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A pesar de la expedición de leyes en materia del reconocimiento de los derechos de las mujeres a una vida digna, libre de agresiones físicas y psicológicas, dicha situación sigue presentándose especialmente en el entorno familiar poniendo en riesgo su integridad. Persisten las deficiencias en el diseño e implementación de políticas públicas para asegurar una vida libre de violencia para las mujeres.La situación contra las mujeres se ha agudizado,...
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who brought holy war to America.
The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking...
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Este libro es el resultado de unos debates en los que participaron 30 reputados académicos, especialistas en temas constitucionales, politólogos,sociólogos e historiadores de varios países, así como dos padres de la Constitución. La finalidad es analizar la Constitución de 1978 en su perspectiva histórica, considerando las percepciones e imágenes internacionales que ha tenido, las visiones y apreciaciones de la opinión pública española,...
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Stephen J. King considers the reasons that international and domestic efforts toward democratization have failed to take hold in the Arab world. Focusing on Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Algeria, he suggests that a complex set of variables characterizes authoritarian rule and helps to explain both its dynamism and its persistence. King addresses, but moves beyond, how religion and the strongly patriarchal culture influence state structure, policy configuration,...
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Paradigm Shift is the story of the rise and fall of the American Empire as viewed within a psychosocial context. After eight years of Bush and Cheney, we were almost ready to turn our Titanic around before it hit the Iceberg from Wasilla. These are the rumors and legends about Sarah Palin that the mainstream media do not want you to know about their cash cow.
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In Liberalization against Democracy, Stephen J. King argues that, in contrast to prevailing views, pro-market economic reforms in Tunisia did not foster democratization. Instead, state-led economic liberalization facilitated the reorganization of authoritarian rule and contributed to the subversion of democratic tendencies at both the national and local levels. In addition to King's analysis of neo-liberal economic transformation and regime change...
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Science - A branch of knowledge in which what is known is presented in an orderly way. A branch of study that is concerned with collecting facts and forming laws to explain them.Project - A plan or scheme to do something. A task or problem in school. A group of houses or apartment buildings built according to a single plan. It is said that if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. But what if the plan was to fail all along? What if the grand plan...
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The world today is beset with too many conflicts and dangers.The two most frightening words are: "Aggressiveness" and "Arrogance".They describe the terrible human behaviours that are threatening the survival of Planet Earth and the human species.Then, there is this fearsome word "NATO" that represents the most powerful military force in the world centred around the vast North Atlantic Ocean. It literally has the sheer fire power and nuclear power...
10) Antisemitism
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The first volume of Arendt's celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Index.
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Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority of our most crucial national-security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure of any one administration, Mr. Clarke insists, but rather...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SEAD0212 - VIGILANCIA, SEGURIDAD PRIVADA Y PROTECCIÓN DE EXPLOSIVOS". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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The book entitled "Corruption" delves into the pervasive and damaging phenomenon of corruption that plagues societies around the world. Corruption encompasses a wide range of unethical behaviors, including bribery, embezzlement, nepotism, and abuse of power, among others. This complex and multifaceted issue has far-reaching consequences, impacting economic development, political stability, social cohesion, and the overall well-being of individuals...
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For over a decade (1987-1997), Robert Anton Wilson published a quarterly newsletter, Trajectories: The Journal of Futurism and Heresy with editorial and publishing expertise from his wife, Arlen Riley Wilson, and his friend, D. Scott Apel. Scott describes the newsletter as, "full of original articles, unpublished fiction, and outrageous opinion." Chaos and Beyond features the best essays from the first five years of the newsletter.
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December 2014 marked a year since the passing of Nelson Mandela-a man who was as much myth as flesh and blood. Transition pays tribute to Mandela's worldly attainments and to his otherworldly sainthood. Featuring remembrances from Wole Soyinka, Xolela Mangcu, Pierre de Vos, and Adam Habib, this issue assembles Mandela's staunchest allies-for whom he approached saintliness-as well as his most entrenched critics. Other contributors consider the iconicity...
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Jean Godefroy Bidima's La Palabre examines the traditional African institution of palaver as a way to create dialogue and open exchange in an effort to resolve conflict and promote democracy. In the wake of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the gacaca courts in Rwanda, Bidima offers a compelling model of how to develop an African public space where dialogue can combat misunderstanding. This volume, which includes other essays...
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This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged...
18) Making Mondragón
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Since its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. It's nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to education. In its industrial sector, Mondragón has had a rich experience over many years in manufacturing products as varied as furniture, kitchen equipment, machine tools, and electronic components and in printing, shipbuilding,...
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Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved independence and the gendarmes fought as the unrecognized state's army during the Congo crisis. Kennes and Larmer explain how the ex-gendarmes, then exiled in Angola,...
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The unbelievable true story of three pilots flying a routine Federal Express flight who must call on their inner courage, strength, and ability to stop a bitter, suicidal hijacker from killing them, and thousands of people below.
David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off on a regular "out-and-back," delivering and picking up packages for FedEx's next-day service. They had one jumpseat passenger, an off-duty colleague who they assumed...
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