Resultados para "Angels" en Sociología

En la convincente crítica que aquí presenta, Martha C. Nussbaum argumenta que las teorías del desarrollo actualmente imperantes han producido políticas que ignoran nuestras necesidades más fundamentales de dignidad y respeto personales. Nussbaum ha trabajado durante los últimos 25 años en la elaboración y el perfeccionamiento de un modelo alternativo de evaluación del desarrollo humano: el llamado «enfoque de las capacidades». Ella y sus colegas parten de una pregunta sumamente simple: ¿qué es capaz de hacer y de ser cada persona?

We are all part of the circle of life; however most of us just go round and round each year until we die and fall off. To discover what else is possible, we need to find the way. Join Adrian Gilbert as he explains the circle, how to prepare for the journey, and what to look for along the way.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.

“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”—Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Poverty, by America “A work of grace . . . Both cleareyed and disturbing...

The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a “carefully observed journalistic account [that] widens our view of the modern ‘immigrant experience’” (The New York Times Book Review) as he closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as...