A lo largo del siglo XX la sociologia se ha dedicado, fundamentalmente, a estudiar situaciones estables y hace tiempo que desplazo de su centro de interes a las lentas transformaciones de las estructuras de la personalidad y de la sociedad. En ...

'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - Independent 'A marvellously readable book ...

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read." —Bill Gates (May, 2017) Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of Rationality and ...

Obra clásica de larga trayectoria, La vida en la antigua Roma ofrece un completo y sistematizado compendio de las actividades cotidianas, mecanismos sociales y organización de la civilización de esta sociedad. La sintética claridad y el rigor de ...

Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows ...

Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of ...

Sample Text

This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred ...

La España que conocemos, con su rica variedad regional, se formó en la Edad Media. Los procesos históricos de reconquista y repoblación del territorio por los cristianos fueron delimitando las fronteras de los reinos, dando personalidad a los ...