Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practicesFrom email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. In recent years many of us have begun to look at the pluses and minuses of our on...

Desde el correo electrónico hasta los smartphones, y desde los medios sociales hasta las búsquedas en Google, las tecnologías digitales han transformado nuestra forma de aprender, entretenernos, socializar y trabajar. A pesar de su utilidad, estas tecnologías han conducido a menudo al exceso de información, al estrés y a la distracción. En los últimos años, muchos de nosotros hemos comenzado a sopesar los pros y los contras de nuestras vidas en línea, y a preguntarnos cómo podríamos utiliz...

The orthodox view of economic policy holds that public deliberation sets the goals or ends, and then experts select the means to implement these goals. This assumes that experts are no more than trustworthy servants of the public interest. David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart examine the historical record to consider cases in which experts were trusted with disastrous results, such as eugenics, the regulatory use of security ratings, and central economic planning. This history suggests that e...

Adam Smith, asserting the common humanity of the street porter and the philosopher, articulated the classical economists' model of social interactions as exchanges among equals. This model had largely fallen out of favor until, recently, a number of scholars in the avant-garde of economic thought rediscovered it and rechristened it "analytical egalitarianism." In this volume, Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy bring together an impressive array of authors to explore the ramifications of thi...

The Virginia School's economics of natural equals makes consent critical for policy. Democracy is understood as government by discussion, not majority rule. The claim of efficiency unsupported by consent, as common in orthodox economics, appeals to social hierarchy. Politics becomes an act of exchange among equals where the economist is only entitled to offer advice to citizens, not to dictators. The foundation of natural equality and consent explains the common themes of James Buchanan an...

The "Vanity of the Philosopher" continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name.Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics and take a broad view of classical economics' doctrine of human equality. Responding to perennial accusations from the left and the right that the market economy has created either inequality or too much equality, the authors trac...

Hola, esta es una nueva historia de Sir David El Trovador, esta vez quise hacer un libro que para mí es muy difícil de escribir.Mi madre está muriendo en un hogar de ancianos en California. Consideren que es un infierno conducir desde Ciudad Canguro (Salt Lake City) ya que aquí en Australia estamos en una isla y tendría que conducir mi auto realmente rápido sobre el agua para poder llegar hasta California. Lo he estado pensando mucho y francamente ahora esto es entre ustedesy yo, no le dig...

A comprehensive new interpretation of Plato's Philebus**.**This book offers a comprehensive new interpretation of Plato's dialogue on the best life, the Philebus. Through close attention to the details of the text and consideration of Plato's manner of writing, the book clarifies how the dialogue's many difficult sections form a beautiful whole, thereby bringing out the unity of Plato's thought. It shows how Plato's metaphysics an...

- La primera parte del libro presenta las bases embriológicas, anatómicas y fisiológicas que permiten comprender el corazón fetal normal y patológico. - La segunda aborda los aspectos técnicos y metodológicos de la exploración ecocardiográfica y describe las imágenes inhabituales, que son elementos de alerta para la detección de las malformaciones. - La tercera parte se dedica al estudio especializado de las cardiopatías, con una descripción de todos los elementos del diagnóstico y del pro...

It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early1980s David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife, Carolyn, to search for comets from an observation post on Palomar Mountain in Southern California. Their collaboration would lead to the 1993 discovery of the most remarkable comet ever recorded, Shoemaker-Levy 9, with its several nuclei, five tails, and two sheets of debris spread out in its orbit plane. A year later, Levy woul...

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the 7th October and the ensuing devastation of Gaza. His clear-eyed analysis is a vital aperture into current events but he also brings essential historical and political conte...

Niccolò Machiavelli, though best known as a teacher of princes, is also a teacher of republics. In his Discourses on Livy, he argues that republican liberty depends upon a contentious mixture of elitism and populism. Only the elite’s wily pursuit of domination, combined with the people’s spirited resistance to such domination, can produce that compromise between servitude and license known as liberty. The task of the founder and the statesman is to construct and maintain the appropriate “o...