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Entre lo político y lo operativo, este libro busca poner de relieve las principales dimensiones de la investigación cultural y sus alcances, integrando abordajes que van desde su conceptualización como insumo clave para la profesionalización y el diseño de las políticas sectoriales a la identificación de las implicancias y dinámicas que adquieren las iniciativas de investigación. A partir de los aportes de reconocidos especialistas se presentan...
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El entramado de la gestión cultural es un ámbito poco abordado por las organizaciones sociales. Todavía persiste en el imaginario social el concepto restringido de cultura que la asocia a las bellas artes. ¿Pero bajo qué rótulo se engloban las distintas acciones de comunicación popular, de arte callejero, de recuperación de la memoria, de protagonismo juvenil, de participación, de construcción de ciudadanía, etcétera, que emprenden día...
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El libro constituye un exhaustivo manual sobre el campo de la cooperación cultural elaborado desde la perspectiva de la gestión cultural. Contribuye con una revisión exhaustiva de ciertas categorías propias de la cooperación cultural contemporánea, además de aportar un relevamiento centrado en las miradas de gestoras y gestores en ejercicio. Sin convertirse—ni buscar hacerlo—en un libro teórico, aporta definiciones sintéticas y coordenadas...
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Revisión a la gestión cultural latinoamericana es un diálogo hecho libro, o un libro dialogado, producido entre dos gestores culturales latinoamericanos con una extensa trayectoria en el campo de la organización de nuestras culturas. Desde Chile a México, pasando por las más diversas geografías de nuestro continente, las conversaciones entre Roberto Guerra Veas y José Luis Mariscal Orozco tejen un entramado de sentidos desde donde revisar...
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" A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, read this book. What if there were a way to prevent criminal behavior, mental illness, drug abuse, poverty, and violence?...
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The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem...
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Winner of the National Book Award: Considered by many to be the definitive account of the Army-McCarthy hearings, Victor S. Navasky's Naming Names rivetingly documents one of the most shameful eras in American history Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee-including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller-award-winning author Victor S. Navasky...
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Anne Phillips is Professor of Political and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Politics of Presence andWhich Equalities Matter?
Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority...
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Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country's evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views. Filled with practical ideas and innovative strategies honed from the author's work with over 1000...
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Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justification for German expansionism and as evidence of Aryan superiority. In the minds of many Americans, further German aggression could be prevented only if the population's faith in its moral and cultural...
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This book maps three waves of nativist populism in the post-war era, emerging into contemporary Neo-Nationalism. The first wave rose in the wake of the Oil Crisis in 1972. The second was ignited by the Collapse of Communism in 1989, spiking with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The third began to emerge after the Financial Crisis of 2008, soaring with the Refugee Crisis of 2015. Whether the Coronavirus Crisis of 2020 will lead to the rise of a fourth wave...
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An examination of how America's colleges have become an intellectual hell on Earth for anyone who wishes to think rationally and seek truth and wisdom, as well as a plan for how young citizens can claim and safeguard the learning and heritage to which they are entitled.
From safe-spaces and trigger warnings, to grievance studies and neo-Marxist indoctrination, to sexual degeneracy and hook-up culture, to student loan indentured servitude, to useless...
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The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in American history-and they aren't going away any time soon. They are, on average, whiter, wealthier, and more conservative than younger generations. They dominate cultural and political institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate. Generational conflict, with Millennials and Generation Z pitted against the aging Boomer cohort, has become a media staple. Older and younger...
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National Review senior writer David Harsanyi explains why Europe is coming apart at the seams and we should not adopt their ideas to address America’s problems.
Europe has been declining under the weight of its antiquated institutions, economic fatigue, moral anemia and cultural surrender. Yet American politicians, technocrats, academics, and pundits argue, with increasing popularity, that Americans should look across the Atlantic for solutions...
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Mohandas K. Gandhi opposed the 1947 partition of British India that created two independent states of India and Pakistan, as he believed that partition politics, rooted in the psychology of othering, would turn South Asia into a near permanent conflict zone. His apprehension was not without basis. The psychology of othering that engendered partition continues to manifest itself in multiple ways, including, but not limited to, interstate wars and communal...
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Since his election in 2012, Ted Cruz has refused to go along with the established way of doing business in Washington, becoming a voice for millions of Americans frustrated with governmental corruption and gridlock. In this, his first book, Cruz reveals how Americans can take back their country, and start moving forward.
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La ville inclusive: dans les pas de Caroline Andrew is a festschrift in honour of this researcher's exceptional contributions, which follow a common thread-the inclusive city. Her interests extended from population studies to politics, with an emphasis on municipal governance, particularly through her interest in the influence of various "equity-seeking groups," an expression she coined.
In this volume, specialists in urban studies offer their own...
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"Este libro constituye el primer estudio riguroso que se elabora en la provincia del Carchi sobre el perfil del turista. Por ello, esta obra se convierte en una herramienta básica para el diseño de estrategias de desarrollo turístico y diseño planificado de la gestión en la provincia. Toda autoridad relacionada con el ámbito turístico debe conocer este documento, para así tomar las decisiones más acertadas que permitan fomentar el turismo...
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Americans have been forced from their homes. Their jobs have been outsourced, their neighborhoods torn down to make room for freeways, their churches shuttered or taken over by social justice warriors, and their very families eviscerated by government programs that assume their functions and a hostile elite that deems them oppressive. Conservatives have always defended these elements of a rooted life as crucial to maintaining cultural continuity in...
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