Libros de

Salvajes y civilizados

Darwin, Fitz Roy y los fueguinos

Una soleada mañana de enero de 1833, por uno de los canales al sur de la Tierra del Fuego un buque inglés navega junto a un bote más pequeño. Los nativos de la zona, mediante gritos y humo, rápidamente se comunican entre sí la novedad ...

Ritos y ceremonias andinas en torno a la vida y la muerte en el noroeste argentino

Con notable precisión etnográfica y fidelidad a mandatos ancestrales, Amalia Vargas describe y analiza los rituales mortuorios andinos en el noroeste argentino que forman parte de su propia cultura. Vargas ofrece no solo una aproximación a las creencias sobre la muerte, sino también, y fundamentalmente ...

San Isidoro

De Sevilla a León

En el verano de 1063, Fernando I, que estaba prestigiando su capilla palatina, habilita una embajada para recuperar de la taifa de Sevilla las reliquias de algunas mártires. Al frente de la comitiva puso a los obispos Ordoño [Astorga] y Alvito [León]. La encomienda –una ...

The psychology of money

timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell ...

Globalists

the end of empire and the birth of neoliberalism

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink ...

What is philosophy of science?

Philosophy of science puts science itself under the microscope: What exactly is science? How do its explanations of the world differ from those of other subjects, including so-called “pseudo-sciences”? How should we understand and evaluate scientific methods? What, if anything, can science tell us about ...

Totalitarianism

Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether. In this accessible, wide-ranging introduction, David Roberts addresses the grounds for skepticism and shows that appropriately recast—as an aspiration ...

Global energy politics

Ever since the Industrial Revolution energy has been a key driver of world politics. From the oil crises of the 1970s to today’s rapid expansion of renewable energy sources, every shift in global energy patterns has important repercussions for international relations. In this new ...

Political geography

a critical introduction

Political geography is the study of how power struggles both shape and are shaped by the places in which they occur—the spatial nature of political power. Political Geography: A Critical Introduction helps students understand how power is related to space, place, and territory, illustrating ...

A new foreign policy

beyond American exceptionalism

The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and ...

After Utopia

the decline of political faith

After Utopia was Judith Shklar’s first book, a harbinger of her renowned career in political philosophy. Throughout the many changes in political thought during the last half century, this important work has withstood the test of time. In After Utopia, Shklar explores the decline ...

Manual de auditoría pública de las entidades administrativas

auditoría financiera y de cumplimiento de legalidad

La Fundación FIASEP ha publicado el Manual de Auditoría Pública de las Entidades Administrativas, un texto que cuenta con la participación de una treintena de expertos en la materia. El libro está dividido en tres partes, la primera de las cuales analiza aspectos generales de ...

Making motherhood work

how women manage careers and caregiving

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren’t helping. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women ...

Patchwork Leviathan

pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness in developing states

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional ...

Making the cut

hiring decisions, bias, and the consequences of nonstandard, mismatched, and precarious employment

Millions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousness of long-term unemployment. To date, research has largely focused on how these experiences shape workers’ well-being, rather than how hiring agents perceive and treat ...

Caída y ascenso de las estructuras de poder en la Alta Edad Media

Durante los siglos posteriores a la desaparición del Imperio Romano, sobrevino un complejo período de fragmentación política. Durante los siglos V al XI, la caída y auge de nuevos reinos en el Mediterráneo occidental necesitó de variados mecanismos de legitimación para implantar su dominio sobre ...

Imperialism and the developing world

how Britain and the United States shaped the global periphery

How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? In Imperialism and the Developing World, Atul Kohli tackles this question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the age of the British East India Company to the ...

Antisemitism

what it is. What it isn't. Why it matters

Antisemitism has been on the rise in recent years, with violent attacks, increased verbal insults, and an acceptability in some circles of what would hitherto have been condemned as outrageous antisemitic discourse. Yet despite the dramatic increase in debate and discussion around antisemitism, many of ...

Paul

a biography

This compelling reconstruction of the life and thought of St Paul paints a vivid picture of the Roman world in which he preached his revolutionary message. It explains the significance of Paul's lasting impact on both the Church and the world. Elegantly written by ...

Secret alliances

special operations and intelligence in Norway 1940–1945

In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country’s desolate wilderness. A definitive appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian WWII cooperation ...