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La felicidad suele asociarse a la ausencia de dolor y de sufrimiento. ¿Cómo es posible entonces ser feliz, si nadie puede despojarse de esos dos desagradables compañeros? ¿Es razonable huir de lo inevitable, o hay claves que ayudan a entender el sufrimiento, proporcionándole incluso un sentido...

La Modernidad ideológica ("más hombre y menos Dios") ha fracasado. Se abre paso una soñadora posmodernidad ("yo decido qué soy, y decido si hay Dios"). ¿Es posible despertar a la cultura del "cuanto más humano, más divino"? El sopor desaparece si se reconstruye la creencia desde sus cimientos...

La infancia es un tiempo mágico y decisivo. Retornar a ella renueva la vida de los adultos. Así lo defiende el autor citando a Novalis, Rousseau, Wilde y Chesterton, Rilke, Pessoa o Machado, entre otros. El cuento de Peter Pan representa el deseo de no perder la inocencia, la capacidad de imaginar...

In the comparative physiology of photoreception by the Protista and the invertebrates two aspects are emphasized: (1) the diversity of visual processes in these groups and (2) their bearing upon general mechanisms of photoreception. Invertebrates have evolved a far greater variety of adaptations than...

This edited work contains eight extensive, review-type contributions by leading scientists in the field of synthetic metals. The authors were invited by the organisers of the International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals '98 (ICSM'98) to review the progress of research in...

Financial Management means planning, organizing, directing and controlling the financial activities such as procurement and utilization of funds of the enterprise. It means applying general management principles to financial resources of the enterprise. Investment decisions includes investment in...

Advertising management is the process of overseeing campaigns that seek to inform and attract consumers regarding a particular good or service. This process begins with the first stages of the market research that helps to create the advertising strategy, moves on to the development of the general...

How it was, how it is, and how it will be in the future

Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...

It was with great pleasure that I accepted Professor Wackenheim's invitation to write the preface of this most interesting monograph. During the international course on neuroradiology in Obernai, organized by Professor Wackenheim in 1978, an entire day was devoted to discussions about various aspects...

With a Historical Review

El Renacimiento, que cronológicamente abarca desde mediados del siglo XIV hasta principios del siglo XVII, representa todo un programa de renovación cultural y política, que pretende instaurar una nueva época en la historia de la civilización europea y dar al mundo un nuevo rostro. Pero esta...

As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons we began to publish in 1974 this series of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. This series was first discussed in 1972...

La création de la Marine royale du Canada (MRC) en 1910 et ses premières années d’existence ont été marquées par un débat politique quant à la nécessité d’un service naval au Canada. Du littoral à la mer, le premier d’une série de trois volumes relatant l’histoire officielle de...