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Leave me alone and I'll make you rich

how the bourgeois deal enriched the world

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith’s puzzle of the ...

The Napoleonic Wars

A Global History

Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia ...

The Human Factor

Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War

In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the ...

The End of Love

A Sociology of Negative Relations

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at ...

Crude Intentions

How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World

Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it matters: President Trump's businesses struck deals with oligarchs and sold property to ...

El español de América: morfosintaxis histórica y variación

El Español de América: morfosintaxis histórica y variación aborda investigaciones y retos actuales para conocer la historia de la morfología y la sintaxis del español americano. Para ello, un conjunto selecto de investigadores internacionales ofrece los resultados de sus estudios más recientes en torno a ...

The privatized state

Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State ...

El testamento de Juan Sebastián Elcano (1526)

palabras para un autorretrato

El testamento de Elcano es un prisma poliédrico y lenticular, inscrito de 7.216 palabras y 30.381 letras. Son voces, pensamientos y trozos cristalinos del alma de Elcano, facetas microscópicas que encarnan el músculo de su personalidad. La lectura minuciosa del facsímil hace pujante ...

Tra geografia e storiografia

El volumen constituye el nº 5 de la Colección Monografías de GAHIA, centrada en el estudio de la geografía y la historiografía antiguas. Reúne una colección de estudios presentados en el Seminario de GAHIA celebrado en Roma (Universita di Roma La Sapienza) el 23 de ...

Privilege and punishment

how race and class matter in criminal court

The number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded ...

Casos prácticos de farmacoterapia para farmacéuticos

El objetivo de este manual es disponer de un material original, basado en la práctica real y con la suficiente calidad, para la consecución de competencias y destrezas en la evaluación de la farmacoterapia. Este manual permitirá potenciar el aprendizaje autónomo de los alumnos del ...

The mismeasure of progress

economic growth and its critics

Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that endless economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, is not only possible but actually essential for the flourishing of civilization remains ...

How to save a constitutional democracy

Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In the United States, the tenure of Donald Trump has seemed decisive turning point for many. What kind of president intimidates jurors, calls ...

The referendum and other essays on constitutional politics

Until recently, referendums were little used. After the Scottish independence and Brexit referendums, they have come to the fore as a mechanism with the potential to disrupt the status quo and radically change political direction. This book looks at the historical development of the referendum ...

How to do things with legal doctrine

Legal doctrine—the creation of doctrinal concepts, arguments, and legal regimes built on the foundation of written law—is the currency of contemporary law. Yet law students, lawyers, and judges often take doctrine for granted, without asking even the most basic questions. How to Do ...

Probable justice

risk, insurance, and the welfare state

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same time, it affects nearly every ...

The limits of party congress and lawmaking in a polarized era

To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they ...

La primera filosofía moderna

el Renacimiento

Este volumen describe con firmeza la historia de las ideas de los precursores de la Modernidad y su lucha contra sus perseguidores. Esta contienda todavía no ha terminado y nosotros somos sus herederos. Tras una detallada historia de las ideas del Renacimiento, este libro destila ...

Argumentación jurídica

La argumentación jurídica ocupa un lugar privilegiado en las reflexiones teóricas sobre el derecho. Pese a ello, son pocas las obras que exponen con claridad y objetividad los principales temas que le atañen. Alejandro Nava Tovar, distinguido investigador del INACIPE, se da a la tarea ...

Derecho penal y neurociencia

¿Podrá la ciencia transformar la perspectiva clásica del Derecho penal? ¿Podremos comprender por completo el comportamiento humano cuando develemos los misterios del encéfalo? "Derecho Penal y neurociencia" es un libro que explora la relación entre el derecho y las ciencias encargadas de analizar el sistema ...