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La expresión corporal en la enseñanza universitaria

¿Se puede enseñar la expresión corporal? ¿cómo pasar de la expresión individual, surgida, muchas veces, de lo más profundo del yo a una cierta estructuración objetiva susceptible de ser enseñada? ¿qué factores están implicados en dicho proceso?. ¿Cómo se pasa de la experiencia empírica ya ...

Humour

a very short introduction

Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tension within a fractious group, to display ...

The Blackwell Companion to Paul

The Blackwell Companion to Paul presents a distinctive dual focus approach that encompasses both the historical Paul and the history of Paul's influence. In doing so, expert contributors successfully address the interests of students of early Christianity and those of Christian theology. Offers a ...

Hindsight in Greek and Roman history

One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments which eventually occurred ...

Saramago por José Saramago

Este es un libro original y sorprendente, el aser el propio autor quien nos habla, situándose frente al lector y desvelando los secretos que esconden sus páginas escritas. Un libro necesario para entender el trabajo de uno de los autores más universales y comprometidos. Saramago ...

Burocracia y cancillería en la Corte de Juan II de Castilla (1406-1454)

Estudio institucional y prosopográfico

Hasta fechas relativamente recientes el estudio de las cancillerías reales medievales se orientaba hacia sus aspectos más formales y funcionales, profundizando en el papel desempeñado por la maquinaria cancilleresca de la Corona en el fortalecimiento del poder regio durante la Baja Edad Media. Este trabajo ...

El colapso es evitable

la transición energética del siglo XXI (TE21)

La transición energética del Siglo XXI (TE21): El colapso se evitable es más que un libro acerca de la situación energética actual, de su proyección en el futuro o de sus posibles soluciones. Se trata de un estudio en el que se unen rigor y ...

Preventing regulatory capture

special interest influence and how to limit it

When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing ...

Party system change in legislatures worldwide

moving outside the electoral arena

In this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: how much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections? Mershon and Shvetsova ...

Seberino Bernardo de Quirós

arte y vocabulario del idioma Huasteco (1711)

Este ensayo de Seberino Bernardo de Quirós constituye la obra gramatical y lexicográfica más antigua sobre el huasteco, la única lengua maya hablada en la zona central de México, lejos de cualquier otro idioma de su familia. Precisamente por este desarrollo independiente, el estudio del ...

Porfiar con el olvido

Rojas Zorrilla ante la crítica y el público

Este volumen analiza la obra de un poeta dramático presente en todas las historias de la literatura y del teatro, pero hasta fechas recientes prácticamente desconocido, disparatadamente limitado a dos títulos poco representativos de una amplia producción hecha de genialidades y de rebuscadas realizaciones. La ...

Tax fairness and folk justice

Why have Americans severely limited the estate and gift tax - ostensibly targeted at only the very wealthy - but greatly expanded the subsidies to low-wage workers through the Earned Income Tax Credit, now the single largest poverty program in the country? Why do people hate the ...

Rescaling the european State

the making of territory and the rise of the Meso

Social scientists have regularly proclaimed the end of territory under successive waves of modernization, yet it continually re-emerges as a key principle of social, economic, and political organization. Rather than a de-territorialization we are witnessing a rescaling of social life as functional systems, identities, and ...

Risk and rationality

Lara Buchak sets out an original account of the principles that govern rational decision-making in the face of risk. A distinctive feature of these decisions is that individuals are forced to consider how their choices will turn out under various circumstances, and decide how to ...

Better library and learning Space

What are the most important things a 21st-century library should do with its space? Each chapter in this cutting-edge text addresses this critical question, capturing the insights and practical ideas of leading international librarians, educators and designers to offer you a 'creative resource bank' that ...

Inside police custody

an empirical account of suspects' rights in four

This empirical study of the procedural rights of suspects in four EU jurisdictions - France, Scotland, the Netherlands and England and Wales - focuses on three of the procedural rights set out in the EU Roadmap for strengthening the procedural rights of suspected or accused persons in ...

Manazuru

una historia de amor

«Me pregunto si mi marido quería morir o si desapareció porque quería vivir. También es posible que la vida y la muerte estuvieran al margen de sus reflexiones». Quien habla así es Kei, una mujer que vive con su madre y su hija adolescente. Su ...

The concept of the rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights

This book analyses the concept of the rule of law in the context of international law, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. It investigates how the court has defined and interpreted the notion of the rule of law in its ...

From normativity to responsibility

What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? How do we determine the answers to these questions? Joseph Raz examines and explains the philosophical issues underlying these everyday quandaries. He explores the nature of normativity-namely, the fact that ...

Edward Weston. Harry Callahan

Este libro explora la obra canónica de dos grandes maestros de la fotografía moderna estadounidense, Edward Weston y Harry Callahan, a través de la relación de visión y deseo. Más allá del vínculo evidente entre cuerpo y naturaleza en la fotografía de ambos, lo que ...