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    de Jason Hickel ...
    Traducido por Clara Minsitral ...
    Series series Ensayo
    Nuestro planeta está en problemas. Pero, ¿cómo podemos revertir la crisis actual y crear un futuro sostenible? La respuesta es: DECRECIMIENTO. El mundo ha despertado por fin a la realidad del colapso climático y ecológico. Ahora debemos enfrentarnos a su causa principal. El capitalismo exige una expansión perpetua, que está devastando el mundo vivo. Sólo hay una solución que conducirá a un cambio ... Leer más

    $11,900 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Technology, Policy, and Inclusion

    An Intersection of Ideas for Public Policy

    Edición de Anjal Prakash, Aarushi Jain, Puran Singh, Avik Sarkar ...
    Series series Public Policy in India
    Technology, Policy, and Inclusion looks at the intersections between public policy and technology in India. It explores the barriers in instituting effective governance and development and examines how these can be mitigated through technological interventions in developing countries.Increased digitisation of the economy has added to the development challenges in India and issues such as exclusion ... Leer más

    Gratis

  • Cómo funciona el mundo

    Una guía científica de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro

    de Vaclav Smil ...
    Traducido por Francesc Pedrosa Martín ...
    Un sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro.«Si te preocupa el futuro y te enfurece que no se esté haciendo suficiente al respecto,<... ... Leer más

    $9,500 CLP

  • Weapons of Math Destruction

    How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

    de Cathy O'Neil ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword“A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial TimesNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Glo... ... Leer más

    $9,764 CLP

  • The AI Con

    How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

    de Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna ...
    A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think ... Leer más

    $20,019 CLP

  • Manifiesto Comunista

    de Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ...
    Ciento setenta años después de haber sido publicado por primera vez, el Manifiesto Comunista goza de una actualidad sorprendente. Obviamente sería necio no ver los enormes cambios producidos en el capitalismo durante todos estos años. Pero más necio aún es no ver la inmensa actualidad de las tesis expuestas aquí por Marx y Engels, indispensables para comprender el mundo actual y su dinámica.Basta ... Leer más

    $3,900 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

    de Edmund Morris ...
    Series series Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • The acclaimed author of Theodore Rex presents “a towering biography [and] brilliant chronicle” (Time) of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States.One of Modern Library’s 100 best nonfiction books of all time • One of Esquire’s 50 best biographies of all time“Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both ... Leer más

    $11,008 CLP

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    de Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Leer más

    $19,304 CLP

  • How the World Really Works

    The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

    de Vaclav Smil ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, ... Leer más

    $9,325 CLP

  • New Cold Wars

    China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

    de David E. Sanger ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon“[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American officials have grappled with dangerous developments in the post ... Leer más

    $5,349 CLP

  • Numbers Don't Lie

    71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

    de Vaclav Smil ...
    **"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author… Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."—Bill Gates, GatesNotesFrom the author of How the World Really Works, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world—exploring a wide range of topics ... Leer más

    $8,282 CLP

  • Communicative Figurations

    Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization

    Edición de Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter, Uwe Hasebrink ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers ... Leer más

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  • Voces sobre la investigación en la universidad

    Opiniones y propuestas sobre una función sustantiva

    de Liberio Victorino Ramírez, Willelmira Castillejos López 1 ...
    Una de las funciones sustantiva de la Universidad Autónoma Chaping0 es la investigación, entendida como la generación de nuevos conocimientos sobre problemas vinculados a la solución de grandes conflictos socioambientales, educativos y humanísticos en el medio rural mexicano. En este libro, valorando la diversidad de formaciones de los investigadores del Instituto de Investigaciones ... Leer más

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  • Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

    Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy

    de Kohei Saito ...
    Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx’s writingsKarl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world’s most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a “Promethean.” According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to dominate the natural world, in order to end material want and create a new ... Leer más

    $27,991 CLP

  • Planetary Health

    Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

    de Samuel Myers, Howard Frumkin ...
    Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ... Leer más

