Megatendencias para el siglo XXI

La obra presenta algunos desarrollos teóricos del Centro de Investigaciones en Desarrollo Humano de la Universidad del Norte (CIDHUM). Los autores pretenden aproximarse a las respuestas de los siguientes interrogantes: ¿cómo el niño asume su realidad y la transforma?, ¿cómo soluciona problemas y qué lo emociona?, ¿cómo se percibe a sí mismo y a los demás? y ¿qué correlación existe entre la influencia del medio y el procesamiento que el menor le da a ésta?

Cómo la migración, las nuevas tecnologías de la información, la democracia y la política han afectado la cultura de México en el siglo 20.

Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century explorers and travellers to South America brought back various ideas on the Maya ruins they had visited and/or discovered. This study traces the history of these theories and the controversy that ensued over contemporary understanding of the Mayan civilisation and in particular the meaning and function of their cities and territories, Mayan architecture, site distribution, spatial arrangement, settlement hierarchies, and their inscriptions. This history is divided into six chronological phases from 1760 to 1990 as it looks at the development of ideas...

In six sections, the volume deals with different questions of political philosophy. The first section focuses on democratic theories, the second on conceptual debates, discussing topics such as collective rights, the terrorist phenomenon, Libertarianism and conceptions of freedom. In a third section on contemporary debates, perspectives on sovereignity and legitimacy as well as discourse theory versus political liberalism are discussed. The volume also features essays on democracy and law, and in a section entitled oJudicial construction of democracyo papers on constitutional reviews by...