Resultados para "Perfect" en Política y ciencias sociales

Francisco del Pozo, juez en activo, nos enseña de forma amena y divertida los entresijos del estudio de unas oposiciones: cómo afrontarlas, cómo superar las diferentes etapas por las que pasa un opositor y las técnicas para llegar a buen puerto, es decir, para aprobarlas.

José Luis Alvite retrató recientemente a este autor del siguiente modo: "Desde luego ya no quedan muchos como él, que fue siempre eso que se llama un periodista de raza, es decir, un tipo eficaz en el trabajo y caótico en su biografía, uno de aquellos...

El audiolibro de la perfecta vacuidad, conocido en China como Lie zi (nombre del legendario maestro a quien se atribuye), es uno de los tres clásicos del taoísmo filosófico, junto al Libro del Tao o Tao te king y al Zhuang zi.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.

Un análisis provocador, lúcido y brutalmente honesto sobre el colapso de Occidente Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres cruzaban océanos en barcos de vapor, creían en Dios, en el Estado y en la ducha fría. No porque fueran espartanos, sino porque no tenían más remedio. Hoy, en cambio, somos...

¿De dónde surge el pensamiento conspiranoico? Para Noel Ceballos, la conspiranoia es un marco paranoico con el que enfrentarse a un mundo cada vez más complejo y caótico. Una fórmula mágica con la que reordenar la cacofoniá informativa cotidiana hasta dar con una narración satisfactoria. Pero las teoriás conspirativas actuales no son nuevas, sino meras actualizaciones de elaboradísimas falsedades o burdas mentiras - con apariencia de verdad - que llevan siglos circulando por las sociedades occidentales. 

Desde su nacimiento, en 1984, Kim Jong Un ha estado envuelto en mitos y propaganda, desde simples tonterías —supuestamente podía conducir un coche a la edad de tres años— hasta las sangrientas historias de los miembros de su familia que perecieron bajo su mando. Anna Fifield reconstruye el pasado y el presente del tirano, con acceso exclusivo a fuentes cercanas a él y su conocimiento único del país asiático para explicar la misión dinástica de su familia en Corea del Norte.

In this book, you'll learn St. Thomas Aquinas's unique powers of intellect and will, and how he can train us to perfect them. The bestselling author of The One-Minute Aquinas offers here a fully guided tutorial of exercises to perfect your intellectual powers of memory, understanding, logical reasoning, shrewdness, foresight, circumspection, practical wisdom, and so much more that lead to happier and holier lives.

You probably didn't click on this page by accident. You may well be feeling irritable, stuck in a continuous loop of exhaustion. Your child's bouts of crying have you at your wit's end. You feel that you have somehow failed as a parent. And you finally want to have some sense of normality in your life again. Don't worry. As early as tomorrow, your child will be drifting off and sleeping through the night. We have created Baby Sleep Solution, a series of audios that have been designed especially to help calm your little ones down and put them to sleep.

Social media is replete with images of 'perfection'. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’, don't try hard enough and you're slacking. Rosalind Gill challenges polarized perspectives that see young women as either passive victims of social media or as savvy digital natives. She argues the real picture is far more ambivalent.

Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology - the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University - Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us.

In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back, he realized that what he had in his possession was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex, sword ever made, which had been forged in seventh-century Northumberland by an anonymous swordsmith.

By the time he was 30, Syd Kessler was a millionaire many times over, the epitome of the poor kid making good. But inside him, a hollowness was taking hold, and later, in middle age, he fell seriously ill. In the dark days of a long recovery, Kessler explored the Kabbalah and the discoveries of quantum physics, developing a system of moral principles from the truths of how the universe began and operates. His set of principles - from Big Bang to Moral Cause and Effect to Selfless Selfishness to Closure and Energy - are revolutionary.

Dating is overwhelming. Whether you're navigating the intricate world of online dating, pining after an unrequited crush, or searching for "the one" around every corner, you've certainly felt the confusion and frustration that goes hand in hand with dating. But what if it didn't have to be that way? As one of India's top matchmakers, Sima Taparia has spent her entire career helping clients find their future spouses, and she's ready to share the wisdom she's collected along the way.

President Trump repeatedly declared that under his leadership the United States had finally become a great nation—free and democratic—while before him everything was in terrible shape. Yet his successor, President Biden, said exactly the same thing, only in the opposite sense.

Chase Myles can throw together a dinner party or redecorate a townhouse with jaw-dropping elegance. Followers scroll his Insta and see effortless workouts, exotic travel, and an adoring boyfriend. The world believes Chase is a style icon. The world is mistaken. Ethan Wells is actually the one who knows what to wear, what to eat, and how to do it but he's happy staying behind the scenes producing their hit LGBTQ show Myles of Style. When Chase walks off set just before the Pride live TV show that will make or break Ethan's career, Ethan thinks it's just another tantrum.

Adam Russell Taylor reimagines a contemporary version of the beloved community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. In the beloved community, neither privilege nor punishment is tied to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status, and everyone is able to realize their full potential and thrive.  

In 2021, YouGov/Bright Line Watch found that 47% of Democrats on the West coast and 66% of Republicans in Texas and the South supported breaking up the United States into new, regional unions. In this book, the author ties these trends to the current challenges facing the United States. We explore how a Constitutional amendment to form these new nations could work. Each nation would start with a copy of the existing Constitution, and still be able to cooperate on strategic goals through a new American Union.

La Tierra no es perfectamente redonda, pero la circunferencia creada por los hombres sí lo es. Lo malo es que cuando intentaban medir esa circunferencia inventada con su diámetro, salía un número irracional, un número desconcertante, el número pi. Otros...

A revelatory new look at the long and complex relationship between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same historic day—July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. In creating the Declaration of Independence, approved...