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Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University. His books include A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem (Princeton). Robert O. Keohane is professor emeritus of international affairs at Princeton University. His books include After Hegemony (Princeton). Sidney Verba (1932–2019) was the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and research professor of government at Harvard. His books include...
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The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much loved by students, professors, and general readers. Berger aligns sociology in the humanist tradition-revealing its relationship to the humanities and philosophy-and establishes...
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La planificación urbana es un campo que aborda el diseño, desarrollo y gestión de las ciudades y áreas urbanas. En un mundo en permanente crecimiento y urbanización, esta disciplina se vuelve cada vez más importante para garantizar que las ciudades sean habitables, sostenibles y eficientes en el uso de los recursos.
La rápida urbanización y la concentración de población en las ciudades presentan desafíos como la expansión descontrolada,...
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A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks.
There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazing stories who take your breath away with their dirty tricks and sheer brazen effontery. How do they get away with it?
Written by bestselling author Matthew Benns, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a rollicking rollcall of all the worst and most outrageous scammers...
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Get the Summary of Rob Henderson's Troubled A Memoir of Foster Care Family and Social Class in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class" by Rob Henderson is a poignant narrative that chronicles his journey from a turbulent childhood through the foster care system to academic success at Yale and beyond. Henderson's story begins with the traumatic memory of his mother's...
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With All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O'Rourke once again landed on best-seller lists around the country, confirming his reputation as the pre-eminent political humorist of our time. Attacking fashionable worries-all those terrible problems that are constantly on our minds and in the news, but about which most of us have no real clue-P. J. crisscrosses the globe in search of solutions to today's most vexing issues, including overpopulation, famine,...
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Higiene, salud y ambiente en perspectiva histórica: Cali a comienzos del siglo XX, estudia las características relativas al panorama higiénico y sanitario de la realidad nacional y regional del Valle del Cauca, a partir de un ejercicio historiográfico que abarca diferentes momentos históricos, para luego situarse, con especial énfasis, en el análisis del contexto urbano caleño en el período comprendido entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos...
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Get the Summary of Stephanie Land's Class in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples...
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Esta propuesta-que representa una mirada alternativa-interpreta una visión geográfica que da prioridad a los procesos y efectos multidimensionales de la innovación en pro del buen vivir. El principal objetivo de esta investigación ha sido el de establecer una metodología y su respectiva aplicación, para determinar el nivel de innovación territorial, desde la perspectiva de la Vida Territorial Sostenible (en adelante VTS) para los departamentos...
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Contemplado desde fuera, el paisaje chino adquiere a veces rasgos grotescos: una tierra de millonarios sin escrúpulos y burócratas implacables destinados a gobernar la economía global o un Goliat lastimoso infestado de corrupción y al borde del colapso. No parece haber una perspectiva equilibrada. Lo que apenas vemos es cómo la gente (ricos y pobres, señores y súbditos) se amolda o se reinventa mientras la sociedad cambia a un ritmo vertiginoso....
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"Y sin embargo se mueve", habría murmurado Galileo Galilei tras pronunciar su discurso abjurando de la idea herética del movimiento de la Tierra alrededor del Sol. Casi cuatro siglos después, el mundo está en pleno movimiento.
Si todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire, es porque el movimiento se convirtió en el elemento rector de la época moderna. ¿Cómo podemos entender el actual desplazamiento de personas, objetos e ideas? ¿Qué significan...
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A New Kind of Dialogue is a landmark in understanding the pervasive challenges of modern society.
It is a serious but easy read, written as a first-hand narrative that encourages dialogic thinking.
This is the story of how a new kind of Dialogue was conceived by the author and theoretical physicist David Bohm, and their eight years of participatory research until Bohm's death in 1992. Their seminal paper, "Dialogue - A Proposal", laid the foundation...
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The largest-ever sexual survey of American women Bigger by far than the Kinsey Report or any other sexual study of American women, the Cosmo Report is a landmark work about female behavior. The report is based on the responses of more than one hundred thousand readers of Cosmopolitan magazine to a questionnaire about their sexual habits and preferences. But what makes the book more than a mere set of statistics-however revealing-is that many of the...
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The story of a fish
Imagine a fish swimming in a small aquarium. Get the fish out, put it on the bottom. As the fish gasps for air, as well as, jumping around, you think, "It's funny how the fish behaves". The fish makes even bigger leaps, snaps even more energetically. They say, "There is something wrong with him." The fish is moving even more noticeably! You decide, "He has behavioral disorders, he needs therapy."
The only thing the fish needs is...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree...
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Lee Siegel, author of Falling Upwards, Not Remotely Controlled, and Against the Machine delivers a provocative critique of modern lightness and frivolity, and a timely guide to being serious in an unserious age. In the vein of The Culture of Narcissism, Shop Class as Soulcraft, and How Proust Can Change Your Life, Siegel offers a revelatory look at how a serious bearing is vital to accomplishing any worthwhile goal in an era increasingly defined by...
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While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution.
Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain. Using...
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Una de las principales tendencias contemporáneas en el manejo del territorio, sobre todo en la región latinoamericana, se ve expresada en la dedicación de grandes áreas a un solo cultivo, así lo expresa el escritor y político cubano José Martí, para quien la dependencia de un pueblo a un solo producto acarrea consecuencias negativas que se ven reflejadas en las condiciones sociales y en su medio físico natural. En el marco de explotación...
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Get the Summary of Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman's White Rural Rage The Threat to American Democracy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman delves into the political and cultural transformation of rural America, particularly focusing on the shift of rural white Americans towards the Republican Party and the implications for democracy....