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Through revealing stories, this work aims to provoke reflection on the effects of incivility in our lives, becoming a concise guide on how to live better. We have many words to describe any act of incivility, but few to explain the opposite. The author...

This book offers a guide both for mental health professionals -as an alternative or complementary tool to drug treatments-, as well as for people interested in the search for physical and spiritual well-being, with the aim of achieving a greater understanding of their own...

This work aims to value play and stimulate its use in working with children, who by playing encourage this capacity in professionals and allow everyone to continue learning while putting themselves, over and over again, "in play." Play, for children, is a privileged means...

Enrique Dussel is one of the best-known Latin American philosophers with the greatest impact inside and outside the American continent. This book, which deals with his figure from his biographical, philosophical, historical and political aspects, is essential to get into the thinking of one...

The foundations of psychoanalysis transmitted to us by our teachers will become our own foundations only on the condition that we conquer them and make them our own. In this work, Juan David Nasio defines the seven fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis: castration, the phallus,...

Maimonides (1135-1204) was a renowned physician, philosopher, and rabbi, The people's imagination has attributed facts and events to him that in most cases don’t correspond to his real biography, This book is an anthology of one hundred and five traditional Hebrew stories about Maimonides,...

The author reviews her well-known theories of redistribution and recognition, and introduces "representation" as a third "political" dimension of justice. Dialogue with thinkers such as Habermas, Rawls, Foucault or Arendt envisages a post-Westphalian political space that embraces transnational solidarity, and cross-border emancipatory projects. /...

It shows what are the central motifs of the history of Judeo-Christian hope, outlines the current state of theological discussion on the topic "intramundane future and eschatological hope" and develops the future perspectives that the individual has. With this approach, individual hope is seen...

Eschatology presents a balanced perspective of the doctrine at the center of Christian belief?the Church's faith in eternal life. Joseph Ratzinger brings together recent emphasis on the theology of hope for the future with the more traditional elements of the doctrine. His book has proven...

The brain and mind are two aspects of the same reality. The human mind is capable of intuiting realities that transcend our physical dimension. However, every human experience, even the most sublime, has a neurological basis. For spiritual experience to be possible, a certain...

In this book, Jay Joseph presents an up-to-date, thoroughly documented, and much-needed critical appraisal of schizophrenia genetic research. His findings have important implications for psychiatry, behavioral genetics, and the social and behavioral sciences in general. For generations, there has been a belief that schizophrenia...

A comic that explores the controversial and contradictory relationship between humans and animals. Are pets or livestock produced and slaughtered en masse for our daily consumption? By what criteria do we categorize and distinguish the different groups of living beings?

Until recently, we would not have even understood the meaning of these kinds of questions. But today, when the unstoppable globalization that homogenizes everything has sparked as a reaction the vindication of aggrieved indigenisms, no cultural debate is hotter and more delicate than that...

Why do we have so much difficulty changing our lifestyles when no one can deny that our development model has a destructive impact on an ecological and social level, not to mention the intensity of violence inflicted on animals? For Corinne Pelluchon, overcoming this...

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...

The digital revolution has just begun and has a magnitude that is still difficult to measure. We are facing a new phenomenon, which is writing a new chapter in the history of humanity. Life has become unthinkable without the presence of digital services, products...

The so-called convergent technologies, of which nanotechnologies are an essential part of, allow a hyper-connected world that turns our societies into increasingly heterogeneous and plural realities. This book provides a necessary reflection on the ethical dimension of techno-science in general and the recognition of...

For professionals in the health sciences, it is essential to have conceptual and practical knowledge of the virtues necessary to achieve an excellent form of care. Here you will find the keys to better understand the different aspects of interpersonal relationships, in order to...

Anxiety can both protect us and pose a danger. When does it shift from being a useful signal to an invasive projection of our fears? This book offers a phenomenological analysis of how anxiety disrupts embodiment, time perception, and fantasy. Stefano Micali uses Bakhtin's...

Heidegger finds in Husserl a new way of doing philosophy, allowing him to challenge key ideas of 19th-century German thought on value, practical reason, culture, history, and knowledge. This volume also includes two essential early texts: On the Essence of the University and Academic...