En el actual contexto de promoción de los sistemas autocompositivos de solución de conflictos, tanto en los ámbitos internacional y europeo como en el nacional, esta obra se propone realizar un análisis jurídico-crítico de tales procedimientos, especialmente los referidos a conflictos de carácter laboral, incidiendo en sus fortalezas y carencias, con formulación de propuestas para la mejora de su eficiencia. Para ello, además de aportar un balance empírico de la gestión y efectividad de varios de los sistemas autónomos de solución de conflictos laborales vigentes en nuestro país, comprende el análisis comparado de prácticas y experiencias foráneas en la materia. Asimismo, dado su enfoque integral y transversal, son también objeto de atención las vertientes social, psicológica, antropológica y organizacional del conflicto en empresas y, en general, en las organizaciones y la operatividad de dichos mecanismos de solución en estos ámbitos.

"Perspectives on Personality describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today, and helps students understand how these viewpoints can be applied to their own lives. Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier dedicate a chapter to each major perspective, presenting an overview on the perspective's orienting assumptions and core themes and concluding with a discussion of problems within that theoretical viewpoint and predictions about its future prospects. The Eighth edition incorporates several important recent developments in the field, including genetics and genomics and the biological underpinnings of impulsiveness"--Back cover

Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers an invaluable resource for architects, planners, surveyors and engineers worldwide working in heritage conservation, as well as for local authority conservation officers and managers of heritage sites.