Resultados para "Angela" en Sociología

Coca, farlopa, perico, merca, Fariña. Nunca Galicia comercializó un producto con tanto éxito. Aunque ahora parezca una pesadilla lejana, en los años 90 el 80 por ciento de la cocaína desembarcaba en Europa por las costas gallegas. A través de testimonios directos de capos, pilotos de planeadoras, arrepentidos, jueces, policías, periodistas y madres de toxicómanos, Nacho Carretero retrata con minuciosidad este paisaje criminal. Fariña incluye, además, un repaso inédito por los clanes que siguen operando hoy en día. 

¡Qué feliz sería si fuese feliz! Estas palabras de Woody Allen quizá dicen lo esencial: que estamos separados de la felicidad por la misma esperanza que la persigue. La sabiduría, al contrario, sería vivir de verás, el lugar de esperar vivir. En esa dirección apuntan las lecciones de Epicuro, de los estoicos, de Spinoza, o, en Oriente, de Buda. Solamente tendremos una felicidad proporcional a la desesperación que seamos capaces de atravesar. La sabiduría es exactamente eso: la felicidad, desesperadamente.”

Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs.   

In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city's built environment, a meditation on the author's relationship to the city, and a rumination on the art of urban walking.

De autoria da jornalista e escritora pernambucana Jaqueline Fraga, o livro Negra Sou: a ascensão da mulher negra no mercado de trabalho, traz uma série de reportagens especiais com cinco mulheres negras que atuam em algumas das profissões mais valorizadas do país.

This is the story of an unforgivable con man. Vulnerable families were his prey. His promise was an impossible dream and a lie. Peter Candlewood understood the system. That’s how he could commute prison sentences and reunite hopeless families with incarcerated loved ones. For a price. Except there was no Candlewood. No hope. Just a lowly Texas con artist who bet on the desperate - and won. And he wasn’t working alone. The multimillion-dollar deception cost the betrayed more than their savings.

If you're Irish American or African American or Eastern European Jewish American, there's a rich literature to give you a sense of your family's arrival-in-America story. Until now, that hasn't been the case for Chinese Americans. From noted historian Mae Ngai, The Lucky Ones uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family. It's a sweeping story centered on patriarch Jeu Dips' (Joseph Tapes') self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco, and the extraordinary rise it enables.