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Fulfilling social and economic rights

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right. How far have we progressed; to what extent are countries across the world living up to this commitment? This book charts new ...

The three branches

a comparative model of separation of powers

The idea of the separation of powers is still popular in much political and constitutional discourse, though its meaning for the modern state remains unclear and contested. This book develops a new, comprehensive, and systematic account of the principle. It then applies this new concept ...

Democracy

a world history

At a moment when the term "Democracy" is evoked to express inchoate aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that may or may not benefit more than a select minority of the population, this book examines attempts from ancient Mesopotemia to the ...

Cultura y barbarie

racismo y antisemitismo

En la primera parte de este libro se exponen las razones existenciales heideggerianas que hay para romper el continuum de la historia de la humanidad en dos mundos antitéticos: humanidad auténtica y humanidad inauténtica; y en la segunda, se exploran las formas en que tanto ...

Light from the East

how the Science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western World

Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began in eighth-century Baghdad, enhanced ...

Beyond feminism and islamism

gender and equality in North Africa

Are women in North Africa and the Middle East 'feminist'? Or is being a Muslim incompatible with feminism? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic feminism'? Through interviews with Moroccan activists and jurists - both male and female - and by situating these interviews within their socio-political ...

Siria

la primavera marchita

El libro desgrana la parte más humana del conflicto de Siria. El lector descubrirá a partir de estas historias cómo ha sido la vida en este país de Oriente Próximo durante 2013 y la realidad que hay más allá de los combates, los atentados, las ...

Testamentary capacity

Law, practice, and medicine

Testamentary capacity is an increasingly difficult and important area in will preparation. The rise in capacity issues, associated with the increasing aging population and longer life expectancy, has become a fruitful area for dispute and litigation. This book equips practitioners with the knowledge and practical ...

The Age of the Seljuqs

From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to control of a Muslim empire that united the territories of the Eastern Islamic world, melded Turkic and Persian influences and ...

Darwin

retrato de un genio

Distintos aspectos de la vida de Darwin influyeron en la escritura de su gran obra, El origen de las especies (1859). Este libro despertó en los lectores de la era victoriana un grado de curiosidad y apasionamiento por la idea de la evolución, que marcó ...

Stories of culture and place

an introduction to Anthropology

This original introduction to cultural anthropology is a textbook like no other. Structured as a narrative rather than a compendium of facts about cultures and concepts, it invites students to think of anthropology as a series of stories that emerge from cultural encounters in particular ...

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entirely new. But for all the sophistication of his thinking, it is perhaps for his political and oratorical career that Cicero is best remembered ...

Homer

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that- while recognized as producing poetry of ...

Gödel, Escher, Bach

un eterno y grácil bucle

¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matemática, la física ...

Yo quisiera ser Paul Auster

ensayos selectos

¿Por qué hay días en que uno de los escritores cubanos más aclamados internacionalmente desearía ser Paul Auster? Todos sus textos los fecha Leonardo Padura en Mantilla, zona donde La Habana se difumina en sus márgenes. Este muestrario de su más relevante ensayística de los ...

Bayesian theory and apllications

The development of hierarchical models and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques forms one of the most profound advances in Bayesian analysis since the 1970s and provides the basis for advances in virtually all areas of applied and theoretical Bayesian statistics. This volume guides the ...

Narrativa breve completa

Pocos autores pueden compararse con la desmesura de la invención, la variedad de registros, la profundidad de inmersión de su viaje hacia los lugares más oscuros y recónditos de la mente y la delicadeza descriptiva de Joseph Conrad. Se recoge aquí en lengua española por ...

Solving complex problems

professional group decision-making support in highly complex situations

We live in an ever-changing world, where people with different interests and goals have to deal with an unpredictable future. In this world, everybody is solving problems every day. But especially when problems become highly complex, how do you know you are solving the problem ...

Austerity

the great failure

Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse. But the notion ...

La imagen sin par de Rafael Lapesa (1908-2001)

a través de mi archivo

Este es un libro, de muy personal "categorización bibliológica", en torno a un maestro, Rafael Lapesa Melgar (1908-2001), paradigma de la ética y de la profesionalidad filológica: lengua y literatura en cualquiera de sus facetas y en el marco de la historia, de la cultura ...