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El dilema de los innovadores

cuando las nuevas tecnologías pueden hacer fracasar a las grandes empresas

El dilema de los innovadores presenta una serie de principios para lograr capitalizar el fenómeno de la innovación disruptiva. Estos principios ayudarán a los managers a determinar en qué ocasiones resulta más adecuado no escuchar a sus clientes y cuándo invertir en el desarrollo de ...

Fascist mythologies

the history and politics of unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt

For fascism, myth was reality-or was realer than the real. Fascist notions of the leader, the nation, power, and violence were steeped in mythic imagery and the fantasy of transcending history. A mythologized primordial past would inspire the heroic overthrow of a debased present to ...

Ojo de gato

Nueva traducción de una de las novelas más emblemáticas de Margaret Atwood. El reencuentro de Elaine Risley, una artista rodeada de un aura de polémica, con el paisaje de su juventud, una Toronto que no reconoce, la evoca a explorar los quebradizos caminos de su ...

La autopista Lincoln

Una arrolladora novela de iniciación, por el autor de Un caballero en Moscú. Número uno en la lista de best-sellers de The New York Times y libro del año en Amazon. Tras el formidable éxito de público y crítica de sus dos primeras novelas, Normas ...

La postal

PREMIO RENAUDOT DES LYCÉENS, PREMIO SELECCIÓN GONCOURT DE ESTADOS UNIDOS Y GRAN PREMIO DE NOVELA DE LAS LECTORAS DE ELLE, CON MÁS DE 150.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN FRANCIA Una novela aclamada por la crítica y los lectores en torno a una investigación familiar apasionante ...

Animales habladores

conversaciones privadas entre seres vivos

Los animales hablan. Claro que hablan. El problema es que no los escuchamos. «Un libro fascinante y accesible sobre cómose comunican los animales».The Guardian Los delfines y los loros se llaman entre sí por su nombre; los perros de las praderas describen a los ...

The olive branch from Palestine

the Palestinian declaration of independence and the path out of the current impasse

The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the ...

Antes del colapso

una guía para el otro lado del crecimiento

Bardi se pregunta si los intentos por evitar el cambio climático no tenderán a empeorarlo, y si quizá fuera mejor una estrategia que lentamente redujera su brusquedad. El colapso es un declive rápido, incontrolado, inesperado y ruinoso. A lo largo de la historia, los colapsos ...

Redemptus ab hostibus

La ricerca è suddivisa in due parti: nella prima si discute della condizione giuridica in cui versa il cittadino romano riscattato dal nemico (civis redemptus ab hostibus), il quale, in base alle opinioni dei giuristi classici e ai rescritti imperiali, risulta assoggettato al potere del ...

Againts borders

the case for abolition

Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished. Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, which impact migrants and citizens both. Bradley and de Noronha tell what should by ...

Market civilizations

neoliberals East and South

Where does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the Mont Pelerin Society has allowed for closer study of the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions. Yet even as this literature brought neoliberalism down to earth, it tended to ...

Rebellion, rascals, and revenue

tax follies and wisdom through the ages

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in ...

Origins of order

project and system in the american legal imagination

An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a ...

Vulnerable minds

the neuropolitics of divided societies

Neuroscience research has raised a troubling possibility: Could the tendency to stigmatize others be innate? Some evidence suggests that the brain is prone to in-group and out-group classifications, with consequences from ordinary blind spots to full-scale dehumanization. Many are inclined to reject the argument that ...

Policing the second amendment

guns, law enforcement, and the politics of race

The United States is steeped in guns, gun violence-and gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been overlooked-Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun ...

Making space for justice

social movements, collective imagination, and political hope

From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today, progressive social movements have been at the forefront of social change. Yet it is seldom recognized that such movements have not only engaged in political action but also posed crucial philosophical questions about the meaning of justice ...

Gender and the dismal science

women in the early years of the economics profession

The economics profession is belatedly confronting glaring gender inequality. Women are systematically underrepresented throughout the discipline, and those who do embark on careers in economics find themselves undermined in any number of ways. Women in the field report pervasive biases and barriers that hinder full ...

Las palabras de la Ciencia

historia sobre el lenguaje científico y los hechos que explica

El término 'célula', acuñado en 1665 por Robert Hooke, procede de 'celda', el pequeño habitáculo de los monjes. Muchas palabras científicas que hoy creemos fiel reflejo de la esencia de las cosas, en realidad son metáforas que se han fosilizado, que han perdido la viveza ...

A Greek state in formation

the origins of civilization in Mycenaean Pylos

Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, takes readers on a tour of the beginnings of Mycenaean civilization through a case ...