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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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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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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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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...
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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...
7) 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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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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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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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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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...
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He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations. After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where...
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Indalecio Prieto (1883-1962) y José Antonio Aguirre (1904-1960) fueron no solo los principales líderes del socialismo y del nacionalismo vascos, respectivamente, sino también los políticos más relevantes de la Euskadi del siglo XX, a cuyo autogobierno contribuyeron de forma decisiva. Sus vidas se cruzaron continuamente a lo largo de tres decenios: desde el advenimiento de la Segunda República el 14 de abril de 1931 hasta su muerte en el exilio....
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In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25 January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind popular discontent. He then follows the ups and downs (mainly the downs) of the Revolution: the causes of rising hopes and expectations, mingled with successive disappointments, sometimes verging on despair, not least in the case of the presidential elections,...
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New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. As a child, Mark Lloyd's grandmother always told him that he was a descendant of Patrick Henry. Though he's still trying to document the connection, he likes to believe that he is guided by Henry's spirit. As a resident of Campbell County, Virginia-the county of Henry's final homestead-Lloyd follows Henry's example every day, dedicating his life to ensure the liberty Henry fought for would be passed...
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New from Voices of the Tea Party. In Crony Capitalists in Our Back Yards, Amy Handlin, a Harvard educated Republican member of New Jersey's General Assembly, demonstrates that crony capitalism is as much of a problem at the state and local level as it is at the federal level. Drawing on her personal experiences, Ms. Handlin paints a colorful picture of some of the political insiders who've used their positions of power to advance their own financial...
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New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. In this first-hand account of the perils of Washington, Constance Dogood, an average American who became an early leader of the Tea Party movement, describes the methods used by the Republican Establishment to co-opt the Freshman members of Congress. Called "the Tea Party Class" because they were propelled into office by a wave of Tea Party support, these 63 new Republican members of Congress face...
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Les chapitres méconnus de l'histoire des Philippines narrés que le président Emilio Aguinaldo, figure centrale de la lutte nationale pour l'indépendance, dévoile sa vérité personnelle et sa perspective sur les événements révolutionnaires qui ont façonné le destin d'une nation. 'Emilio Aguinaldo : Témoin de la Révolution - Dévoiler la Perspective du Président' emmène les lecteurs dans un voyage captivant à travers les yeux d'Aguinaldo,...
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Those who have a deep affection for Britain's countryside will be totally absorbed by this extraordinary history of environmentalists' efforts to conserve the glorious South Downs. After describing the special qualities of the area and earlier attempts to safeguard it, the story of a twenty-year campaign to secure National Park status for this special part of England is recounted. Strong forces opposed, but the South Downs Campaign, which eventually...
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Power Structures in International Politics presents an original perspective on the dynamics underlying world events, approaching international relations through the lens of computational science. It explains how states accumulate political power and how this competition leads to resource conflict, coalition building, imperialism, the balance of power, and global instability. Written in an engaging and accessible style with over a hundred illustrations,...
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