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Sobre la belleza y la risa

ensayo de ontología estética

La belleza, ¿es un modo de proyectar el deseo de un mundo mejor ante la imposibilidad de transformarlo? La risa, ¿es un escondrijo para ocultarnos? ¿O es una estrategia para buscar complicidades? El autor ofrece un repaso claro y sintético de las diferentes teorías que ...

The eternal criminal record

For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person s interactions with just ...

Francisco de Asís

un hombre nuevo para una sociedad nueva

Francisco es «el hombre del siglo que viene». Así le llama Tomás de Celano, su primer biógrafo, ya en el siglo XIII. Y desde entonces, aquel hijo de un rico mercader y de las nacientes ciudades burguesas de la Edad Media, liberadas del poder feudal ...

Dynamic allocation and pricing

a mechanism design approach

Dynamic allocation and pricing problems occur in numerous frameworks, including the pricing of seasonal goods in retail, the allocation of a fixed inventory in a given period of time, and the assignment of personnel to incoming tasks. Although most of these problems deal with issues ...

Contract Law

Uses charts, grids and diagrams to provide clear and accessible analysis of the fundamentals of contract law • Introduces students to the principles of contract law covering of all topics likely to be studied on contract law courses at undergraduate level, on Diploma in Law (GDL ...

Judging judges

values and the rule of Law

The "rule of law" stands at the heart of the American legal system. But the rule of law does not require judges slavishly to follow the letter of the law, unaffected by political or social influences. Because following the rule of law absolutely is impossible ...

A fundamental fear

eurocentrism and the emergence of islamism

The fear and anxiety aroused by Islamism is not a myth, nor is it simply a consequence of terrorism or fundamentalism. Writing in 1997, before 9/11 and before the austerity that has bred a new generation of far right groups across Europe and the ...

Pensar desde la nada

ensayos de filosofía oriental

En Kitarô Nishida tenemos representada emblemáticamente la filosofía japonesa de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Nishida vive y piensa en la encrucijada: entre Oriente y Occidente, entre filosofía y religión, entre budismo y cristianismo, entre zen y amidismo. El primero de los tres ensayos ...

Underwater cultural heritage and international Law

The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001, which entered into force internationally in 2009, is designed to deal with threats to underwater cultural heritage arising as a result of advances in deep-water technology. However, the relationship between this new treaty ...

Due process of lawmaking

the United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union

With nuanced perspective and detailed case studies, Due Process of Lawmaking explores the law of lawmaking in the United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union. This comparative work deals broadly with public policymaking in the legislative and executive branches. It frames the inquiry ...

The future of multi-pillar pensions

Pension systems are under serious pressure worldwide. This pressure stems not only from the well-known trend of population aging, but also from those of increasing heterogeneity of the population and increasing labour mobility. The current economic crisis has aggravated these problems, thereby exposing the vulnerability ...

Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice

engineering electoral dominance

Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies ...

How was life?

global Well-Being since 1820

This book, a collaboration between the OECD and the International Institute of Social History, responsible for the Clio-Infra project, examines many of the variables found in the OECD Better Life Index from an historical perspective, going back to 1820. To a certain extent, it relies ...

The cryptocurrency

how Bitcoin and cybermoney are overturning the world economic order

Not so long ago the internet was a new and alien concept. Today, the world would collapse without it. Today, cryptocurrency is a new and little-used concept. Tomorrow, will the world collapse without it? We sit at the cusp of a revolution in global commerce ...

The global transformation

history, modernity and the making of international relations

The 'long nineteenth century' (1776-1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this 'global transformation', yet it is the consequences ...

Resolving controversy in the European Union

legislative decision-making before and after enlargement

How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative ...

Vocabulario griego del Nuevo Testamento

Sumergirse en los textos griegos del Nuevo Testamento constituye una experiencia enormemente enriquecedora tanto desde el punto de vista intelectual como espiritual. Ello permite captar la fuerza y los matices que tantas veces se pierden en las traducciones. Precisamente como estímulo y facilitador de la ...

Interest rates prices and liquidity

lessons from the financial crisis

Many of the assumptions that underpin mainstream macroeconomic models have been challenged as a result of the traumatic events of the recent financial crisis. Thus, until recently, it was widely agreed that although the stock of money had a role to play, in practice it ...

La vida en un viaje

una mirada al 11-M

11 de marzo de 2004. «Esta mañana la rutina se quiebra, hoy no llegaremos a Atocha. No seremos nosotros quienes alcanzaremos nuestro destino, ni ninguno ganará tiempo en los trasbordos; hoy serán el tiempo y el destino quienes nos alcanzarán a nosotros. En el vagón ...

Paloma o Soledad

“Paloma o Soledad” nace de la colaboración entre el pintor Ramón Gaya y el escritor y crítico literario Antonio Sánchez Barbudo a raíz de la amistad que entablan en el seno de las Misiones Pedagógicas, como se sabe, una de las empresas culturales más entusiastas ...