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In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War.

Corrupción en la Universidad es el relato de un profesor universitario que ha decidido romper la ley del silencio. Como su caso hay cientos. Pero este es el primero que sale a la luz pública..

En una de las esquinas más bulliciosas de Kabul existe un lugar mágico, impregnado del olor de las páginas de miles de libros, que desde hace más de veinte años congrega a diario a quienes necesitan sumergirse en otro mundo, ajenos a la violencia e injusticia de la calle. Mas alla hay un cine que, gracias a la pasion y valentia de un heroe anonimo, ha resistido a decadas de invasiones y saqueos. La gente ya no hace colas para entrar, pero aun hay quien necesita soñar aunque sea un rato y delante de la gran pantalla. Dos niños, curtidos por la necesidad y animados por el ejemplo de sus padres, montan un original negocio que, gracias a su frescura y constancia, ha ampliado rapidamente la clientela. Un seleccionador de futbol arriesga su prestigio y su vida entrenando a una veintena de mujeres que por un par de horas pueden deshacerse del burka y ser ellas mismas. Una española, desafiando el poder taliban y sus propios miedos, se introduce en una casa cuyas paredes guardan un secreto: niñas que estudian.

La "Alianza de las Civilizaciones" constituye un aspecto de diplomacia pública que presenta una relevante trascendencia política y económica tanto para España como para la Federación Rusa. Este libro recoge una seleccion de los trabajos presentados en el VIII Simposio Hispano y Ruso "Alianza de Civilizaciones: Rusia y España y sus retos de vecindad" celebrado en Toledo en el año 2010.LAliança de les Civilitzacionsconstitueix un aspecte de diplomacia publica que presenta una rellevant transcendencia politica i economica tant per a Espanya com per a la Federacio Russa. Aquest llibre recull una seleccio dels treballs presentats en el VIII Simposi Hispa i Rus "Aliança de Civilitzacions: Russia i Espanya i els seus reptes de veinatge" celebrat a Toledo l''any 2010.La "Alianza de las Civilizaciones" constituye tanto para España como para la Federacion Rusa un aspecto de diplomacia publica que presenta una relevante trascendencia politica y economica. Concretamente para España el Mediterraneo es una de sus fronteras estrategicas a las que dedica importantes recursos financieros y diplomaticos. Esta iniciativa es apoyada tanto por el gobierno español como por el ruso por considerarlo de utilidad en su relacion con sus fronteras musulmanas. En este libro se recoge una seleccion de los trabajos presentados e...

Escrito por un periodista norteamericano, corresponsal de The New York Times en Oriente Medio, nacido en Libia que recorre todos los países de Oriente Medio narrando la vida diaria bajo la violencia, con una mirada amable, centrándose mucho en las expectativas y vivencias sobre todo de los jóvenes. • Da voz a todo tipo de personajes: desde un imán fundamentalista hasta una mujer kuwaití que escribe sobre sexo, o sus amigos de Hezbolá, que le felicitan el cumpleaños por e-mail. • Original, divertido y muy esclarecedor sobre la realidad desconocida de los países árabes.

Veus del Sàhara. Testimonis del passat i present d’un poble és una recopilació de tretze testimonis seleccionats d’entre el gran nombre d’entrevistes que els autors van realitzar als campaments de re

From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In this book, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza in the context of Israel's long-standing war against the Palestinians. Gaza in Crisis is a rigorous, historically informed and much-needed analysis of the situation and will be welcomed by all those eager for Chomsky's insights into yet another political catastrophe.

Descubra al Barack Obama que es cristiano y liberal sin ningún reparo en admitirlo —y cómo él representa el rostro cambiante de la religión en la política estadounidense. Barack Obama enfrentó cierta

It's not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation. The evidence is all around us: Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy for more than a century; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow's workforce to acquire the information and training it needs to land good twenty-first century jobs; our infrastructure—our roads, our bridges, our sewage and water, our transportation and electrical systems—is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political system is broken, in thrall to a small financial elite using the power of the checkbook to control both parties. And America's middle class, the driver of so much of our economic success and political stability, is rapidly disappearing, forcing us to confront the fear that we are slipping as a nation - that our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did. It's the dark flipside of the American Dream - an American Nightmare of our own making. Arianna Huffington, who, with the must-read Huffington Post, has her finger on the pulse of America, unflinchingly tracks the gradual demise of America as an industrial, political, and economic leader. In the vein of her fiery bestseller Pigs at the Trough, Third World America points fingers, names names, and details who's killing the American Dream. Finally, calling on the can-do attitude that is part of America's DNA, Huffington shows precisely what we need to do to stop our freefall and keep America from turning into a third world nation. Third World America is a must-read for anyone disturbed by our country's steady descent from 20th century superpower to backwater banana republic.

Alan Tarr, catedrático de Ciencia Política y Director del Centro de Estudios Constitucionales Estatales de la Universidad Rutgers de Camden de Nueva Jersey nosintroduce a la biografía, personalidad y producción políica de John C. Calhoun,personaje líder de la política norteamericana durante la primera parte del s. XIX. A través de tres de sus textos más destacados, la obra nos acerca elementos del pensamiento de Calhoun que pueden tener una relevancia particular para los debates sobre el federalismo y el pluralismo en el s. XXI.

Amexica tells the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border - 'a country in its own right, which belongs to both the US and Mexico, yet neither' - as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In over twenty years as a journalist at the Guardian and the Observer, Ed has covered organized crime in Italy, the war in Bosnia, and the aftermath of 9/11 in America, and Iraq. He has been a war reporter all over the world, and yet nowhere more has the violence commanded such revulsion and compulsion as it does along the borderline. 'The borderline has always drawn me in, and never lets me go - not least because it is a land of such dichotomy and contrast - of love and violence, tribulation and opportunity.' The book documents a kind of road trip that Vulliamy undertakes in mid-2009 along the border itself - from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico - Tijuana to Brownsville. Along the way, facets of the crisis - police corruption and the system of 'plazas the smuggling of people, weapons and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico as violence escalates; the interrelated economies of drugs and the 'Maquiladora' factories; the harrowing, systematic murders of young women in Juarez; the insatiable market for drugs inside and outside of Mexico - are illuminated through everyday people and places. This is the story of a place and people in time of war as much as the war itself. Vulliamy paints a street-level portrait of a place, shows us the institutional roots of the chaos and violence that plagues it, and makes us care about its very survival.