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Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
by Dan PfeifferFrom Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era.<p><p> On November 9th, 2016, Dan Pfeiffer woke up like most of the world wondering WTF just happened. How had Donald Trump won the White House? How was it that a decent and thoughtful president had been succeeded by a buffoonish reality star, and what do we do now?<p> Instead of throwing away his phone and moving to another country (which were his first and second thoughts), Pfeiffer decided to tell this surreal story, recounting how Barack Obama navigated the insane political forces that created Trump, explaining why everyone got 2016 wrong, and offering a path for where Democrats go from here.<p> Pfeiffer was one of Obama's first hires when he decided to run for president, and was at his side through two presidential campaigns and six years in the White House. Using never-before-heard stories and behind-the-scenes anecdotes, YES WE (STILL) CAN examines how Obama succeeded despite Twitter trolls, Fox News (and their fake news), and a Republican Party that lost its collective mind.<p> An irreverent, no-BS take on the crazy politics of our time, YES WE (STILL) CAN is a must-read for everyone who is disturbed by Trump, misses Obama, and is marching, calling, and hoping for a better future for the country.
Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia
by Tobias BeckerA sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of “retro” to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and sympathetic view. Surveying the successive waves of nostalgia that swept the United States and Europe after the Second World War, he shows that longing for the past is more complex and sometimes more beneficial than it seems.The current meaning of “nostalgia” is surprisingly recent: until the 1960s, it usually just meant homesickness, in keeping with the original Greek word. Linking popular culture to postwar politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, Becker explains the shift in meaning. He also responds to arguments against nostalgia, showing its critics as often shortsighted in their own ways as they defend an idea of progress no less naïve than the wistfulness they denounce. All too often, nostalgia itself is criticized, as if its merit did not depend on which specific past one longs for.Taking its title from one of the most popular songs of all time, and grounded in extensive research, Yesterday offers a rigorous and entertaining perspective on divisive issues in culture and politics. Whether we are revisiting, reviving, reliving, reenacting, or regressing, and whether these activities find expression in politics, music, fashion, or family history, nostalgia is inevitable. It is also powerful, not only serving to define the past but also orienting us toward the future we will create.
Yesterday's Man
by Branko MarceticA deep dive into Joe Biden&’s history and the origins of his political valuesYesterday&’s Man exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States&’s longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called &“Middle-Class Joe&” served as a key architect of the Democratic Party&’s rightward turn, ushering in the end of the liberal New Deal order and enabling the political takeover of the radical right. Far from being a liberal stalwart, Biden often outdid even Reagan, Gingrich, and Bush, assisting the right-wing war against the working class, and ultimately paving the way for Trump. The most comprehensive political biography of someone who has tried for decades to be president, Yesterday&’s Man is an essential read for anyone interested in knowing the real Joe Biden and what he might do in office.
Yesterday's Sins: The Road to Redemption Series (The\road To Redemption Ser. #3)
by James GreenCharlie Bronski, US Air Force security expert turned successful cookery writer, now lives the quiet life with his wife beside the sea in Denmark. So why would anyone plant a bomb under his car?Recognising it as a professional job, Charlie asks for help from the people who set him up in his new life. They want a favour in return: for him to kill a middle-aged man, a trainee priest who caused them some problems - surely an easy task for someone with Charlie's military training.But that man is ex-copper, ex-criminal, Jimmy Costello, a man with powerful friends - and powerful enemies. Will Charlie's past catch up with him before he catches up with Jimmy - and will Jimmy make it through alive?The third in James Green's critically acclaimed series featuring his hardboiled former London detective.
Yesterday's Sins: The Road to Redemption Series (The Road to Redemption #3)
by James GreenCharlie Bronski, US Air Force security expert turned successful cookery writer, now lives the quiet life with his wife beside the sea in Denmark. So why would anyone plant a bomb under his car?Recognising it as a professional job, Charlie asks for help from the people who set him up in his new life. They want a favour in return: for him to kill a middle-aged man, a trainee priest who caused them some problems - surely an easy task for someone with Charlie's military training.But that man is ex-copper, ex-criminal, Jimmy Costello, a man with powerful friends - and powerful enemies. Will Charlie's past catch up with him before he catches up with Jimmy - and will Jimmy make it through alive?The third in James Green's critically acclaimed series featuring his hardboiled former London detective.
