This book is a bold and thought- provoking examination of the growing influence and unchecked power of major tech corporations on global affairs, human rights abuse, geopolitical conflict, and the ethical direction of modern society.
Por que la democracia recompensa a los idiotas es un ensayo provocador, critico y profundamente actual sobre las debilidades de las democracias modernas.
Los tribunales constitucionales de los Estados democraticos son hoy, en menor medida, un tribunal estatal y, en mayor medida, un tribunal constitucional social.
El libro ofrece una vision integral del Tribunal Constitucional de Austria como pieza central del constitucionalismo europeo: explica su origen, interrupciones y restauracion, y muestra como la jurisdiccion constitucional austriaca ha modelado tecnicas y categorias hoy comunes en Europa.
This volume of essays by one of America's preeminent philosophers in the area of jurisprudence and moral philosophy gathers together fourteen papers that had been published in widely scattered and not readily accessible sources.
Under three successive Islamic dynasties--the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Mamluks--the Egyptian Office of the Head of the Jews (also known as the Nagid) became the most powerful representative of medieval Jewish autonomy in the Islamic world.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantias judiciales de la Constitucion, que busca contribuir al estudio y examen critico del regimen procesal de los mecanismos judiciales de proteccion de derechos fundamentales en Colombia.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantias judiciales de la Constitucion del Departamento de Derecho Constitucional de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y ofrece un estudio exhaustivo sobre la accion popular.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantias judiciales de la Constitucion, que examina criticamente los mecanismos judiciales de proteccion de derechos fundamentales en Colombia.
Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe.
In ihrem eindringlichen Pladoyer zeigt Elsbeth Muller, ehemalige Geschaftsleiterin der UNICEF Schweiz: Nur wenn wir Kinderrechte ernst nehmen, hat unsere Gesellschaft eine Zukunft.
Utilizing data from a survey of attitudes and behavior of more than 2,500 residents of selected rural, urban, and university communities in the Federal Republic of Germany, Edward Muller attempts to formulate and to test a general multivariate theory about what motivates individuals to participate in aggressive political action.
In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word.
In this unusual synthesis of political and socio-economic history, Philip Manville demonstrates that citizenship for the Athenians was not merely a legal construct but rather a complex concept that was both an institution and a mode of social behavior.
This book reaches deep into the past of the city of Los Angeles and carries through to the dramatic events that have recently received global attention--the Rodney King beating and the uprising in South Central L.
Press "e;ONE"e; for English examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education.
How military service led black veterans to join the civil rights struggleFighting for Democracy shows how the experiences of African American soldiers during World War II and the Korean War influenced many of them to challenge white supremacy in the South when they returned home.
When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system.
As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities across the country, the time to create climate resilient communities is now.
