La élite del poder

With this book, C. Wright Mills marked the difference with the elites that decide the future of their country, even when they are a minority in their country. And at the same time, he inspects closely the relation between the powerful groups in the US with the mass society and the equilibrium theory. This new edition contains an epilogue made by Alan Wolfe, in which Wolfe explain the most significant changes that have occur in the structure of the country since the first publication of the book in 1956.

This book brings together several favourite tales from Native American tribes across the United States. From heartwarming coming of age tales to warning tales of supernatural power, the stories told in this volume bring to life the culture of America's first peoples. Recounted from oral traditions by a variety of anthropologists, the customs and ways of life of the diverse peoples blur the boundaries between myths and reality and remind us of a time when nature held exceptional power and those who forsook it were regarded as fools.

This report includes evidence from the pre-Roman (Iron Age II) period in the region of Segovia based on fieldwork carried out in the 1980s. It brings together information from various museum collections, with an investigation of archaeological sites of this period and a detailed excavation project in the castle square of Cuellar. Together, this evidence is used to present some general conclusions on the different site types during the Iron Age II period, and their distribution, the economy, routes of trade and communication, defensive and domestic architecture and inter-relations with other...

¿Por qué una fenomenología del fin? ¿Qué es lo que está terminando? Lejos del imaginario apocalíptico que en el último tiempo invadió la cultura popular, el filósofo autonomista italiano Franco Berardi se pregunta por la transformación que está sufriendo nuestra capacidad de sentir, y por la disolución de la concepción moderna de humanidad implicada en este proceso. Los hombres y las mujeres siguen aquí: viven, matan, sufren, intercambian bienes y hacen el amor como antes de la filosofía posthumanista, pero algo ha cambiado en cómo se perciben a sí mismos y a los otros....

Rasputín, una de las figuras más fascinantes y polémicas del siglo XX, ha permanecido encubierto en el mito de su propia invención desde su extraordinario ascenso al poder de la corte de Nicolás y Alexandra, los últimos zares de Rusia. Hasta ahora. Edvard Radzinsky, el autor del best seller internacional El último zar, se sintió frustrado durante mucho tiempo por las exiguas explicaciones de la injusta autoridad de Grigory Efimovich Rasputín, un campesino ruso, monje semialfabetizado y místico, en la última corte de Romanov. En 1995 un expediente de los Archivos Estatales...