Libros de

Prestaciones por incapacidad

Incapacidad Temporal, Incapacidad Permanente, Invalidez del SOVI e Invalidez no contributiva

El mundo de los validos

Un magnífico ensayo sobre el fascinante papel del valido en la Europa de la era moderna. En los siglos XVI y XVII observadores ingleses, españoles, franceses y de otras naciones europeas se mostraban alarmados ante la creciente influencia de los validos, favoritos o ministros-favoritos. Estos ...

Why we get the wrong politicians

Biggest Books Prospect's Best Books of the Year Politicians are consistently voted the least trusted professional group by the UK public. They've recently become embroiled in scandals relating to everything from expenses to sexual harassment to illicit parties. Every year, they introduce new ...

Free lunch thinking

8 economic myths and why politicians fall for them

Countries with smaller governments grow faster. Tobacco taxes are the best way to cut smoking. Government regulation discourages entrepreneurship. Award-winning investigative journalist Tom Bergin digs into eight mantras widely accepted by Western governments and, by talking to the people who promote those ideas and the ...

Introducción a Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche es el pensador crítico por antonomasia. Se enfrentó a la cultura de su época, atacó de forma violenta la moral tradicional y llegó a predicar la muerte de Dios. Construyó una filosofía basada en la supremacía de la vida y decretó que el ...

Shape

the hidden geometry of absolutely everything

The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be Wrong How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to ...

50 economics ideas you really need to know

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ed Conway introduces and explains the essential economic concepts needed to understand booms and busts, bulls and bears, and how economics influences every aspect of our lives, whether buying a house or what you ate for breakfast this ...

Derechos de autor en el siglo XXI

revisión crítica frente a las novedades tecnológicas

Procurando llenar un ámbito cuasi virgen para la doctrina en español es que en la presente obra se abordan los derechos de autor y su relación con la normativización de los nuevos fenómenos proporcionando al lector un replanteamiento razonado y científico de las premisas que ...

Crímenes ambientales y económicos

corrupción, crimen organizado y fraude

Excluidos y transparentados

del panóptico a la pantalla digital

Democracia deliberativa y Derecho penal

Derecho penitenciario

el cumplimiento de la pena privativa de libertad

Es un manual de derecho penitenciario pensado para los alumnos, si bien también va dirigido a otros operadores jurídicos, con numerosa jurisprudencia del TEDH, del TC y del Tribunal Supremo y Audiencias provinciales competentes en derecho penitenciario, así como teniendo en cuenta también los acuerdos ...

Britain alone

the path from Suez to Brexit

Award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens paints a fascinating portrait of sixty years - from Suez to Brexit - as Britain struggles to reconcile its waning power with its past glory. Drawing on decades of personal contact and interviews with senior politicians and diplomats in Britain, the ...

Fractus, el ave fénix

la trepidante historia de un largo viaje emprendedor

La historia real de Fractus, la startup barcelonesa cuya tecnología consiguió que los móviles escondiesen sus antenas. Con el ritmo de un thriller cinematográfico, Rubén Bonet, cofundador y CEO de la compañía, conduce al lector por varios continentes, en una montaña rusa de logros y ...

La España vertebrada

un ensayo geográfico

Hay una «tercera España»: orgullosa de su país, respetuosa con los demás, progresista en lo económico y social, que no se mete con nadie y que no suele discutir en público. Este ensayo dibuja un modelo de país que gustará a esa mayoría. A partir ...

Democracy rules

One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes ...

Portable magic

a history of books and their readers

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in ...

The Russia conundrum

how the West fell for Putin's power gambit - and how to fix it

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin's regime - and was punished by the Kremlin, stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ...

China after Mao

the rise of a superpower

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater ...

The blue commons

rescuing the economy of the sea

The sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the world's oceans, aided by global finance and complicit states, following the neoliberal maxim of Blue Growth. The ...