Political activism / Political engagement

Esta obra presenta una coleccion de lecturas extraidas de textos universitarios que describen la transicion del pais durante la Revolucion, junto con la interpretacion y el balance comparativo de las ideas plasmadas en los planes, los tratados y los convenios que dieron forma a las instituciones de la actualidad.

Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terrorist and insurgent groups around the world.

Although the literature on terrorism is vast, there are many holes in it.

This book formulates a conceptual framework to analyse the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

The Internet can be a bewildering maze of information, often from questionable sources.

Historically and culturally, Sufism and Zen may not seem to have anything in common.

This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.

This book engages with the work of Iver B.

Today, it is estimated there are over 200,000 volunteers in police work throughout the United States.

A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.

A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises.

To counter pervasive levels of citizen disengagement from political institutions, this book examines democratic innovations that meaningfully engage with citizens to address some of the deficits of Western representative democracies.

Owing to its geo-strategic location and mineral wealth, Afghanistan has acquired significance in the inter-state politics of Asia as well as world politics during the past decades.

Crafted for those who dare to challenge the status quo, this is a radical guide for activists.

The Transformation of Discontent demonstrates that far from disappearing from the workplaces of the Global North, labor protest has merely changed character and now focuses on healthcare and education, with white-collar and white coat employees clashing with employers over wages, working conditions, and professional autonomy.

London Arts Based Research Centre's 2025 recipient of the Susan Rowland Award for Jungian Arts-Based ResearchFocusing on one of the most significant and critical issues facing the world today, this important book explores multiple aspects of climate change through the use of Jungian symbols and "e;signs"e; of this environmental shift, while diving deep into the politics of loss in reaction to climate chaos, uncertainty, and ambiguity.

Originally published in 1977, this lively collection of papers by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women's movements and community action at the time, in terms both of the recent developments in women's thinking and of their practical experience of involvement in community organizations and groups.

Sonia Budassi narra en forma de crónica la cotidianeidad de Israel y Palestina, la frontera más candente de todo el mundo.

Subversion, Power and Hierarchy in Organisations and Society: Carnivalesque Leadership explores a leadership strategy that dates back centuries but has become so normalised that it can be invisible as a strategy.

Urban environments are prime targets for suicide bombings over the next decade.

The TUC Overseas (1986) traces the decisions made by the Trades Union Congress in response to domestic and external influences and events, from its establishment of a joint international committee with the Labour Party in 1917 to the first congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945.

Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50,000 words) which offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, demonstrating that the memory of the crusades is an important and emerging subject.

Yet, few realize that America is heading down the same suicidal path.

There has been a rebirth of interest in bringing community back into social work, but what does community social work mean when applied to practice?

The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century.

Winner of the Michel Deon Prize for non-fiction 2026'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which whisper to us all the same' Irish TimesHotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux.

Das Pontifikat von Pius IX.

Syria's bloody civil war has plunged the cradle of the Levant into a painful spiral of violence.

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts.

An era has ended.

Drawing on the perspectives of women and children displaced from Ukraine, as well as local authority policy makers and service providers, this book provides a unique view of the direct and indirect consequences of war in Europe.

In the 1990s, a young UgandanCatholic nurse named Rose Busingye began working in the slums of Kampala withthe many women there suffering from HIV/AIDS.

Ihren Kampf begriffen amerikanische Bürgerrechtler seit jeher als einen globalen und trugen diesen auch nach Deutschland in die DDR.

"Die Welt ist aus den Fugen geraten" (Frank-Walter Steinmeier).

This book uniquely demonstrates how a new combination of communities, progressive visions, and strategies provides a path to defeat fascist machinations and strengthens social justice movements.