“…Sin embargo, no he dejado de hacer filosofía en ese otro sentido de la palabra que busca una visión clara de nuestro lenguaje y nuestra vida, e intenta mostrar por dónde transcurre el camino correcto y señalar cuáles son las bocacalles equivocadas"…”

“…Not only is he cofounder of Partners In Health,US Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti,head of social medicine at Harvard, but he's also a charming, humorous, engaging public speaker whose charisma is legend. …”

“…Starting with the formal radio talk in the 1920s, this book charts the development of news reporting and examines certain staples of the schedule, such as World at One, Woman's Hour, Today, Analysis and File on Four. …”

“…El presente libro te ofrece, con un lenguaje claro y sencillo, las principales claves éticas para vivir en libertad en una sociedad moderna: - ¡Piensa críticamente! …”

“…Roman senators and equestrians were always vulnerable to prosecution for their official conduct, especially since politically motivated accusations were common. When charged with a crime in Republican Rome, such men had a choice concerning their fate. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Journalism and the rise of the novel, 1700-1875 : Daniel Defoe to George Eliot -- Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915 : Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser -- Reporters as novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890-today : Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion -- The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch : Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond -- Epilogue : the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures : Henry James to Tom Wolfe -- Appendix : the major journalist-literary figures : their writings and positions in journalism…”
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“…"Reputation Capital" is a practical guidebook with a firm foundation in the latest research from leading universities around the world; an indispensable tool for people in charge when it comes to managing reputation…”

“…Aimed at doctors, and all health-care professionals, it will be of interest to all those concerned with the increasing prevalence of obesity in both the developed and developing world. …”
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“…By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, by charting trends in film production and media reception, and by focusing on the largely neglected intersections between postfeminism and queer theory, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema. …”

“…In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. …”

“…Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms…”
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“…Moral notions are foundational questions that have commanded deep reflection since antiquity, reflection that psychological science cannot evade, because the moral formation of children is a central concern of parents, schools, and communities charged with educating the next generation. In this respect there are few domains of study more crucial than moral psychology and few topics of greater importance than the development of moral self-identity, of moral character, and of the moral personality. …”

“…El presente estudio analiza con detalle los distintos mecanismos que el ordenamiento jurídico español articula para garantizar la protección de los trabajadores que puedan resultar expuestos a un riesgo grave e inminente (tanto las obligaciones que se imponene al empleador como los distintas facultades de paralización otorgadas a los trabajadores afectatos, a sus órganos de representación y a la Inspección de Trabajo y Seguridad Social), con la pretensión de ofrecer una visión clara del conjunto de reglas jurídicas aplicables, identificando los problemas que en la práctica se generan y aportando soluciones…”

“…La Polonia que acaba de recobrar la independencia fue un territorio en el cual florecieron las vanguardias. La más articulada fue el constructivismo. …”
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“…Descartes is traditionally credited with inaugurating a new kind of scepticism by saying that the direct objects of perception are images in the mind, not external objects, but Adriaenssen shows that as early as the thirteenth century, critics had already found similar problems in Aquinas's theory of representation. He charts the attempts of philosophers in both periods to grapple with these problems, and shows how in order to address the challenges of scepticism and representation, modern philosophers in the wake of Descartes often breathed new life into old ideas, remoulding them in ways that we are just beginning to understand. …”

“…This dialogue represents Socrates meeting the charming but intellectually lazy Alcibiades as he is about to enter adult life, and using all his wiles in an attempt to win him for philosophy. …”
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“…These lively narrative poems, attributed in antiquity to Homer, are works of great charm. Composed for recitation at festivals in honour of the gods, they tell of Apollo's birth on the island of Delos and his foundation of the Delphic oracle; Hermes' invention of the lyre and theft of his brother Apollo's cattle; and Aphrodite's love affair with the mortal Anchises. …”

“…El director nos describe, sin concesión alguna, la tragedia medioambiental que amenaza a las jóvenes generaciones: envenenamiento de nuestras tierras agrícolas con los fertilizantes químicos (76 000 toneladas anuales de plaguicidas) y grave deterioro para la salud. Su consigna es clara e inequívoca: No basta con denunciar los estragos, hay que poner remedio inmediatamente para que nuestros hijos no nos acusen el día de mañana…”
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“…Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. …”

“…Es un grupo muy especial que comandan Bataille, Caillois y Leiris y que, en la mejor tradición de las vanguardias de entreguerras, se convierte en un "colectivo" sobre lo colectivo que expresa clara y rotundamente lo que un siglo de literatura venía presintiendo: "Si Dios ha muerto, la sociedad sigue siendo nuestro último afán"…”