Present Chronicles

The economic crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitization in all sectors. In this book, prestigious experts analyze all the aspects that will influence the economic recovery: development of digital platforms, monopolistic trends and competition policy, the need to have a workers'...

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a...

The great advances in medicine and surgery offer the possibility of saving lives and considerably improving the quality thanks to organ transplantation. Today, there are many more patients waiting for a transplant than there are donors. This means that, in many societies, each deceased...

In this work, the author presents the dimensions of the environmental challenge posed to humanity, and reviews the solutions that have been adopted since the ecological alarm was triggered. The Industrial Revolution brought with it a considerable development of economic production and a notable...

In No Visible Bruises, Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don’t know we’re seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths―that if things were bad enough,...

Baricco reflects on the pandemic: beyond the health figures a mythical creature emerges that expresses fear and changes... Baricco understands the pandemic as something more than a health emergency: as a mythical creature, a collective construction (very real: there is no denial here) with...

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Once upon a time, if an official...

This work tries to bring us closer to understanding what is happening to us on a psychological level as protagonists of a crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond fear, the emotions that move in a crisis like this span a broader spectrum. What...

In this essay, Byung-Chul Han criticizes how the excess positivity of happiness forces us to negate any glimpse of pain and subjects us to a state of permanent anesthesia.Today we live in a society that has developed a phobia of pain, in which there...

Ideas to face planetary health challenges...What have we done wrong during the covid-19 pandemic and how should we organize ourselves to respond to the next emergency that threatens the health of humanity? Salvador Macip is convinced that we have the resources to do it,...

Eva Illouz and Dana Kaplan offer an interesting sociological analysis of sexualities as a new form of inequality under neoliberal capitalism. Given the increasing commercialization of sex and sexual identities, Eva Illouz and Dana Kaplan use the idea of sexual capital as a prism...

Techno-scientific progress is utterly transforming our world--changing it beyond recognition. Philosopher Slavoj Z?iz?ek looks at the world of Big Tech, revealing how we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into...

Jens Soentgen presents the phenomenon of fear of wild animals in front of humans as a consequence of our wild environmental policies. The systematic slaughter of animals by humans not only wreaks havoc on the balance of ecosystems, but also transforms and corrupts the...

Although it may seem contradictory, "being fast" is associated with progress and slowness with inadequaty. This leads to distraction, anonymity and the renunciation of reflection. The author proposes a meditation on the concept of speed in his latest book and gives us an approach...

Our lives are oppressed by the demands that we live, feel, and experience with greater intensity. In The Life Intense, the first part of the ambitious Letting Be trilogy, Garcia develops it in detail. This first book focuses on ethics; the forthcoming volumes will be...

This book analyzes the theories of the main feminist icons and their repercussion in today's society, pointing out their true objectives and strategies, as well as the different doctrines that have emerged from the evolution of feminism.

In this book, the author unravels some of the most controversial aspects of climate change and solves numerous doubts related to its link with politics, the economy, and society.

This book is centered on a key concept: positive discipline. It is a very useful guide for parents to learn how to deal with basic situations in the lives of their young children and teens, such as food, hygiene, friends, and new technologies; in...

Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experiences as an immigrant to bear on this study of the psychology of immigrants and refugees, and of those who cross paths with them. / Este libro utiliza...

Transhumanism is one of the philosophical and cultural movements that has attracted the most attention in recent years. The technologies used are genetic engineering and the development of intelligent machines. According to the advocates of transhumanism, with the help of these technologies we can...