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"Do you think mainstream America needs to find its voice? If so, you're not alone. The country is under attack by extremists at the fringes who put ideology before sanity and stoke division for their own gain. They are robbing America of its common sense and denying empirical truths, and we're all suffering the consequences."--Publisher marketing.
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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession-but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA-whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account...
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"What did it mean to be an African subject living in remote areas of Tanganyika at the end of the colonial era? For the Kaguru of Tanganyika, it meant daily confrontation with the black and white governmental officials tasked with bringing this rural people into the mainstream of colonial African life. T. O. Beidelman's detailed narrative links this administrative world to the Kaguru's wider social, cultural, and geographical milieu, and to the political...
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In Western Civilization, the arts embody the eternal battle between good and evil, and through understanding the arts, we can address the political issues that plague us. Far from being museum pieces, simple recreation, or tales and artifacts from the past, the arts should be seen at the wellspring of our politics, and in particular in public policy debates. They are actually the reason we have public and foreign policy in the first place. In an age...
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In her new book, The Truth About Obamacare, Sally C. Pipes-president of the Pacific Research Institute and an acknowledged expert on health care reform-reveals what Democrats in Congress and President Obama don't want you to know: Obamacare is even worse than most critics suspect. Debunking the myths that the current administration has touted, Pipes shows exactly what the new health care law will mean for you, your family, your doctor, and your wallet....
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LA MEJOR HISTORIA DE LAS LUCHAS POR EL PODER EN ESPAÑA.
Examinar cómo el poder se ha configurado y consolidado en un territorio es siempre una manera de mirar el pasado, pero también una forma de entender el presente de ese espacio geopolítico. A partir de esta premisa, José Luis Villacañas explora en esta penetrante obra el ejercicio del poder en tierras hispanas a lo largo de su historia, desde los visigodos hasta nuestra época. Para ello,...
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An astonishing graphic novel that brings Chomsky's political analysis to bear on real people's stories on the frontlines of America's struggle for economic justice and human dignity. The Instinct for Cooperation innovatively balances those real-life stories of struggle with conversations the author has had with Chomsky on how best to understand them. Although the themes are wide-ranging, this book is ultimately about the importance and need for spaces...
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The rise of the Internet has challenged traditional concepts of jurisdiction, governance, and sovereignty. Many observers have praised the Internet for its ubiquitous and "borderless" nature and argued that this global medium is revolutionizing the nature of modern communications. Indeed, in the universe of cyberspace there are no passports and geography is often treated as a meaningless concept. But does that mean traditional concepts of jurisdiction...
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En Política cultural y desacuerdo, Alexandre Barbalho propone salir del terreno conocido, e incluso autocomplaciente, para experimentar la cultura como desacuerdo. La incomodidad que genera la propuesta es acorde al tamaño del desafío que debemos enfrentar en la actualidad: construir nuevas maneras de vincularnos y estar juntos/as pospandemia Covid-19. Es cierto que la cuestión relativa a la necesidad de "sacudir" el campo cultural es anterior...
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Food nourishes the body, but our relationship with food extends far beyond our need for survival. Food choices not only express our personal tastes but also communicate a range of beliefs, values, affiliations and aspirations-sometimes to the exclusion of others. In the media sphere, the enormous amount of food-related advice provided by government agencies, advocacy groups, diet books, and so on compete with efforts on the part of the food industry...
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Weltweit zählt die Freimaurerbewegung sechs Millionen Mitglieder. In jüngster Zeit sind sie aufgrund populistischer Romane als Weltverschwörer wieder in aller Munde. Und doch kaum jemand weiß, woher sie stammen, wer sie sind, und was sie wirklich tun. Tom Goeller, selbst Freimaurer, befasst sich nicht nur mit den Ursprüngen der philosophischen Vereinigung, die sich teils begründet, teils spekulativ auf die mittelalterlichen Bauhütten zurückführen...
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Corren tiempos de un implacable avance de nuevos fascismos y el odio, entendido no como una pasión homogénea, sino como un condensador de afectos diversos, cumple una función clave en su desarrollo cotidiano, en su injerencia en diferentes ámbitos de la vida social. El odio lleva al límite los pactos discursivos, las formas de relación social, los protocolos de la vida civil y las reglas de lo democrático.
Gabriel Giorgi y Ana Kiffer analizan...
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En el campo de la cultura, se dice que los que hacen no reflexionan y los que reflexionan no hacen. Esta disociación entre los responsables de la gestión cultural y los académicos se convierte en un obstáculo para que la cultura funcione no sólo como un espacio de trabajo, sino también de intervención y compromiso social. En esa área cada vez más afianzada, no se pueden elaborar políticas sin saber a quiénes afecta la exclusión social...
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El profesor Antonio Albino Canelas Rubim es un intelectual con una extensa y rica trayectoria académica, un comprometido militante político y cultural, y fundamentalmente un generoso maestro de varias generaciones que nos hemos dedicado al estudio de la comunicación y de las políticas culturales.
Comunicación, cultura y políticas culturales reúne textos de la producción de los últimos veinte años del trabajo de Canelas Rubim en torno a los...
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Este libro ilustra cómo se ha implementado la política pública de los Planes de Salvaguardas en la etnia kággaba. En el Caribe colombiano, los kággaba, al igual que otros pueblos serranos, fueron identificados por la Corte Constitucional de Colombia en alto riesgo de extinción física y cultural a causa del conflicto armado y otras expresiones de violencia. La política pública está destinada a garantizar la atención, protección y salvaguarda...
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The backlash against globalization and the rise of cultural anxiety has led to considerable re-thinking among social scientists. This book provides multiple theoretical, historical, and methodological orientations to examine these issues. While addressing the rise of populism worldwide, the volume provides explanations that cover periods of both cultural turbulence and stability. Issues addressed include populism and cultural anxiety, class, religion,...
17) The real Romney
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From the investigative reporters who have tracked his career for years comes a riveting, no-holds-barred biography of Mitt Romney, the early frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president.
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The dismantling of "Understanding Canada"-an international program eliminated by Canada's Conservative government in 2012-posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government's diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada's borders. The...
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Los escritos que agrupa La comunidad futura forman un arco que se abre con el brevísimo auge y la dilatada decadencia de un hotel en Villa Ventana, con gusto a metáfora sobre el país y que parece darle la razón a Lévi-Strauss en eso de que en América se desconoce lo antiguo, porque se pasa de lo lozano a lo decrépito sin transición, un tremendo matiz que acerca el asunto de esta historia a la del hotel de El resplandor de Stephen King y Kubrick,...
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