La Legión 1921

la reconquista tras el desastre de Annual

Texto e ilustraciones de Franicsco Martínez Canales. INDICE: Los conflictos en el Rif. La Legión. Las Cábilas rifeñas. La Legión en Melilla, primera fase: defensa de la plaza. Segunda fase: reconquista del territorio. Balance de la campaña y objetivos futuros.

Cartago Nova 209 a.C.

primera victoria de Escipión en España

Il. Ángel García Pinto. En el año 209 a.C., mientras en Italia el gran Aníbal imponía su genio batalla tras batalla a Roma, un joven desconocido al que la Historia honraría con el sobrenombre de #el Africano# consiguió una de las hazañas más espectaculares ...

La resistencia hispana contra Roma

Cuando en el año 208 a.C., las primeras tropas romanas pusieron pie en la Península Ibérica, concretamente en la antigua colonia griega de Emporion, rebautizada como Emporiae (hoy Ampurias, Gerona), para combatir contra los cartagineses en la recién iniciada Segunda Guerra Púnica, comenzaba un ...

Building social business

the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus looks more deeply into the concept of social business, an alternative to unfettered capitalism that channels the best energies of capitalism while addressing pressing human needs, by showing how the theory and practice of this idea is growing in the business ...

Philosophy of Religion

an introduction

This is a comprehensive textbook for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time. "Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction" is a comprehensive textbook for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time. It sets traditional arguments such as the problem of ...

Snith!

a history of the modern intelligence informer

This is a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by 'informing' on others, such as during the Cold War and the current campaign against terrorism. With "Snitch!", Steve Hewitt provides a thorough study of human informers, i.e., people who secretly ...

Terrorism and the ethics of waar

Most people strongly condemn terrorism; yet they often fail to say how terrorist acts differ from other acts of violence such as the killing of civilians in war. Stephen Nathanson argues that we cannot have morally credible views about terrorism if we focus on terrorism ...

Leonardo's Legacy

how Da Vinci reimagined the world

By the international best-selling author of "The Science of Happiness" and "The Secret Pulse of Time", this is a fresh exploration of Da Vinci's real 'code'-science. Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart ...

Founding a company

handbook of legal forms in Europe

Eds. Michael J. Munkert, Stephan Stubner, Torsten Wulf. The book "Founding a Company - Handbook of Legal Forms in Europe" provides an easily accessible overview of the most important information any entrepreneur or manager needs when deciding for a legal form of the business. This makes ...

International encyclopedia of hospitality management

Ed. Abraham Pizam. "The International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management" is the definitive reference work for any individual studying or working in the hospitality industry. This new edition updates and significantly revises 25 per cent of the entries and has an additional 20 new entries. New ...

The Children's Crusade

Medieval History modern mythistory

Aroused by crusade processions, French and German peasant youths set out on a quest to find the True Cross and reclaim Jerusalem. Heading south over the Alps and into Italy, their trek was long and arduous. Onlookers watched their march to the sea in amazement ...

Karl Polanyi

the limits of the market

Karl Polanyi's "The Great Transformation" is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of nineteenth-century 'market fundamentalism ...

The company of strangers

a natural history of economic life

"The Company of Strangers" shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past ...

Japan transformed

political change and economic restructuring

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains ...

Not for profit

why democracy needs the humanities

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent ...

El tesoro del San José

muerte en el mar durante la Guerra de Sucesión española

Según los cazadores de tesoros, el galeón español San José transportaba la carga más valiosa que jamás se haya perdido en el mar. Carla Rahn Phillips sostiene que la verdadera pérdida residió en las casi seiscientas vidas desaparecidas en el desastre. Por descontado que la ...

Tributación de las operaciones vinculadas y su documentación. Ejemplos prácticos

The thin blue line

how humanitarism went to war

This is an acclaimed exploration of humanitarianism's emergence as a multibillion-dollar industry that has played a leading role in defining international crises, and shaping the foreign policy of Western governments and the United Nations. Drawing on his own experience as an aid worker in ...

Tribes and empire on the margins of nineteenth-century Iran

"Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran" traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their lands to the outside world. As the Qajar dynasty sought to integrate the people on ...

Epic recession

prelude to global depression

The US is still in deep trouble. Banks are sustained by trillions of government dollars, unemployment is approaching 25 million and the long- term future of the economy is in doubt. In "Epic Recession", Jack Rasmus shows that we need a new way of understanding ...