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La crisis de la monarquía de Felipe IV

Geoffrey Parker, una de las grandes figuras del hispanismo británico, replantea aquí, a la luz de las últimas aportaciones, el tema de los orígenes de la decadencia española, situándolo en el contexto de la crisis mundial del siglo XVII: una sucesión de desastres climáticos y ...

Democratizing innovation

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratised. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users - both individuals and firms - often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons ...

Justice in Robes

How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? Lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, politicians and judges all have answers to that question: these range from 'nothing' to 'everything'. In his new book Ronald Dworkin argues that the question is ...

Minding Justice

laws that deprive people with mental disability of life and liberty

"Minding Justice" offers a comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention and protection of people with mental disabilities. Using famous cases such as those of John Hinckley, Andrea Yates and Theodore Kaczynski, the book analyses the insanity defence and related doctrines, the role ...

Saving persuasion

a defense of rhetoric and judgment

This title is the winner of the 2005 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press. In today's increasingly polarised political landscape, it seems that fewer and fewer citizens hold out hope of persuading one another. Even among those who have not given up ...

Les ponts au Moyen Age

Au Moyen Âge, l#aventure commence avec la construction du pont, avec la première pierre que l#on place au fond de la rivière ou du fleuve. L#entreprise se poursuit avec une imposante mobilisation des ressources humaines, financières et le concours de toutes les ...

Yo acuso

defensa de la emancipación de las mujeres musulmanas

La parlamentaria holandesa de origen somalí Ayaan Hirsi Ali es consciente de que sobre ella pende la pena de muerte. Lo sabe porque su nombre aparecía citado en la misiva que el asesino de Theo van Gogh dejó sobre el cuerpo inerte del cineasta. El ...

Problemas sociales de género en el mundo global

ÍNDICE: TEMA 1: Tendencias sociales de género en las sociedades actuales. 1) Estudios de género: una nueva rama del saber. 2) Avances de las mujeres en la sociedad desarrollada y sus problemas. 3) Las ciudades: espacios para el cambio de las mujeres. 4)El tráfico ...

Questions of character

illuminating the heart of leadership through literature

Joseph Badaracco argues that literature helps leaders develop personal answers to specific questions. Serious fiction provides fresh, powerful perspectives on the fundamental dilemmas facing today's managers and executives. While reading compelling stories in which memorable protagonists grapple with questions of character, leaders can watch ...

The baby business

how money, science, and politics drive the commerce of conception

In The Baby Business, Debora Spar argues that it is time to acknowledge the commercial truth about reproduction and to begin thinking about ways of governing it. In this remarkable behind-the-scenes account, she combines pioneering research and interviews with the industry's top reproductive scientists ...

The ultimate question

driving goods profits and true growth

Table of Contents: 1 Bad profits, good profits, and the ultimate question 2 The measure of success 3 How the net promoter score (NPS) can drive growth 4 The enterprise story - measuring what matters 5 Why satisfaction surveys fail 6 The rules of measurement 7 ...

Reinventing the CFO

how financial managers can transform their roles and add greater value

Table of Contents: 1 The CFO as freedom fighter 2 The CFO as analyst and adviser 3 The CFO as architect of adaptive management 4 The CFO as warrior against waste 5 The CFO as master of measurement 6 The CFO as regulator of risk ...

Alef, Mem, Tau

kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death

Wolfson is a leading scholar of Judaism. This book derives from his Taubman Letures at UC Berkeley, 2000, and it is the second book in "The Taubman Lecture Series in Jewish Studies", edited by Daniel Boyarin. This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the ...

Regaining Europe

an Economic Agenda for the 21st Century

The international economist Professor George Irvin argues that if the Euro is to survive, it needs to be run in a more sophisticated and flexible manner. Irvin believes that when the governing structures of the Euro were set up in the early 1990s, European governments ...

Blog marketing

the revolutionary new way to increase sales, build your brand, and get exceptional results

Fortune has named blogs one of the top 10 trends to watch. According to a recent survey by AlwaysOn Network, more than 66 percent of Fortune 500 companies and 75 percent of all U.S. companies are looking at blogging as a means of building ...

Adam Smith

and the pursuit of liberty

The Scottish Philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was long ago adopted as the father of a neo-conservative ideology of unregulated business and small government. Politicians such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan promoted Smith's famous 1776 book, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of ...

Historia de España

de Atapuerca al Estatut

Fernando García de Cortázar hace cómplices a todos los españoles de un pasado que no por plural tiene que dejar de ser común. Además de los reyes, conquistadores y políticos, también se asoman a las páginas del libro los españoles derrotados, los heterodoxos y los ...

Mozart

Espléndida biografía en la que Alfred Einstein plama la vida humana y artística del prodigioso Wolfwang Amadeus Mozart, el músico cuyo genio comenzó a desarrollarse desde los primeros años de su niñes y su padre, Leopoldo Mozart, supo alentar. Una vida corta (nacio el 27 ...

IFNI

la guerra que silenció Franco

La conocida popularmente como guerra de Ifni fue la última contienda que disputó España como estado; sin embargo, la inmensa mayoría ignora cuanto allí sucedió. ¿Quién la provocó? ¿Qué intereses internacionales estaban en juego? ¿Qué hechos y batallas acaecieron? ¿Por qué fue silenciada por el ...

ETA

el camino de vuelta

La crisis en la que se ha visto sumida ETA a raíz de una estrategia antiterrorista rigurosa y las reiteradas declaraciones del presidente Rodríguez Zapatero han generado expectativas crecientes sobre la posibilidad de que estemos ante «el principio del fin del terrorismo». Esta situación ha ...