William Davies
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Language
Español
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Un ensayo demoledor que nos enfrenta a una gran pregunta: ¿estamos obligados a ser felices?
Es más, ¿quién dicta qué es la felicidad? Tener o ser, esa es la cuestión.
De un tiempo a esta parte, parece como si estuviéramos obligados a ser felices. Tanto los Estados como el mercado y la tecnología nos animan a dejar atrás el malestar (y, de paso, la inconformidad) y a disfrutar (¡sin protestas, por favor!) del presente. Pero, ¿eso es la felicidad?...
Author
Language
English
Description
What just happened and how did we get into this mess?
Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making; this is not the fault of Brexit but of a larger problem of our politics. The status of political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and officials have all been disrupted. Along the way, there have been shocking and exhilarating events: the unforeseen 2017 election result, the horrific details of Grenfell Tower and the Windrush...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions-particularly fear and anxiety. This has ushered in an age of "nervous states," both in our individual bodies and our body politic.
Eloquently...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Working for the MI7 agency, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When entrepreneur Sauvage sponsors an exhibition of the Crown Jewels and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night, the newly designated agent must jump into action. Tracking the thieves' underground escape route, English locks in on Sauvage despite repeated assurances by boss Pegasus...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's hard enough to adjust to a big move -- even harder when it's to New York City -- and harder still when there's a singing crocodile living in your attic! Josh Primm isn't making friends easily, so he's glad that Lyle is willing, but their menacing neighbor is determined to rid the neighborhood of the reptile.
6) Flushed away
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he desides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, but it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger...