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Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847
The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire."--Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal "What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers is that he is equally strong on the music and the life. A formidable musicologist with a lively ...
In the Name of Reason
The major role played by a technocratic elite in Chilean politics was perhaps most controversial when the “Chicago Boys” ran the economic program of Augusto Pinochet’s military regime from 1973 to 1990. But technocrats did not suddenly come upon the scene when Pinochet engineered the coup against Salvador Allende’s government. They had long been important contributors to Chile’s approach to the challenges of economic development. In this book, political scientist and historian Patricio Silva examines their part in the story of twentieth-century Chile. Even before industrialization had begun in Chile, the impact of positivism and the idea of “scientific government” gained favor ...
Rethinking the Center
From their beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through the 1980's, political parties in Chile have displayed three discrete ideological tendencies, with two at opposite ends of the political spectrum and at least one in the center. This tripartite distribution made Chile's party system unlike any other in Latin America. How did Chile's distinctive system evolve? This book finds the answer in how three basic social cleavages--religious, urban, and rural--became polarized at three periods of critical juncture. Clerical-anticlerical conflict gave initial definition to the party system in the period 1857-61, and continued to shape the political arena long after specific issues had receded i...
Historia del pensamiento administrativo
CONTENIDO: La administración en las antiguas civilizaciones - La administración durante el periodo medieval - El despertar de la administración - Los primeros autores sobre administración - El preludio de la administración científica - La administración científica - Conceptos de principios del siglo XX - Escritores y críticos menores - Los filósofos de la administración - Aparición de escuelas del pensamiento administrativo - Escuela cuantitativa - Escuela estructuralista - Enfoque neoclásico de la administración - Escuelas de sistemas - Comportamiento humano y desarrollo organizacional - Teoría organizacional y teoría de la contingencia - La producción flexible - Administración de la tecnología y la innovación - Administración estratégica - Administración y sociedad del conocimiento - La historia y la administración contemporánea - Autores latinoamericanos.
