¿Qué estamos diciendo exactamente, y qué mecanismos se ponen en juego, cuando decimos que «somos nuestro cerebro»? Desde la década de los noventa, las humanidades y las ciencias sociales han sido el escenario de un «giro cerebral» que se materializó en el nacimiento de disciplinas como la neuroeducación, la neuroantropología o la neuroestética. A pesar de su aparente novedad, la reciente moda de lo «neuro» es el resultado de un largo proceso cultural que ha situado al cerebro en el centro de los imaginarios que han conformado la subjetividad moderna.

The study of International Political Economy (IPE) or of its lesser known but comprehensive twin Global Political Economy (GPE) is a relatively new discipline within the more recognised study of International Relations. The application of critical theory towards GPE itself is an even more recent phenomenon, with its epistemological foundation still in its infancy — its aim to date focusing upon providing an alternative stance to those more conventional positivist readings within IPE.

How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world.After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an intellectual movement that would eventually capture the world. They charged that the systems of trade and finance that bound the world's nations together were frustrating the economic prospects of Latin America and other regions of the world.

This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically sound manner. This book begins by profiling the post-Apartheid period in South Africa's history when the sampling frame and survey methodology for household surveys was undergoing periodic changes due to the changing geopolitical landscape in the country.

This book examines the recent evolution of the concept of data as an economic and managerial phenomenon. The author first describes and discusses open data and then introduces the concept of linked data, with a focus on assets for reuse. Furthermore, he addresses the main challenges of big data. Value is identified as the main incentive for the adoption of linked data; accordingly, the next two chapters study sources of data value from a macroeconomic and micro economic perspective, respectively.

As one walks the streets of the Philadelphia, Sauer's buildings stand out for the masterly way he calibrates architectural composition and the varied playfulness of his solutions which, through a complex body of intuitively defined rules, one will find the very essence of Sauer's field of action where he interprets the reality of the setting and its surroundings.

La moda è un linguaggio universale. È un sistema nel quale si incontrano le fasi dell'ideazione, della progettazione, del mercato e del consumo. Maria Luisa Frisa disegna i contorni di questo sistema: il suo rapporto con il tempo, l'espressione e l'identità di genere, il mix tra procedure inventive, la complicità tra saperi artigianali e industriali, la coesistenza di pensiero logico e analogico, delle ragioni dell'arte temporanea e dell'archivio. La moda è una disciplina che affronta la contemporaneità, la definisce senza chiuderla. E nel farlo, parla di noi, del nostro stare nel tempo.

For the first time, a book enters the homes of Milan and describes the development of interiors from the advent of modernity to the season of post-modernism. The volume is in two languages Italian/English.The authors have conducted vast and innovative research work, combing through period magazines, the archives of architects and photographers, and the investigations of Triennale, noticing that the journey of interior architecture has intermingled with the accelerations of Arts Avant-gardes and the emergence of a new role for objects. Italian design comes also from here.