Libros de

Siena

The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation. Painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths produced remarkable works whose impact was felt far beyond the city's walls. From vast altarpieces to portable objects for private devotion, the ...

Las aventuras de Pinocho (Pop up)

La travesura y la magia de Pinocho, junto con sus amigos y enemigos, cobran vida en este maravilloso libro pop-up. ¡Tira de las pestañas para más diversión!

Alicia en el país de las maravillas (Pop up)

Descubre la magia y el misterio de esta historia clásica en seis escenas desplegables llenas de sorpresas.

Mujeres de la mitología ibérica

El objetivo de este libro es doble, en primer lugar, revalorizar el patrimonio arqueológico olvidado de Iberia: pequeños objetos preciosos que no fueron considerados en su momento y languidecen en distintas instituciones, o que desaparecieron para siempre en circunstancias trágicas. Dos anillos de plata y ...

Darse la mano

Escultura y color en el Siglo de Oro

Catálogo publicado con motivo de la exposición Darse la mano. Escultura y color en el Siglo de Oro, celebrada en el Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, entre el 19 de noviembre de 2024 y el 2 de marzo de 2025. El volumen y el color ...

The Chevron doctrine

its rise and fall, and the future of the administrative state

The Constitution makes Congress the principal federal lawmaker. But for a variety of reasons, including partisan gridlock, Congress increasingly fails to keep up with the challenges facing our society. Power has shifted to the executive branch agencies that interpret laws and to the courts that ...

In praise of failure

four lessons in humility

Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life's challenges. In Praise of Failure explores ...

The burnout challenge

managing people's relationships with their jobs

Burnout is among the most significant on-the-job hazards facing workers today. It is also among the most misunderstood. In particular, we tend to characterize burnout as a personal issue-a problem employees should fix themselves by getting therapy, practicing relaxation techniques, or changing jobs. Christina Maslach ...

Arab-Israeli conflict

the essential reference guide

Truly an essential reference for today's world, this detailed introduction to the origins, events, and impact of the adversarial relationship between Arabs and Israelis illuminates the complexities and the consequences of this long-lasting conflict. The Arab-Israeli conflict remains one of the most contentious in ...

Hart, Fuller and everything after

the politics of legal theory

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship - too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness. But the mission of this book is distinctly ...

AI fairness and beyond

law, regulation, and technology

This book proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions. No one wants to be the subject of an unfair decision made by an AI, and fairness is so important to society that we are likely to want to regulate to demand ...

SIPRI Yearbook 2024

armaments, disarmament and international security

The SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, military expenditure, weapons and technology, arms production and the arms trade, armed conflict and conflict management, and ...

Upstart

how China became a great power

A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored. Thirty years ago, the idea that China ...

War in Ukraine

conflict, strategy, and the return of a fractured world

The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors explore how. When Vladimir Putin's forces sought to conquer Ukraine in February 2022, they did more than threaten the survival of a vulnerable democracy. The invasion unleashed a crisis that has ...

The liberty paradox

living with the responsibilities of freedom

How do we balance freedom with the responsibilities we owe each other as members of society? Are we free to do whatever we want? This idea challenges us throughout our daily lives, from how to tackle pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates to how to respond ...

Leading the family business through succession

how different generations create value together

Leading the Family Business Through Succession examines leadership and succession in family business, showing how current and next generation members can develop the business side by side. It challenges the traditional, hierarchical model of leadership and succession in family business, showing that this approach is ...

Be data literate

the data literacy skills everyone needs to succeed

Not everyone needs to be a data scientist, but everyone should be data literate in a fast-moving world that brings new technological developments every day. It is not enough for a business to have the best data if those using it don't understand the ...

Cyberboss

the rise of algorithmic management and the new struggle for control at work

Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasingly dystopian management technologies. In Cyberboss, Craig Gent takes us into workplaces where algorithms rule to ...

Crude capitalism

oil, corporate power, and the making of the world market

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our ...

The Palestine laboratory

how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world

Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the ...