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ÉRASE UNA VEZ... EL DISEÑO
El diseño se ha manifestado a lo largo de la historia como una disciplina que ha procurado que los bienes y servicios producidos fueran lo más útiles y placenteros posible. Una materia que contribuye a desarrollar propuestas innovadoras, al hilo de la tecnología y las capacidades productivas de cada época. Y que ha basculado, en función de corrientes y momentos, entre un posicionamiento más o menos racionalista en sus postulados y otro que lo vincula más directamente con las disciplinas artísticas, pero siempre con una atención privilegiada a la forma, la estética y la imagen, como un rasgo esencial de la actividad. En estas páginas se va a ofrecer un punto de vista personal, quizás algo alejado de los estereotipos, fruto de 30 años de trabajo, de ejercicio de un cierto ‘apostolado’, tratando de que los resortes y entresijos de esta actividad fueran conocidos y aceptados por el sector económico en general y las empresas e industrias en particular.
Diseño y reflexión
El diseño es una herramienta para el cambio en constante evolución. En la actualidad su aportación es relevante en nuevos ámbitos y por ello se plantean dos preguntas: qué le ha pasado al diseño y qué ha pasado alrededor del diseño. Este libro presenta una selección de textos que analizan la relación entre el diseño y la sociedad, la cultura, la comunicación, la creatividad, la ciencia y la naturaleza; vectores que cuentan con una amplia trayectoria y han experimentado notables cambios que se revisan aquí. También se reflexiona sobre cuestiones más actuales como las nuevas oportunidades del diseño, su relación con las nuevas tecnologías de fabricación o la empleabilidad. Para componer la selección de textos se ha invitado a autores con una visión amplia del diseño, por su diversidad de áreas de conocimiento y por su recorrido personal, pertenecientes al ámbito profesional, al institucional, a la divulgación, la investigación o la docencia.
Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy
Provides an innovative theory of regime transitions and outcomes, and tests it using extensive evidence between 1800 and today.
Ethnobotany of Mexico
This book reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant domestication: Mesoamerica. Leading scholars and key research groups in Mexico discuss essential topics as well as contributions from international research groups that have conducted studies on ethnobotany and domestication of plants in the region. Such a convocation will produce an interesting discussion about future investigation and conservation of regional human cultures, genetic resources, and cultural and ecological processes that are critical for global sustainability.
Understanding Central America
The fifth edition of Understanding Central America explains how domestic and global political and economic forces have shaped rebellion and regime change in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker explore the origins and development of the region's political conflicts and its efforts to resolve them. Covering the region's political and economic development from the early 1800s onward, the authors provide a background for understanding Central America's rebellion and regime change of the past forty years. This revised edition brings the Central American story up to date, with special emphasis on globalization, evolving public opinion, progress toward democratic consolidation, and the relationship between Central America and the United States under the Obama administration, and includes analysis of the 2009 Honduran coup d'etat. A useful introduction to the region and a model for how to convey its complexities in language readers will comprehend, Understanding Central America stands out as a must-have resource.
The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South
This volume examines the concept of global social policy architectures and its emergence across issues and through time.
Revolution in Spain
This volume contains the writings of Marx and Engels on revolutionary struggles in nineteenth-century Spain. Also included is The Moorish War (1859-1860) by Frederick Engels and The Bakuninists at Work, also by Engels.
The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America
This book is one of the first attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection, and how these systems have been affected by the processes of globalization and democratization. The book focuses on Latin America to identify factors associated with the evolution of welfare state policies during the pre-globalization period prior to 1979, whilst studying how globalization and democratization have affected governments' fiscal commitment to social spending. In contrast with the Western European experience, more developed welfare systems evolved in countries relatively closed to international trade, while the recent process of globalization that has swept the region has put substantial downward pressure on social security expenditures. Health and education spending has been relatively protected from greater exposure to international markets and has actually increased substantially with the shift to democracy.
