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Pensamiento crítico para Dummies

Hoy en día estamos expuestos a una enorme sobreinformación y por eso es más importante que nunca ser capaces de analizar, entender y evaluar los conocimientos que nos llegan. Y eso es lo que proporciona el pensamiento crítico. Este libro te ayudará a liberar tu ...

Sujeto y verdad en el mundo histórico-social

Seminarios 1986-1987. La creación humana I

El presente volumen aborda dos cuestiones indisociables para el autor: qué es el sujeto hoy y en qué medida es posible la creación histórico-social de la verdad. El filósofo desarrolla una teoría de la subjetividad que le permite pensar en un proyecto de sociedad autónoma ...

Le travail n'est pas une marchandise

contenu et sens du travail au XXIe siècle

Les défis posés par la révolution numérique et les périls écologiques ne pourront être relevés sans remettre en cause l'assimilation du travail et de la nature à des marchandises, qui s'est imposée depuis l'avènement du capitalisme. Les statuts professionnels qui ont résisté ...

Prima lezione sulla giustizia penale

Giudicare: un compito necessario e impossibile. Necessario perché una società non può lasciare senza conseguenze comportamenti incompatibili con la sua ordinata sopravvivenza. Impossibile perché non possiamo mai avere la certezza di riuscire a conseguire la verità. Da questa contraddizione nasce l’esigenza di stabilire un ...

Diritto e religione

basi e prospettive

La relazione fra diritto e religione in Italia è stata tradizionalmente esaminata nell’ambito del cosiddetto ‘diritto ecclesiastico’: disciplina che studia le norme statali relative alle questioni religiose. Questo volume ha l’obiettivo di chiarirne le basi storico-giuridiche e proporre alcune prospettive di sviluppo nella ...

Going the distance

Eurasian trade and the rise of the business corporation, 1400-1700

A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business ...

Demystifying global macroeconomics

Demystifying Global Macroeconomics (DGM) provides readers with a practical, working use of international macroeconomics. For serious business and political leaders, understanding the global interconnections in economic and financial markets is crucial for making informed and well-timed decisions. DGM takes the mystery out of seemingly complex ...

Fintech founders

inspiring tales from the entrepreneurs that are changing finance

Over 70 in-depth interviews of Fintech Founders provide lessons from some of the most successful fintech entrepreneurs that will help you understand the challenges and opportunities of applying technology and collaboration to solve some key problems of the financial services industry. This book is for ...

Making money

the history and future of society's most important technology

How much do you really know about money? Everyone uses it, but few know how it really works. Most books about money focus on specific aspects. This book breaks through the usual silos to present money as a broad social technology that serves the current ...

Disruptive fintech

the coming wave of innovation in financial services with thought leadership provided by Ceos

Throughout history, innovators have disrupted existing financial services norms to change the landscape of the marketplace. Disruptive Fintech briefly traces fractional reserves, the creation of bank currency that traded at a premium to bullion value, central bank regulation, securitization of assets and loans, the current ...

Delivering digital transformation

a manager's guide to the digital revolution

Deliver on your digital transformation by learning from the insights and experiences from organizations adapting their approaches to life in the digital world. Business leaders, industry strategists, academics, and policy makers are all scrambling to make sense of digital transformation, and to define strategies for ...

European Constitutional Courts and transitions to democracy

This book brings together research on democratization processes and constitutional justice by examining the role of three generations of European constitutional courts in the transitions to democracy that took place in Europe in the twentieth century. Using a comparative perspective, the author examines how the ...

The biopolitics of Intellectual Property

regulating innovation and personhood in the Information Age

As a central part of the regulation of contemporary economies, intellectual property (IP) is central to all aspects of our lives. It matters for the works we create, the brands we identify and the medicines we consume. But if IP is power, what kind of ...

Rethinking Holocaust justice

essays across disciplines

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such ...

Crime and criminality

social, psychological and neurobiological explanations

This informative and entertaining book, peppered with personal anecdotes, and rich in case studies, adopts an eclectic approach to studying the causes of crime. Rather than rely on one theoretical position, Boyanowsky opts to borrow from a variety of theories to arrive at the most ...

The German Federal Constitutional Court

the court without limits

This translation into English of the leading German-language work on the Federal Constitutional Court gives an overview of the court's history and role as one of the most influential constitutional courts in recent years. The book consists of four extended, free-standing essays written by ...

Prices and quantities

fundamentals of Microeconomics

Rakesh V. Vohra offers a unique approach to studying and understanding intermediate microeconomics by reversing the conventional order of treatment, starting with topics that are mathematically simpler and progressing to the more complex. The book begins with monopoly, which requires single variable rather than multivariable ...

Derecho Administrativo sancionador del trabajo

Recursos teórico-prácticos para la adquisición de competencias profesionales

El análisis y estudio de la asignatura de Derecho Administrativo Sancionador del Trabajo resulta clave para el conocimiento de las posibles actuaciones de la ITSS y de la configuración y estructura del propio Sistema de Inspección de Trabajo y Seguridad Social. La impartición de la ...

The basics of Spanish Administrative Law

This book deals with the basics of Spanish Administrative Law. The volume aims to provide students with legal terminology and the basic legal vocabulary they need for an introductory approach to the field of Administrative Law. The book also introduces functional language, which allows learners ...

Luchando por el Estado social y democrático de Derecho (1971-2019)

Tomo II: Selección de trabajos de Derecho administrativo y de Derecho constitucional publicados en revistas y libros colectivos entre 1981 y 1996

Algunos de los que nos iniciamos en el estudio del Derecho a mitad de los años sesenta del siglo XX lo hicimos con la determinación de combatir la dictadura franquista, y con la finalidad de colaborar en la construcción de un Estado Social y Democrático ...