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Move up

why some cultures advance while others don't

This is an irreverent and controversial examination of why some nations succeed that will overturn all received wisdom. With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectually ...

La domesticación del pensamiento salvaje

Las teorías y puntos de vista habituales sobre las diferencias en el modo de pensamiento de las distintas sociedades humanas dependen enormemente de la constante dicotomía entre 'avanzado' y 'primitivo', 'abierto' y 'cerrado', 'doméstico' y 'salvaje', o lo que es lo mismo, entre cualquiera de ...

El PCE y el PSOE en (la) transición

la evolución ideológica de la izquierda durante el proceso de cambio político

Durante la transición española los dos principales partidos políticos de la izquierda experimentaron una acusada y acelerada transformación ideológica. El Partido Socialista Obrero Español pasó de la enfática y retórica afirmación de un socialismo de resonancias marxistas a la apuesta por una nueva concepción menos ...

The Age of Trade

the Manila galleons and the dawn of the global economy

This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world's leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the ...

Textbook on criminal Law

Textbook on Criminal Law, now in its thirteenth edition, has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past twenty years. This thorough text enables readers to feel confident in their knowledge of the law, while ...

The business of America is lobbying

how corporations became politicized and politics became more corporate

Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money ...

Hitler's shadow Empire

Nazi economics and the Spanish Civil War

Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco s Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes ...

Public rights, private relations

The abuse of workers in export processing zones in developing countries, the undignified treatment of elderly people in care homes, and the dangers for internet users' privacy arising from private companies' control of their data are prominent examples of how our most fundamental interests are ...

Energy from waste

a practical handbook

Generating energy from waste is an attractive solution, as governments around the world grapple with the challenges of providing energy security, mitigating carbon emissions and disposing of increasing waste volume. It offers the possibility of recovering energy from resources that would otherwise be landfilled and ...

Applied financial macroeconomics and investment strategy

a practitioner's guide to tactical asset allocation

Understanding our interconnected macroeconomic world is important for money managers and investment professionals alike. Here author Robert McGee brings together insights from finance and macroeconomics that are useful for investment strategists concerned with asset allocation decision-making. McGee provides a thorough look at each stage of ...

American foreign policy and its thinkers

Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of United States's image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts Anderson charts the entwined ...

Venezuela

what everyone needs to know

Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading ...

Partisanos

una historia de la Resistencia

Primo Levi, uno de los escritores fundamentales del siglo XX, combatió como partisano en el valle de Aosta en otoño de 1943 hasta ser capturado y deportado a Auschwitz. Pese al carácter autobiográfico de su obra, corrió un tupido velo sobre esas semanas de lucha ...

Sex

Antiquity and its legacy

Sex is fundamental to society. We cannot think about politics, power, identity or culture without also thinking about sexuality. Despite this, the scientific study of sexual behaviour is a relatively recent phenomenon. Doctors, legal experts and other intellectuals have all pondered challenging questions in an ...

Emotion

Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and ...

Feng Shui

una introducción

El feng shui se conoce en Occidente desde hace más de ciento cincuenta años, pero siempre se había considerado una forma primitiva de superstición. Tanto es así que, en época moderna, los sucesivos regímenes políticos de China han prohibido su práctica. Sin embargo, en las ...

El molino de Hamlet

los orígenes del conocimiento humano y su transmisión a través del mito

Existen pocos libros capaces de sacudir nuestra existencia y nuestra visión del mundo hasta sus niveles más hondos, pues sus implicaciones son tales que, de ser aceptadas, transformarían nuestra concepción sobre el papel del hombre en la Tierra o, en el caso de El molino ...

Imágenes sagradas y predicación visual en el Siglo de Oro

Dada la voluntad de difusión y acción eficaz que hizo ostensible la religiosidad del Siglo de Oro, puede entenderse naturalmente su fascinación por los instrumentos audiovisuales de adoctrinamiento y la función óptica de la comprensión. El acto de ver o mirar una pintura devota no ...

Materia y materialismo

"La materia que conocemos solo forma un cinco por ciento del contenido del Universo, el resto es materia oscura y energía oscura. La materia que nos constituye procede de las estrellas que explotaron y está ligada a valores muy bien sintonizados de las constantes físicas ...

Le Moyen-Age de Venise

des eaux salées au miracle de pierres

A Venise, le niveau des eaux s'élève inéluctablement, ronge les pilotis qui soutiennent les palais, érode les rives... De pharaoniques travaux sont entrepris pour empêcher que l'eau s'engouffre dans la lagune et inonde toujours plus les rues et les maisons. Cette ville ...