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El golpe de Estado ha evolucionado: ahora se habla de golpes 'blandos', 'suaves', no violentos; en todos ellos, el objetivo sigue siendo alterar el orden constitucional..

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Whereas most textbooks consist either of 1) anthologies consisting almost entirely of primary source material without commentary or explanation or 2) a series of summaries of classic texts containing little of what the philosophers themselves actually wrote, Philosophy and the Good Life steers a middle course between these two extremes by presenting the ideas of some of the greatest minds of the Philosophic Tradition in as close to their original form as possible, while at the same time providing commentaries that guide students toward a clearer understanding of the rather complex and difficult primary source material they will encounter therein.In addition, the web component to Philosophy and the Good Life contains valuable student resources, including practice quizzes, PPT slides, and video lectures for each chapter.Instructor resources include test banks with T/F, multiple-choice, and essay questions, as well as discussion board questions.

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El temor es devastadoramente real. Todos nosotros -- en algún momento u otro -- lo hemos experimentado. De hecho, aproximadamente una de cada diez personas ha tenido una situación crítica al menos una vez en su vida. Sean grandes o pequeñas, las cosas a las que tememos nos parecen insuperables, pero en realidad no lo son. Dile adiós a tus temores nos enseña que cuanto más te enfrentes a tus miedos, tanto más puedes entenderlos y tanto más fácilmente derrotarlos. Partiendo de su propia experiencia, Marcos Witt lleva a los lectores a comprender con claridad el cumplimiento de la Palabra de Dios como un puente para tener una vida de victoria y libertad, sin temores.

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This irresistible companion to Marcos Chin's Mermaids in Wonderland features twenty detachable postcards to color and send or display. This collection of intricately illustrated scenarios culled from Mermaids in Wonderland enables colorists to explore and vividly bring to life a magical undersea world. This bewitching postcard book includes a diverse range of images, from mermaids riding a sea horse merry-go-round to a deep cavern filled with treasures, from mermaids styling their flowing tresses to detailed drawings of a range aquatic flora and fauna.

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Take an enchanting trip through a magical fairy world in this beautifully illustrated, interactive coloring and activity book for all ages, created by renowned illustrator Marcos Chin and filled with enchanting black-and-white line art, and engaging riddles and puzzles throughout. Fairies in Wonderland is a whimsical, fantastical foray into the world of the ever-popular fairy. Marcos Chin presents fairies in various, intricately illustrated scenarios to explore and animate with color, from early morning flights among dew-kissed flowers to lounging on leaves floating gently in a stream to a charming game of tag among fireflies in a dark forest. While the drawings soothe the soul, riddle and puzzle elements engage the mind. As you bring to glorious color this lush and inviting wonderland, you will find images of keys embedded in the drawings that spell out the answers to a series of riddles sprinkled through the book. By unscrambling the lettered keys, you will discover the answers to the riddles and collect prizes-images representative of the words and tools that enable you to solve the next riddle in the book. Featuring a heavy card stock cover with extra-wide flaps, and bewitching black-and-white line art printed on heavy white paper with excellent opacity ideal for coloring-with markers, pencils, crayons, or paints-and framing, Fairies in Wonderland lets readers of every age tap into their creative spirits and provides hours of entertainment and fun.

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A fascinating guide to the history and medical uses of cacao. The Secret Life of Chocolate is a book about chocolate. Not the sweet, mass-produced fatty confection most of us are familiar with, though. This book is about old-school chocolate; pre-Colombian, Central American, bitter-spicy-foamy-intense blow-your-socks-off chocolate; chocolate beverages made with toasted cocoa beans, water, and indigenous plants. Today there are many different forms of drinking chocolate in Latin America, most of which reflect European (Spanish) influence, incorporating sugar, cinnamon, and milk. The aim of this work is to peel back the years of cultural cross-pollination and anatomize the original Cacao-based beverages, which were richer, more complex, more potent, and darker (in every sense) than modern forms of chocolate. This book delves into the ancient history of the human relationship with the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao; it dissects the pharmacological properties of chocolate to the fullest possible extent; and it divulges the mythical and magical associations of human interactions with this incredible plant.

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This volume is a fascinating study into the macroinvertebrates found in Galician freshwaters.Marcos A. González and Fernando Cobo, lecturers at the University of Santiago de Compostela, carry out their research activity in the field of Hydrobiology and Limnology, and have also led various research projects in the systematics, faunistics and ecology of river macroinvertebrates.These animals, which on average measure between 3 and 5 mm, live either directly in the river sediment or are in temporary or permanent contact with the water surface. The aim of this work is to provide an overview of the existing biological diversity and its conservation value, in order to draw up protection and conservation schemes that adapt to the specific requirements of this type of fauna, which unquestionably represents a highly valuable part of the region?s biological heritage.The authors claim that despite the extensive census of macroinvertebrates currently in existence, the figures represent a

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La orientación sexual ha sido un tabú hasta hace muy poco tiempo. De hecho, la comunidad internacional no se pronunció abiertamente hasta 2006, cuando resaltó que los Derechos Humanos también son de las personas gays, lesbianas, transexuales y bisexuales. Derecho a formar una familia, a la libertad de expresión, a la protección frente a los abusos médicos. Cuestiones innegociables para muchos ciudadanos pero que, en demasiados casos, se deniegan por la simple razón de amar a alguien del mismo sexo. Sigue habiendo estados que condenan a muerte a los homosexuales, como Arabia Saudí o Mauritania, y otros que les aplican penas de prisión o multas económicas, como Argelia o Bangladesh. Este libro permite conocer las diversas formas de discriminación al colectivo LGTB y su origen, que suele estar relacionado con la tradición legal rusa, las leyes islámicas y también la ley colonial británica. También se refleja el caso de España, que es el país más tolerante del mundo ?solo el 6 por ciento p

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Más que un manual sobre la empresa es un tratado sobre su filosofía y sus valores en una sociedad en continuo cambio que necesita imbuirse de principios éticos para humanizar y hacer sostenible su desarrollo futuro. Empresa 3.0 es, sin lugar a dudas, un libro de empresa para todos los públicos.Los autores nos proponen un paseo previo por los clásicos de la economía y de la filosofía y nos introducen en las visiones más actuales del concepto de sostenibilidad, tanto en el ámbito social o político como en el empresarial. Fruto de esas reflexiones, nos ofrecen una definición singular de qué debemos entender por sostenibilidad y de qué y cómo debe ser una empresa sostenible.Pero el libro va más allá y, situándose en un futuro no muy lejano ?en un curioso ejercicio de ciencia ficción?, describe qué características tienen las empresas sostenibles o empresas 3.0 que han conseguido dar una impronta ética a sus negocios, cómo son sus finanzas, sus políticas comerciales o de logística y s

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Lúcido, original y provocador, Quién controla el futuro? es una lectura necesaria para todos los que vivimos en un mundo parcialmente digital.Jaron Lanier, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la actualidad, es autor de la obra fundamental sobre internet Contra el rebaño digital y padre de la realidad virtual. Desde hace décadas, Lanier ha aprovechado su experiencia para reflexionar acerca de cómo la tecnología transforma nuestra sociedad y nuestra cultura.Quién controla el futuro? es la perspectiva de un pensador visionario sobre la cuestión económica y social más importante de la actualidad: la perniciosa concentración de dinero y poder en las redes digitales. Lanier piensa que el auge de las redes digitales ha conducido nuestras economías a la recesión y ha diezmado las clases medias. A medida que la tecnología destruye más y más sectores -desde medios de comunicación hasta la medicina o la industria-, afrontamos mayores desafíos a

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This unique book reviews the future developments of short-range wireless communication technologies Short-Range Wireless Communications: Emerging Technologies and Applications summarizes the outcomes of WWRF Working Group 5, highlighting the latest research results and emerging trends on short-range communications. It contains contributions from leading research groups in academia and industry on future short-range wireless communication systems, in particular 60 GHz communications, ultra-wide band (UWB) communications, UWB radio over optical fiber, and design rules for future cooperative short-range communications systems. Starting from a brief description of state-of-the-art, the authors highlight the perspectives and limits of the technologies and identify where future research work is going to be focused. Key Features: Provides an in-depth coverage of wireless technologies that are about to start an evolution from international standards to mass products, and that will influence the future of short-range communications Offers a unique and invaluable visionary overview from both industry and academia Identifies open research problems, technological challenges, emerging technologies, and fundamental limits Covers ultra-high speed short-range communication in the 60 GHz band, UWB communication, limits and challenges, cooperative aspects in short-range communication and visible light communications, and UWB radio over optical fiber This book will be of interest to research managers, R&D engineers, lecturers and graduate students within the wireless communication research community. Executive managers and communication engineers will also find this reference useful.

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From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Everyday Acts of Design tells the story of how the university’s design school reacted to the crisis: not with despondency or despair, but by promoting a series of radical teaching experiments. Working together, students, alumni, teachers, and staff embraced hope as a method, demonstrating that it is possible to find positive answers even in a situation of imminent collapse. The case histories narrated in the book provide alternatives to conventional forms of design teaching, but also prove that education can be a site for democracy and the practice of freedom. Deprived of the activity of creating for an imagined future, design can still assert a way forward through practices of making and experimenting. Drawing on their personal experience of designing and teaching design at a time of crisis, the authors assert the value of a design attitude which, in refusing to be delimited by the forethought of designing, insists on a radical, experimental practice as a means of survival. Although a multitude of voices, both assenting and dissenting, are present in the text, the authors do not hide their own position, making it clear that their stories are not a balanced mosaic of polyphonic positions. The contemporary attack on free public education, fueled by the growth of far-right regimes all over the globe, relies on a totalizing univocal conception of ‘truth’ as a means to shut down a plurality of thinking. Against this, this book adopts the partiality of historical and cultural truths as an urgent and explicit counter-attack. Adopting a consciously international approach,the authors connect and compare their own story with those of similar design teaching movements in the Global South, such as the Barefoot School in India, and ZIVA, founded by Saki Mafunkikwa in Zimbabwe.

