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El conocimiento es el cimiento de una sociedad críticaEn tiempos donde la desinformación se confunde con comodidad, este libro irrumpe con una propuesta audaz y necesaria. Su mensaje es claro: no podemos seguir educando ni viviendo de espaldas a la realidad. Con una voz lucida y provocadora, invita a replantear el sistema educativo y cultural, impulsando un cambio que responda a las verdaderas demandas de nuestro tiempo. Una lectura que inspira y genera conversacion, perfecta para un publico que busca reflexionar, cuestionar y actuar. Mas que un libro, es un llamado a la madurez colectiva; una obra que conmueve, incomoda y deja huella. Ideal para quienes creen que el conocimiento sigue siendo la herramienta mas poderosa para transformar el mundo.

Una puerta de entrada esencial al pensamiento de Simone Weil, con dos de sus ensayos más lúcidos sobre la libertad, la opresión y la violencia, acompañados por una introducción actual y accesible de Juan Evaristo, que invita a leer a Weil como una pensadora imprescindible para nuestro tiempo.Una de las pensadoras mas radicales del siglo XX, como nunca la habias leido.Simone Weil escribio con una lucidez implacable sobre la libertad, la fuerza y la injusticia, sin separar nunca el pensamiento de la experiencia. Esta antologia reune dos de sus textos mas impactantes, perfectos para quienes se acercan por primera vez a su obra: Reflexiones sobre las causas de la libertad y de la opresion social, un ensayo filosofico de sorprendente actualidad sobre las estructuras de poder y la condicion humana, y La Iliada o el poema de la fuerza, una lectura poderosa del poema homerico como simbolo universal de la violencia y su capacidad de deshumanizacion. Ambos textos comparten una idea central: que la fuerza, cuando domina la vida individual o colectiva, destruye no solo a los oprimidos, sino tambien a los vencedores. Weil nos invita a mirar esa fuerza de frente, sin ilusiones, y a preguntarnos que puede significar hoy resistirla, tanto en el plano politico como en el etico. La edicion se completa con una introduccion inedita del filosofo Juan Evaristo, que traza un puente entre el pensamiento de Weil y los dilemas contemporaneos, y nos recuerda por que esta autora incomoda y luminosa sigue siendo una voz insustituible.

Esta investigación pionera revela las sombras del tráfico de personas, un negocio de enorme crecimiento mundial para el que las vidas no importan, pero cada cuerpo cuenta.Para comprender los vínculos entre migracion y trafico de seres humanos, Barbie Latza Nadeau decidio investigar un mercado mundial multimillonario que se beneficia del tragico destino de personas desesperadas mientras los gobiernos invierten mas que nunca en el control de fronteras.Desde el Mediterraneo al canal de La Mancha, del rio Grande a Tailandia, cada persona, cada cuerpo en manos de los traficantes tiene un valor que pone en marcha la cadena de la explotacion humana, una cadena que vale miles de millones de dolares. Una cadena de longitud inconmensurable que se ha infiltrado en el mundo criminal hasta las mas altas esferas de las instituciones respetables, de la mafia italiana a los carteles, de los bancos a los gobiernos.

Una historia fascinante sobre la idea de igualdad y su evolución a lo largo de los siglos, desde sus raíces en la Antigüedad hasta la crisis que enfrentamos en el presente.En nuestro mundo proliferan

Nadie como Tocqueville (París, 1805 – Cannes, 1859) ha sabido explicar la grandeza de la democracia y, simultáneamente, el enorme riesgo de que los regímenes democráticos, obsesionados con la igualda

«Ni la euforia ni el escepticismo en relación con una nueva Europa ampliada pueden hacernos olvidar que Europa todavía no ha sido verdaderamente comprendida, entendida. Esta forma históricamente únic

La inteligencia sin elocuencia es impotencia, pero la elocuencia sin inteligencia es peor que el silencio.Neel Burton une filosofía y retórica para que tus ideas convenzan. Porque por más brillante que sea una idea, no vale si no se comunica; y la retorica pese a su mala fama es clave para lograr objetivos y frenar a los nuevos sofistas. Platon lo sabia: la verdad persuade mas cuando va de la mano de la retorica.Pensar como Platon y hablar como Ciceron parece dos libros en uno pensar y hablar, pero es mas que eso: explora la relacion estrecha, y a veces tirante, entre dos actividades profundamente humanas.Platon afino el pensamiento con preguntas que desarman falacias; Ciceron convirtio las buenas ideas en discursos que mueven a la accion. Este libro combina ambos mundos: te enseña a construir argumentos verdaderos y a presentarlos con claridad, emocion y estilo.Si no sabes pensar, te manipulan; si no sabes hablar, te ignoran.

