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Este libro es la primera gran enciclopedia española que propone una aproximación y una guía razonada a la filosofía de los grandes pensadores a través de sus textos. Contiene alrededor de 2000 artículos sobre obras y 920 sobre autores, con abundante informacion acerca de fuentes y bibliografia secundaria. Las obras fundamentales de cada uno de los pensadores estan presentadas con una ficha bibliografica inicial, una descripcion del contenido, una breve biografia del autor, asi como informacion util para comprender la obra y el contexto en la que esta fue concebida. La seleccion de las obras tiene como centro de gravedad la filosofia del mundo occidental, prestando especial atencion a los autores de España y America Latina, pero recoge tambien con amplitud el resto de tradiciones especialmente el pensamiento arabe, chino, judio, eslavo, japones e indio desde la antiguedad hasta nuestros dias. Este libro ha optado por concebir el concepto de obra en su mas extenso sentido teniendo en cuenta todas las formas literarias en las que se haya expresado el pensamiento filosofico: tratado sistematico, ensayo, obra capital, dialogos, poemas, cartas, glosas... La Enciclopedia de obras de filosofia es una version ampliada y revisada de la obra alemana Groes werklexikon der Philosophie y cuenta con mas de 90 nuevos autores con cerca de 170 obras nuevas. Un conjunto que permite ofrecer un amplio panorama de la aportacion española y del ambito iberoamericano al pensamiento filosofico.

Intercultural Competence provides students with the tools to succeed in todays intercultural world.Blending both the practical and theoretical, this text offers students the requisite knowledge, the appropriate motivations, and the relevant skills to function competently with culturally-different others. The text provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication and encourages students to apply vivid examples that will prepare them to interact better in intercultural relationships.Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:Appreciate the impact of cultural patterns on intercultural communicationUse both practical and theoretical ideas to understand intercultural communication competenceUnderstand some of the central contexts in health, education, business, and tourism in which intercultural communication occursDiscuss cultural identity and the role of cultural biases

This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book's primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for "moral" reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete moralities. The author's fundamental account of language, and in particular its normative aspects, is particularly insightful as regards extending the range of what is to be understood as violence beyond the domain of physical harm. By employing concepts such as "coalition enforcement", "moral bubbles", "cognitive niches", "overmoralization", "military intelligence" and so on, the book aims to spell out how perpetrators and victims of violence systematically disagree about the very nature of violence. The author's original claim is that disagreement can be understood naturalistically, described by an account of morality informed by evolutionary perspectives as well. This book might help us come to terms with the fact that we are intrinsically "violent beings". To acknowledge this condition, and our stupefying capacity to inflict harm, is a responsibility we must face up to: such understanding could ultimately be of help in order to achieve a safer ownership of our destinies, by individuating and reinforcing those cognitive firewalls that would prevent violence from always escalating and overflowing.

HarperCollins UKFeaturing 250 pages of updated detailed mapping and a specially commissioned 72 page introductory section, this atlas presents a comprehensive picture of the world in the 21st century. Since it's first edition in 1967, the atlas has sold over 1 million copies. Its detailed and mapping represents a blend of tradition, authority and style. The 10th edition, published in 1999, was the first completely new edition of the atlas since its introduction. Now this fully revised 11th edition brings all the reference maps and detailed thematic information completely up to date. The preliminary section is introduced by state-of-the-art satellite images of the continents and continues with a series of maps, images, photographs and graphics which present a detailed picture of today's physical world and man's interaction with it. The section also includes an account of the evolution of world maps and of significant developments in cartography, and concludes with detailed geographical information on the world's physical features and the world's states and territories. The reference maps, produced in the distinctive and authoritative Times style, present the most accurate and up-to-date representation of our knowledge of the earth today. The areas shown, and the scale and map projection of each plate, have been specifically chosen to give the best representation of each geographical area. The maps now include a brand new map of the world's physical features. The gazetteer-index to over 200,000 place names and geographical features illustrates the unique scope of the atlas. It includes full cross-referencing with alternative and former names, geographical coordinates of every settlement shown on the maps, and a comprehensive glossary of geographical terms. The atlas includes: a 72-page introductory section; 250 pages of reference maps of continents, countries and oceans; and a 224 page gazetteer index to over 200,000 place names and geographical features.

Para esta Millenium Edition se ha generado una cartografía nueva en su totalidad. Mapas diseñados por ordenador, con una legibilidad mayor que nunca. Más mapas a gran escala de las regiones de cada pais. Incluye por primera vez la Historia de la Cartografia. Como ha representado el hombre la superficie terrestre y los mares desde el 600 a. JC hasta nuestros dias. Un 10% mas de nombres en el indice, que ahora a 225.000 entradas, un 30% mas que en cualquier otro atlas. Imagenes de cada continente obtenidas por satelite; tal como se ven desde el espacio. Vistas del Universo lejano procedentes del telescopio Hubble. Amplia seccion tematica de nueva elaboracion. La mas detallada descripcion del planeta y su entorno, clima, poblacion, recursos, economia y comunicaciones. Nueva seccion de Informacion geografica con datos de facil comparacion sobre accidentes geograficos. Tambien incluye, al dia , datos de Geopolitica.

This book examines the legal protection and management of inland waters in Europe addressing threats such as climate change pollution and overexploitation It will be of interest to students and scholars of water law water resource management environmental policy and environmental conservation

This book explores the challenges climate change poses to the endurance of democracy situating this theme within the context of the decline in global freedom documented since the early 21st century

Energy Capitol explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding largescale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium