping, vivid and compelling' - The Critic'Humane, absorbing and meticulous' - New Statesman'An extraordinary book' James O'Brien, TLSThree Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event.
El conjunto de articulos que componen este libro busca hacer un balance sobre la implementacion del enfoque etnico surgido tras el proceso de paz de 2016 con la extinta guerrilla de las FARC-EP.
En Desobediencia civil Arendt arroja luz sobre el caracter contingente de los ordenes constitucionales, al recordar a la sociedad civil estadounidense los principios que orientan el concepto de ley que vio nacer a esa nacion, los cuales considera a todas luces discrepantes de la idea de obligacion juridica en Rousseau y Kant.
Cuando en julio de 1959 un punado de jovenes pusieron en marcha ETA, nadie podia saber la trascendencia que iba a tener en los siguientes sesenta anos.
An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions.
Este libro constituye una util herramienta de trabajo para estudiantes, docentes e investigadores interesados en comprender la trayectoria historica del paramilitarismo tanto en lo que se refiere a su despliegue regional en zonas concretas del pais como en lo que alude a los procesos de conformacion de sujetos y subjetividades.
Este libro presenta los resultados de una investigacion que analizo las formas en que dos colectivos femeninos de Florencia, Caqueta, (Huellas de Paz y Mupaz), integrados por mujeres victimas de la violencia del conflicto armado, abordan y negocian los conceptos de verdad, justicia y reparacion, articulandolos con sus practicas cotidianas en el marco de la transicion politica hacia la paz.
The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism.
'If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice; no power will be able to stop them' Hadith attributed to the Prophet MuhammadThe Black Banners is the ultimate insider's account of the realities of counter-terrorism.
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east.
