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Ensayos de Filosofía, Ciencia y Sociedad

La obra que presentamos al lector interesado por cuestiones básicas que afectan a nuestro modo de vivir, de pensar y de entender, puede considerarse una segunda edición de la que publicábamos en el 2008 con el título de Un Mundo Poliédrico. Como entonces decíamos, se ...

Brauchen wir eine Rom O-Verordnung?

Immer mehr Felder des Internationalen Privatrechts (IPR) werden europaweit vereinheitlicht. Mit dem Anwachsen der Zahl der Rechtsinstrumente nimmt zugleich die Sorge um die Kohärenz des europäischen IPR zu. Denn eines fehlt: Ein Allgemeiner Teil, etwa in Gestalt einer „Rom 0-Verordnung“, der die in den besonderen ...

Law and economics

Law and economics has become a central course in U.S. legal education and for students majoring in topics like economics, political science, and philosophy. Cooter and Ulen provide a clear introduction to economic analysis and its application to legal rules and institutions that is ...

Environmental and natural resources economics

Environmental & Natural Resource Economics is the best-selling text for this course, offering a policy-oriented approach and introducing economic theory in the context of debates and empirical work from the field. Students leave the course with a global perspective of both environmental and natural resource economics.

Using econometrics

a practical guide

For beginning econometrics students or practitioners interested in updates and a refresher. A thorough and beginner-friendly introduction to econometrics. Using Econometrics: A Practical Guide provides students with a practical introduction that combines single-equation linear regression analysis with real-world examples and exercises. This text also avoids ...

Macroeconomics

Abel, Bernanke, and Croushore present macroeconomic theory in a way that prepares students to analyze real macroeconomic data used by policy makers and researchers. With a balanced treatment of both classical and Keynesian economics, the comprehensive coverage makes it easy for instructors to align chapters ...

Business vocabulary

in use intermediate

Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate Second edition is for students and professionals looking to expand their business vocabulary. Bringing learners up to date with the language they need for business today, this book explains words and expressions and also provides practice of using the new ...

Sentencing

Sentencing is the process through which the legitimacy of punishment is declared and justified. However, it is increasingly portrayed as a social activity which should be more responsive to the pluralistic needs and values of individuals and communities in contemporary society. It will therefore have ...

Narcoland

the mexican drug lords and their godfathers

The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernández, Narcoland has been a publishing and political sensation in Mexico ...

NHS SOS

how the NHS was betrayed. And how we can save it

In March 2012 the Coalition government passed into law a devastating assault on the NHS. Doctors, unions, the media, even politicians who claimed to be stalwart defenders failed to protect it from stealth privatization and dismemberment. This summer, those reforms will be felt by patients ...

The spanish flu

narrative and cultural identity in Spain, 1918

Though once relegated to the proverbial dustbin of history, the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history sets out to reconstruct Spaniards' collective experience of the flu, and to trace the emergence ...

Historia de México

La segunda edición de esta accesible guía de México pone la historia al día con un estudio de la presidencia de Vicente Fox, quien llegó al poder en las elecciones de 2000. Una serie de ilustraciones adicionales refleja el desarrollo de México durante este periodo ...

Ancient Egypt investigated

101 important questions and intriguing answers

How well do we really know ancient Egypt? The world of the Egyptians seems so familiar to us: exhibitions of ancient art and archaeological discoveries in the desert sands continue to generate interest and amazement, while Egyptian motifs appear in architecture, in literature, in art ...

Creating christian Granada

society and religious culture in an Old-World frontier city, 1492-1600

Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand ...

Islamic fundamentalism since 1945

Featuring a brand new examination of Islamic fundamentalism in the wake of the Arab Spring, this fully revised and updated second edition of Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945 analyzes the roots and emergence of Islamic movements in the modern world and the main thinkers that inspired ...

La sublevación

De la Plaza Tahrir a la Plaza Taksim y el Parque Gezi, pasando por la Puerta del Sol, la Plaza Syntagma o Zuccotti Park, una ola global de movilizaciones se despliega contra la finaciarización y la privatización del mundo. Sin embargo, esta ola no acaba ...

Enfoque integral de las perspectivas de género en operaciones

El autor de Enfoque integral de las perspectivas de género en operaciones es Margarita A. Robles Carrillo, los autores de este libro son Fernando García Sánchez y Margarita A. Robles Carrillo, el libro está escrito en Español y su encuadernación es Rústica. Esta publicación tiene ...

Provocation et vérité

forme et sens des paradoxes stoïciens dans la poésie latine, chez Lucilius, Horace, Lucain et Perse

La présence des paradoxes stoïciens dans l´œuvre de poètes dont les liens avec le Portique sont divers révèle le statut particulier occupé par ces formules déconcertantes dans la pensée romaine. Après l´étude des origines du paradoxe et de ses transformations au cours du ...

La esencia del Cristianismo

De Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) pudo escribir Søren Kierkegaard: «Es falso cuando la cristiandad actual dice que Feuerbach ataca al cristianismo. ¡No es verdad! Ataca a los cristianos, mostrando que su vida no se corresponde con la doctrina del cristianismo». El propio Feuerbach habla en el ...

¿Qué es usted, profesor Foucault?

sobre la arqueología y su método

¿Qué es usted, profesor Foucault?, Esta pregunta, que atraviesa los textos del presente volumen, hace pensar en varios rótulos más o menos frecuentes: el Foucault estructuralista, el antihumanista radical que postula la muerte del hombre y la desaparición del autor; el historiador, filósofo, arqueólogo... La ...