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41) El maquiavelismo degollado: Por la cristiana sabiduría de España y de Austria Claudio Clemente S. J
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El maquiavelismo degollado, panegírico escrito por el jesuita Claudio Clemente en 1637, es mucho más que una curiosidad de la historia de las ideas políticas, representa en muchos sentidos la síntesis de la política del barroco; en él se conjugan las posturas más agresivas dirigidas a combatir el accionar «inmoral y anticristiano» de El príncipe de Maquiavelo, escrito en 1513. Así, desde la monarquía española, el imperio austriaco y el...
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In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very fabric of our lives-writing as a first responder, a reporter, a documentarian, and an activist-into art, literature, and at least one answer to the question of what the future holds.
Our normal isn't normal anymore.
The paradigm shift that global warming represents parallels a paradigm shift in how we process truth. Both deeply affect democracy.
Josh Fox has...
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Many people believe that globalization and its key components have made matters worse for humanity and the environment. Indur M. Goklany exposes this as a complete myth and challenges people to consider how much worse the world would be without them. Goklany confronts foes of globalization and demonstrates that economic growth, technological change and free trade helped to power a "cycle of progress" that in the last two centuries enabled unprecedented...
44) Power, Politics and People's Welfare: The Magnetron Technology – A New Window in Power Generation
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The book presents an admixture of treasured initiatives to make it a handy package:
- of vital tips on enduring social development;
- of inspiring stimuli for positive intellectual exploits;
- of delight to research and development (R&D) enthusiasts, environmentalists and the academia;
- of pointers to an exciting new field for exploration by corporate investors; and
- of good tidings on enhanced quality of life worldwide-
all carefully structured...
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When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative...
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This book presents analyses of the concepts of public health, sustainability and policy change. It describes stakeholder analysis and national health accounts frameworks in Gambia. The case study is the Sustainability Impact Assessment framework and its role in policy change in immunization systems.
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Este volumen comienza por examinar la historia de la ecología de Latinoamérica y el Caribe y su impacto en el desarrollo político. Continúa por explorar la idea de la naturaleza en la historia, una variable clave en el cómo las sociedades humanas interactúan con el medio ambiente, así como las actitudes hacia la producción y el consumo. Después hace una visión general de los temas principales en el estudio de las políticas ambientales:...
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Multiplication des ouragans. Disparition des glaciers. Prolifération des feux de forêt en Amazonie, en Australie et en Californie. Les désastres naturels font aujourd'hui partie intégrante de notre quotidien. À tel point que les nouvelles générations grandissent en sachant qu'au rythme o vont les choses, la Terre ne sera bientt plus habitable.
Mais un mouvement de transformation est en marche : celui de cette jeunesse, justement, qui lutte...
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As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he's a man on a mission, the founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, crisscrossing the country in a grassroots campaign to change the way we look at energy in this country. While pundits proffer false new promises of green energy independence, or flatly deny the existence of a problem, Hofmeister offers...
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Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate 'development', driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships. Written by a wide range of international scholars and activists, contributors...
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After the Sands outlines a vision and a road map to transitioning Canada to a low-carbon society. Despite its oil abundance, with no strategic reserves, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. There's no good reason for Canadians to use much more oil per capita than people in other sparsely populated, northern countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden-nations that use 27 to 39 percent less oil per person. In After the...
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In pursuit of economic growth, the United States and other developed countries are testing the tolerance of the natural world. The results include the loss of valuable ecosystems, global climate change, and the degradation of the planet's ability to support life. Journalist William Becker argues that our mission in the 21st century should be to fix what we have broken in the natural world and to enlist healthy ecosystems in our pursuit of economic...
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Dieses Buch führt den Leser unaufgeregt, doch mit klarer Haltung durch dieses existentiell wichtige Thema und erklärt, wie wir das Schlimmste noch verhindern können! Ein Hitzerekord jagt weltweit den nächsten, es herrscht extreme Trockenheit und die Wälder brennen großflächig von Alaska bis in die Tropen. Wir merken es alle: Der Klimawandel wird greifbar, er drängt sich uns von allen Seiten auf und ist nicht mehr abzutun. Das Wettergeschehen,...
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Cada vez se sabe más sobre los chimpancés, los bonobos, los gorilas y los orangutanes, y se ve más claramente lo mucho que se parecen a los niños humanos de dos a tres años. Gracias a organizaciones como Proyecto Gran Simio, son más los países que les dan una protección legal especial, hay más juristas dispuestos a defender los derechos de los simios, más peticiones de «habeas corpus» y más juicios en los que se debate la posible personalidad...
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Los Pandemials son los jóvenes que una vez superada la pandemia tendrán entre 10 y 26 años. Encontrarán sociedades marcadas por la inequidad, el fin de la meritocracia, la soledad, el automatismo digital, el agotamiento de recursos naturales, y diversas crisis ambientales que afectarán la vida en el planeta.
El covid-19 no solo agrava este panorama, que ya se perfilaba difícil de solucionar antes de la Crisis del 2020. Las simetrías puestas...
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Con frecuencia, la educación ambiental se ha asociado a los valores, aunque en muchos casos las distintas partes interesadas no tengan claridad sobre cuáles, por qué se incluyen unos y no otros o las implicaciones prácticas de asumir algunos de ellos. Para responder a tales cuestiones, este libro se ocupa del problema asociado a los valores bioéticos presentados tácitamente en la política nacional de educación ambiental en Colombia, en la...
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2021
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"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
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From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion-a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water and arable land. With all of the planet's easily accessible resource deposits rapidly approaching exhaustion, the desperate hunt for supplies has...
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In this timely book, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham debunks the myths that warp our current debate over energy, and offers new solutions to the real problems we face in America.
Drawing on the very latest thinking from experts in industry and academia, and his own experiences running America's Energy Department, he proposes a fresh approach to meeting our daunting energy threats. This book effectively answers how America and the world...
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Recientemente se comprobó que el hielo del Ártico podría llegar a desaparecer mucho antes de la mitad de este siglo por el aumento de la temperatura de la tierra.
Esta circunstancia, entre otros efectos, podría desencadenar en que el calentamiento global se acelere aún más puesto que este hielo es un gran depósito de metano -el gas de efecto invernadero más poderoso-, y sirve como espejo de la radiación del sol que entra al planeta. Este...
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