Libros de

A-tienda

Dirección y gestión del punto de venta

El sector de la distribución comercial minorista ha experimentado una gran transformación en las últimas décadas de forma que ha afectado a su propia estructura: el protagonismo del comercio independiente de los centros y los barrios de las ciudades y pueblos se ha debilitado y ...

Ciencia, tecnología y startups

La innovación tecnológica descansa sobre tres pilares: investigación pública, empresas y startups, que a su vez son las bases del nuevo desarrollo económico. Este libro explica cómo se crea la tecnología, cómo evoluciona, para qué la usamos, hacia dónde se dirige y qué podemos esperar ...

Una aventura periodística

nuevo paseo por la Alcarria de Cela

En 1946, Camilo José Cela emprendió una andadura de la que dio testimonio en un libro que se convertiría en uno de los títulos más relevantes de su trayectoria y en un clásico indiscutible de nuestra literatura: Viaje a la Alcarria. Justo setenta años después ...

El Síndrome de Ulises

contra la deshumanización de la migración

Emigrar se está convirtiendo hoy para millones de personas en un proceso que posee unos niveles de estrés tan intensos que superan la capacidad de adaptación de los seres humanos. Estas personas son las candidatas a padecer el Síndrome del Inmigrante con Estrés Crónico y ...

El conocimiento posthumano

Las aceleraciones sistemáticas del capitalismo tardío y los rápidos avances de nuestro conocimiento de sistemas vivos, sus códigos genéticos y algorítmicos, han desdibujado los límites de lo humano, y han puesto en cuestión el objeto clásico de estudio de las Humanidades. Junto con este declive ...

¿Con qué sueñan los niños?

el inconsciente y el deseo en su primera edad

«Sandy apenas es una fobia. Como dice Lacan […], es un inicio de fobia. Es un esbozo. Hubiera podido ser una fobia y luego, antes de fulgurar, desaparece, se apaga. Para emplear otra metáfora, es una fobia que no cristalizó. Podemos preguntarnos por qué. ¿No hay ...

Paco y el hip-hop

Libro musical

Vuelven Paco y sus colegas, un grupo de animales muy simpáticos que nos invitan a conocer los estilos musicales más emblemáticos de todo el mundo. En este caso nos trasladamos al Bronx neoyorkino para descubrir los orígenes del hip-hop, bailar breakdance y rapear. Títulos de ...

Redfern y Hunter sobre Arbitraje internacional

Este libro es una guía esencial para los jóvenes abogados, árbitros y estudiantes interesados en la materia. Contiene información sobre redacción de las cláusulas arbitrales, la ejecución de los laudos, y otras tareas de la práctica. Brinda información actualizada desde la experiencia de los autores ...

The origins of informality

why the legal foundations of global governance are shifting, and why it matters

The legal foundations of global governance are shifting. In addition to traditional instruments for resolving cross-border problems, such as treaties and formal international organizations, policy-makers are turning increasingly to informal agreements and organizations like the Group of Twenty, the Financial Stability Board, and the Asia ...

Liberalism without perfection

A growing number of political philosophers favour a view called liberal perfectionism. According to this view, liberal political morality is characterised by a commitment to helping individuals lead autonomous lives and making other valuable choices. In this book Jonathan Quong rejects this widely held view ...

The metamorphosis of criminal justice

a comparative account

In The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice, Jacqueline S. Hodgson focuses on the potentially radical and fundamental changes taking place within criminal justice in Britain and in France and the ways that these are driven by wider domestic, European or international concerns. This metamorphosis away from ...

Introduction to company law

Since the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 the role of the company in society, especially the role of publicly traded companies, has acquired a political salience that was largely absent in the decades before the crisis. This concern has been reflected in both enhanced ...

Modern social contract theory

Modern Social Contract Theory provides an exposition and evaluation of major work in social contract theory from 1950 to the present. It locates the central themes of that theory in the intellectual legacy of utilitarianism, particularly the problems of defining principles of justice and of ...

Just property

a history in the Latin West. Vol.III: Property in an age of ideologies

This third and concluding volume of Just Property brings critical accounts of property right up to the present. The book is made up of five pairs of chapters located in five major ideological traditions of modernity: liberalism, libertarianism, social democracy, conservatism, and feminism. As before ...

The great devaluation

how to embrace, prepare, and profit from the coming global monetary reset

The Great Devaluation is the #1 bestselling book that explains why the real crisis facing the world today is not the Coronavirus. The real crisis facing the world is explosive government debt and deficits. Governments are now left with no choice but to spend more ...

Mussolini's War

Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British ...

Eliezer Eilburg

The Ten Questions and Memoir of a Renaissance Jewish Skeptic

Before the Enlightenment, before Spinoza had rejected traditional beliefs about the Bible, came the humanistic sceptics of the Renaissance. Alongside oft-cited Christian thinkers, Eliezer Eilburg now takes his rightful place. Comparable in view to Christopher Marlowe or Noël Journet, Eilburg perhaps uniquely represents the possibilities ...

Impact

reshaping capitalism to drive real change

Throughout the world, capitalism and democracy are being challenged with great force. The world must change, but we cannot change it by throwing money at old ideas that no longer work. We need a new path to a new world where inequality is shrinking, where ...

Against free speech

This book examines the renewed and vociferous defence of free speech witnessed in relation to a number of recent events, including the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Brexit and Trump campaigns, and recent campus politics. Anthony Leaker argues that the defence of free speech has played ...

The possibility of norms

social practice beyond morals and causes

What defines the social practices we currently call norms? They make theft forbidden, eating with a fork advisable, and paintings beautiful. Norms are commonly thought of as moral justifications for doing one thing and not doing another. They are also described in terms of their ...