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The most important thing illuminated

Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to general readers. In this edition, Marks's wisdom is joined by the comments, insights ...

Marxism an philosophy

In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a ...

Welcome to the desert of the real

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. i ek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most ...

Wittgenstein

arte y filosofía

Wittgenstein mantuvo a lo largo de su vida una relación estrecha y tensa con las artes. Crecido en el seno de una familia de la alta burguesía vienesa que ejercía el mecenazgo, él mismo estaba dotado de cierto talento artístico, aunque se consideraba carente de ...

Capitalism, socialims, ecology

In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work and the structure of the workforce, Gorz ...

Sonetos y querellas de una amante

Quizá una de las obras que han levantado más querellas críticas, los Sonetos shakesperianos permanecen, y posiblemente permanecerán, rodeados de un misterioso halo biográfico que añade mayor densidad a su ya de por sí extraordinaria materia poética. ¿Quién era el narrador implícito de los Sonetos ...

The spirit of terrorism

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context ...

Infinitely demanding

ethics of commitment, politics of resistance

The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform ...

Métrica, rima y oralidad en el Libro del Buen Amor

El presente volumen pretende aportar nuevos resultados al ámbito científico de la Fonética y fonología históricas a partir del estudio del texto «Libro de Buen Amor», de Juan Ruiz Arcipreste de Hita, una de las obras cumbres de la literatura castellana medieval. Tomando en consideración ...

Rationality and irrationality in economics

This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions: First, what is the rationality of the economic systems that appear and disappear throughout history--in other words, what is their hidden logic and ...

Universal rights down to earth

Richard Thompson Ford offers a lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities. His analysis of human rights struggles across the globe uncovers the complexities of observing "universal" principles in specific cultures. Ford sketches divergent views on how we ...

The measure of civilization

how social development decides the fate of nations

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using ...

Objectivity in Law and legal reasoning

Legal theorists consider their discipline as an objective endeavour in line with other fields of science. Objectivity in science is generally regarded as a fundamental condition, informing how science should be practised and how truths may be found. Objective scientists venture to uncover empirical truths ...

Heavens on earth

how to create mass prosperity

In Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity, J. P. Floru investigates countries which have drastically reformed their economies to create durable growth and prosperity. In a series of cases studies the author considers the measures that led Chile, New Zealand, China or the ...

Why nations fail

the origins of power, prosperity and poverty

This is a provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory ...

Época de incertidumbres

ensayo sobre el federalismo y la diversidad nacional

Los desafíos que se alzan en el camino de las naciones minoritarias en su búsqueda de reconocimiento y de habilitación son hoy más numerosos que nunca. Las razones son múltiples: la inquietud, cuando no la desconfianza, por parte de las naciones mayoritarias; los prejuicios de ...

Lecciones de economía e industria de la defensa

La economía de la defensa es una disciplina económica que prácticamente no ha sido analizada en nuestro país, aunque no así en el mundo anglosajón. Sin embargo, el 2,5% del PIB mundial se origina en el ámbito de la defensa. Adam Smith escribió en ...

Doping and anti-doping policy in sport

ethical, legal and social perspectives

The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines. This book adds uniquely to that catalogue of discourses by focusing on extant ...

Anti-doping

policy and governance

The book addresses a series of key aspects of contemporary anti-doping policy. At the broader philosophical level, questions are asked about whether the scale of anti-doping activity and the intrusiveness of anti-doping policy in the lives of athletes is proportionate to the problem of doping ...

Pedaleando en la oscuridad

Cuando en 2004, el ciclista escocés David Millar fue detenido y expulsado de la competición internacional por haber utilizado sustancias ilegales para incrementar su rendimiento, su vida de ensueño se vino abajo. Millar lo perdió todo: un contrato millonario con uno de los principales equipos ...