Yesterday's Spy: A Novel
by Tom BradbyA father searches for his missing son in 1953 Tehran in this brilliantly plotted espionage thriller from the bestselling author of Triple Cross. London, 1953. Harry Towers is a recently retired, and even more recently widowed, British intelligence officer. But he springs to action when hears that his estranged son Sean has disappeared in Tehran after writing a damning article about the involvement of government officials in the opium trade. In Tehran, a city on the brink of a historic coup, Harry&’s career as a spy soon proves perfect training for this much more personal mission as American, British, Iranian, and French players flit in and out of the scene. But as the first attempt at a coup in the city fails and foreign powers jockey for oil, money, and influence, Sean&’s disappearance takes on a more sinister tone. Was he really taken in retribution for his reporting, or is this an attempt to silence a globally significant revelation he was preparing to make? Or, most terrifying of all, does Sean&’s disappearance have nothing to do with him at all? Has Harry&’s past caught up to them all? Praise for Tom Bradby &“[A] cracking, uber-topical spy thriller . . . a plot full of twists and turns.&” —Financial Times &“Enthralling and fast-moving . . . packed with details of modern tradecraft in the twilight world of spooks, against a background of politics at its most Machiavellian, it is the stuff headlines are made of.&” —Daily Mail &“Bradby masterfully combines textured psychological drama with a rip-roaring plot that boasts several dizzying switchbacks along the way to a genuinely shocking conclusion.&” —Booklist (starred review)
Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future
by Bini AdamczakHow the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes.The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish class structures, to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak examines these catastrophes, proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917: the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937, the failure of the European Left to prevent National Socialism, Stalin's rise to power, and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt. In the process, she seeks a future that never happened.
Yet a Stranger
by Deborah Mathis3 nationally syndicated columnist takes a controversial look at the divisions that remain between black and white America more than 40 years after the Civil Rights movement.In a provocative examination of the state of race relations today, Deborah Mathis provides personal and sociological perspective on what it feels like for African Americans who continue to be segregated spiritually and emotionally from the rest of the country. Mathis airs mutual fears and suppositions and shines a spotlight on how far we still have to go before black Americans can truly feel at home in a country that benefits so strongly from their many contributions. Topics of discussion include: Affirmative actionare we starting to move backward?Racial profiling and the assumptions it involves The poor state of education in low-income area schoolsBlacks and their treatment in the judicial system The dangerous sense of complacency about how things are so much better than they used to beAnd more.
Yiddish With George and Laura
by Barbara Davilman Ellis WeinerWhat do George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jane? Well, both hail from prototypical WASP families. And, perhaps more to the point, both exhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality). That's the premise of this hilarious new primer-style book in which George, Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristic expressiveness, conveying shades of of feeling and nuances of meaning that plain old English can't deliver--by peppering their conversatuon with Yiddishisms. See George's mother. Her name is Bar. She wears a lot of pearls and is a farbisseneh . "You are late, George," Bar says. "Of course I am late," George says. "I am the President of the United States. I am a big macher ." Like all good primers, YIDDISH WITH GEORGE AND LAURA tells a simple story--and, in the end, important life lessons are imparted.
The Yield Curve and Financial Risk Premia: Implications for Monetary Policy
by Felix GeigerThe determinants of yield curve dynamics have been thoroughly discussed in finance models. However, little can be said about the macroeconomic factors behind the movements of short- and long-term interest rates as well as the risk compensation demanded by financial investors. By taking on a macro-finance perspective, the book's approach explicitly acknowledges the close feedback between monetary policy, the macroeconomy and financial conditions. Both theoretical and empirical models are applied in order to get a profound understanding of the interlinkages between economic activity, the conduct of monetary policy and the underlying macroeconomic factors of bond price movements. Moreover, the book identifies a broad risk-taking channel of monetary transmission which allows a reassessment of the role of financial constraints; it enables policy makers to develop new guidelines for monetary policy and for financial supervision of how to cope with evolving financial imbalances.
The Yield Curve and Financial Risk Premia: Implications for Monetary Policy (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #654)
by Felix GeigerThe determinants of yield curve dynamics have been thoroughly discussed in finance models. However, little can be said about the macroeconomic factors behind the movements of short- and long-term interest rates as well as the risk compensation demanded by financial investors. By taking on a macro-finance perspective, the book’s approach explicitly acknowledges the close feedback between monetary policy, the macroeconomy and financial conditions. Both theoretical and empirical models are applied in order to get a profound understanding of the interlinkages between economic activity, the conduct of monetary policy and the underlying macroeconomic factors of bond price movements. Moreover, the book identifies a broad risk-taking channel of monetary transmission which allows a reassessment of the role of financial constraints; it enables policy makers to develop new guidelines for monetary policy and for financial supervision of how to cope with evolving financial imbalances.
Yigal Allon, Native Son
by Evelyn Abel Anita ShapiraBorn in 1918 into the fabric of Arab-Jewish frontier life at the foot of Mt. Tabor, Yigal Allon rose to become one of the founding figures of the state of Israel and an architect of its politics. In 1945 Allon became commander of the Palmah--an elite unit of the Haganah, the semilegal army of the Jewish community--during the struggle against the British for independence. In the 1947-49 War of Independence against local and invading Arab armies, he led the decisive battles that largely determined the borders of Israel. Paradoxically, his close lifelong relations with Arab neighbors did not prevent him from being a chief agent of their sizable displacement.A bestseller in Israel and available now translated into English, Yigal Allon, Native Son is the only biography of this charismatic leader. The book focuses on Allon's life up to 1950, his clash with founding father David Ben-Gurion, the end of his military career, and the watershed in culture and character between the Jewish Yishuv and Israeli statehood. As a statesman in his more mature years, he formulated what became known as the "Allon Plan," which remains a viable blueprint for an eventual two-state partition between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet in the end, the promise Allon showed as a brilliant young military commander remained unfulfilled. The great dream of the Palmah generation was largely lost, and Allon's name became associated with the failed policies of the past.The story of Allon's life frames the history of Israel, its relationship with its Arab neighbors, its culture and spirit. This important biography touches on matters--Israel's borders, refugees, military might--that remain very much alive today.
The Yin-Yang Military: Ambidextrous Perspectives on Change in Military Organizations
by Jacqueline Heeren-Bogers René Moelker Esmeralda Kleinreesink Jan Van der Meulen Joseph Soeters Robert BeeresThis book examines change processes and the challenge of ambidexterity in military organizations. It discusses how military organizations can better adapt to the complex, and at times chaotic, environments they operate in by developing organizational ambidexterity. The authors identify various multiple tasks and functions of military organizations that require multi-dimensional and often contradictory operational, technological, cultural, and social skills. In analogy to the often-opposed functions performed by the right and left hand of the body, modern military organizations are no longer one-dimensional fighting machines, but characterized by a duality of tasks, such as fighting and peacekeeping which often make part and parcel of one and the same mission. The military is both a “hot” and a “cold” organization (a crisis management organization and a bureaucracy). As such, the book argues that these dualities are not necessarily opposed but can serve as complementary forces, like the yin and yang, to better the overall performance of these organizations. As a consequence, ambidextrous organizations excel at complex tasking and are adaptable to new challenges. Divided into four parts: 1) structures and networks; 2) cultural issues; 3) tasks and roles; 4) nations and allies, it appeals to scholars of military studies and organization studies as well as professionals working for governmental or military organizations.
Yitzhak Rabin
by Leslie DerflerA political and analytical biography, this book examines Yizhak Rabin's longtime leadership of the military and his political direction of the Jewish state, as well as his efforts to secure a peace with Egypt and with the Palestinians.
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
by Itamar RabinovichAn insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired modern leader. A native-born Israeli, Rabin became an inextricable part of his nation's pre-state history and subsequent evolution. This revealing account of his life, character, and contributions draws not only on original research but also on the author's recollections as one of Rabin's closest aides. An awkward politician who became a statesman, a soldier who became a peacemaker, Rabin is best remembered for his valiant efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for the Oslo Accords. Itamar Rabinovich provides extraordinary new insights into Rabin's relationships with powerful leaders including Bill Clinton, Jordan's King Hussein, and Henry Kissinger, his desire for an Israeli-Syrian peace plan, and the political developments that shaped his tenure. The author also assesses the repercussions of Rabin's murder: Netanyahu's ensuing election and the rise of Israel's radical right wing.
Yo, Augusto
by Ernesto EkaizerContra todo pronóstico, la noche del 16 de octubre de 1998 Augusto Pinochet era arrestado en una clínica londinense. El bombardeo del Palacio de la Moneda, las últimas palabras de Salvador Allende y los rostros de las víctimas de la sangrienta represión que desató en Chile el golpe del 11 de septiembre de 1973 resucitaban casi treinta años después. La detención del dictador abría un debate acerca de las competencias de la justicia internacional para perseguir a los torturadores y genocidas. En la sociedad chilena, el pacto tácito de reconciliación -la presunta "transición"-, fundamentado en el olvido y la absolución, saltaba por los aires. Algunos llegaron a decir que España colocaba a Chile al borde del abismo. Anciano, pero aún desafiante y amenazador, el general que alentó la tenebrosa "Caravana de la Muerte" veía esfumarse su sacrosanta impunidad a consecuencia de una de esas paradójicas jugadas de la historia que los dictadores, necios, cegados por el resplandor siniestro de su imagen, no suelen presentir. El juez Baltasar Garzón, el fiscal Carlos Castresana, los abogados Joan Garcés, Enrique de Santiago y Carlos Slepoy en España, Andy McEntee en Londres y letrados de las víctimas en Chile, como Carmen Hertzy Eduardo Contreras, entre muchos otros, aunaron sus esfuerzos para conseguir el sueño: un juicio de Nuremberg para los militares comprometidos en las desapariciones, ejecuciones y torturas. El retorno del ex dictador a Chile, lejos de suponer el final de la historia, dio un nuevo impulso a la causa bajo el liderazgo del juez Guzmán. Este libro, que se basa en más de mil entrevistas y la consulta de millares de papeles secretos recientemente desclasificados, es un relato sobre el hombre que sigue ganándose a pulso un lugar en la historia universal de la infamia.
