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Lúdica e infancia: tejidos de pensamientos... es un libro que presenta aspectos conceptuales que componen y caracterizan lo lúdico desde perspectivas filosóficas. Aclara y propone una particular e innovadora forma de comprender lo lúdico como dimensión estructural del ser humano y como estado propio de los sujetos. Se aborda lo lúdico, permitiendo que emerjan condiciones de exploración, reflexión y sensibilidad, se convierte en enigma que cautiva para preguntarse y pensarlo en tonos filosóficos: como estado, experiencia y vivencia; una manera de ser y de estar que apremia sensaciones vitales de bienestar y creación. Esta propuesta escritural afirma lo lúdico desde diversas miradas...
The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions.
Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence.
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. --
In ten essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider such topics as the relationship between the two movements' ethical commitments and activist goals, instances of successful cooperation in U.S. contexts, and the challenges posed to both movements by globalisation and climate change.
In a sophisticated defense of intellectual property, Merges draws on Kant, Locke, and Rawls to explain how IP rights are based on a solid ethical foundation and make sense for a just society. He also calls for appropriate boundaries: IP rights are real, but they come with real limits.
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
"Building on her earlier work, 'Law and literature,' María José Falcón y Tella's new study takes a look at the law in the works of Cervantes and Shakespeare. In doing so, she examines subjects as wide ranging as: individual rights and freedoms, government and the administration of justice, criminal law, civil law, labor law, commercial law, and the treatment of mental illness, among others"--