Títulos en Sociología

Peter F. Drucker may be best known as a writer on business and management, but these subjects were not his foremost intellectual concern. Drucker's primary concerns were community, in which the individual has status, and society, in which the individual has function. Here he has assembled selections from his vast writings on these subjects. This collection presents the full range of Drucker's thought on community, society, and political structure and constitutes an ideal introduction to his ideas.

Vivir sin jefes, trabajar desde la playa, ser tu propia marca… ¿La utopía de la generación online o la distopía de los algoritmos? Internet nos prometió un sueño: trabajar desde cualquier lugar, tener horarios flexibles y convertir nuestras pasiones en una profesión. Pero bajo esa...

Brought to you by Penguin. Economics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, neutral, exact. This urgent book exposes its true role: to convince us there’s no alternative to capitalism. We live in a world dominated by the dogma that austerity is necessary, unemployment natural, endless...

Here’s a secret: Hollywood insiders aren’t better at dating than the rest of us. They just have elite help. The age-old art of matchmaking meets Hollywood as Jaydi Samuels Kuba, founder of LJMatchmaking, takes us behind the scenes of her work as a matchmaker and date coach for the...

Presión en ellas. Dicha presión es la que consigue que la sangre circule por todo el cuerpo. Aunque la hipertensión arterial no puede ser definitivamente curada, existen una serie de hábitos de vida, que unidos a la acción de los medicamentos anti hipertensivos, y el ejercicio cardiovascular pueden llegar a controlarla de forma sustancial y evitar así sus grandes consecuencias. El exceso de presión en las arterias mantenida durante un periodo prolongado, de años y sin tratarse puede llevar a un gran número de complicaciones e incluso a la muerte.

Urgent and inspiring stories of rural Britain today, from the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author of Politics on the Edge Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as MP for Britain’s most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found...

El cerebro de mi hermano es un relato de la evolución de un padecimiento degenerativo en el seno de una familia. Recuerdos, emociones, temores y expectativas, el singular proceso de adaptación a lo impensable, el dolor de atestiguar la extinción de un ser querido, pero también la historia...

Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" (Law and Politics Book Review). Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head...

An eye-opening look at the relationship between students' majors and their entry-level jobs. Humanities majors are used to answering the question, "So, what are you going to do with that degree?" The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don't learn any useful skills for...

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal—that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools serving mostly poor, black kids. But it turns...

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: what's good for the rich is good for cities...

Discover the remarkable story of the African American soldiers who helped shape the history of the United States Army. Originally published in 1899, The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. Steward offers a powerful account of the courage, discipline, and achievements of the famed Buffalo Soldiers and other Black military units. Drawing on historical records and firsthand perspectives, Steward chronicles their service on the American frontier, during the Spanish-American War, and beyond while highlighting the obstacles they overcame in the face of discrimination.

Death teaches lessons most people spend a lifetime avoiding. In The Business of Goodbye, Jim L Dobbins shares a rare, unfiltered look into a profession most people truly never understand. Through years spent guiding families through loss, he discovered something unexpected–death has a way of clarifying life. With honesty, humor, and hard-earned perspective, Dobbins reveals the lessons learned not in moments of comfort, but in moments of finality. This is not a book about dying. It’s a book about living–while you still can.

Bloomsbury presents The Road Taken by Henry Petroski, read by Michael Butler Murray A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both...

La estructura de este libro es un zapping de la memoria y la observación. Las secciones que dan orden a los fragmentos aluden a una manera de habitar la Ciudad de México, todas ejercidas por el autor, quien sobrevivió para contarla. Así, "Vivir en la ciudad" describe escenas de la vida diaria, pasajes de la infancia del autor (las casas vacías de la colonia en la que creció, el último paseo con su abuela) en una ciudad de la que no queda más que la memoria personal y el cuento que con ésta se forja.

In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments", A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period.

On 22 May 2017, a bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of young fans leaving an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured. Saffie-Rose Roussos, aged eight, was the youngest victim to die in the attack. She had been at the...

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics - as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.