A couple is invited to the home of a professor and his sharp-tongued wife, and are treated to verbal battles by their hosts.

Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link--one text--bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an engagement...

When party-crashing birds ruin Marigold's magic act during his otherwise perfect birthday party, he makes all of his guests disappear before recalling the magic words to bring them back.

"When the biggest pizza tycoon in the universe tells them the secret location of a cheese that's literally to die for, the crew jumps at the chance to take their pizza to the next level. But as they venture among the curds, they find more adventure than they bargained for. Space slugs, sandstorms, and culinary critics are just some of the dangers that the crew will have to overcome together if they want to throw the most amazing, most intergalactically...

A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.

A timely cannon blast at the right-wing media machine and how it subverts the principles of democratic representation. Talk radio has done an end run around the voting populace. With Rush Limbaugh now the unofficial leader of the Republican Party and the far right controlling the five major syndicates, conservatives have a disproportionate voice in the medium-even in liberal cities such as New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Writing with his characteristic...

Los partidos políticos son los agentes que transforman las demandas sociales en acción política, siendo los PRINCIPALES MEDIADORES ENTRE LA SOCIEDAD Y EL ESTADO y la más importante de las formas institucionalizadas de participación política.

Tener presente lo que heredamos del siglo pasado puede ayudarnos a comprender mejor nuestra realidad social y sobre todo a situarnos en el espacio público actual de México, señala Jorge Rendón Alarcón. Esta idea constituye el aliento original que dio lugar a "Sociedad y conflicto en el estado de Guerrero, 1911-1995", donde se muestra que la historia política de la entidad sólo puede ser comprendida en el contexto del régimen político que...

En este libro se analizan las consecuencias de la obtención del derecho de voto a las mujeres, sobre un área fundamental de su agenda política, para la época: la asistencia social al conjunto materno-infantil en dos países latinoamericanos, México y Argentina. Una obra indispensable para entender el presente.

Algunos gestos de rebeldía de Diego Maradona se vieron en los enfrentamientos con el presidente del Barcelona, José Luis Núñez, plenipotenciario constructor catalán poco acostumbrado a desplantes como el que le ofrendó cuando no lo dejaba ir a un partido en Alemania por el retiro de Paul Breitner. Lo sufrió Eduardo Duhalde, gobernador de la provincia de Buenos Aires y luego presidente la Nación, Mauricio Macri, en su carácter de presidente...