La España que pudo ser (1885-1931)

Essential guidance for risk assessment, risk management and risk communication with regard to food related risks to human health. This first edition includes texts as adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 2007. - Directives essentielles concernant l'evaluation et la gestion des risques pour la sante humaine lies aux aliments, et la communication sur ces risques. Cette premiere edition comprend le texte adopte par la Commission du Codex Alimentarius en 2007. - Orientaciones para la evaluacion, la gestion y la comunicacion de riesgos respecto a riesgos para la salud humana...

Este estudio se enmarca en un ámbito del ordenamiento jurídico, como es la Seguridad Social, que constituye un importante sector autónomo del derecho del trabajo. Aborda su contenido desde un punto de vista diferente y creativo, yendo más allá de la pura exégesis para adentrarse en el terreno de la construcción jurídica: las categorías, los principios y las instituciones. Una de sus virtudes es el tema elegido. La protección a la familiar es una necesidad urgente de una sociedad en la que la población envejece peligrosamente y los grupos familiares se enfrentan a nuevos retos: la...

Special Spanish-English Bilingual Edition Edicion especial ingles-castellano On September 11, 2012, on Catalonia's National Day, 1.5 million people from all over Catalonia marched peacefully and joyfully through the streets of Barcelona, behind a single placard: Catalonia: New State in Europe. Fifteen days later, President Artur Mas called snap elections for the Parliament of Catalonia, in order to hold a referendum that would let the people of Catalonia decide their own future. The rest of the world and even Spain were caught by surprise, but the events unfolding in Barcelona have been a...

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing...