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Anatomy of innocence

testimonies of the wrongfully convicted

Long thought to be statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, wrongful convictions we are just beginning to learn happen with frightening regularity. But very few people understand just how they happen and, more importantly, the consequences. Now, 'Anatomy of Innocence' tells the stories ...

Charles Quint

Grâce aux hasards dynastiques, Charles Quint (1500-1558) régna sur les Pays-Bas, une bonne partie de l’Italie, l’Espagne, l’Allemagneet une demi-douzaine de royaumes, principautés et duchés. Jamais souverain ne disposa en Europe d’une telle puissance territoriale. Affichant son ambitionde créer un empire ...

The courage to act

a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath

Ben S. Bernanke’s rise to chair of the Federal Reserve, the massive financial crisis, and the Fed’s bold and effective response. In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood ...

El escriba sagrado

filosofía del origen de la idea de escritura

Hay dos formas humanas de enfrentar el conocimiento: la Naturaleza y el Libro. El escriba Sagrado pregunta por los orígenes de la escritura, del libro, desde su Idea filosófica, atendiendo a los primeros indicios de su implantación institucional. Se indaga sobre las condiciones materiales que ...

Ficcionología

“La verdad más prosaica de la ficción es su origen humilde:lo social. Su gran mentira fue proclamar como un mantra la cínica afirmación de que, en la novela, cualquier parecido con la realidad era pura coincidencia. En el reino de la ficción, pese a ...

Thinking through methods

a Social Science primer

Sociological research is hard enough already-you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful ...

Patent politics

life forms, markets, and the public interest in the United States and Europe

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents impact public health, economic inequality, morality-and democracy. These challenges, to domains that we usually consider ...

Evidence of the Law

proving legal claims

How does one prove the law? If your neighbor breaks your window, the law regulates how you can show your claim to be true or false; but how do you prove that in breaking your window your neighbor has broken the law? American jurisprudence devotes ...

Futurability

the Age of Impotence and the horizon of possibility

A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing the radical change ...

Heretics!

the wondrous (and dangerous) beginnings of Modern Philisophy

This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the 17th-century thinkers who challenged authority - sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death - to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world.

Machiavelli's politics

Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the Discourses on Livy to argue that Machiavelli is actually a passionate advocate of republican politics who ...

After the flood

how the Great Recession changed economic thought

The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets-and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great Recession in the United States to the banking crises in Japan and the ...

Lucas Mitata

un escultor singular h. 1525-1598

El juicio que Juan López de Hoyos, cronista de la villa de Madrid y catedrático de su Estudio, emitió en 1572 sobre el escultor Lucas Mitata calificándole de "español, raro hombre en su profesión y facultad", al publicar el relato de los festejos que se ...

El Mediterráneo medieval y Valencia

economía, sociedad, historia

La historia medieval de Valencia comienza a estar presente en todos los grandes debates de la historiografía internacional por su aportación novedosa y profunda al desarrollo económico premodemo y al movimiento de las sociedades mediterráneas o por las muchas innovaciones en la cultura política y ...

Judicial reputation

a comparative theory

Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on ...

Thinking like a political scientist

a practical guide to research methods

Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research ...

Les quatre grans Cròniques

V. Apèndix i índex

Aquest volum completa el projecte d’edició de les Quatre grans cròniques, a partir de la que Ferran Soldevila va preparar per a l’Editorial Selecta (1971), que la Secció Històrico-Arqueològica de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans va aprovar el 2002 i que, després d ...

The politics of value

three movements to change how we think about the economy

The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires social responsibility and eschews share price as the best ...

Tap

unlocking the mobile economy

Consumers create a data trail by tapping their phones; businesses can tap into this trail to harness the power of the more than three trillion dollar mobile economy. According to Anindya Ghose, a global authority on the mobile economy, this two-way exchange can benefit both ...

Salto al vacío

crisis y declive de Estados Unidos

Desde hace al menos tres décadas EEUU sufre una seria crisis interna que afecta al bienestar de millones de sus ciudadanos y un grave declive de su legitimidad internacional debido a los reiterados y dramáticos fracasos, desde Vietnam hasta Iraq. La victoria de Donald Trump ...