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Vocabulario de terapia familiar

La manera de conceptualizar y estructurar este vocabulario obedece a los criterios de la teoría sistémica por la que se orienta la terapia familiar. El resultado es inédito y, tal vez, único. No es un diccionario en el sentido corriente de una sucesión de definiciones ...

A Macat analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century. His most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, is a masterpiece of sociological analysis whose ...

A Macat analysis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable

One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally come at problems from the kinds of angles almost no one else could ...

Comparison

a methodological introduction for the social sciences

Comparison is an essential research method in political science. This book helps students to understand comparison as an academic instrument, to grasp its necessity and its effective purpose for research. For that reason the author answers three `simple' questions: why compare; what to compare; and ...

La superioridad moral de la izquierda

El ensayo de Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, prologado por Íñigo Errejón, analiza las raíces morales de la política y las ideologías, defendiendo que las fortalezas y debilidades de la izquierda proceden de su superioridad moral.

Contra el elitismo

Gramsci: manual de uso

La rotundidad y el vigor de las tesis de Gramsci vuelve a estar de actualidad, especialmente en España, donde una buena parte de la izquierda reivindica de nuevo sus enseñanzas. Pero, ¿realmente se conoce bien a Gramsci? Este libro se nos presenta como un más ...

La responsabilidad de proteger

entre imperativo moral y norma jurídica

Según la Carta de San Francisco, la misión principal del Consejo de Seguridad es velar por el mantenimiento de la paz y la seguridad colectiva pudiendo incluir la adopción de medidas recogidas en el Capítulo VII de la Carta. A partir del año 2001, con ...

El camino hacia el árbol de la vida

la clave de acceso al fruto de la inmortalidad

Esta obra nos proporciona las claves para poder llegar sanos y salvos al mismísimo Árbol de la vida y tomar su fruto sin el peligro de hacernos daño a nosotros mismos ni a los demás.

Lucky Jim

Una nueva traducción de la primera y aclamada novela de Kingsley Amis, que le valió el prestigioso Premio Somerset Maugham. Una sátira de la vida universitaria británica que, aderezada con una deliciosa y mordiente misantropía, constituye una de las obras más inolvidables de la literatura ...

La bruja

Fíjate bien. Nada es lo que parece. No te fíes del título, de la portada ni de la sinopsis. La última novela de Camilla Läckberg tampoco es lo que parece. Resuelve el enigma de La bruja.

Analytics

how to win with intelligence

Learn how big data and other sources of information can be transformed into valuable knowledge -- knowledge that can create incredible competitive advantage to propel a business toward market leadership. Learn through examples and experience exactly how to pick projects and build analytics teams that deliver ...

Industrial organization

competition, strategy and policy

Industrial Organisation: Competition, Strategy, Policy provides a thorough treatment of the core concepts and theories underlying the economics of industrial organization. In this new fifth edition, the authors use an array of empirical examples and case studies to analyse the structure, behaviour and performance of ...

Decision-making and Law

normative rationality or evolutive rationality?

Theoretical studies and experimental research in the fields of psychology and cognitive neurosciences have demonstrated the role of unpredictability and uncertainty in decisions that individuals make in everyday life. The process of decision-making in the real world does not correspond to any formal model, even ...

Electronic consumer contracts in the conflict of laws

The second edition of this highly recommended work addresses the interaction between conflict of laws, dispute resolution, electronic commerce and consumer contracts. In addition it identifies specific difficulties that conflicts lawyers and consumer lawyers encounter in electronic commerce and proposes original approaches to balance the ...

A Macat analysis of Amartya Sen's Development as freedom

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is best summed up as the expansion of freedom, Sen examines traditional definitions and understandings of the term. He says ...

History and politics

remembrance as legitimation

History and politics are interlinked with unbreakable bonds, as is manifested primarily in the use of historical arguments in political disputes. Regardless of the ideological views represented, time period, and geographical location, politicians consistently and frequently use such arguments with a high degree of effectiveness ...

Regulating (from) the inside

the legal framework for internal control in banks and financial institutions

This book examines a key aspect of the post-financial crisis reform package in the EU and UK-the ratcheting up of internal control in banks and financial institutions. The legal framework for internal controls is an important part of prudential regulation, and internal control also constitutes ...

Enforcing corporate social responsibility codes

on global self-regulation and national private Law

Corporate social responsibility codes are guidelines that companies voluntarily develop and publish with the objective of showing the public their commitment to respect human rights, to improve fundamental workplace standards worldwide and to protect the natural environment. These corporate codes have become a crucial element ...

The continuity of legal systems in theory and practice

The Continuity of Legal Systems in Theory and Practice examines a persistent and fascinating question about the continuity of legal systems: when is a legal system existing at one time the same legal system that exists at another time? The book's distinctive approach to ...

Nationalism and globalisation

This book addresses a seemingly paradoxical situation. On the one hand, nationalism from Scotland to the Ukraine remains a resilient political dynamic, fostering secessionist movements below the level of the state. On the other, the competence and capacity of states, and indeed the coherence of ...