Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by Julio Scherer García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2012
En la plenitud de sus facultades como periodista y escritor, Julio Scherer García entrega un nuevo libro sobre el presidente en turno, que no sólo lo muestra "de cuerpo entero" sino que explica por qué durante el presente sexenio México ha vivido una de sus peores crisis, sumido en el...
O FILÓSOFO IRÔNICO
Coleção Filósofos do Nosso Tempo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 24, 2017
(A5, 131 P.)
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Ironia, talvez desconheçam muitos, não é sinônimo de sarcasmo. Por isso mesmo, nem de longe deve ela ser confundida com zombaria.
Sarcasmo e/ou zombaria são formas, mesmo que algumas vezes ditas cômicas, de humilhar e/ou ridicularizar alguém ou alguma ideia.
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Singapore Struggle for Success
Heritage Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Singapore: Struggle for Success is the definitive account of the events that resurrected Singapore—events that continue to shape the life of every Singaporean. Within a single generation Singaporeans underwent an extraordinary transformation. During three decades of violence and instability, Singapore...
El sentido del rumor
Cuando las redes sociales ganan a las encuestras
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Las redes sociales son el hábitat que estaba esperando el rumor para recuperar su hegemonía en el competitivo mundo de la información. Datos sin contrastar, fotografías manipuladas, afirmaciones fuera de contexto o simples y llanas mentiras se mezclan con estadísticas oficiales, mensajes institucionales,...
La herencia
Arqueología de la sucesión presidencial en México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 25, 2015
La herencia nos revelara los verdaderos mecanismos de sucesión que rigen la política mexicana, y como es que los políticos buscan ser elegidos no en las urnas, sino por el "gran elector".
Un libro para entender el funcionamiento y los mecanismos sucesorios del sistema político...
El secuestro de la democracia
Corrupción y dominación política en la España actual
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2011
En la primera década del siglo XXI, la Comunidad Valenciana ha atraído la atención de la opinión pública las amplias mayorías electorales del Partido Popular, la política de grandes y costosos eventos -con las consiguientes inversiones públicas- y por la notoriedad de las causas judiciales...
Fueron por todo
Historias secretas de la Argentina K
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2017
De la Ruta del dinero K a la muerte de Nisman pasando por el caso Ciccone y el escándalo de la Triple Fuga y el tráfico de efedrina, Fueron por todo es el apasionado y documentado producto de los largos años en que Wiñazki se dedicó tenazmente a correr el velo del poder kirchnerista para mostrarlo...
Días de ira
Una reflexión que clama a las conciencias ante una España en alarma
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2015
«Es este libro una reflexión urgente en tiempos que creo decisivos. Una visión personal de nuestra actualidad política en España y Europa. Estamos en un momento histórico en el que solo una cosa es previsible: que hechos imprevisibles producirán cambios profundos en nuestra realidad, con grave...
by Joelle Fiss
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
“So, what are you writing about?” I would be asked. “Err. It’s just a piece about transnational democracy, adapting Zionism to globalisation and this legal provision in the treaty of the European Union”, I would blurt uncomfortably. The inquirers would either chuckle in confusion, stare blankly...
The West Bank Wall
Unmaking Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
What is the purpose of the West Bank Wall? Since Israel began its construction in 2002, it has sparked intense debate, being condemned as illegal by the International Court of Justice. Israel claims it is a security measure to protect Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks. Opponents point to the serious...
by John Clifford Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Debating Federalism
From the Founding to Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Federalism—the division of authority between the states and the federal government—ranks among the most important and lasting political and constitutional contributions of the American founders. Since the founding, however, Americans have engaged in a perpetual argument over federalism’s proper...
Unending Crisis
National Security Policy After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In Unending Crisis, Thomas Graham Jr. examines the second Bush administration's misguided management of foreign policy, the legacy of which has been seven major--and almost irresolvable--national security crises involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict in...
Czars in the White House
The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
When Barack Obama entered the White House, he followed a long-standing precedent for the development and implementation of major policies by appointing administrators—so-called policy czars—charged with directing the response to the nation’s most pressing crises. Demonstrating that the creation...