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La falsificadora de arte

Claire Roth es una artista de Boston que vive en su propio estudio de alquiler, que trabaja reproduciendo obras de arte para un portal web y que imparte clases de pintura de manera voluntaria en un correccional de menores. Ella lucha por abrirse camino en ...

La autonomía de las personas

una capacidad relacional

El presente libro propone una compresión relacional de la autonomía de las personas. Esto implica tener en cuenta todos los aspectos que configuran la autonomía no solo como capacidad racional sino también, en un sentido más amplio y comprensivo, como capacidad relacional, que involucra aspectos ...

De la terapia gestalt y la terapia existencial a la terapia relacional

La dilatada experiencia profesional y académica de su autor propicia que este libro desborde todos los pequeños riachuelos en que suelen consistir las escuelas de psicología y filosofía, muy apegadas ellas a las circunstancias académicas. La obra fluye hacia la creación de un nuevométodo fenomenológico ...

Pan y rosas

pertenencia de género y antagonismo de clase en el capitalismo

«¿Acaso el feminismo sólo puede proponernos una restringida emancipación, limitada a sectores minoritarios que gozan de algunos derechos democráticos, en determinados países, a expensas de la extensión de brutales agravios contra la inmensa mayoría de las mujeres a escala global? Si ésta es la perspectiva ...

Anarquismo frente a los nacionalismos

Un sector del anarquismo, al apoyar a los nacionalistas, ha perdido la trabazón con los obreros, pero parece haber encontrado un lazo bastante sólido con la clase media y el nacionalismo. El derecho laboral se ha hermanado con la libertad de los pueblos, y las ...

La formación histórica de la cacerolada

Charivari y Rough Music. Correspondencia y textos afines. 1970-1972

Socialismo en el siglo XIX

reíces, origen y desarrollo del laboratorio socialista antiestatal en el siglo XIX

Julián Vadillo nos describe en este vibrante libro el nacimiento de un fantasma, el famoso viejo topo, uno de los fundamentales movimientos de masas de los últimos siglos: el socialismo, en todas sus vertientes. La base ideológica del movimiento obrero. El discurso esencial de todos ...

La España moderna (1889-1914)

aproximaciones literarias y lingüísticas a una revista cultural

Este libro presenta diferentes aproximaciones a La España Moderna (1889-1914), la gran revista cultural del fin de siglo español, dirigida por José Lázaro Galdiano, en cuyas páginas colaboraron autores como Emilia Pardo Bazán, Menéndez Pelayo, Clarín o Unamuno. La literatura de viajeros y ensayistas que ...

El arte de la subversión en la España inquisitorial

Fernando de Rojas y Francisco Delicado (con dos notas sobre Cervantes)

Algunos estudiosos han detectado un elemento subversivo en la visión corrosiva que Fernando de Rojas y Francisco Delicado dejaron traslucir, en La Celestina (1499) y La Lozana andaluza (1530), sobre la sociedad cristiana en que tuvieron que vivir. Este libro va más allá de tales ...

Constituent assemblies

Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus came from the study of the American and French constituent assemblies in the late eighteenth century ...

The shaping of EU competition law

Based on a unique and comprehensive database, The Shaping of EU Competition Law combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to shed light on the evolution of EU competition law. It brings a new perspective to some of the most topical issues in the field including due ...

Big copyright versus the people

how major content providers are destroying creativity and how to stop them

When the idea of copyright was enshrined in the Constitution it was intended to induce citizens to create. Today, however, copyright has morphed into a system that offers the bulk of its protection to a select number of major corporate content providers (or Big Copyright ...

The logics of gender ustice

state action on women's rights around the world

When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on ...

Red tape

managing excess in Law, regulation and the courts

Red Tape tells the sometimes astonishing story of the making of laws, both good and bad, the recent explosion in rule making, and the failure of repeated attempts to rationalise the statute books - even governments themselves are concerned about the increasing number and complexity of ...

Sveriges Riksbank and the history of central banking

Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks around the world. Chapters ...

Intellectual property and new International economic order

oligopoly, regulation, and wealth redistribution in the global knowledge economy

In economic sectors crucial to human welfare – agriculture, education, and medicine – a small number of firms control global markets, primarily by enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights incorporated into trade agreements made in the 1980s onward. Such rights include patents on seeds and medicines, copyrights for ...

The growth of shadow banking

a comparative and institutional analysis

The 'shadow banking system' refers to a system of credit-provision occurring outside of the official regulatory perimeter of commercial banks. Facilitated by securitization vehicles, mutual funds, hedge funds, investment banks and mortgage companies, the function and regulation of these shadow banking institutions has come under ...

Political capitalism

how economic and political power is made and maintained

Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of political ...

Modern evolutionary economics

an overview

Evolutionary economics sees the economy as always in motion with change being driven largely by continuing innovation. This approach to economics, heavily influenced by the work of Joseph Schumpeter, saw a revival as an alternative way of thinking about economic advancement as a result of ...

Random sets in econometrics

Random set theory is a fascinating branch of mathematics that amalgamates techniques from topology, convex geometry, and probability theory. Social scientists routinely conduct empirical work with data and modelling assumptions that reveal a set to which the parameter of interest belongs, but not its exact ...