Libros de

Sebastián Eslava

un héroe robado a España

Pasados los actos conmemorativos de 275 aniversario de la victoria española en Cartagena de Indias y tras decenas de publicaciones sobre lo allí ocurrido, reivindicamos la figura de uno de los mejores generales de nuestro Ejército, gestor indiscutible de la victoria, al que, por desconocimiento ...

Auschwitz

No hace mucho. No muy lejos

Auschwitz no solo fue el mayor campo de concentración y exterminio nazi, sino también el más letal de todos ellos: más de 1.100.000 personas fueron asesinadas tras sus alambradas. Convertido en el símbolo inequívoco de los horrores cometidos por la Alemania nazi, sus ...

Autobusito

Acompaña al autobusito por todas las paradas de su ruta diaria y diviértete encontrando objetos y personajes en cada ilustración. Solo el maestro Taro Gomi puede convertir una ruta cotidiana en algo inolvidable. Este libro es un delicado viaje para que los niños se maravillen ...

Jazz piano

un manual de interpretación

"Jazz piano" no es un libro para aprender a tocar el piano, sino que está destinado a ampliar y mejorar las técnicas de improvisación, explicadas sobre un teclado. Todo músico debería tener el conocimiento mínimo para hacer sonar las armonías en un piano, sobre todo ...

A Macat analysis of Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein's Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth and hapiness

When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics. Within a short time, it had inspired whole government departments in the ...

A Macat analysis of Ernst H. Kantorowicz's The King's two bodies: a study in medieval political theology

Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine example of what can happen when they do. The King's Two Bodies is at once a superb example of ...

A Macat analyisis of Milton Friedman's The Role of Monetary Policy

Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of all time - and his ideas had a huge impact on the economic policies of governments across the world. A key theorist of capitalism and its relationship to democratic freedoms, Friedman remains one of the most ...

A Macat analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority: an experimental view

Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination - casting new light on ...

A Macat analysis of Alasdair Macintyre's After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre's 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis. Instead, he suggested, if one wanted to build ...

A Macat analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History

Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories suggest that gender ...

A Macat analysis of Thomas Hobbe's Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on government, Leviathan, a work that shows at the very best the reasoning skills of a deeply original and creative thinker. Creative ...

A Macat analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville's 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory - and of the problem-solving skills central to putting forward political ideas. Problem-solving has several aspects: identifying problems, finding methodologies to deal with them, and applying the right criteria to work out ...

A Macta analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression: a social learning analysis

Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist, and is regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories and experiments described in his 1973 study Aggression: A Social Learning ...

A Macat analysis of John Maynard keyne's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

John Maynard Keynes's 1936 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a perfect example of the global power of critical thinking. A radical reconsideration of some of the founding principles and accepted axioms of classical economics at the time, it provoked a revolution ...

A Macat analysis of Karl Marx's Capital

Marx's Capital is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of ...

A Macat analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism

To the dismay of many commentators - who had hoped the world was evolving into a more tolerant and multicultural community of nations united under the umbrellas of supranational movements like the European Union - the nationalism that was such a potent force in the history of ...

A Macat analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and ...

A Macat analysis of Christopher Hill's The World turned Upside Down: radical ideas during the English Revolution

Few works of history have succeeded so completely in forcing their readers to take a fresh look at the evidence as Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down - and that achievement is rooted firmly in Hill's exceptional problem-solving skills. Traditional interpretations of the ...

A Macat analysis of Michael R. Gottfredson & Travis Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime

Michael R. Gottfredson and Travish Hirschi's 1990 A General Theory of Crime is a classic text that helped reshape the discipline of criminology. It is also a testament to the powers of clear reasoning and interpretation. In critical thinking terms, reasoning is all about ...

El hombre sin rostro

El sorprendente ascenso de Vladímir Putin

La fascinante historia de cómo Vladímir Putin, un agente mediocre del KGB, llegó a la presidencia de Rusia, deshizo años de avances y convirtió a su país de nuevo en una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo. Masha Gessen ganó el National Book ...