Local Government category: 1701 books

En estos escritos, trataremos de conceptualizar, muy someramente, el pasado y el posible o probable futuro que nos espera a la humanidad al final de este ciclo de vida. Después de llegar a este nivel de conocimiento y sabiduría, o muy próximos al tope, cada vez que se termina un ciclo de...

DIOS MEDIANTE recoge los artículos de opinión del escritor barcelonés Antonio Gálvez Alcaide, publicados en formato digital, desde septiembre de 2012 a enero de 2015. Tras ARTÍCULOS FRONTERIZOS, representa su segunda antología periodística. Los títulos de los artículos son los que siguen...

The US and the world at large have been facing eminent terror that has sent the world over thinking of security measures to counteract such terrorist activities. Such names as ISIS and al-Qaida have become common even to the youngest of our children. And while the world was still struggling with the...

There is performance art, but there is also performance science. A look at how one author used her web site as a one woman psychology department called Chaser Investigative News Services. About the Author Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!:...

The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the...

Longtemps réduit à sa dimension environnementale, le changement climatique s’est imposé ces dernières années comme un sujet d’étude incontournable en relations internationales. Objet scientifique mais également politique, le réchauffement planétaire charrie en effet de multiples enjeux...

Transports et infrastructures : développement, désenclavement, puissance Quelles dynamiques régissent les flux de transports internationaux et quels peuvent en être les développements futurs ? Quels sont les enjeux propres aux différents modes de transport et à la construction des...

Contestations démocratiques, désordre international ? Sous la direction d’Olivier de France et de Marc Verzeroli Dérives autoritaires en Hongrie ou en Pologne, « Brexit », élection de Donald Trump, progression des partis d’extrême droite… Que recoupent ces contestations...

As I watch the current election campaign unfold, I had sick. In this short manifesto, I offer a simple idea for changing America and having a better informed electorate. You can download this for free. You can share it for free. This is our time to change our country but...

Race Rules: Electoral Politics in New Orleans, 1965-2006 examines one of the innumerable ramifications of Hurricane Katrina: a reversal in the decades-long process of racial transition, from white dominant to black dominant. The electoral consequences of such a racial change - in a city where race...

Veganismo - essa palavra tem causado curiosidade em muitas pessoas, fascinado bastante delas e causado arrepios (nos sentidos bom e ruim) em tantas outras. Diante desse termo que parece novo - mas na verdade já tem mais de meio século de existência -, muitas perguntas surgem da população: O que...

Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human rights...

Una visión poliédrica del actual presidente de los Estados Unidos, un personaje inclasificable, amamantado con mil ideas pero con una sola ideología: el «trumpismo», una mescolanza de improvisación, vacuidad, populismo y post verdad. Ramon Rovira construye en Yo, Trump una crónica implacable...