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EAN: 9788418525599
Analyze the Rise of the Extreme Right
The rise of the extreme right in recent decades is an undeniable phenomenon. This book presents a reflection on the causes of the emergence of new parties of this family in Western Europe, as well as its consequences. It also raises other issues addressed in the academic literature on the extreme ri..
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EAN: 9788497843522
Autobiografy of a Scarecrow
Autobiography of a Scarecrow received the prestigious Renaudot Prize for the best book of essays published in France in 2008. In its pages, Cyrulnik once again addresses resilience as the centerpiece of a discourse written with vigor and stylistic dexterity. This time, the author focuses on a specif..
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EAN: 9788418525551
To Mock a Mocking bird. Vol I
The famous Inspector Craig goes on new and unusual adventures to learn more about the secrets of combinatorial logic: «I must confess that the subject intrigues me enormously. But I would like to know how, when and why it originated». Today, it has important applications in computing and artificial ..
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EAN: 9788418525537
To Mock a Mocking bird. Vol II
Mathematician and combinatorial logician Haskell Curry, in besides being a specialist in systems theory and formal processes, was an avid birdwatcher. Motivated by the memory of the late Professor Curry, Raymond Smullyan chose birds as the combinatorial objects for some of the riddles that appear in..
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EAN: 9788417690663
Fighting Corruption
Corruption has become one of the most important problems worldwide. It affects economic growth, generates inequality and delegitimizes public institutions. But even so, it is a phenomenon that is poorly understood by citizens, confused with other criminal phenomena and used politically with excessiv..
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EAN: 9788474326659
How to Manage Meetings
Who hasn't sat through tedious and unproductive meetings countless times? In business today, people are spending more and more time in meetings, and stories abound about what they have been forced to endure.
Meetings are a mechanism for action, so the need to improve them and get results is more ur..
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EAN: 9788417341848
The Democracy of Knowledge
Daniel Innerarity examines the features of democracy in the globalized world and wonders whether as citizens we are able to meet its demands. At present, the origin of some of the main political problems lies in the fact that democracy needs actors that it is incapable of producing itself. It is imp..
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EAN: 9788418914812
Correspondences
We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with whom, and with which, we dwel..
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EAN: 9788497847919
When a Child is Given Death
How to understand the suicide of a child? This shocking and neglected phenomenon constitutes the core of reflection of Dr. Boris Cyrulnik's new work.
The author reminds us that the meaning of death among children changes with age and is never the same as it is in adulthood. Cyrulnik does not postula..
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EAN: 9788417341893
Culture and Commitment
Despite the years that have passed since the author presented these reflections as part of the «Man and Nature» series, her ideas remain fresh and affect us more than ever. From her long and mature experience as an anthropologist, Margaret Mead questions in this work the essence of history as a proc..
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EAN: 9788418193378
The Last Recreations
Martin Gardner will introduce you to the possibilities of "clock arithmetic" or modular algebra, developed by the genius Karl Friedrich Gauss. Curiously, the first interested in these calculations were some Popes, concerned about the ever-sliding dates of Easter. Did these Church dignitaries already..
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EAN: 9788497841894
Body and Soul
«Happiness is never complete. Why, so often, does a surge of happiness cause the anguish of losing it? Without suffering, could we love? Without anguish and affective loss, would we need security? The world would be dull and perhaps we would not feel the pleasure of living in it». Boris Cyrulnik.
Bo..
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