Yo confieso: 45 años de espía
by Mikel Lejarza Fernando Rueda1974: Mikel Lejarza es captado por el servicio secreto para infiltrarse en ETA con el alias de El Lobo. 2019: Con otro nombre, Mikel Lejarza sigue trabajando para el CNI. Esta es su vida. Esta es la historia. Mikel Lejarza ha guardado silencio sobre su vida hasta este momento. Ahora ha decidido desvelar en primera persona en el libro Yo confiesotodo lo que ha hecho y todo por lo que ha pasado. Ha escrito, con la ayuda del periodista Fernando Rueda, unas memorias duras, sinceras, en las que por primera vez cuenta todo lo que ha sido su vida, sin olvidarse de los momentos amargos, de su éxitos e, incluso, de aquellas actuaciones de las que no está especialmente satisfecho. Yo confieso es un libro humano en el que Mikel ha querido que Mamen, su mujer, confidente y compañera en algunas de sus misiones, aporte su visión personal sobre los hechos, recordando los momentos vividos en una relación complicada, como no podía ser otra que la vivida por una mujer que ha compartido 40 años con el agente más antiguo que tienen los servicios secretos españoles. La crítica ha dicho...«405 páginas que te dejan sin aliento. Estas confesiones de El Lobo son imprescindibles para conocer esa parte que ha permanecido oculta de nuestra historia reciente.»Julia Navarro «Un trabajo espléndido.»Nieves Herrero «La genteencontrará muchas informaciones que le gustará, le apasionarán, en este libro.»Bruno Cardeñosa, La rosa de los vientos, Onda Cero «Lejarza y Rueda cuentan todo lo que le ha pasado al agente de los servicios secretos españoles desde aquella primera misión que supuso un enorme golpe para la banda terrorista.»eldiario.es «Un estremecedor relato en el que aparece por primera vez Mamen, la mujer de El Lobo, que narra una historia humana y personal sobre los sufrimientos que entraña estar durante 40 años con alguien que vive en la clandestinidad.»El Español «Duro, inmisericorde, Mikel Lejarza revela en Yo Confieso, a través de la pluma de Fernando Rueda, lo que jamás había contado.»El ojo crítico«Detrás de ese libro, claramente, hay alguien que maneja fenomenalmente la pluma.»Adolfo Arjona, COPE «Yo confieso es, además de unas memorias, el resultado de un excelente trabajo editorial.»Jot Down «Un libro valiente, estremecedor, avalado por un héroe que cuenta de primera manomucho de lo que realmente pasó dentro de la organización terrorista que contribuyó a derrotar.»El Periódico de Aragón «Hay libros que enganchan más que una serie, se convierten en adición deseada y buscada. Puede pasar un tiempo pero volvemos a su llamada. El género del confidente informador es el de los observadores en la vida que vienen a poner luz en el otro lado de la luna.»Pilar Falcón, El Correo Gallego
Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
by Robin D.G. KelleyIn this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, "the preeminant historian of black popular culture writing today" (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread misunderstandings of black culture and shows how they have contributed to the failure of social policy to save our cities.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Yo muero hoy: Las revueltas en el mundo árabe
by Olga RodríguezUn recorrido por la revoluciones que han sacudido el mundo árabe, desde Túnez hasta Siria. Las revueltas árabes de 2011 no surgieron por generación espontánea. Detrás de la caída de dictadores como Ben Alí, Mubarak o Gadafi hay una larga lucha silenciosa del activismo clandestino en defensa de los derechos humanos, de los movimientos obreros y de las agrupaciones que llevan años trabajando por la justicia social. La constancia de unos pocos sentó las bases y creó los cauces para canalizar el hartazgo de la mayoría. Sin unos y otros las revueltas no habrían tenido lugar. Los movimientos colectivos estallan solo cuando un cúmulo de elementos se encuentran, se mezclan y la mecha prende. Yo muero hoy cuenta las causas, los retos y la historia de esas revueltas, que han marcado los dos últimos años, a partir de las historias individuales de algunos de sus protagonistas. Historias que demuestran que, como dijo Eduardo Galeano, «mucha gente pequeña, en lugares pequeños, haciendo cosas pequeñas, puede cambiar el mundo».
Yo no
by Joachim FestUna de las autobiografías morales más importantes de la historia alemana del siglo XX, y entre los mejores libros que se han escrito sobre el nazismo. Nadie se ha esforzado tanto como Joachim Fest por comprender los rasgos y mecanismos del nazismo. Su ponderado análisis del Tercer Reich, sus biografías de Adolf Hitler y de Albert Speer, así como la magistral descripción de los últimos días vividos en el búnker de Hitler que hace en El hundimiento, cuentan con millones de lectores en todo el mundo. <P><P>Pero ¿cómo vivió él mismo, nacido en 1926, el nazismo, la guerra y la derrota de Alemania? Para Joachim Fest -que falleció poco después de terminar este libro-, la profunda tragedia alemana fue la incapacidad de las élites culturales de hacer frente al nazismo. <P><P><P>Atípico y conmovedor, este libro recoge la resistencia al régimen nazi de una familia católica alemana desde la profunda convicción moral de su padre, que asumió la pérdida de privilegios y la precariedad por resistirse a las presiones de unirse al partido nazi y a las estructuras del régimen. En estas memorias de sus años de infancia y juventud, Joachim Fest nos ofrece por primera vez una visión íntima de sus vivencias más directas durante esos años oscuros. <P><P>La temprana prohibición de ejercer la enseñanza que sufrió su padre, su propia expulsión del colegio, su iniciación en el mundo de la ópera berlinesa, sus lecturas durante el servicio militar, o su intento de fuga de un campo de prisioneros americano, son algunos de los episodios protagonizados y narrados en primera persona por un observador nato. Pero sobre todo Fest revela cómo, a pesar de las dificultades, era posible enfrentarse al agobiante acoso ideológico del régimen desde la humildad, la firmeza de principios, la cohesión familiar y la dignidad.
Yo Perón
by Enrique Pavón PereyraPublicado por primera vez en 1993 y escrito por el biógrafo oficial de Perón, este libro permite redescubrir la vida privada, pública y política del líder que más ha influido en la sociedad argentina. Fruto de cuatro décadas de investigación, esta biografía autorizada es, además, una crónica política de inapreciable valor. Su publicación significa un rescate ineludible de la historia argentina reciente. «El peronismo llegó para poner un antes y un después en la historia argentina. Recorrer su trayectoria es un viaje vertiginoso, en el que vale la pena embarcarse -y sé que esto es muy difícil- con la menor cantidad de prejuicios posible. Este libro de Enrique Pavón Pereyra, uno de los hombres que más frecuentó a Perón, está escrito en primera persona y con una prosa ágil y apasionante. El autor fue el elegido por el General para confiarle sus secretos, sus sueños y hasta sus miedos. Es un documento imprescindible para adentrarse en la historia del peronismo y en la biografía de su creador. Pero Pavón Pereyra no solo utilizó el invalorable y exclusivo material de sus entrevistas, sino que profundizó a lo largo de décadas de investigación exhaustiva en los distintos aspectos y protagonistas de la vida de Perón y el desarrollo de su movimiento. Es una gran noticia la reedición de este libro apasionante, que nos ayudará a conocer la vida y el pensamiento de uno de los hombres más importantes de la historia y la política argentinas».Felipe Pigna
Yo soy la mujer del comandante: Rosario Murillo, la eternamente leal
by Carlos Salinas Maldonado“He estado por mucho tiempo bajo la sombra de Daniel, sometida a los rigores del gobierno, sumisa, atada, enclaustrada en unos requerimientos asfixiantes dictados por el poder. No, yo ya no soy esa Rosario”. Rosario Murillo Zambrana, aquella poeta combativa de los años de la malograda Revolución sandinista es, ahora, la mujer de la que depende en parte el poder de Daniel Ortega, viejo guerrillero devenido en dictador. Mística, indómita, brutal, violenta, este relato cuenta la transformación de una mujer que anhelaba el amor, que siempre ha creído en el poder de la magia, en un personaje grotesco, enfermo de poder. El relato se basa en largas entrevistas de Carlos Salinas Maldonado, sus apuntes tras años de seguir al personaje,observarlo, escucharlo, escribir sobre Rosario Murillo. También se sostiene en la denuncia de su hija, Zoilamérica Narváez, contra Daniel Ortega por violación. Recoge información de fuentes cercanas en su momento a Murillo, que han pedido el anonimato. Los hechos son reales, aunque la protagonista parezca emerger de la mejor ficción literaria
Yo soy trans: Una Investigación Periodística
by Alejandra VarelaCon base en los testimonios de diez mujeres trans, pertenecientes atodos los ámbitos socioculturales, y de la mano de cualificadosprofesionales de diversas áreas, la autora recorre los vericuetos deesta identidad de género y nos descubre las diferentes etapas de suproceso evolutivo. "¿El Uruguay actual está en condiciones de entender y aceptarabiertamente el universo trans? ¿Las instituciones sanitarias ofrecen elapoyo y guía necesarios? ¿Los centros de enseñanza están capacitadospara asegurar que la totalidad de sus alumnos sean bien acogidos?Minucioso trabajo de investigación en el que se describen las emociones,las inquietudes y los obstáculos que acompañaron a estas personas hastaque lograron convertirse en las mujeres que son. Entre los testimoniosse encuentran el de Catalina, quien ha criado a siete hijos con cariño ydedicación, el de Laura, quien convive hace años en pareja sin que sufamilia política sospeche cuál