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The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions...
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In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination...
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which...
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«Esta es una breve autobiografía de dos, unas memorias del entrecruce entre una pareja y un momento fundamental de la vida jurídica y política colombiana; se trata de dos mujeres jóvenes y enamoradas, en el momento en que deciden ser pareja y mamás en un país que reconoce formalmente sus derechos, pero en una sociedad todavía muy dividida y problematizada en relación con las parejas entre mujeres. En ese contexto social, los nuevos derechos...
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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From police on the street, to the mayor of New Orleans and FEMA administrators, government officials monumentally failed to protect the most vulnerable residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast during the Katrina disaster. This violation of the social contract undermined the foundational narratives and myths of the American nation and spawned a profound, often contentious public debate over the meaning of Katrina's devastation. A wide range of voices...
7) Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis
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Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as-or even more-effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health...
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Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.
Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...
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What is happening when we mistake one thing for another? Disorientations and double takes are a key part of the lived experience of modern capitalism. But the corollary of this is an existential anxiety which motivates a perpetual search for reassurances of our individual and collective identities.
How do we escape self-estrangement and alienation on any level of existence? The experiential gaps in formal bureaucratic and marketised 'life' present...
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As mankind is moving onto the next stage of its evolution, spiritual maturity in order to reach balance, which will be a golden age, human beings will have to choose, with a united voice, to transcend the current paradigm of division and violence. It is thus paramount that each individual understands his or her role for the advent of this future. There are decisions to be made at two levels: collective action and individual action. At the collective...
11) Modern Socialism
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Modern socialism has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This...
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Somos víboras, cerdas, hijas de perra, gatas en celo o incluso "más putas que las gallinas". Son muchos los insultos machistas y, curiosamente, muchos están relacionados con el mundo animal.
Este es un compendio crítico y necesario de "animaladas machistas", que el escritor y la ilustradora abordan con ironía y humor. ¡Un imprescindible!
13) A Way of Being
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A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl Rogers's career, and serves as a coda to his classic On Becoming a Person. More personal and philosophical than his earlier writings, it traces his professional and personal development and ends with a person-centered prophecy, in which he predicts a future changing in the direction of more humaneness. Now, fifteen years later, the psychiatrist and best-selling author Dr. Irvin Yalom...
14) Ciudadanía digital y desarrollo local: Experiencias y procesos de participación en la Unión Europea
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Hoy las Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación ofrecen múltiples herramientas para la gobernabilidad y el desarrollo de las ciudades. Con la irrupción de estas tecnologías se han roto las formas tradicionales de articulación ciudadana, proliferando distintas iniciativas de apropiación tecnológica y autonomía por parte de los movimientos sociales, además de más o menos acertadas políticas públicas que persiguen la integración...
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La sistematización -en este nuevo siglo- es una posibilidad para producir conocimiento a partir de la intervención en la realidad, como una teorización de la práctica vivida. Esa sistematización de experiencias tiene un gran significado para el trabajo social; de algo que se consideraba secundario pasó a ser una actividad relevante en la profesión que convoca sus propios discursos, instituciones y una comunidad de especialistas.
El libro Teoría...
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La perra está de bajón… Nos recuerda que esto no es un libro infantil.
-Oye, cerda, ¿qué te pasa?
-Pues que no lo entiendo... ¿Por qué hay tantos cuentos con protagonistas perros, cerdos, lobos y zorros, pero no podemos aparecer nosotras en ellos?
La perra, la cerda, la zorra y la loba tienen mucho que decir. ¡Están hartas!
¿Por qué hay tantos insultos y palabras despectivas hacia las mujeres con nombres de animales?
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La diferencia parece obvia, pero en ocasiones se confunden las experiencias del envejecimiento y de la vejez; y aunque están estrechamente ligadas, comprender por qué no son lo mismo es fundamental para llevar una vida de calidad, independientemente de los años que se tengan. Este libro aborda las comprensiones y representaciones que tienen las mismas personas viejas, desde una perspectiva teórica, interdisciplinaria y fenomenológica, sobre la...
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Este libro se inicia con el intento de ofrecer una respuesta a la enorme cuestión de por qué existen en el mundo países ricos y países pobres. A través de estas páginas, el lector podrá acercarse a la dolorosa realidad que tiene la Argentina desde una perspectiva histórica, económica y también psicológica. Porque no se trata de discutir políticas de partidos políticos, ni tampoco debatir hasta el infinito sobre hechos estrictamente económicos....
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Are men and women equal? Have we really progressed as a society? Is equality possible? Are children accorded the status of "human beings" in our society. Are they entitled to basic human rights as adults are? What are the problems faced by women and children in our country? Do women and children get their due rights. Is there something we can do? The Unheard Predicament is a series of reflections on these questions. It is an attempt to find solutions...
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