Pensando a Allende

"Estos ensayos no son una indagación sobre el pensamiento de Allende, ni sobre su gobierno, sino de cómo la coalición política gobernante modeló y opacó tras su muerte su figura, para mantener los consensos con la derecha, los antiguos golpistas y los centinelas del mercado. Una segunda área de investigación, extensa y detallada estudia y analiza en profundidad las circunstancias de su muerte"--Página 18.

This work first appeared fifty years ago, creating a whir of controversy and shock -- and quickly becoming a bestseller. El segundo sexo, the book that would pronounce to the world that a woman is neither an essence nor a destiny and that oppression has a contingent status, slowly became the anthem for the new feminism. A vital book for every new generation of women.

This is the Spanish edition of "Growing Better Cities". The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world's total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus. As a result, more and more people are attempting to...

En agosto de 1962 el Comandante del Ejército de Colombia, dispuso la traducción y adaptación a español del manual del Manual FM 2210 del Ejército de Estados Unidos, el cual contiene algunos aspectos relacionados con la conducción de los hombres dentri y fuera del campo de combate. Posteriormente esa tradución fue objeto de nuevas adaptaciones a la realidad militar colombiana, pero mantuvo la esencia de su estructura y los ejemplos de liderazgo en situaciones difíciles de operaciones militares. Aunque a primera vista este texto parecería ser un documento técnico de aplicación...

This book on Social Intervention and Gender deals with the little explored area of Social Pedagogy and Gender Studies. Starting from an exposure on the so-called ‘Gender Studies' it deals with topics like socialization and gender stereotypes, clearly emphasizing the indispensable task of education; aspects of the gender inequalities in the world of work and in the phenomenon of migration; the situation of women victims of social exclusion and of the gender violence, to which are included several experiences from socio-cultural animation and value education for equality. A specially...