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Rápido, violento y muy cercano presenta los acontecimientos que siguieron a la vacancia presidencial de noviembre de 2020: la respuesta popular a los usurpadores y, sobre todo, la manera como los medios y la cultura digital influyeron en dicha reacción. Luego de contextualizar este componente y revisar la literatura sobre similares situaciones en la última década, el autor plantea que lo acontecido fue una respuesta social que logró organizarse...
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#1 In 2003, Robert Lucas, a professor at the University of Chicago, gave the presidential address at the American Economic Association's annual meetings. He declared that the central problem of depression prevention had been solved, and that modern macroeconomic policy had reduced the problem to the point that it was more of a nuisance than a front-rank issue.
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Symbolic resources affect social, cultural, and economic development. The value of being "Made in America" or "Made in Italy," for example, depends not only on the material advantages each place offers but also on the symbolic resources embedded in those places of production. Drawing on case studies that range from the vineyards of South Africa and the textiles of Thailand to the Mundo Maya in Latin America and tourist destinations in Tuscany, this...
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This book is the first of three in the Covid-war series. It is a factual account time lined and written as a diary of events of the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 to 2021 written by Andy Allwood, a retired fireman of 31 years and an observer of life on this planet. It combines tongue-in-cheek humor, factual evidence, fictional stories, observations of human behavior, historical insight, the theory of predictive analysis, the theory of consequence and many...
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Aunque garantizar el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos en cada nación es una decisión política, su práctica depende en gran medida de la dinámica psicosocial marcada por un entorno cultural. La protección de los derechos humanos no depende únicamente del diseño jurídico de normas, del consenso político favorable, o de las formas de control existentes, sino también del sentido que los pueblos les dan a los principios inherentes a cada...
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La question du travail du sexe fait toujours, aujourd'hui, l'objet de polémiques o le moralisme et les bons sentiments prévalent sur la discussion ouverte. La traite des femmes pour fins de « prostitution » et leur vulnérabilité physique face à la violence et à l'homicide débouchent souvent sur des demandes de répression accrue, et ce sont les travailleuses du sexe qui font les frais de ces discours prohibitionnistes et moralisateurs. Soucieux...
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Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the lower cost of shrimp, domestic shrimp fishers have suffered, particularly in Louisiana. Most of the shrimp that we eat today is imported from shrimp farms in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. The flood of imported shrimp has sent dockside prices plummeting, and rising fuel costs have destroyed the profit margin...
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This book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organizations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research program by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people's sense of agency in building the society that they want.
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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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#1 I was a credulous child. I believed the televangelists were right because somebody allowed them to speak on television, and my grandma nodded along while they spoke, grunting in agreement. I woke every morning with the fear that this could be the day people disappear.
#2 The ongoing movement for Black lives is a reflection of the world's reckoning with death-dealing...
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In Reforming Asian Labor Systems, Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s market-oriented economic reform for labor systems in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. Adopting a critical institutionalist perspective, he explores the impact of elite economic interests and strategies, labor politics, institutional path dependencies, and changing economic circumstances on regimes of labor and social regulation in these four...
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DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE Ideas, like blades of prairie grass, sprout in abundance everywhere. Equal at their inception, all of them have the potential to develop beneficially. From mere scribbled notes, to books blossoming from imprisoned authors, to worldly Montaignes, ideas can encourage us, even to flourish in inhospitable places. Ideas to fit our particular lives. Elementary thought, the ordinary, the eccentric, all are conditional at first. Cultivated...
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#1 The Broward County, Florida, school system began testing all second graders in 2005. As a result, the number of gifted African American children in the district skyrocketed 80 percent, and that of gifted Hispanic children skyrocketed 130 percent.
#2 The widespread belief that IQ limits are innate and permanent affects the lives of people like Edgar, who are...
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#1 The director of the Clinic for Radiation Medicine in Moscow, Angelina Gus'kova, was the first person to hear about the Chernobyl accident. She treated patients who were nauseous and weak, with reddened skin, and one who was already vomiting. The diagnosis was typical signs of acute radiation sickness.
#2 In the 1950s, the first civilian nuclear power plants...
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Tax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the three largest income tax cuts in American history despite a long drawn-out war and massive budget deficits. The Permanent Tax Revolt traces the origins of this anti-tax campaign to the 1970s,...
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#1 The German tombstone shortage is because the government controls death and funerals, and they require embalming before burial. This leads to a darkly humorous saying: If you feel unwell, take a vacation-you can't afford to die in Germany.
#2 Slavery is a great way to keep your costs down, but there is another reason why the granite is so cheap: the quarries...
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#1 It is impossible to have a radical philosophy without first sounding like a lunatic or a moron. Most radical philosophies are lunacy, and the rest are moronic. To proclaim earnestly that the status quo needs to be changed drastically is an enormously high task.
#2 All anarchy does is solve one major problem in interpersonal relationships: the forceful interjection...
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#1 Frazier's 1957 sociological study of the Black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie, was immediately controversial. It accused the Black middle class of being an insecure and powerless group constantly constructing a world of make-believe to deal with an inferiority complex caused by the brutal history of racial domination in the United States.
#2 The Black middle...
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Celebrating Native California food gathering and preparation across the seasons, Kathleen Rose Smith reveals the practices handed down through generations of her Bodega Miwuk and Pomo ancestors, and shares how these traditions have evolved into the contemporary ways her family still enjoys wild foods. Her knowledge and personal reflections are expressed through recipes, stories, and artwork, recording not only the technical aspects of food gathering,...
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Bridges: Anglo-Japanese Cultural Pioneers 1945-2015 cover interviews with ten prominent people in the field of Anglo-Japanese exchange, showing the rich culturaldiversity and interaction between professional people in the UK, Europe and Japan during the last 70 years since 1945. Coming from diverse backgrounds, diplomats, scholars, musicians, business people, journalists, gardeners, and humanitarian activists, all of whom have made an impact in the...
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