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Una última visión del paraíso

ensayos sobre media, vanguardia y la destrucción de culturas en América Latina

Eduardo Subirats ofrece al lector siete ensayos sobre los medios técnicos de comunicación, la construcción global de la realidad y la destrucción mediática de las memorias culturales, a partir de temas artísticos, literarios y arquitectónicos, específicamente latinoamericanos, como el humanismo filosófico del Inca Gracilazo, la ...

A la cola del mundo

(aforismos y pensamientos)

D'une guerre d'Irak à l'autre

violence et politique au Moyen-Orient 1991-2004

From buildings and loans to bailt-outs

a history of the american savings and loan industry, 1831-1995

For most Americans, the savings and loan industry is defined by the fraud, ineptitude, and failures of the 1980s. These events, however, overshadow a long history in which thrifts played a key role in helping thousands of households buy homes. First appearing in the 1830s ...

Between politics and markets

firms, competition, and institutional change in Post-Mao China

Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets ...

German industry and global enterprise

BASF: the history of a company

This book examines the way in which BASF functions, delving into its corporate governance, financial system, industrial relations, systems of qualification, and relation to other companies in the same sector and to the economy at large. The structure of BASF#s social system of production ...

English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit

1850-1980

England was the world#s first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of ...

La Guerre d'Espagne

République et révolution en Catalogne (1936-1939)

Démocratie, marché, gouvernance

quels avenirs?

Une histoire de l'édition à l'époque contemporaine

(XIXe-XXe siècle)

Relations internationales

Tome 2: Questions mondiales

Procedural politics

issues, influence, and institutional choice in the European Union

Under what conditions, in what ways, and with what effects do actors engage in politics with respect to, rather than merely within, political institutions? Using multiple methods and original data, Procedural Politics develops a theory of everyday politics with respect to rules - procedural politics - and ...

Justice without borders

cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and patriotism

The cosmopolitan idea of justice is commonly accused of not taking seriously the special ties and commitments of nationality and patriotism. This is because the ideal of impartial egalitarianism, which is central to the cosmopolitan view, seems to be directly opposed to the moral partiality ...

Closing the books

transitional justice in historical perspective

This book offers an analysis of transitional justice # retribution andreparation after a change of political regime # from Athens in thefifth century b.c. to the present. Part I, #The Universe of TransitionalJustice,# describes more than thirty transitions, some of them in consid-erable detail, others more ...

The gender of constitutional jurisprudence

To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women#s lives, the contributors to this volume examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in twelve countries. Analyzing jurisprudence about reproductive, sexual, familial, socio- economic, and democratic rights, they focus constructively on women#s claims to ...

Diccionario fraseológico documentado del Español actual

locuciones y modismos españoles

Un tesoro del idioma, tan valioso como sus palabras, lo constituyen sus locuciones y modismos. Una conversación o un texto escrito no se pueden entender cabalmente si no se comprenden, no solo el valor de las voces que los componen, sino el de las combinaciones ...

Los 10 mandamientos para la dirección de personas

Es importante comprender cómo construir, integrar y mantener la fuerza laboral en las organizaciones. La premisa de este libro se encuentra en la fuerte creencia sobre la incidencia de la formación del directivo en el rendimiento de las organizaciones. En esta obra se presentan los ...

Equipos que funcionan

Cuando los equipos funcionan generan unos resultados extraordinarios.El directivo es responsable de obtener los mejores resultados posibles de los equipos que lidera o en los que participa. "Equipos que funcionan" puede ayudar a los directivos a mejorar sus habilidades para aumentar la productividad de ...

Applied time series econometrics

Time series econometrics is a rapidly evolving field. Particularly, the cointegration revolution has had a substantial impact on applied analysis. Hence, no textbook has managed to cover the full range of methods in current use and explain how to proceed in applied domains. This gap ...

Postwar migration in Southern Europe, 1950-2000

an economic analysis

Managing migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the 21st century. It will be even more difficult for South European countries, from which emigration has leveled off and to which immigration has become a significant economic issue. Southern Europe is close ...