El cerebro humano es una máquina extraordinaria, capaz de transformarse a sí misma a partir de la experiencia y de albergar talentos que nos vuelven únicos como especie: lenguaje, lectura, matemáticas, creación artística. La más asombrosa de sus facultades es sin dudas la del aprendizaje, aquella que nos permite no solo adaptarnos a las circunstancias, sino también lanzarnos con entusiasmo en busca de lo desconocido.

Este libro es una síntesis de una rigurosa investigación histórica sobre la Guerra Fría global y el pensamiento militar chileno y venezolano de los sesenta. El historiador reconstruye este proceso histórico con un lenguaje claro y directo, sustentado en diversas fuentes documentales de archivos.

Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms.

This textbook provides future data analysts with the tools, methods, and skills needed to answer data-focused, real-life questions; to carry out data analysis; and to visualize and interpret results to support better decisions in business, economics, and public policy. Data wrangling and exploration, regression analysis, machine learning, and causal analysis are comprehensively covered, as well as when, why, and how the methods work, and how they relate to each other.

The book aims to contribute to current debates regarding the idea of labour law. In particular, it aims to assess the validity of the suggestion that old ways of thinking about the subject have become outdated. Detailed consideration is given to two such ‘old ways’: the idea of the labour constitution, developed by Hugo Sinzheimer in the early years of the Weimar Republic, and the principle of collective laissez-faire, elaborated by Otto Kahn-Freund in the 1950s.