The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Una selecci?n de las grandes ideas pedag?gicas de la historia La educaci?n siempre ha reflejado los ideales de cada momento y los grandes pensadores de la historia han reflexionado sobre ella. A trav?s de sus propias palabras podemos reflexionar sobre lo que se considera imprescindible para el ser humano y lo que conviene evitar. "No hay mayor fama para un hombre que la que ?l gana con la destreza de sus pies y la fuerza de sus manos". Aunque esta frase se podr?a atribuir a Steve Jobs, es de La Il?ada de Homero. Esta cuidada antolog?a nos demuestra que aunque hayan pasado siglos, algunas de las aspiraciones tienen hoy m?s vigencia que nunca.

Jeremy Bentham – philosopher, theorist of law and of the art of government – was among the most influential figures of the early nineteenth century, and the approach he pioneered – utilitarianism – remains central to the modern world. In this new introduction to his ideas, Michael Quinn shows how Bentham sought to be an engineer or architect of choices and to illuminate the methods of influencing human conduct to good ends, by focusing on how people react to the various physical, legal, institutional, normative and cultural factors that confront them as decision-makers. Quinn examines how Bentham adopted utility as the critical standard for the development and evaluation of government and public policy, and explains how he sought to apply this principle to a range of areas, from penal law to democratic reform, before concluding with an assessment of his contemporary relevance. He argues that Bentham simultaneously sought both to facilitate the implementation of governmental will and to expose misrule by rendering all exercises of public power transparent to the public on whose behalf it was exercised. This book will be essential reading for any student or scholar of Bentham, as well as those interested in the history of political thought, philosophy, politics, ethics and utilitarianism.

After the Decolonial  examines the sources of Latin American decolonial thought, its reading of precursors like Fanon and Levinas and its historical interpretations. In extended treatments of the anthropology of ethnicity, law and religion and of the region’s modern culture, Lehmann sets out the bases of a more grounded interpretation, drawing inspiration from Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, and from a lifelong engagement with issues of development, religion and race. The decolonial places race at the centre of its interpretation of injustice and, together with the multiple other exclusions dividing Latin American societies, traces it to European colonialism. But it has not fully absorbed the uniquely unsettling nature of Latin American race relations, which perpetuate prejudice and inequality, yet are marked by  m?tissage , pervasive borrowing and mimesis. Moreover, it has not integrated its own disruptive feminist branch, and it has taken little interest in either the interwoven history of indigenous religion and hegemonic Catholicism or the evangelical tsunami which has upended so many assumptions about the region’s culture. The book concludes that in Latin America, where inequality and violence are more severe than anywhere else, and where COVID-19 has revealed the deplorable state of the institutions charged with ensuring the basic requirements of life, the time has come to instate a universalist concept of social justice, encompassing a comprehensive approach to race, gender, class and human rights.

El manuscrit que s'edita correspon a un 'Liber Ordinum' del bisbat de Val?ncia en temps de Roderic de Borja com a titular d'aquesta di?cesi. Entre la documentaci? medieval emanada des dels bisbats, els 'Libri Ordinum' s?n els que recullen les ordenacions de clergues fetes pel bisbe de la di?cesi. En cadascuna s'inclouen dades concretes sobre els ordenats i el ministre de l'ordenaci?, sobre el tipus d'orde, lloc i temps, i sobre les condicions requerides als aspirants. Aix? ens permet con?ixer la prosopografia del clergat, els seus efectius, les pr?ctiques i cursos seguits en l'acc?s a les ordes sacramentals, els or?gens socials i familiars i, a m?s, les possibles expectatives quant a la carrera eclesi?stica, en aquest cas del bisbat de Val?ncia a les darreries del segle XV.

Esta obra propone un recorrido hist?rico por la gesti?n de la ciudad abordando la acci?n de gobierno de los mandatarios franquistas que la dirigieron en los ?ltimos a?os del r?gimen. A partir de documentaci?n in?dita, la obra reconstruye la biograf?a y principales hitos de la labor municipal de Miguel Ram?n Izquierdo, Vicente L?pez Rosat o Adolfo Rinc?n de Arellano. ?Qu? les llev? a tomar determinadas decisiones que configuraron la historia de la urbe en ?pocas posteriores? ?Qu? papel jugaron en la transici?n a la democracia? o ?c?mo era su relaci?n con sus conciudadanos? Gobernar la ciudad se convirti? en una prioridad para el franquismo en aspectos como el urbanismo, el peso creciente del asociacionismo vecinal o la gesti?n de las fiestas y conmemoraciones c?vicas. Una labor pol?tica que permitir? entender, gracias a este volumen, la larga duraci?n de la dictadura y tambi?n las bases sociales sobre las que se configur?.