Historia natural de los objetos insignifantes

¿Desea usted reconocer y premiar el talento de todas las personas de su empresa? ¿Piensa que podría liderar su organización de un modo más eficaz? ¿Cree en la potencia de la igualdad de oportunidades pero no sabe cómo aplicarla? ¿Le gustaría explorar modos alternativos de emprendimiento empresarial? Si alguna de sus respuestas es afirmativa, el libro que tiene entre sus manos puede resultarle de interés. A partir del análisis de la situación de las mujeres en el ámbito organizacional y empresarial, así como de las dificultades y obstáculos que ellas todavía encuentran para...

Surrounded by the peaks of the Andean cordillera, the deep blue waters of Lake Titicaca have long provided refreshment and nourishment to the people who live along its shores. From prehistoric times, the Andean peoples have held Titicaca to be a sacred place, the source from which all life originated and the site where the divine manifests its presence. In this interdisciplinary study, Verónica Salles-Reese explores how Andean myths of cosmic and ethnic origins centered on Lake Titicaca evolved from pre-Inca times to the enthronement of the Virgin of Copaca-bana in 1583. She begins by...

The main objective of this investigation is to obtain basic data that will allow the generation of cultural, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental and paleoecological knowledge about the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. In turn, this will facilitate the discussion of different topics about the peopling of Uruguay within the context of the peopling of America. The study presents a detailed investigation carried out at the Pay Paso locality, which contains a total of nine sites of archaeological, paleontological and paleoecological interest on the plains of the Cuareim River in northwestern...

Chronicles the rapid decline of the city of Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, beginning in 2008 when more than twenty police officers were murdered, describing how drugs, globalization, corruption, and immigration have lead to increased violence and murder and created a dangerous city where crime runs rampant.