Resultados para "Gilbert" en Política y ciencias sociales

Sophie Gilbert identifica un punto de inflexión a finales de los 90 y principios de los 2000, cuando la energía del feminismo de tercera ola se desplomó y entramos en un periodo regresivo de hiperobjetivación, sexualización e infantilización de la mujer. En este audiolibro explora el lado más oscuro de la nostalgia, centrando su aguda mirada analítica en los objetos culturales más reveladores del siglo XXI, en la música, el cine, la televisión, la moda, el periodismo sensacionalista y más.

Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of a health-care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients.

Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment.

Ronnie Gilbert had a long and colorful career as a singer, actor, playwright, therapist, and independent woman. Her lifelong work for political and social change was central to her role as a performer. Raised in Depression-era New York City by leftist, working-class, secular Jewish parents, Gilbert is best known as a member of the Weavers, the quartet of the 1950s and '60s that survived the blacklist and helped popularize folk music in America.

Après un demi-siècle d’une carrière hors norme, Gilbert Collard nous révèle les coulisses parfois cocasses, parfois dramatiques, de plusieurs affaires retentissantes dans lesquelles il a joué un rôle crucial. Ainsi, grâce à ses notes et une mémoire précise, il décortique l’affaire Ranucci, la tuerie d’Auriol, le procès du général Aussaresses – l’ancien des services spéciaux qui fut l’un des tous premiers à avouer la torture en Algérie , ou encore celle de Laïd Moussa, l’assassin assassiné, celle des " bébés échangés" et enfin celle du Grand-Bornand...

An inside look at sexual practices in medieval England. Were medieval women slaves to their husband's desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get...

Dive into a riveting exploration of conspiracy theories, hidden historical events, and little-known facts that challenge the narratives we’ve been taught.

In Michelle Obama 2024, filmmaker Joel Gilbert does a deep dive into the life of the most popular woman in America and reveals one game-changing detail after another. Gilbert’s investigative journey takes him from Chicago to Princeton to Washington to Martha’s Vineyard and beyond. Along the way, he discovers that Michelle has created a cynical, highly effective false narrative of her life story based largely on gender and race.

Martin Gilbert presents a comprehensive look into the series of decisions that helped shape this particular course of the war, and the fate of millions of people, through his eminent blend of exhaustive devotion to the facts and accessible, graceful writing. Through firsthand accounts by escaped Auschwitz prisoners, Gilbert reconstructs the span of time between Allied awareness and definitive action in the face of overwhelming evidence of Nazi atrocities.

This accessible 28-day program of meditation and mindfulness exercises offers a powerful practice to promote personal growth, kindness, and connection to your authentic self. Amanda Gilbert introduces the traditional Buddhist heart practices known as the brahma-viharas - loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. With each practice, you will learn how to be more resilient in the face of common stressors and triggers in everyday life

On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a man. Newburgh's enemies cited his flamboyant appearance, defiance of military authority, and seduction of soldiers as proof of his low character. His opponents claimed that these supposed crimes against nature translated to crimes against the king. In Vicious and Immoral, historian John McCurdy tells this compelling story of male intimacy and provides an unparalleled glimpse inside eighteenth-century perceptions of queerness.

On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a 17-year-old Black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the executioners flipped the switch, Willie screamed and writhed as electricity coursed through his body. But Willie Francis did not die. Having miraculously survived, Willie was informed that the state would attempt to execute him a second time within a week.

„Zagadki Boga dają więcej satysfakcji niż rozwiązania człowieka” – G.K. Chesterton. „Obrona wiary” to zbiór publicystyki G.K. Chestertona. Lekkie pióro, ciepły humor i intelektualna przenikliwość sprawiają, że pisarz ten cieszy się niesłabnącą popularnością. Eseje zamieszczone w zbiorze traktują zarówno o rzeczach poważnych, jak z pozoru błahych. O każdej Chesterton ma do powiedzenia coś interesującego, umie bowiem spojrzeć z nieoczekiwanej perspektywy, jaką daje mu wiara chrześcijańska.

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe “Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream...

„Z góry i bez trudu można zgadnąć, jakie będą błędy ciemnych mas. Czego nikt nie zdołałby przewidzieć, czego nie wyśnilibyśmy w sennym koszmarze, czego nie spłodziłaby najbardziej chora wyobraźnia – to błędy ludzi świetnie wykształconych” – G.K. Chesterton. „Obrona rozumu” to wybór esejów G.K. Chestertona. Wybitny angielski pisarz z typowym dla siebie błyskotliwym humorem, czasem nabierającym cech humoru czarnego, opisuje przejawy współczesnego sposobu myślenia, wykazując, że są to w istocie przejawy bezmyślności.

„Biblia mówi nam, abyśmy kochali naszych bliźnich, a także naszych wrogów, prawdopodobnie dlatego, że to przeważnie ci sami ludzie” – G.K. Chesterton. W tekstach pełnych humoru i pogodnego zdrowego rozsądku Chesterton odnosi się do wielu współczesnych spraw. Zwyczajne zdarzenia, informacje w gazecie albo listy czytelników służą mu do ukazania, że codzienność, nad którą się nie zastanawiamy, kryje całe pokłady znaczeń, jakich się nie domyślamy.

"Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them 'The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females.'"

"Manalive" (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the "holy fool", such as in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" and Cervantes' "Don Quixote".