Estrategias Ambientales 3

Parece que la Humanidad ha entrado en una espiral de locura que puede conducir a su destrucción: atentados terroristas islámicos, aparición de partidos políticos xenófobos y racistas, ascenso al poder de sujetos como el nuevo presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump... La fecha del fin del mundo ha sido anunciada numerosas veces a lo largo de la historia sin que los pronósticos se cumplieran. En esta obra conviven profetas, videntes, dioses, demonios y ángeles, y en ella nos aguardan terribles predicciones, sentiremos en la nuca el aliento de monstruos legendarios y nos obliga a...

En Cruising. Historia íntima de un pasatiempo radical , Alex Espinoza —hijo de mexicanos que migraron a Estados Unidos— nos guía en un viaje sin censura por el atemporal arte del sexo entre hombres en lugares públicos. Combinando la labor de investigación y la historia oral con su propia experiencia personal, Espinoza examina las fuerzas políticas y culturales que subyacen tras este pasatiempo radical. Desde la Grecia antigua hasta las célebres "molly houses" de la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII; desde los efervescentes años 70 hasta los algoritmos de Grindr y los casos de Oscar Wilde...

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...

Our population practices both traditional and organized religions, like various forms of syncretism in everyday life. Nonetheless, religious organizations and its practices in some occasions have been addressed in a critical way, taking into consideration its negative effects on our social lives. It is to say that it seems there is a social consensus that understands these implications and consequences are exclusively positive. The religious person provides direction for everyday living, in explicit and implicit ways. Although the less institutionalized versions of the practices, at the...