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Psicodrama del futuro: adelantando un escalón

De la creatividad a la transgresión

Este libro hace un recorrido buscando, a través de diversos vericuetos, el concepto de transgresión. Los contenidos pueden parecer trampas y desde luego este libro ofrecerá una dificultad para los que esperen respuestas claras. Hay un tipo de lector, de persona, que prefiere la seguridad ...

Spatial Complexity

Theory, Mathematical Methods and Applications

This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems. How can one decide whether one surface or spatial object is more complex than another? What does it ...

Capitalism and freedom

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for ...

Better boardrooms

repairing corporate governance for the 21st century

This is the third of three books authored by award-winning author Patricia Meredith. Her first book, Catalytic Governance: Leading Change in the Information Age (co-authored by Steve Rosell and Ged Davis) set out a process for leading transformative change, based on the authors’ experience with ...

Evaluación y gestión medioambiental para planes, programas y proyectos de ingeniería

Este manual es de un enorme apoyo para las infraestructuras, instalaciones y actividades que el hombre precisa para su supervivencia, desarrollo o bienestar. Pero hemos aprendido que todas y cada una de esas acciones que el hombre realiza pueden y deben atender a los mejores ...

International Commercial Arbitration in a Nutshell

This is a 1st edition of a Nutshell on an exceptionally topical subject. International Commercial Arbitration is a flourishing alternative to the litigation of transnational disputes in domestic courts. Unlike other subjects, it must deal with two interlocking international dispute resolution regimes: the complex international ...

Law and Economics in a Nutshell

This guide provides expert coverage of the classic issues, including basic price theory; definitions of efficiency; the Coase Theorem; and the economics of contract law, tort law, criminal law, regulation, antitrust, and intellectual property. The text also discusses less conventional topics such as public choice ...

The Law of Corporations in a Nutshell

Completely revised and updated, conversational in tone, the book summarizes all major forms of business, not simply the corporation. It features numerous examples to illustrate key concepts. Comprehensive yet concise, it addresses the theory of the firm, including the emergence of greater concerns for constituencies ...

A history of the world in seven cheap things

a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet

How has capitalism devastated the planet—and what can we do about it? Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed ...

The Progress of This Storm

Nature and Society in a Warming World

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional ...

The Force of Nonviolence

The Ethical in the Political

Towards a form of aggressive nonviolence. Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm ...

Marx

Towards the Centre of Possibility

Classic study of Marx by Japan’s leading critical theorist Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the ...

Radical Scotland

Uncovering Scotland’s radical history, from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising

The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city’s skyline but its history is relatively unknown. And that is not by accident. As Edinburgh’s New Town was constructed, a narrative of kilts and loyalty was created for Scotland, with its radical ...

Cities of Strangers

Making Lives in Medieval Europe

Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and ...

Trascendencia de la lucha por la enseñanza religiosa en la escuela

con algunos rasgos básicos de la realidad alemana

La impartición de la asignatura de religión lleva un cierto tiempo cuestionada en Occidente. El impacto de una cultura laicista apremia a configurar sociedades alejadas de sus tradiciones creyentes. Al mismo tiempo, la mayor pluralidad religiosa de quienes creen, también es otro de los ingredientes ...

Galdós en Toledo

mis andanzas con Ángel Guerra

Ricardo Sánchez Candelas es, entre otras muchas cosas, toledano y profundo conocedor de la obra galdosiana. En este original libro, realiza un recorrido sentimental muy personal por su Toledo, que tanto conoce y ama. Ángel Guerra, personaje de la novela de Benito Pérez Galdós del ...

The Seigneurial Transformation

Power Structures and Political Communication in the Countryside of Central and Northern Italy, 1080-1130

In The Seigneurial Transformation, Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century. The study analyses the major socio-political change of this period, the crisis of ...

The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory

International Political Theory (IPT) focuses on the point where two fields of study meet - International Relations and Political Theory. It takes from the former a central concern with the 'international' broadly defined; from the latter it takes a broadly normative identity. IPT studies the 'ought ...

Derecho de sucesiones común

estudios sistemático y jurisprudencial

La presente obra, "el Rivas", ha demostrado con el paso del tiempo que es fundamental para la comprensión del Derecho de Sucesiones del Código Civil Español. La fundamentación jurídica que aporta demuestra la solidez como jurista del autor y, al mismo tiempo, su sentido práctico ...

Vigilancia y control en el Derecho del trabajo digital

Visión global y detallada de la afectación la tecnología en los derechos fundamentales de los trabajadores. La vigilancia a través de videocámaras, la monitorización los datos biométricos de los trabajadores son formas cada vez más utilizadas por las empresas para el control de los trabajadores ...