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Revista La Maleta de Portbou, Nº 14, año 2015

SUMARIO: Estampa: · Desahucios Entrevista: · Ada Colau. Joan Subirats · Diálogo sobre una España en tránsito. Javier Cercas y Josep Ramoneda · Liberar Alemania de Europa. Michel Feher · ¿Por qué la ecocrítica ahora?. Martín López-Vega · Imágenes heladoras. Emanuela Fornari · La tiranía de la transparencia. Emmanuel Alloa Galería: · Texting ...

¡Desentierra dinosaurios!

juegos de paleontología con papel

Descubre cómo los paleontólogos estudian y reconstruyen los dinosaurios. Adéntrate en el apasionante mundo de la prehistoria y aprende cómo vivían los dinosaurios hace más de 65 millones de años. Construye las maquetas tridimensionales en papel de 12 de los dinosaurios más asombrosos del Cretácico ...

La isla del abuelo

Leo quiere a su abuelo. Y el abuelo quiere a Leo. Y eso no cambiará nunca. Un libro precioso y reconfortante que nos muestra cómo las personas a las que queremos permanecen siempre cerca, sin importar lo lejos que estén. Del autor de La ballena ...

El libro de los 101 cuentos

Estos 101 cuentos, elegidos entre miles por Christian Strich, han sido ilustrados por la genial Tatiana Hauptmann, que ha dedicado cinco años de trabajo para realizar sus seiscientas magníficas ilustraciones. Esta recopilación de los más bellos cuentos de Europa es una invitación para entrar en ...

Complacency and collusion

a critical introduction to business and financial journalism

The growing passivity and changing bias of Western journalists is widely acknowledged. Journalism is increasingly hollowed out by writers who are no longer gathering news but rather churning out unsourced information, PR texts and snippets found online. Behind this dubious practice is an increasingly invested ...

The afterlife of Adam Smith

the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s - 2010s

Mark Twain once quipped that a classic is a book that no one reads. This definition fits to a tee Adam Smith's timeless work, The Wealth of Nations , published in 1776 on the eve of the American Revolution. For more than two centuries, partisans ...

Islamic State

rewriting history

The world is watching Islamic State's lightning advance through Syria to the gates of Baghdad. For the third time in fifteen years, the US risks being drawn into another war in the Middle East despite its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. IS are creating ...

Sothern insurgency

the coming of the global working class

The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers' self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in ...

China and the 21st Century crisis

The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash. But will this be the case the next time the system goes into shock? By looking at the big questions of class struggle, global economic imbalances, peak oil, climate ...

Surveillance after Snowden

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of security . In this compelling account, surveillance expert David Lyon guides the ...

Europe and capitalism

regaining the future

The current European Union is too often presented as the perfect realisation of a Europe of the people and freedom. The present essay overturns the common way to understand this reality. A triumph of capitalism, which has now become absolute, the creation of the European ...

The myth of the born criminal

psychopathy, neurobiology, and the creation of the modern degenerate

By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are psychopaths, as, surprisngly, are large numbers of corporate ...

The power of resilience

how the best companies manage the unexpected

A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning part. A strike halts shipments through a major port. A new digital device decimates the ...

Creating legal worlds

story and style in a culture of argument

A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument. Through ...

The inequality trap

fighting capitalism instead of poverty

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the "defining issue of our time." It has inspired the "Occupy" movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression - the "one percent." But is our preoccupation with inequality really justified ...

The architecture of collapse

the global system in the 21st Century

Why are there so many crises in the world? Is it true that the global system is today riskier and more dangerous than in past decades? Do we have any tools at our disposal to bring these problems under control, to reduce the global system ...

El régimen fiscal de los establecimientos permanentes de entidades financieras en España

La investigación se ha centrado fundamentalmente en analizar la atribución de beneficios a los Establecimientos Permanentes, subrayando la necesidad de su capitalización, siquiera a niveles mínimos, como presupuesto imprescindible para calcular su responsabilidad tributaria. Para ello se ha prestado especial atención a las operaciones realizadas ...

Redefine el éxito

bienestar, sabiduría, asombro y entrega para una vida plena

Define tu éxito y crea una vida debienestar, sabiduría y pasión.Cada vez son más las personas que descubrenque el significado del éxito no tiene que vercon un supersalario o una oficina llena delujos. La fundadora del popular diario enlínea The Huffington Post explica en ...

Mujeres y guerra

deconstruyendo la noción de víctimas y reconstruyendo su papel de construtoras de la paz

Los conflictos contemporáneos tienen un impacto multidimensional en las relaciones de género y, especialmente, es en los contextos de guerra donde las mujeres se ven envueltas en situaciones delicadas, complejas y contradictorias. Este libro no pretende sólo describir el papel de las mujeres como víctimas ...

Teresa. Amor mío

Santa Teresa de Ávila

Relato biográfico: retrato caleidoscópico de una psiquis de insólita complejidad y riqueza: y "last but no least", novela que sigue la amorosa aventura de una mujer de hoy -Sylvia Leclercq, la protagonista- que , en una inesperada "misión" sigue minuciosamente, desde Francia y a cinco siglos ...