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Network nation

inventing american teleccomunications

The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not ...

Performance management in the public sector

Tackling the key topics of reform and modernization, this important new book systematically examines performance in public management systems. The authors present this seminal subject in an informative and accessible manner, tackling some of the most important themes. "Performance Management in the Public Sector" takes ...

Parliament and Congress

representation and scrutiny in the Twenty-first Century

The constitutional background of both legislatures and their procedures are described and where possible compared. Currently unsolved problems often have much in common, in vexed areas such as ethics requirements or how procedural rules permit minorities fair access to legislative time before majorities prevail. British ...

Evaluación eficaz del sistema de control interno

El hecho de ser nuevo en la profesión no significa que tenga que pensar como un novato. Evaluación Eficaz del Sistema de Control Interno le permite a los profesionales, académicos y a todos aquellos que tengan alguna relación con el control interno obtener "experiencia inmediata ...

Natural capitalism

the next industrial revolution

10th Anniversary Edition. On its first publication 10 years ago, "Natural Capitalism" rocked the world of business with its innovative new approach - an approach that fused ecological integrity with business acumen using the radical concept of natural capitalism. This 10th-anniversary edition features a new Introduction ...

Economic policy

thoughts for today and tomorrow

"Economic Policy" contains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 at the Centro de Estudios Sobre la Libertad in Argentina. The lectures were posthumously transcribed by Mises' wife, Margit, and edited by George Koether, a student and long-time friend of Mises. This volume serves ...

Informe sobre la Democracia en España 2010

la erosión de la confianza y el bienestar: contra la desafección

Dir. Joaquín Estefanía Moreira. Para la realización del Informe sobre la Democracia en España (IDE- 2010), el Laboratorio de la Fundación Alternativas designó un Consejo Asesor que, junto con el Director del IDE, debatió su estructura y orientación a lo largo de varias sesiones, conoció ...

La Unión Europea ante los grandes retos del siglo XXI

Aportaciones al Grupo de Reflexión del Consejo Europeo, presidido por Felipe González

La previsión de los riesgos y oportunidades futuras es una tarea necesaria para construir el presente. En el caso de la Unión Europea, este ejercicio de prospectiva apunta a una profunda transformación del escenario geopolítico. Desde la política económica y el modelo social hasta la ...

Crisis: lecciones aprendidas... o no

Las crisis son una dura oportunidad para aprender de los errores. El objetivo de este texto es apuntar qué lecciones cabe extraer de los acontecimientos recientes, del camino que nos condujo a ellos, de la gestión de las dificultades y de la digestión de su ...

Salud pública mundial y Derecho internacional

Una de las esferas específicas en donde el fenómeno de la globalización y los avances científicos y tecnológicos han suscitado la presencia de debilidades y carencias viene configurada por la aparición de nuevas enfermedades infecciosas y de otro tipo, y por su rápida propagación, particularmente ...

The great credit crash

Ed. Martijn Konings. The dominant accounts of the current financial crisis - focussing on the lack of regulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation - have not offered us much beyond the kind of information that we can glean from newspaper headlines. This book, drawing on some of ...

The symptom and the subject

the emergence of the physical body in Ancient Greece

"The Symptom and the Subject" takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of ...

The zodiac of Paris

how an improbable controversy over an Ancient Egyptian artifact provoked a modern debate between religion and science

The Dendera zodiac - an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets - was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. Brought to Paris in 1821 and ultimately ...

Prudes, perverts, and tyrants

Plato's Gorgias and the politics of shame

In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of shame hurts democracy. In fact, she makes ...

The eastern mediterranean and the making of global radicalism, 1860-1914

In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among intellectuals, workers, dramatists, Egyptians ...

Riot in Alexandria

tradition and group dynamics in late antique pagan and christian communities

This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupted ...

Leonardo Turriano

ingeniero del Rey

A finales del siglo XVI, Leonardo Turriano, ingeniero de Felipe II, se trasladó a la actual Argelia para supervisar las fortalezas costeras de Orán y Mazalquivir, los dos enclaves españoles más orientales del norte de África. Fruto de esta estancia, fue un manuscrito inédito, la ...

Triumph revisited

historians battle for the Vietnam War

Eds. Andrew Wiest, Michael J. Doidge. More than thirty years later, the Vietnam War still stands as one of the most controversial events in the history of the United States, and historians have so far failed to come up with a definitive narrative of the ...

Oral history for the qualitative researcher

choreographing the Story

Oral history is a particularly useful way to capture ordinary people's lived experiences. This innovative book introduces the full array of oral history research methods and invites students and qualitative researchers to try them out in their own work. Using choreography as an organizing ...

Peso de todo el mundo (1622)

discurso sobre el aumento de esta monarquía (1625)

Dirigido a fines de 1622 a quien estaba llamado a 'gobernar el viaje del gran bajel del imperio', 'al solo maestro que guía todas las cuerdas de este gran relox', "Peso de todo el mundo", de Sir Anthony Sherley, fue uno de los textos que ...