Entre tiempos

crónica de un compromiso político

De Babel a Pentecostés

manifiesto plurilingüísta

Este libro pretende mostrar que la actitud pentecostal ante la diversidad de lenguas proporciona un medio de conocer mejor la naturaleza humana y de procurar una convivencia enriquecedora basada en el entendimiento mutuo de las comunidades y pueblos. Va a mostrar que la naturaleza humana ...

Ciudades malditas de la Antigüedad

un misterio sepultado por la historia

Las ciudades, obra humana por antonomasia, son desde su nacimiento organismos latentes, vitales, cuyo destino y el de las personas que acogen está indisolublemente unido. Lo que con ellas ocurra es siempre lo que les acontece a sus habitantes. Las metrópolis que ayer fueron floreciente ...

Castigar els pobres

el nou govern de la inseguretat social

Als Estats Units, la dècada dels 90 va estar marcada pel procés de desregulació i de reconversió del mercat de treball, que va acabar imposant una profunda precarietat laboral. Loïc Wacquant analitza com, a partir d'aquí, el que fins llavors havia actuat com un ...

Mercadores

entre Portugal e Castela na Idade Média

Este livro, dedicado ao público empenhado em conhecer as andanças do homem nos finais da Idade Média, surge na sequência de estudos desenvolvidos sobre a fronteira e sobre os contactos entre os reinos Peninsulares medievais. As reflexões, nele contidas, referem-se uma realidade há muito esquecida ...

A Corte de Alfonso V

o tempo e os Homens

A Corte de Afonso V: o Tempo e os Homens pretende remeter o leitor para uma Idade Média preenchida de um espirito de cruzada na qual os monarcas da Europa da altura lutavam pelas experiências da guerra e da disputa, cujo principal objectivo era a ...

L. Valla: apólogo contra Poggio Bracciolini (1452) ; Poggio Bracciolini: quinta invectiva contra Lorenzo Valla (1453)

El gobierna de Dios o la historia de la humanidad

El gobierno de Dios o la historia de la humanidad es una obra recibida al dictado de la voz interior que trata ampliamente cuestiones esenciales en un lenguaje potentemente profético, entre muchas otras, las siguientes: El misterio dela creación.-Los primeros tiempos de la Tierra ...

La responsabilidad civil derivada del folleto informativo en las ofertas públicas de suscripción y venta de acciones

Handbook of gender and women's studies

Gender and women's studies is one of the most challenging fields within the social sciences - the dynamics of gender relations and the social and cultural implications of gender constructions offer a lively forum of debate. "The Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies" presents ...

Globalization and violence

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. "Central Currents in Globalization" is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours ...

Cortijos, haciendas y lagares

arquitectura de las grandes explotaciones agrarias en Andalucía: Provincia de Almería

INDICE: La arquitectura agraria en Andalucía. La arquitectura agraria en la provincia de Almería. Introducción. Aproximación a la geografía de la provincia. El marco agrario: hisotria y paisaje. La arquitectura agraria. La arquitectura agraria de Almería hoy. Inventario de edificios. Comarcas meridionales. De los Filabres ...

The council of ministers

The Council of Ministers lies at the fulcrum of decision-making in the European Union. It is a key legislative institution, an executive institution in important policy areas, and a forum through which politicians and policy-makers from the member states address shared challenges and develop collective ...

Sri Lanka in the modern age

a history of contested identities

INDEX: Pre-independence years : changing lives. Colonial encounters.Colonialism and constructed identities.National framings : authentic bodies and things.Before independence : communities and conflicts.The post-independence years : political cultures.Citizens, communities, rights, constitutions, 1947-2000.The search for equality : the left movement and insurrections.The search for sovereignty ...

Innovation strategies in interdependent States

essays on Smaller Nations, regions and cities in a globalized world

Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually ...

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology

essays in honour of Paul A. David

Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world's leading scholars ...

Beyond the regulation approach

putting capitalist economies in their place

Table of Contents: 1 Early regulation approaches in retrospect and prospect 2 Fordism and post-Fordism 3 Fordism, post-Fordism and the capitalist state 4 Neo-conservative regimes and the transition to post-Fordism 5 A regulationist re-reading of East Asian newly industrializing economies : from peripheral Fordism to exportism ...

Reason and value

themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz

"Reason and Value" collects 15 new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the work of Joseph Raz. Raz has made major contributions in a wide range of areas, including jurisprudence, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reason; but all of his work ...

Plato and Aristotle in agreement?

platonists on Aristotle from antiochus to porphyry

An exciting new perspective on later ancient philosophy Argues against prevailing wisdom about the Platonists' opinion of Aristotle Karamanolis is one of the world's brightest young stars in this field George Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining ...

Space, time, matter, and form

essays on Aristotle's physics

The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as ...