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Una reflexión imprescindible que permita sentar las bases para pensar Medio Oriente con claridad: un escenario donde se entrecruzan nervios tan sensibles como la religión, la identidad nacional, el petróleo, el terrorismo y el fundamentalismo Para Maruan Soto Antaki, autor de Clandestino y Reserva del vacío, el propósito de este libro es pensar un mundo que se antoja distante, asomarse a una zona a la que debe parte de su identidad: Medio Oriente. La abundancia de opiniones en torno a Medio Oriente no ha resultado en una mejor comprensión de esa parte del mundo, ni mucho menos de la cultura árabe. Por el contrario, el ruido mediático ha alentado prejuicios, malentendidos, lugares comunes y sentencias morales. En este contexto, se vuelve imprescindible una reflexión más detenida, que permita sentar las bases para pensar Medio Oriente con claridad. En un escenario donde se entrecruzan nervios tan sensibles como la religión, la identidad nacional, el petróleo, el terrorismo y el fundamentalismo, es urgente establecer coordenadas precisas: ¿Qué es ser árabe? ¿Es sinónimo de islámico? ¿Es indisociable el islam del terrorismo? ¿Qué tan profundas son las raíces históricas de los conflictos? ¿Por qué la erupción del Daesh? ¿Por qué Siria es el epicentro de ese perpetuo terremoto?

Maruan Soto Antaki (Author), Bern Hoffman (Narrator)

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Ambedkar's Preamble: A Secret History of the Constitution of India: A Secret History of the Constitu

On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India was adopted formally and came into effect. Its preamble set out in brief the enlightened values it enshrined and hoped to engender. In a radical shift from mainstream constitutional history, this book establishes Dr B.R. Ambedkar's irrefutable authorship of the preamble by uncovering the intellectual origins of its six most central concepts-justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, dignity, and nation.Although Dr Ambedkar is universally regarded as the chief architect of the Constitution, the specifics of his role as chairman of the Drafting Committee are not widely discussed. Totally neglected is his almost single-handed authorship of the Constitution's Preamble, which is frequently and mistakenly attributed to B.N. Rau rather than to Ambedkar.This book establishes how and why the Preamble to the Constitution of India is essentially an Ambedkarite preamble. It is clear that its central concepts have their provenance in Ambedkar's writings and speeches. Through six eponymous chapters, this book unfolds the story of the six constitutional concepts. In doing so, it spotlights fundamental facts about modern Indian history, as well as Ambedkar's revolutionary political thought, hitherto ignored in conventional accounts.

Akash Singh Rathore (Author), Derek Denzil (Narrator)

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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower

In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States. He divides that evolution into four distinct periods, with each defined by the consistent increase in American power relative to other countries. His history of the four periods features engaging accounts of the major events and important personalities in the foreign policy of each era. Throughout, Mandelbaum highlights fundamental continuities in the goals of American foreign policy and in the way that policy was adopted and implemented. He portrays the United States, in its ascent, first as a weak power, from 1765 to 1865, then as a great power between 1865 and 1945, next as a superpower in the years 1945 to 1990, and finally as the world's sole hyperpower, from 1990 to 2015. He also presents three features of American foreign policy that are found in every era: first, the goal of disseminating the political ideas Americans have embraced from the first; second, the use of economic instruments in pursuit of the country's foreign policy goals; and third, a process for formulating policy and implementing decisions shaped by considerable popular influence. American foreign policy, as he puts it, has been unusually ideological, unusually economic, and unusually democratic.

Michael Mandelbaum (Author), Lyle Blaker (Narrator)

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The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power

It's time for America to get back in the international leadership game. What should our global strategy look like in an age of renewed great power competition? And what must America offer to a newly empowered developing world when we're no longer the only major player? In The American Imperative, international development expert Daniel Runde makes the case for building a new global consensus through vigorous internationalism and the judicious use of soft power. Runde maps out many of the steps that we need to take-primarily in the non-military sphere-to ensure an alliance of stable and secure, like-minded, self-reliant partner nations in order to prevent rising authoritarian powers such as China from running the world.

Daniel F. Runde (Author), Kent Klineman (Narrator)

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La constituyente

Crónica en primera persona del proceso constituyente chileno en el que participó el autor, best seller del sello, como uno de los 155 convencionales. Desde la emoción del momento de haber sido escogido como uno de los 155 convencionales que escribirían la nueva Constitución chilena, hasta el aprendizaje de cómo funciona, internamente, aquello que llaman “política”. El día a día de la convención constitucional es narrado sin tapujos por el escritor Jorge Baradit, y en su relato reconoce cada yerro, cada exceso de entusiasmo, cada dificultad que se presentó pero, también, el arduo trabajo realizado para conseguir de manera excepcional la primera Constitución redactada por ciudadanos comunes y corrientes.

Jorge Baradit, Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales (Author), Jorge Baradit, Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales (Narrator)

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Democracia, Controle e Corrupção: o caso da 'Máfia dos Auditores Fiscais' na cidade de São Paulo: 20

A tese de doutorado DEMOCRACIA, CONTROLE E CORRUPÇÃO –, defendida no final de outubro na PUC-SP pelo advogado e cientista político Adair Loredo, aborda a 'Máfia dos Auditores Fiscais' que atuavam na prefeitura de São Paulo. Com conclusões surpreendentes, o autor mostra que o grande esquema de corrupção se manteve em funcionamento sob controle de políticos e de seus apadrinhados.

Adair Loredo Santos (Author), Voz Sintética (Narrator)

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The Village Labourer 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill

Many histories have been written of the governing class that ruled England with such absolute power during the last century of the old régime. Those histories have shown how that class conducted war, how it governed its colonies, how it behaved to the continental Powers, how it managed the first critical chapters of our relations with India, how it treated Ireland, how it developed the Parliamentary system, how it saved Europe from Napoleon. One history has only been sketched in outline: it is the history of the way in which this class governed England. The writers of this book have here attempted to describe the life of the poor during this period. It is their object to show what was in fact happening to the working classes under a government in which they had no share. They found, on searching through the material for such a study, that the subject was too large for a single book; they have accordingly confined themselves in this volume to the treatment of the village poor, leaving the town worker for separate treatment. It is necessary to mention this, for it helps to explain certain omissions that may strike the reader. The growth and direction of economic opinion, for example, are an important part of any examination of this question, but the writers have been obliged to reserve the consideration of that subject for their later volume, to which it seems more appropriate. The writers have also found it necessary to leave entirely on one side for the present the movement for Parliamentary Reform which was alive throughout this period, and very active, of course, during its later stages. Two subjects are discussed fully in this volume, they believe, for the first time. One is the actual method and procedure of Parliamentary Enclosure; the other the labourers’ rising of 1830. Nowhere can the student find a full analysis of the procedure and stages by which the old village age was destroyed. The rising of 1830 is covered as well.

Barbara Hammond, Cole Bolchoz, James L Hammond (Author), Cole Bolchoz (Narrator)

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Hipocresía

Fiel a su estilo irónico y mordaz, Žižek recorre, en esta serie de textos políticos, los cimientos de las civilizaciones occidentales modernas. Spoiler alert: la conclusión es cínica. ¿Qué es lo que hace que la realidad sea soportable y podamos enfrentarla? 'Lo siento, pero la hipocresía es la base de la civilización. Los rituales y las apariencias sí importan. Si abandonamos las apariencias y enfrentamos la realidad, esta suele ser bastante horrible'. Si tuviera que imaginar la religión ideal para el capitalismo global, sería la que de manera irónica llamo budismo occidental. La lección básica es que no debemos involucrarnos en la realidad social por completo, que debemos aprender a refugiarnos en la paz interior. Ni siquiera intentemos comprender lo que sucede, solo resignémonos. Se trata de una espiritualidad vacía en el sentido de que no nos exhorta a cambiar nada. La estrella de Hollywood más decadente puede tener esta religión como simple fetiche.

Slavoj žižek (Author), Gustavo Dardes (Narrator)

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Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know

A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than thirty countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions against former Soviet republics. China has developed its own approach, including targeting private entities such as the NBA. And it's not just major powers: Japan and South Korea have sanctioned each other over WWII and colonial legacies; Saudi Arabia against Qatar because of differences over Iran; and France, Germany, and Norway against Brazil over the Amazon forest and climate change. In Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Bruce Jentleson-one of America's leading scholars on the subject-answers the fundamental questions about sanctions today: Why are they used so much? What are their varieties? What are the key factors affecting their success? Why have they become the tool of first resort for states engaged in international conflict? Jentleson demonstrates that examining sanctions is key to understanding international relations and explains how and why they will likely continue to bear on global politics.

Bruce W. Jentleson (Author), Peter Lerman (Narrator)

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The Practice & Theory Of Bolshevism

This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his meetings with Lenin, Trostky, and Gorky. It includes a chapter that was authored by Dora Black, educational theorist and feminist author, and Russell's spouse. This chapter was unfortunately removed in the second edition, which was issued after Dora and Bertrand divorced. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. In this rare one-of-a-kind audiobook adventure the listener is met with the unexpected nature of a grand literary trek. Here is an audio treat to startle the imagination, invigorate the mind, and touch the spirit of all who hear it. From the studios of veteran artists and producers who were amongst the very first to imagine that books might one day talk - first on tape and later in the digital realm. This audiobook is our gift to you - a group of collective artists who have made their production a life's work and joy. A true audio treasure!

Bertrand Russell (Author), Geoffrey Giuliano, The Copper Penny (Narrator)

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Die Polizei: Helfer, Gegner, Staatsgewalt: Inspektion einer mächtigen Organisation

Der Apparat im Staat. Die Polizei wird gebraucht und gefürchtet und ist immer wieder in den Schlagzeilen. Doch wie arbeitet und wirkt sie und wie ist ihr Verhältnis zur Gesellschaft?Der Rechtsanwalt Benjamin Derin und der renommierte Polizeiforscher und Kriminologe Tobias Singelnstein zeigen die strukturellen Probleme einer mit weitgehenden Befugnissen und einer Gewaltlizenz ausgestatteten Organisation. Dazu gehören mangelnde Fehlerkultur und Transparenz, Korpsgeist und Rassismus, aber auch Überforderung aufgrund einer wachsenden Zahl an Aufgaben, für die die Beamt:innen nicht immer angemessen ausgebildet sind. Zugleich sorgt die Polizei durch ihre Lobbyarbeit für Polarisierung und neigt zur Verselbstständigung. Die Autoren zeigen, dass die Polizei sich wandeln muss, wenn sie den gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen gerecht werden will und damit eine rechtsstaatliche Einhegung gewährleistet ist.

Benjamin Derin, Tobias Singelnstein (Author), Markus Krochmann (Narrator)

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Entscheidung in Kiew - Ukrainische Lektionen - Aktualisierte und erweiterte Neuausgabe (Ungekürzte L

Was macht die Ukraine aus? Erst mit der russischen Annexion der Krim entwickelte sich ein Bewusstsein für die Eigenständigkeit dieses Landes, das nach dem Willen der Aggressoren nun von der Landkarte verschwinden soll. Seit vielen Jahren ist Karl Schlögel in der Ukraine unterwegs, seine ukrainischen Lektionen von 2015 ergänzt er nun um einen großen Essay über den Krieg, der sich gegen die Idee der Freiheitlichkeit überhaupt richtet. Lemberg, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiew, Charkiw, Mariupol: All diese Namen, die sich nun mit Schreckensnachrichten verbinden, stehen eigentlich für eine offene, vielfältige Welt, die der Westen viel zu lange ignoriert hat. Wer wirklich wissen will, was in Europa auf dem Spiel steht, muss auf die Ukraine schauen.

Karl Schlögel (Author), Timo Weisschnur (Narrator)

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