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La investigación física y tecnológica de crímenes por el detective privado y su valor probatorio

Esta obra analiza la importante y desconocida labor de los detectives privados en la investigación de todo tipo de delitos. Estudia de forma clara y práctica, en múltiples sentencias sus éxitos y fracasos, en la averiguación, entre otros, de delitos de asesinatos, estafas a aseguradoras ...

Ética y Psicoanálisis

Este libro tiene por tema uno de los problemas que la moderna filosofía moral no ha encarado del todo: el de las relaciones entre el acervo de datos valiosísimos de la psicología de los últimos años y la ciencia que tiene por objeto reflexionar sobre ...

The work of the future

building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines

Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem. The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are ...

Most human right

why free speech is everything

A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US ...

Tyranny of the minority

how to reverse an authoritarian turn, and forge a democracy for all

How has democracy become so threatened - and what can we do to save it? With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent new framework for understanding ...

The identity trap

a story of ideas and power in our time

The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have ...

Going infinite

the rise and fall of a new tycoon

From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century’s most spectacular financial collapses. ‘I asked him how much it would take for him to sell ...

Underground empire

how America weaponized the world economy

An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre ...

Becoming international

When and how did the modern world become an international one? Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century ...

Democracy in a hotter time

climate change and democratic transformation

The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward. Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate ...

Lenin

Una biografía

La biografía definitiva del creador del primer Estado comunista Más de cien años después del estallido de la Revolución rusa, Lenin sigue inspirando una gran fascinación, tanto dentro como fuera de Rusia, y ha pasado a la historia como un político frío y autoritario que ...

Derecho contratos y sus circunstancias inesperadas

El libro de Sergio García Long es un estudio muy útil para abogados de muchas jurisdicciones por su enfoque comparativo. Demuestra que existen importantes diferencias entre los derechos contractuales nacionales, e incluso entre los distintos instrumentos internacionales. Esto es especialmente relevante cuando no se trata ...

Girón, Falange y Franquismo social

El tratamiento histórico del franquismo aparece rodeado de aseveraciones subjetivas y juicios de valor polémicos, consustanciales a la ciencia histórica, pero enriquecedores y expresión del pluralismo del mundo académico y de nuestra sociedad. Sin duda, el conocimiento histórico (y su desconocimiento) tiene relevancia en la ...

La torre y la muerte

El propietario del castillo, un viejo avaro y huraño, suele recorrer sus tierras rebuscando en los bolsillos de los espantapajaros, por si alguien ha olvidado allí unas monedas.

El falsificador de Franco

En un oscuro rincón del mundo del arte, oculto tras la majestuosidad de las pinturas más famosas, se tejió una trama épica que desafiaría los límites de la creatividad y la astucia humana. En 1960, una denuncia por una estafa aparentemente insignificante desencadenó una revelación ...

Zubiri y la estructura momentual del pensamiento

¿Que es la estructura momentual? Tal vez sería excesivo aventurar que se trata de una nueva manera, forma método de hacer metafísica.

The price of time

the real story of interest

All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activities. The story of capitalism is thus the story of interest: the price that individuals, companies and nations pay to borrow money. In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor traces the history of ...

How to be a politician

2000 years of good (and bad) advice

'Always forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.' JFK'What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics ...

And then what?

despatches from the heart of 21st-century diplomacy, from Kosovo to Kiev

From 2009 to 2014, Cathy Ashton was the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, effectively Europe's foreign policy supremo responsible for coordinating the EU's response to international crises. Arriving in Brussels as a relative novice to international diplomacy, she ...

World politics since 1989

1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization - of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth - give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides ...