Catálogo de libros: Ciencias políticas y teoría

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  • New Dominion
    John G Milliken
    The New Dominion analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transformation of the state’s politics and shaped the political Virginia of today. Countering the common narrative that the shifting politics of Virginia is a recent phenomenon driven by population growth in the urban corridor, the contributors to this...
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    165,45 €

  • RSS
    Devanura Mahadeva / S. R. Ramakrishna
    About the BookTHE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF KANNADA LITERATURE’S TALLEST FIGURESWhat is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh? Where is it steering India now that a party aligned to it has been in power for an extended period? And importantly, what does it believe in, what does it reject? These are only some of the questions that Devanura Mahadeva explores in this remarkable exp...
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    12,19 €

  • A Republic in the Ranks
    Zachery A. Fry
    The Army of the Potomac was a hotbed of political activity during the Civil War. As a source of dissent widely understood as a frustration for Abraham Lincoln, its onetime commander, George B. McClellan, even secured the Democratic nomination for president in 1864. But in this comprehensive reassessment of the army’s politics, Zachery A. Fry argues that the war was an intense p...
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    37,81 €

  • European Solidarity
    What is solidarity and what makes us think it is something important? Is it just an abstract idea or something more like a prosocial practice that can grow to inform legal regulations and political decisions? How is it that solidarity is so widespread in everyday language while this rarely corresponds to concrete applications of this principle? And what kind of application does...
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    144,62 €

  • Annotations on Sustainable Development and Climate Change
    Edmundo Enrique Vásquez Paz
    In this publication, Edmundo Enrique Vásquez Paz offers interesting ideas on sustainable development and climate change. He proposes the need to provide the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with an agenda for the construction of the necessary 'political power' that will be required by those in charge of developing them in practice; and he presents a proposal for generating ...
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    56,34 €

  • Citizen movements, a framework for education under construction
    Isaac KATSUVA MUTANGA
    This work reviews the frameworks and strategies used by the citizen movement Eveil citoyen in mass and adult education in the city of Butembo. But first, it reviews the frameworks and strategies of popular education in general, takes stock of citizen movements in this city, and highlights the opportunities offered by popular and adult education to bring about change. Weaknesses...
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    61,51 €

  • Economic Liberalism
    María Amalia Pérez Bourbon
    This paper is an analysis of the anthropological aspects of economic liberalism and its relationship with personalism. Today’s reality shows that the hegemony of capitalism in the Western economy still does not resolve the serious situations of poverty that afflict thousands of people, and that the ideal of lasting peace is far from being achieved. These are current challenges ...
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    56,21 €

  • The Balkanization of the world
    Edm... Kamango Selemani Sheta - Sheta / Edmond Kamango Selemani Sheta - Sheta
    The time appointed by God to end the Roman law political system and re-establish the 5th divine law political system arrived on May 03, 1983. In that year, God enthroned his Son, Jesus Christ, to overthrow the world’s states and establish the Kingdom of God. The re-establishment of the Kingdom of God implies the balkanization of all multinational states to enable every tribe on...
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    134,85 €

  • Commentaries on the Republic
    Frederick Headen
    Through a series of thought-provoking book reviews and public policy essays, the author offers enduring insights concerning the nature of government and its relationship to the governed, particularly in America. A recurring theme of the book is an abiding respect for the system of government established by the Founding Fathers. As the author notes at one point,Properly understo...
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    12,24 €

  • After Kant
    Michael Sonenscher
    Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or...
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    169,23 €

  • Unbelievable Short Stories For Seniors
    Albert Chester
    This book is printed in Large Print font for elderly people with vision impairment.Discover the most fascinating world history events that will blow your mind.With easy-to-read paragraphs, this book is perfect for all senior citizens including those with dementia and Alzheimer’sThe stories are either uplifting and positive, extraordinary, or just down right hilarious. None of t...
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    13,63 €

  • Historical and Political Analysis on Power Balances and Deglobalization
    Emily Brynn Stacey
    Historical and Political Analysis on Power Balances and Deglobalization delves deeper into the author’s previous work, Contemporary Politics and Social Movements in an Isolated World, to explore the pressing issues currently faced by the international community. Through an academic lens, this book examines how these issues are reshaping the global order, encompassing supply cha...
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    268,73 €

  • Confucian Liberalism
    Roy Tseng
    Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism. ...
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    42,74 €

  • Order, Crisis, and Redemption
    Peter Langford / Saul Newman
    A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt’s political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order. ...
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    121,82 €

  • Marxism and America
    If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more. ...
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    43,96 €

  • Manifest Destinies and New World Orders
    Antonio C.A. De Sousa Lara
    The first people to have a formal manifest destiny in History was the Jewish people. It is a case apart, given the divine bestowal of that space. All empires, before and since, have been in a more torrential way, a self-justified manifest destiny. Geopolitics came to give some comfort to the 'vital spaces' of the then present and future and to explain the manifest destiny of th...
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    37,92 €

  • Finding the Constitution
    Peter J Stanbridge
     Finding the Constitution is a detailed and highly readable account of English constitutional history. It examines the gripping story of the origins of the nation’s system of government and asks whether there was a common law Constitution and where surviving institutions came from. In seventeen, easily searchable, parts the reader is introduced to customary law, statute law, co...
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    43,09 €

  • Finding the Constitution (Vol II)
    Peter J Stanbridge
     Finding the Constitution is a detailed and highly readable account of English constitutional history. It examines the gripping story of the origins of the nation’s system of government and asks whether there was a common law Constitution and where surviving institutions came from. In seventeen, easily searchable, parts the reader is introduced to customary law, statute law, co...
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    43,40 €

  • Of Rule and Office
    Melissa Lane
    A constitutionalist reading of Plato’s political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited k...
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    63,46 €

  • Am I My Planet’s Keeper?
    Johnny Townsend
    Global Warming. Climate Change. Climate Crisis. Climate Emergency. Whatever label we use, we are facing one of the greatest challenges to the survival of life as we know it.But while addressing greenhouse gases is perhaps our most urgent need, it’s not our only task. We must also address toxic waste, pollution, habitat destruction, and our other contributions to the world’s six...
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    12,46 €

  • The hidden face of Lumumba
    Faustin Bulambo
    From what appears in this book, two realities seem to have competed for the limelight: Lumumba’s political talent, on the one hand, and his literary talent, on the other. While the former was immediately obvious, to the point of attracting almost unanimous positive reviews, both in his own country and on the continent, and even worldwide, the same cannot be said of the latter, ...
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    56,34 €

  • Considerations on Representative Government
    John Stuart Mill
    Considerations on Representative Government is a political science book by John Stuart Mill published in 1861.Mill argues for representative government, the ideal form of government in his opinion. One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make legislation. Instead Mill suggests that representative b...
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    16,42 €

  • The Open Conspiracy
    H. G. Wells
    The Open Conspiracy presents H. G. Wells’ vision for an international movement to establish control over the destinies of human life. Through a process of propaganda and a 'conspiracy' unfolding in full view, Wells hopes to create a world which is politically, socially and economically unified, ultimately leading to a revolution aimed at peace, welfare and happiness - a 'world ...
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    10,37 €

  • Truth Revealed
    Duncan Mnisi
    About the book: 'Truth Revealed' is a thought-provoking exploration into hidden wisdom and the unraveling of the intricate layers of the matrix that surrounds us. Delving deep into the realms of knowledge often left unexplored, this book challenges readers to question the reality they perceive and invites them to embark on a journey of self-discovery and enlightenment. Through ...
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    10,56 €

  • The Conquest of Bread
    Peter Kropotkin
    The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Originally written in French, it first appeared as a series of articles in the anarchist journal Le Révolté. It was first published in Paris with a preface by Élisée Reclus, who also suggested the title. Between 1892 and 1894, it was serialized in part in the London journal Freedom, of which...
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    21,10 €

  • Society and Solitude
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Society and Solitude is a classic essay collection by the great American philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This essay collection compiles twelve of Emerson’s finest essays and includes the following works: Society and solitude -- Civilization -- Art -- Eloquence -- Domestic life -- Farming -- Works and days -- Books -- Clubs -- Courage -- Success -- Old age.This gr...
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    15,56 €

  • The Political Theory of Salvage
    Jason Kosnoski
    Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities. ...
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    43,04 €

  • Occupy Movement and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Gerald McIsaac
    The worldwide revolutionary motion, which started with the Occupy Movement, has morphed into a number of other movements. The problem is that the working class, the Proletariat, is not aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests, as opposed to the monopoly capitalist class, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie. Our interests are diametrically opposed. Capitalism must ...
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    21,51 €

  • Occupy Movement and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Gerald McIsaac
    The worldwide revolutionary motion, which started with the Occupy Movement, has morphed into a number of other movements. The problem is that the working class, the Proletariat, is not aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests, as opposed to the monopoly capitalist class, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie. Our interests are diametrically opposed. Capitalism must ...
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    13,72 €

  • National policies for waiving cesarean section costs
    Famory Samassa
    To achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5), developing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco, and Senegal have moved away from direct payment for cesarean sections to a policy of waiving cesarean section costs. The goal of these countries is to improve maternal health by providing equitable access to cesarean sections for all women and to reduce maternal mortality....
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    60,26 €


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