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Violencia contra las mujeres con discapacidad

la voz de las víctimas

La Fundación FOESSA publica Violencia contra las mujeres con discapacidad, los resultados de una investigación realizada a partir de 73 entrevistas a mujeres con discapacidad víctimas de violencia, informantes relacionados con el tema y hombres con discapacidad. El objetivo de la investigación, tesis de Maria ...

Feminismos

una mirada desde la Sociología

A diferencia de otras disciplinas, la Sociología no ha desarrollado una línea editorial en la que se muestren sus aportaciones al feminismo. Con este texto se recuperan saberes olvidados, empezando por el origen preciso de muchos términos utilizados actualmente en el contexto histórico y con ...

Enjuiciamiento criminal inmediato

La presente obra estudia pormenorizadamente la aplicación práctica del proceso penal denominado rápido o inmediato, haciéndolo a través de la estricta aplicación de la norma vigente y la crítica a una realidad cotidiana que a menudo muestra el ilegítimo judicialismo creador. Conocerlo es no obstante ...

Mayo del 68

cuéntame cómo te ha ido: conversaciones con Gabriel Albiac, Mikel Azurmendi, Aldo Brandirali, Alain Krivine, Jean-Luc Marion, Eugenio Nasarre, Françoise Picq, Miquel Roca, Fernando Sebastián, Amelia Valcárcel

Han pasado 50 años desde las revueltas de Mayo del 68, cuando las protestas de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes parisinos generaron una onda expansiva de tales dimensiones que transformó la historia de Occidente. Lo sucedido en Mayo del 68 no puede reducirse a una ...

Idleness

a philosophical essay

The first book to challenge modern philosophy's case against idleness, revealing why the idle state is one of true freedom For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy ...

Global warming and the sweetness of life

a tar sands tale

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises. Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and ...

Renewables

the politics og a global energy transition

A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy. Wind and solar are the most dynamic components of the global power sector. How did this happen? After the 1973 oil ...

Big is beautiful

debunking the myth of small business

Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of ...

The chinese economy

adaptation and growth

The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the "miracle growth" period. This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of ...

Empire in retreat

the past, present, and future of the United States

A sweeping history of the United States through the lens of empire-and an incisive look forward as the nation retreats from the global stage A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an ...

The darkside of technology

The Dark Side of Technology is intended as a powerful wake-up call to the potential dangers that could, in the near future, destroy our current advanced civilizations. The author examines how fragile our dependence on electronic communications, information storage, and satellites is, as vulnerability increases ...

A history of the World in seven cheap things

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, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap ...

Money

what it is, how it's created, who gets it, and why it matters

By enabling the storage and transfer of purchasing power, money facilitates economic transactions and coordinates economic activity. But what is money? How is it generated? Distributed? How does money acquire value and that value change? How does money impact the economy, society? This book explores ...

Sociological jurisprudence

juristic thought and social inquiry

This book presents a unified set of arguments about the nature of jurisprudence and its relation to the jurist's role. It explores contemporary challenges that create a need for social scientific perspectives in jurisprudence, and it shows how sociological resources can and should be ...

Probation

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to probation. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice to help students and practitioners better understand the work of probation, its limitations, its potential, but above all its value. Setting probation in the context of ...

Contemporary issues in Law and economics

Law and economics is the field of study devoted to understanding laws and legal institutions using the tools of economic theory. This growing subject has become a mainstream area of study in both law schools and economics departments and this book explores the "law and ...

Commodity derivatives

a guide for future practitioners

Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets. Commodities are often used as inputs in the production of other products, and commodity prices are notoriously volatile. Derivatives include forwards, futures, options, and swaps; all are types of ...

Evidence

Law and context

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts. The book focuses on the essential topics commonly found on Evidence courses covering both criminal evidence ...

Mujeres que ya no sufren por amor

transformando el mito romántico

En este momneto, mujeres de todo el mundo sufren por amor soñando con un modelo de hombre que no existe, con una pareja ideal como tabla de salvación. Gracias a la educación recibida, a la sociedad, a los cuentos de hadas, al cine de Hollywood ...

¡Abajo los prejuicios!

En ¡Abajo los prejuicios!, Brentano defiende con inusitado vigor la posibilidad de una filosofía no sometida a la admisión de apriorismos. Básicamente, estos apriorismos, que para Brentano equivalen a meros prejuicios, son la filosofía del sentido común, common sense, de Thomas Reid y el idealismo ...