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Con esta guía de alimentación consciente aprenderás a elegir los nutrientes que tu cuerpo necesita, recuperarás energía, perderás peso --sin pasar hambre ni hacer dieta-- y sanarás, por fin, tu relación con la comida. La alimentación consciente encarna una forma de entender la vida que exige abandonar el concepto obsoleto y dañino de «dieta» y abrazar una relación nueva con la nutrición, con tu cuerpo y con el cuidado de tu salud.   Cuando sigues una alimentación consciente, la comida deja de ser un motivo de estrés: en lugar de comer, te nutres; en lugar de contar calorías, cuentas nutrientes; conoces el efecto de cada alimento en tu bienestar y eliges libremente cuáles consumirás y cuáles no, pues desde el amor propio has escogido cuidarte.   Marcos Bodoque te ofrece las claves —el cómo

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Descubre la tradición valenciana con divertidas ilustraciones.Un único libro en tres idiomas de cartoné para los más pequeños de la casa!

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Grecia, siglo v a. C.Un oscuro oráculo vaticina la muerte de Sócrates.Un recién nacido es condenado a morir por su propio padre.Una guerra encarnizada entre Atenas y Esparta desangra Grecia.El asesinato de Sócrates recrea magistralmente la época más extraordinaria de nuestra historia. Madres que luchan por sus hijos, amores imposibles y soldados tratando de sobrevivir se entrelazan de un modo fascinante con los gobernantes, artistas y pensadores que convirtieron Grecia en la cuna de nuestra civi-lización. A lo largo de las páginas de esta absorbente novela, brilla con luz propia la figura inigualable de Sócrates, el hombre cuya vida y muerte nos inspiran desde hace siglos, el filósofo que marca un antes y un después en la historia de la humanidad.

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Millions across this nation have eaten themselves into a prison they can t escape and with Think and Grow Thin, Charles D Angelo busts down those walls and unlocks the secrets of weight-loss success. This one-stop comprehensive guide targets your mind more than your muscles to help you battle the mindset that s making you fat. Whether you have 10, 200 or even more pounds to lose, Charles easy-to-follow success strategies and eating plans will give you the skills and motivation to make weight loss finally work. Filled with inspirational success stories along with photographs. You won t believe your eyes!

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This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book has encouraged scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to research on the management and risks of Brazil's world heritage. It is a bold initiative that brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of the Brazilian world heritage and some international examples. It stands out not only for its interdisciplinary approach, but above all for compiling a wide range of approaches that analyze various dimensions of world heritage management. Unique experience in the management of world heritage allocated to Brazilian territory, this book was written by prominent academics and heritage management professionals and includes national and international case studies. It is a comprehensive academic book in Brazilian world heritage management literature and can therefore be used as an authoritative reference source as well as a significant teaching tool.

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La Escocia del siglo XVIII fue una fértil tierra para el pensamiento y dio lugar a uno de los más significativos movimientos intelectuales de la moderna cultura europea: la Ilustración escocesa.Esta antología sobre la teoría social y política de la Ilustración escocesa supone una novedad editorial que atiende la carencia de una obra de conjunto sobre este movimiento intelectual. Recupera trabajos de Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home Lord Kames, Thomas Reid, David Hume, William Robertson, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, James Dunbar y Dugald Stewart, muchos de los cuales son inéditos para el lector hispanohablante. Esta nómina de nombres no encierra una serie de pensadores dispersos, sino que comprende a una articulada elite intelectual cuya presencia en la vida social escocesa perduró durante tres generaciones.Con los textos elegidos para esta antología se pretende centrar la atención en tres aspectos. En primer lugar, en la profunda preocupación de los ilustrados escoceses

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A partir de una coral de voces ficticias, el libro repasa diferentes momentos de la vida de Vicente Trueba. Un vecino, un periodista francés, un esprínter italiano o un compañero de milicias durante la guerra civil todos ellos sirven para ir componiendo un discurso polifónico en el que las historias sobre la Pulga se mezclan con otros aspectos del ciclismo y la sociedad en los tiempos heroicos. Un libro para conocer cómo vivían, entrenaban, competían y sentían los miembros de la caravana ciclista en los años treinta del siglo pasado.Obra premiada con un accésit en el II Certamen de literatura ciclista Un libro en ruta. 10

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