Gobierno abierto, innovación pública y colaboración ciudadana

Investigación que nos introduce en el pensamiento socialista. Abarca desde 1789 hasta mediados del siglo XIX. Estudia, entre otros, a Gracchus Babeuf y su "conspiración de los iguales"; a Godwin, Paine y Hall, iniciadores del pensamiento socialista inglés; a Saint Simon y sus discípulos y Fourier y su escuela; a Étienne Cabet y los comunistas icarianos. Cierra con Mazzini y las revoluciones europeas de 1848 y los socialistas cristianos.

El propósito de esta obra es que, a través de la lectura analítica, el estudiante reconozca el valor de las grandes obras de la literatura universal para que logre afinar su sensibilidad estética y enriquecer su visión del arte.

Provides a definitive guide to the Varela Project, for which many Cubans have worked for more than forty years, that includes such fundamental civil rights principles as political amnesty, the right to free expression, the right to free association, the right to free enterprise, and the reform of electoral laws. (Current Affairs)

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing...