El águila y la serpiente

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«[...] En to dos los temas de opinion el pacto social, o el principio por el cual la sociedad se mantiene unida, requiere que la mayoria de las opiniones se convierta en regla para el conjunto y que la minoria rinda obediencia practica a la misma. Esto es perfectamente conforme con el principio de igualdad de derechos, porque, en primer lugar, todo hombre tiene derecho a dar una opinion, pero ningun hombre tiene derecho a que su opinion gobierne a los demas. [...]»

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

This Historical Atlas of Spain is an enjoyable and accessible guide that begins in the first millennium BC and ends in the 21st century. With a very tight narrative approach, it synthesizes the political, social, economic, and cultural development of Spain with numerous maps, photographs and illustrations that help us understand what we were and where we have arrived. The breadth of the topics covered, as well as its expositional precision, makes it an indispensable tool for the study of our history.