The american economic history reader

documents and readings

Eds. John W. Malsberger, James N. Marshall. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Economics as a discipline often relies on abstract theories and formulas to explain the functions of national economies. "American Economic History: Documents and Readings" is a collection of primary documents and essays illustrating the practical applications of these ...

Environmental politics

stakeholders, interests, and policymaking

The second edition of "Environmental Politics: Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking" shows students that environmental politics is fundamentally a clash of competing stakeholders' interests, and environmental policy is the result of their reconciliation. But developments in environmental policymaking over the past several years have been little ...

The Adam Smith review. Volume 4

Ed. Vivienne Brown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. "The Adam Smith Review" is a refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all ...

Tourism and sustainability

development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

"If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale", so concludes the World Bank's 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy first world ...

Analysis, geometry, and modeling in finance

advanced methods in option pricing

"Analysis, Geometry, and Modeling in Finance: Advanced Methods in Option Pricing" is the first book that applies advanced analytical and geometrical methods used in physics and mathematics to the financial field. It even obtains new results when only approximate and partial solutions were previously available ...

Statistics for environmental science and management

Revised, expanded, and updated, this second edition of "Statistics for Environmental Science and Management" is that rare animal, a resource that works well as a text for graduate courses and a reference for appropriate statistical approaches to specific environmental problems. It is uncommon to find ...

Environmental policy, technological innovation and patents

Technological innovation can help realise environmental objectives in a less costly manner than would otherwise be the case. Thus, understanding the role that technological innovation can play in achieving environmental objectives is important for policy debates. However, the relationship between environmental policy and technological innovation ...

Bastardos, ilegítimos e incluseros en la historia de España

Este es un texto crucial para entender las genealogías más sigilosas de nuestra historia y adentrarse en ellas. La historiadora Vicenta Márquez de la Plata rescata un gran elenco de hijos de reyes, clérigos o príncipes de la Iglesia...para presentarnos a personajes tan asombrosos ...

De Re Publica Hispaniae

una vindicación de la cultura política en los reinos ibéricos en la primera modernidad

Era pertinente acometer una revisión de las aportaciones de la cultura política hispánica (española y portuguesa) a la cultura política europea en la época moderna (siglos XVI y XVII), precisamente cuando el debate político se encontraba en efervescencia, desde luego con Maquiavelo y sus seguidores ...

Belmonte de Tajo hasta el siglo XVI en las fuentes documentales

Índice: Introducción Capítulo 1. Documentos consultados. Insólito paradero del mas antiguo Capítulo 2. Época de señorío episcopal (1149-1579) Capítulo 3. La desamortización de 1579 Capítulo 4. Señorío de la familia Toledo (1579-1592) Capítulo 5. Época de realengo (1592-1609/1612). Tanteo del pueblo Capítulo 6. La ...

La poesía lírica de José María Pemán

el sentido de la vertiente religiosa

Esta colección, distribuida en varias series, pretende contribuir a que se difundan trabajos de investigación, de probado rigor científico, ene el campo de las Humanidades. Con ella se intenta, mediante tiradas ajustadas a la demanda poner al alcance de los estudiosos obras inéditas de subida ...

Portuguese colonial cities in the early modern world

Ed., Liam Matthew Brockey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a ...

Quantifying aid for trade

a case study of Tanzania

Efforts to boost international trade as a means to foster economic growth, known as Aid for Trade, have become an important issue for both aid donors and recipients. However, significant ambiguity remains regarding what is and what is not Aid for Trade. Given the high ...

King Arthur

myth-making and history

The legend of King Arthur is one of the most persistent and powerful myths in western culture. Yet scholars today cannot agree on his dates, his location, his role, or even whether he really existed. 'King Arthur: Myth-making and History' explores how and why historians ...

New media

a critical introduction

Auts., Martin Lister...[et al.]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This site is for students and researchers in the study of new media technologies and cultures. It contains links to reading and resources that support, develop, or challenge the ideas and debates set out in the book New Media: a ...

Managing and delivering performance

how government, public sector and non-for-profit organizations can measure and manage what really matters

Performance management is at the top of agendas in most government and public organizations, as well as many not-for-profit organizations. In this follow up to his successful book, "Strategic Performance Management", the author focuses on the unique challenges public sector organizations face when tackling the ...

La guía Vault de empleo. Edición 2009

las principales empresa españolas

En 2008, Vault Europe se ha embarcado en su primera edición bilingüe y ha realizado una serie de guías de industrias regionales para licenciados y jóvenes en busca de una carrera profesional en alguna de las principales empresas de España, Francia, Alemania y el Reino ...

Remember those great Wolkswagen ads?

In 1959 Volkswagen appointed Doyle Dane Bernbach, the New York advertising agency, to handle their account in the United States. The advertisements they produced changed the face of advertising. Not just in America but across the world. A fact confirmed by the appearance of the ...

Safavid Iran

rebirth of a Persian Empire

The Safavid period (1501-1722) is often viewed as the golden era in Iran's history, following the demise of the Sasanian Empire a thousand years earlier. In fact it represented a vital break with past Iranian history. Based on the latest in-depth research and historiography ...

People and their pasts

public history today

Edited by Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This international collection draws together museum professionals, family and local historians, re-enactors, archivists and a range of public history contributors to discuss and explore particular forms of public history. Here, people#s experience and understanding of their personal ...