es su sexo biológico, y Abigail, quienhabla de sus experiencias en el mundo del espectáculo y sus vínculos conlos famosos." Con base en los testimonios de diez mujeres trans, pertenecientes atodos los ámbitos socioculturales, y de la mano de cualificadosprofesionales de diversas áreas, la autora recorre los vericuetos deesta identidad de género y nos descubre las diferentes etapas de suproceso evolutivo. "¿El Uruguay actual está en condiciones de entender y aceptarabiertamente el universo trans? ¿Las instituciones sanitarias ofrecen elapoyo y guía necesarios? ¿Los centros de enseñanza están capacitadospara asegurar que la totalidad de sus alumnos sean bien acogidos?Minucioso trabajo de investigación en el que se describen las emociones,las inquietudes y los obstáculos que acompañaron a estas personas hastaque lograron convertirse en las mujeres que son. Entre los testimoniosse encuentran el de Catalina, quien ha criado a siete hijos con cariño ydedicación, el de Laura, quien convive hace años en pareja sin que sufamilia política sospeche cuál es su sexo biológico, y Abigail, quienhabla de sus experiencias en el mundo del espectáculo y sus vínculos conlos famosos."
Yo te avisé: Lo que los políticos hacen y nosotros no queremos ver
by Romina Manguel¿Por qué gran parte de los argentinos nos mostramos sorprendidos -o incluso indignados o defraudados- con los presidentes que hemos llevado al gobierno con nuestro voto, a poco de que empiezan a ejercer su cargo? La "sorpresa" sería comprensible si alguno de ellos hubiese sido un recién llegado a la política; pero, en todos los casos tras el retorno de la democracia en la Argentina, los candidatos ganadores -y sus principales contendientes- traían al momento de postularse no menos de veinte años de trayectoria conocida. ¿Por qué gran parte de los argentinos nos mostramos sorprendidos -o incluso indignados o defraudados- con los presidentes que hemos llevado al gobierno con nuestro voto, a poco de que empiezan a ejercer su cargo? La "sorpresa" sería comprensible si alguno de ellos hubiese sido un recién llegado a la política; pero, en todos los casos tras el retorno de la democracia en la Argentina, los candidatos ganadores -y sus principales contendientes- traían al momento de postularse no menos de veinte años de trayectoria conocida.
Yoga – Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice
by Shyam RanganathanProviding a decolonial, action-focused account of Yoga philosophy, this practical work from Dr. Shyam Ranganathan, pioneering scholar in the field of Indian moral philosophy, focuses on the South Asian tradition to explore what Yoga was like prior to colonization. It challenges teachers and trainees to reflect on the impact of Western colonialism on Yoga as well as understand Yoga as the original decolonial practice in a way that is accessible. Each chapter takes the reader through a journey of sources and traditions, beginning with an investigation into the colonial -Platonic and Aristotelian- approaches to pedagogy in colonized yoga spaces, through contrary, ancient philosophies of South Asia, such as Jainism, Buddhism, Sankhya, and various forms of Vedanta, to sources of Yoga, including the Upanisads, Yoga Sutra, Bhagavad Gita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika. With discussions of the precolonial philosophy of Yoga, its relationship to social justice, and modern postural yoga's relationship with colonial trauma, this is a comprehensive guide for any yoga teacher or trainee to activate and synergize their practice. Supplementary online resources bring the text to life, making this the perfect text for yoga teacher trainings.