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Moisés Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and to the clash between those forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it. He concentrates on the three “P”s - populism, polarization, and post-truths. All of which are as old as time, but are combined by today’s autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways. Power has not changed. But the way people go about gaining it and using it has been transformed.

In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naím explains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world.

For centuries charlatans have been bamboozling victims. But today, charlatanry is more lucrative and global than ever. Using the power of digital technology, our age’s charlatans have spun a worldwide web of exploitation on an unprecedented scale. In Charlatans, global affairs experts Moisés Naím and Quico Toro investigate how charlatans fool us and why they’ve become so influential today. They argue that modern charlatans exploit the same weak points in human cognition as the snake-oil salesmen of the old West.

Conjure, also known as Hoodoo or Rootwork, is an old, powerful, and increasingly popular system of North American folk magic. Conjure's roots derive primarily from West and Central African spiritual traditions, but it has also been influenced by Christianity, Jewish mysticism, and Native American practices. Hoodoo Sen Moise has been studying this tradition and working with Conjure for over 35 years. Here, he explores Conjure's history, principles, fundamentals, and ethics, while simultaneously providing a practical how-to guide....

El poder está cambiando de manos: de grandes ejércitos disciplinados a caóticas bandas de insurgentes; de gigantescas corporaciones a ágiles emprendedores; de los palacios presidenciales a las plazas públicas. Pero también está cambiando en sí mismo: cada vez es más difícil de ejercer y más fácil de perder.

This audiobook addresses the new branch called cyberpsychology, which shows how there has been a change in the person-technology relationship, analyzing how new developments affect the day-to-day life of the person, as well as the mental health of its users. All this is backed by an extensive bibliography on the latest research conducted in this area.

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moisés Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself.

Like all forms of Caribbean Voodoo, practitioners of the 21 Divisions believe in one God, a distant God that doesn't get involved in human affairs. Followers of this Dominican spiritual tradition believe that God created intermediaries to help humans, beings known as Los Misterios.

En este libro se te presentan las últimas investigaciones relacionadas con la felicidad, qué es y cómo se alcanza, así como sobre qué sucede cuando no alcanzas la felicidad, y cuando aparecen los inconvenientes, barreras para conseguir esa felicidad. Todo explicado de forma clara y sencilla para ofrecerte una experiencia enriquecedora que pueda ayudarte en tu búsqueda personal por lograr la felicidad, pero real, posible y alcanzable, y sobre todo duradera.

Aprende cómo superar el problema de no comprender las emociones propias y de los demás.

Car chacun d`entre nous est un être unique, il serait donc pratique d`apprendre à écouter notre propre organisme pour comprendre quel est le tempo qui nous gouverne, et ainsi s`y adapter, puisque c`est de cette façon que nous trouverons le calme qui nous permettra de mieux effectuer toutes nos activités.

The silence had already taken hold of each of the rooms in the house, so much so that sometimes it was difficult for me to go there, where so many things had happened in the family. In the beginning, I turned on the television or the radio, to listen to a voice whenever I was in the house, and that made me feel better. But then, it seemed so absurd, deceiving myself. It was like I was with somebody when there was nobody left.

Venezuela, 1992. Unknown colonel Hugo Chávez stages an ill-fated coup against a corrupt government, igniting the passions of Venezuela’s poor and catapulting the oil-rich country to international attention. For two rival spies hurriedly dispatched to Caracas - one from Washington, DC, and the other from Fidel Castro’s Cuba - this is a career-defining mission.

To speak of neuropsychology is to speak of one of the branches that has experienced the most growth in the past few years since it makes use of the advances of not only psychology but also neuroscience. The field of neuropsychology embraces theoretical aspects as well as those in practice regarding disorders and traumas.

En todo el mundo, las democracias se enfrentan a un enemigo nuevo e implacable que no tiene ejército ni armada; no procede de ningún país que podamos señalar en un mapa, porque no viene de ahí fuera, sino de aquí dentro. En lugar de desafiar a las sociedades libres con la destrucción desde el exterior, amenaza con corroerlas desde el interior.

En este libro se aborda la nueva rama denominada la CiberPisoclogía, que estudia cómo se ha producido un cambio en la relación persona-tecnología, analizando cómo afectan los nuevos desarrollos al día a día de la persona, así como a la salud mental de sus usuarios. Todo ello avalado por una extensa bibliografía sobre las últimas investigaciones realizadas en este ámbito.

El objetivo del libro es servir como primera aproximación a la rama emergente denominada Cronobiología. Para ello se tratan los temas más relevantes ofreciendo resultados sobre las últimas investigaciones desarrolladas en los dos últimos años a lo largo del mundo sobre esta materia. Todo ello explicado con un lenguaje claro y sencillo, alejado de los tecnicismos, explicando cada concepto, de forma que pueda servir como una verdadera guía de iniciación.

Um pesquisador de folclore, em visita ao Nordeste, assiste à encenação de um pastoril, que termina aos tapas, na casa de uma mulher misteriosa. Um estrangeiro vaga por São Paulo em uma noite de Natal, em meio à sacralidade dessa data e à profana São Paulo da década de 1910. Um jovem convence a família enlutada a fazer uma ceia, na qual o peru assado entra em disputa com a memória de um pai cruel.

Ainsi, cet ouvrage offre une unique contribution à la connaissance et à la compréhension de la pensée classique et de l'éthique, tout en favorisant un dialogue interculturel plus large et la paix entre les peuples.

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