    $49,743 CLP

  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

    de Ezra F. Vogel ...
    No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist—the pragmatic, disciplined force behind China’s radical economic, technological, and social transformation. ... Leer más

    $18,288 CLP

  • Cambio climático. Acuerdos y contradicciones

    de Tania Chicaiza Villalba, Susana García Jiménez, Carlos Juan Núñez Rodríguez ...
    El libro Cambio climático. Acuerdos y contradicciones es el resultado del trabajo continuo que desde hace casi una década realizan la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana de Ecuador y la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco de México. Después de un intenso trabajo colaborativo que ha dado lugar a publicaciones, recepción de alumnos y alumnas, ciclos de conferencias y enriquecimiento ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Water

    A Survey

    Edición de Kai Wegerich, Jeroen Warner ...
    Series series Europa Politics of ... series
    This authoritative reference work gives timely information on the global politics of water. Readers will find case studies on a variety of complex water situations, from the Okavango River that flows through Angola, Namibia and Botswana, to the Euphrates-Tigris of the Upper Persian Gulf.With the current threat of climate change and increasing demand on water resources, the book gives valuable ... Leer más

    $74,157 CLP

  • The Central Legislature in British India, 1921–47

    Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj

    de Mohammad Rashiduzzaman ...
    The Central Legislature in British India 1921–47: Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj isan exceptional exposé of Colonial India’s highest legislative body. With its wealth of materials and in-depth description of the former Indian Legislature’s actual working, its political milieu and its institutional development, this book belongsto the larger genre of the British Indian narratives on the ... Leer más

    $103,647 CLP

  • Terrestrial Transformations

    A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature

    de Diane E. Austin, Mamadou Baro, Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, Anita Carrasco, Lisa L. Gezon, James B. Greenberg, Matthias Kowasch, Edward Liebow, Sarah K. Meltzhoff0, Aminata Niang1, Ravic Nijbroek2, Thomas K. Park3, Victoria Phaneuf5, Angela Storey6, Ylva Uggla7, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez8, Alaka Wali9, Casey Walsh0 ...
    Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings ... Leer más

    $30,084 CLP

  • Present Values

    Essays on Economics and Aspects of Indian Society

    de S. Subramanian ...
    This volume is about economists, economics, and issues of concern to Indian society. Some essays are expository, and some satirical. Together, they offer a commentary on the state of the discipline of economics today and on aspects of contemporary India’s society and polity.The volume affords insights into, among other things,- the pervasive influence of economists such as Kenneth Arrow and ... Leer más

    $40,630 CLP

  • Cornerstone at the Confluence

    Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century

    Edición de Jason A. Robison ...
    Signed on November 24, 1922, the Colorado River Compact is the cornerstone of a proverbial pyramid—an elaborate body of laws colloquially called the “Law of the River” that governs how human beings use water from the river system dubbed the “American Nile.”No fewer than forty million people have come to rely on the Colorado River system in modern times—a river system immersed in an unprecedented, ... Leer más

    $27,067 CLP

  • The Great Melt

    Comparing National Responses to the Global Crisis of Glacier Retreat

    de Azhar ul Haque Sario ...
    What happens when the world's frozen giants begin to disappear?This book takes you on a global journey. We explore a critical climate crisis. It's about melting glaciers. We see how different nations are responding to this challenge. We travel to the high Himalayas in Nepal to understand climate vulnerability. We visit Switzerland, a global hub for cryosphere science. Then, we go to Peru, where ... Leer más

    $5,324 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies

    Argentina in Comparative Perspective

    Edición de Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, Luis Schiumerini ...
    Series series Emerging Democracies
    Voting behavior is informed by the experience of advanced democracies, yet the electoral context in developing democracies is significantly different. Civil society is often weak, poverty and inequality high, political parties ephemeral and attachments to them weak, corruption rampant, and clientelism widespread. Voting decisions in developing democracies follow similar logics to those in advanced ... Leer más

    $51,170 CLP