Grandes maricas de la historia

While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, The Gang is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. Originally published in 1927, Frederic Milton Thrasher's magnum opus offers a profound and careful analysis of hundreds of gangs in Chicago in the early part of the twentieth century. With rich prose and an eye for detail, Thrasher looked specifically at the way in which urban geography shaped gangs and posited the thesis that neighborhoods in flux were more likely to produce gangs. Moreover, he traced gang culture back to feudal and medieval power systems...

Una serie de investigadores de vanguardia de varias universidades mundiales han recibido el encargo de analizar el EEES. Así, se han recopilado sus investigaciones y reflexiones en torno a los nuevos contenidos en el área de comunicación a partir de las reformas que ha supuesto el Espacio Europeo de Enseñanza Superior (EEES o Plan Bolonia) como reto innovador en las aulas en tanto en cuanto contenidos y fórmulas. Esta aportación intelectual a las nuevas corrientes docentes se ha plasmado en un trabajo, multidisciplinar y variado, que se presenta en formato de libro, patrocinado por el...

Tres ensayos conforman este libro: "La formaci n de la conciencia contempor nea" es una exploraci n de las transformaciones del nimo colectivo en la Europa de la entreguerra; en "Introducci n al mundo actual", Romero ofrece una razonada defensa de la irrupci n de las masas como protagonistas de la vida moderna y, en "El disconformismo hoy" el autor hace una reflexi n sobre este fen meno tan sensible en el mundo contempor neo.

This volume reflects on questions of human rights in the context of globalization. The essays responding to this subject are rich and varied: they focus on legal acceptance as well as consequences of human rights with regard to social rights and the necessary protection of the environment connected or close to those rights. Another approach to the subject featured in the volume is the legal recognition and the consideration of human rights as moral rights. With concepts on universality, a new cosmopolitism, cultural pluralism and perspectives on religious variants and technological advances...