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El joven Andres se adentra en la pujante vida de un banquero de inversion. Desde los despachos de su banco se tejen los hilos del proximo pelotazo financiero. La codicia y la ambicion de sus protagonistas les lleva a luchar incansablemente por sus suenos, pero a que estan dispuestos a renunciar para alcanzarlos? Como se han podido llevar a cabo las grandes fortunas y operaciones corporativas durante la ultima burbuja financiera? Puede una sociedad permitirse vivir por encima de sus posibilidades eternamente?

Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno's concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Levinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term "mimesis" as both a "world-reflecting" and a "world-creating" mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rich and diverse tradition of social thought in Chile over the last century. The authors emphasize the close relationship between sociology and society, and address large issues such as the institutionalization of sociology in the face of an open modernization process following WWII, the key role played by Chile in the regionalization and internationalization of sociology and social sciences in Latin America from the late 1950s until the 1973 Coup d'état, and the radicalization of sociology and the boom of dependency theories during...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rich and diverse tradition of social thought in Chile over the last century. The authors emphasize the close relationship between sociology and society, and address large issues such as the institutionalization of sociology in the face of an open modernization process following WWII, the key role played by Chile in the regionalization and internationalization of sociology and social sciences in Latin America from the late 1950s until the 1973 Coup d'etat, and the radicalization of sociology and the boom of dependency theories during that...