Categoría: Librería
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land **A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week‘s 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle‘s 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017** «A devastating read…For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment…
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Listen, Liberal: or, what ever happened to the party of the people?
With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away from its working-class roots. Financial inequality is one of the biggest political issues of our time: from the Wall Street bail-outs – where bankers still…
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and…
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, «white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,» she argued, «everyone…
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America?s relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony…
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world―from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his…
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Obras
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en BiografíasSimón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Ponte y Palacios Blanco, conocido como Simón Bolívar; Caracas, 24 de julio de 1783-Santa Marta, 17 de diciembre de 1830) fue un militar y político venezolano, fundador de las repúblicas de la Gran Colombia y Bolivia. Fue una de las figuras más destacadas de la emancipación americana…
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De Gaulle: the man who defied six US Presidents
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After watching a D-Day film, do youwonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country? General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt insisted they not be told the date of the invasion because he intended to occupy France and open the country up…
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Lecciones sobre la historia de la filosofía política
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en EnsayoJOHN RAWLS El objetivo de las lecciones de Rawls era, según él mismo escribió, «distinguir los elementos fundamentales del liberalismo como expresión de una concepción política de la justicia cuando éste es contemplado desde dentro de la tradición del constitucionalismo democrático». Para ello, examina las diversas corrientes que configuran las tradiciones liberal y democrática constitucional,…
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Memorias de Simon Bolivar y de sus principales generales
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en Biografías«De cualquier manera, no es un libro aconsejable para regalarle a Chávez en la próxima Navidad.» —»Revista Semana», Luis Fernando Afanador, Colombia «El libro del general Ducoudray es un sólo sobresalto de comienzo a fín […]. La traducción de este libro al español es un aporte importante, y pasa a formar parte de la batería…