Mitos chilenos sobre el pueblo mapuche

In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala’s changing economy. For more than a decade, Liliana Goldín observed in highland towns both the intensification of various forms of production and their growing links to wider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a range of production systems,...

Desde que en 1963 fue publicada por primera vez, esta obra ha proporcionado un recuento de comentarios acerca de los grandes pensadores de la tradición occidental en materia de filosofía política desde la Antigüedad griega hasta nuestros días. La finalidad de los colaboradores de esta nueva edición -ampliada y revisada- es fomentar la comprensión de la obra de cada uno de los filósofos, así como del contexto en que la concibieron.

This book talks about the approaches that different countries and systems have addressed when trying to improve the quality of teaching and research services in the university level. It gives a recount on the context and the precedents that this topic has nowadays, in relation to university quality and how this is qualified globally. The authors emphasize on the importance of the new rules of management, in where the common denominator is the notion of accountability and also another point worth mentioning is the way they classify university institutions in four types: the Missionaries (they...

Esta antología agrupa textos que van desde el estudio de los clásicos hasta las relaciones internacionales de fin del siglo XX, pasando por la democracia y el cambio político, la ética y la cultura.