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Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic changes have driven rapid and ongoing shifts in patterns of pollution, human health, and rising sea level and temperatures.

5 de febrero de 1930. En medio de un torbellino político y social, cuando los ecos del fraude electoral aún retumban en el aire, Pascual Ortiz Rubio alza su mano en juramento para erigirse presidente de México. Sin embargo, al salir del Palacio Nacional, una ráfaga azota el vehículo en que se desplaza y una bala va a dar a la mandíbula presidencial. No es solo un atentado; es el estallido en torno al cual gira una trama más siniestra. Hurwitz es un enigma con raíces peruanas y judías. Ha deambulado por toda América Latina, sembrando semillas revolucionarias para el Partido Comunista.

Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. You'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few.

Why I Hate Israel: A Candid Account is a fresh look at the Jewish-Arabic Conflict in light of current trends in human rights laws and ethics. Priya Gandhi-Ganesh is particularly insightful in identifying troubling elements that are impediments to peace and human progress in the Middle East and on the global scene. Gandhi-Ganesh effortlessly draws together examples and anecdotes to highlight her points.

Bringing together quantitative and qualitative data, Proximity Politics shows that even in today's interconnected world, we are still profoundly influenced by what happens next door.

صدر هذا الكتاب عام 1998، ويضمُّ مجموعة من أهم مقالات الدكتور مصطفى محمود التي تتناول مظاهر التدهور القِيَمِي والأخلاقي الذي تشهده الحياة المعاصرة نتيجة التطورات الفكرية والاجتماعية والسياسية، وكيف تحوَّل المشهد المعاصر إلى العنف والدموية والصراخ والتشنُّج، وكيف تسبب كل ذلك في الشقاء والإرهاق الذي أصاب الأغلبية العظمى من الناس. ومن ناحية أخرى يُقدِّم تحليلًا للمشهد السياسي الذي تقوم أمريكا بإخراجه وتنفيذه لصالح أجندتها الاستعمارية، من دعمها للوجود الصهيوني في المنطقة، وتمويلها للتطرف والإرهاب والأيدي الخفِيِّة التي تعبث من وراء الستار.

"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." —Garry Kasparov "A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we can...

Whether or not we trace our families from beyond the shores of Britain, we British people deserve a better understanding of our shared past, and opportunities to explore and recognise the complexities and contractions of empire. Careless or wilful amnesia has allowed the British migration narrative to begin in the mid-twentieth century, with migrants from India, Pakistan and the Caribbean forming the foundation of present-day multicultural Britain. For people of colour the questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? often imply more than simple curiosity.

Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion. Providing a compelling account of the lives of 15 people with Tourette syndrome, it demystifies the seemingly irrational, purposeless and meaningless character of this behaviour. It demonstrates how attending to the spatial circumstances under which compulsive acts, like touching, ordering, and aligning objects take place, can produce valuable new insights to complement neuroscientific, psychiatric and psychological knowledge.

For readers seeking solutions to finally end the gun violence that kills tens of thousands of people each year in the United States— from a Harvard-trained trauma surgeon treating victims in Chicago If hope for ending gun violence can take hold in Chicago’s South Side, then it can take hold...

Llegar a pisar la Luna, alcanzar el Polo Sur, ser capaces de captar y reproducir la voz o poder mandar un correo electrónico desde Barcelona hasta un bar remoto en la selva de Borneo en pocos segundos son logros de la humanidad que tienen un denominador común: la voluntad del Homo sapiens para cruzar fronteras que a muchos congéneres les habían parecido infranqueables. La idea de frontera implica que hay un más allá de ella; también sugiere una diferencia entre lo conocido y lo ignoto, entre la seguridad de lo cierto y el miedo de la incertidumbre.

From clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of power, for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Long before writing existed, at the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, rulers pressed...

Young people worldwide face a grave crisis: the relentless assault on their innocence through normalized pedophilia, sex trafficking, forced prostitution, and ruthless violence. Countless children vanish into a vast, malevolent system, while many remain unaware or indifferent. Innocence Shattered exposes these dark realities, challenges the church to awaken from passivity, and calls readers to action.

Environmental justice recognizes that environmental benefits and burdens should be distributed fairly, and that the people making policy decisions should incorporate the views of those most often harmed: people of color, Indigenous populations, low-income communities, and those who are underserved and disenfranchised for other reasons such as age, gender, or disability. It encompasses not only traditional environmental issues like clean air and clean water, but also social issues such as employment, nutrition, and access to health care.

Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.

Americans are loud. Amsterdam equals sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Mexicans are lazy and Germans are boring, but punctual. Paris is romantic, Wuhan infectious, Ukrainians heroic, and New Zealand untouched.

Read by the author. This volume in Biblical Theology for Life series dives deeply into the topic of human violence. Before exploring what the Bible says about violence, Old Testament scholar Helen Paynter sets out the contours for the study ahead by addressing the various definitions of violence...

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.

Human history mirrors the history of climate change. Human origins, for example, can be traced to five million years ago when the climate of East Africa became progressively hotter and drier. This caused the lush tropical jungles to disappear and be replaced by arid plains and savannahs. Our pre-human ancestors learned to exploit those new ecosystems by gathering the seed-bearing grasses, nuts, and tubers that thrived in these semi-arid conditions. Also, by foraging in the heat of the day, proto-humans could minimize unwelcome contact with nocturnal predators.

Most of us have enjoyed walking on a bridleway at some time, but we rarely stop to think about how these old routes came to be. These ancient networks criss-cross the British countryside and are so familiar to walkers and riders that they have become almost invisible as we meander our way along them. From atop a horse and on foot, Tiffany Francis-Baker provides listeners with a new perspective on bridleways and a glimpse into their intriguing history.