Ecuador y Globalización contra Hegemónica: Ética Cívica para la Construcción Social

Henri Charriere, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: "escape." After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken. Charriere's...

The main objective of this investigation is to obtain basic data that will allow the generation of cultural, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental and paleoecological knowledge about the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. In turn, this will facilitate the discussion of different topics about the peopling of Uruguay within the context of the peopling of America. The study presents a detailed investigation carried out at the Pay Paso locality, which contains a total of nine sites of archaeological, paleontological and paleoecological interest on the plains of the Cuareim River in northwestern...

Desde sus primeros escritos, la obra de Niklas Luhmann revela una amplia variedad de intereses que, en el curso del tiempo, derivó en más de cuarenta libros sobre economía, derecho, Estado, arte, pedagogía, familia, religión, ciencia y diferenciación social, entre otros. Como resultado de un seminario llevado a cabo en la Universidad del Norte (Colombia), surge esta publicación que permite un acercamiento a los planteamientos teóricos del sociólogo alemán, así como a los elementos fundamentales para el debate en torno a estos, lo que sin duda contribuirá al análisis y al...

Completo estudio que analiza la importancia capital de la figura del patrono en la creación artística del Renacimiento italiano, no sólo en Florencia, sino en los grandes centros del período.