Bridgerton is the runaway Netflix success that has captured the hearts and imaginations of its biggest ever global audience. Producers Chris Van Dusen and Shonda Rhimes have ripped up the Regency drama rulebook to create a series that speaks to a modern audience. Apart from the intense sexual chemistry, inspired casting and a lavish costume budget, what sets Bridgerton apart is the extensive use of location shooting. Step forward Bath: the Georgian architectural jewel gets to play many different parts of fashionable London. Bridgertons Bath takes you on a tour of all these locations from No.1 The Royal Crescent (the Featheringtons house on Grosvenor Square) to Abbey Green (Covent Garden) and the Abbey Deli (Modiste couturier) on Abbey Street. Bridgerton intersects with Jane Austens world at the Assembly Rooms where one of the early balls takes place, while the 18th-century Bath Guildhall also gets a place on the series dance card. A key character in the drama is Lady Danbury, played by Adjoa Andoh, and her grand mansion is Baths former Sydney Hotel, today the Holburne Museum. Gunters Tea Room was a celebrated London patisserie and in Bridgerton it can be found on Trim Street. Many Bath streets feature regularly, including Beauford Square, a place for regular carriage trips and the Royal Crescent, which in Series One, reverberated to the sound of galloping hooves as our heroine (or her stunt double) raced to stop a duel. The book includes a feature on how the series was filmed in the city, and includes a detailed map so you can follow your own Bridgerton Walking Tour of this beautiful city, which has more to offer besides.

New to Twitter and feeling a little confused? On first glance, all those half-conversations and unfamiliar symbols may look like gobbledegook. But its really very simple and this useful book is here to help.In straightforward, chatty text accompanied by amusing illustrations, popular tweeter and blogger Lynn C Schreiber helps you get the most out of Twitter. She demystifies the jargon (hashtags? Follow Friday? DMs? All explained here) and gives easy ways to find friends, gain followers, and have fun! The book also provides an insight into the all-important rules of Twitter etiquette, and the various applications you can use with Twitter to enhance your experience even more. Armed with the information in this book, youll become an assured and expert tweeter - in super-quick time!

In volume 1, Professor Verdon sought to identify what crippled social anthropologys original project, that of understanding sociocultural variability. He found its cause in a universal, Aristotelian cosmology that renders groups ontologically variable to their principles of social organization, by defining them in terms of behaviour regulation. In this second volume, he develops a cure to that cosmological malaise: to define groups outside all behaviour regulation, and to define a separate group for every type of activity (unifunctional groups). From these two new cosmological requirements he sets out to define all the main concepts of social anthropology in what he calls an operational language (defined with respect to anthropologys aims, not as entities with intrinsic anthropological attributes): groups, corporations, descent, territoriality, lineages, segmentation, sovereignty and so on.He then applies this language to translate classical ethnographies operationally. He first chose the most famous ethnographies of so-called segmentary lineage societies, the Nuer (Sudan), Tallensi (Ghana) and Tiv (Nigeria), and then added the Berbers from the Rif (Morocco), the Yao (Malawi) and Australian Aborigines. All those societies were described as having descent groups. Translated operationally, ONLY ONE of them retains descent groups (the Tallensi). This leads him radically to transform the ethnographic landscape of social anthropology. Where all ethnographers saw descent groups almost everywhere, he finds them to be rare occurrences, now replaced with clientelistic social formations.Overall, setting out to define a set of etic (objective) concepts, he discovers that this language actually yields much better emic approaches to social organization (an approach closer to the actors subjective experience).

Are we destined to merge with the machines weve created? What if the Singularity the moment of merger already happened? How would we know?The King and the Swarm argues that we already have. We did so via an always-on and increasingly omnipresent mesh of digital sensing points that spans the world, and of which you almost certainly have one in your pocket. The global transformation this has wrought reaches far beyond economics, reshaping politics, culture, sex, family, and even consciousness itself.

Fascism is back. This time no swastikas, Nazi flags, or deadly bureaucracy, but MAGA hats, right-wing extremist memes, and a triumphant fist held high. For the first time in modern history, far right parties in some European countries have won a larger share of the votes than the Conservatives and the Social Democrats.Fascism hollows out democracies from within. It starts with language, not tanks. With democratic elections, not a coup.But how do fascists mobilise citizens? How has fascism become normalised in Europe again? And how do we stop it?

The recent revelations regarding secret payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy werent the first time Irelands national broadcaster has found itself caught up in scandal.Shane Ross, author of #1 bestsellers The Bankers and Mary Lou McDonald, winds the clock back to examine RTEs history of broadcasting excellence alongside the accusations of corruption, waste and ineptitude it has faced along the way, while also considering what the future might hold for this formerly beloved institution.

Titanic represents a microcosm of the world in 1912. It was a mans world in many respects, across law, land ownership, voting rights, family structures and religious hierarchies. The stories we know about those involved that fateful night are as varied as the people aboard the ship, but many of them revolve around the roles and actions of the men.This new book from Melinda Ratchford delves into the world as it was for women in 1912, and presents a selection of womens stories, including a variety of women who travelled aboard Titanic, from rich to poor, and well-known to largely forgotten, and also stories of some women who didnt travel but whose lives were inextricably linked to the tragedy and changed forever. This collection of stories presents the lives of these women before, during and after the tragedy that irrevocably changed their world, and ours.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand and to write about with unflinching honesty. What emerges is a deeply personal, unsentimental, and often surprising account of life inside the brothel, where Becker explores not just the physical aspects of sex work, but the emotional, psychological, and social complexities that shape it.With frankness and literary insight, she recounts her encounters with clients, her growing self-awareness, and, most poignantly, the friendships and solidarity she finds among the other women who work there. Far from reducing sex work to cliche or voyeurism, Becker gives space to the quiet routines, shared laughter, private pain, and hard-won dignity of a profession often misunderstood and rarely written about from the inside.Part memoir, part sociological study, and wholly literary, La Maison challenges preconceptions about sex, agency, and femininity, offering a provocative and compassionate exploration of what it means to inhabit multiple identitiesas worker, writer, woman, and witness.

Marshall McLuhan, a pioneering media theorist, explored how media shape perception, society, and culture. His concepts, like the medium is the message and the global village, emphasize media as extensions of human senses that profoundly influence communication and social structures. He analyzed transitions from oral to print culture and the impact of electronic media on thought and interaction. This volume seeks global contributions applying McLuhans theories to AI, digital media, knowledge, creativity, and body-mind relations in todays networked world.In this volume, edited by Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan and Tobias Held, scholars from diverse fieldsmedia theory, philosophy, sociology, art, game studies, and moreare examining McLuhans enduring relevance in analyzing contemporary technological and cultural transformations.

Online und offline sicher und gesundElternsein gleicht heute oft einem Kampf gegen Windmuhlen. Die digitale Ubermacht durchdringt jeden Lebensbereich unserer Kinder und fuhrt zu einer zunehmenden Abhangigkeit von sozialen Medien und wachsenden psychischen Problemen. Nur wie kann ein gesunder und ausgewogener Umgang mit den modernen Technologien gelingen? In diesem pragnanten Handbuch zeigt die renommierte Psycholgin Jean Twenge, wie Eltern die Gefahren der digitalen Welt minimieren und ihren Kindern zugleich wichtige Lebenskompetenzen mit auf den Weg geben, um sie auf ein selbstbestimmtes Erwachsenenleben vorzubereiten.

Freya Indias writing is compassionate, gripping, and deeply psychological Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious GenerationComing of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today girls have to contend with those worries in a world of AR filters, TikTok plastic surgeons, dating apps, hook up culture, online porn, modern sex-positivity, profit-driven online therapy apps, direct-to-door medication and even fully customisable AI girlfriends. All personalised by algorithms to play on their innermost fears and insecurities. It is an onslaught of advertising, it is on portable platforms designed to be maximally addictive, and it is far beyond what any previous generation of girls have ever faced.Girls teases out and traces both technological and cultural shifts in the last decadefrom social media to shifting family structures, waning religious attachment and the collapse of communal spaces. And Girls exposes the sinister and rapid intensification and ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of girls and young women which leads to the loss of their authentic selvesa loss that corporations are all too ready to exploit.Girls is a personal journey and intimate portrait of girls today, in all their mystery and torment: one that captures the soul of the most complex and misunderstood generation so far, and that empowers them to see their lives through a different lens.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.