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Patria e Imperio

Ensayos políticos

Periodista, escritor, guionista y lúcido analista de la historia política de Estados Unidos, Gore Vidal se ha convertido en un punto de referencia obligado para entender la evolución y las espectativas de futuro del país más poderoso del mundo. A través de siete ensayos, asistimos ...

El deber constitucional de contribuir al sostenimiento de los gastos públicos

Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea

(Loeb Classical Library; 12)

Euripides of Athens (ca. 485–406 BCE), famous in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations, wrote nearly ninety plays. Of these, eighteen (plus a play of unknown authorship mistakenly included with his works) have come ...

Roman History, Volume III: Books 36-40

(Loeb Classical Library; 53)

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He ...

Dollars and change economics in context

This book explains economic ideas in nontechnical language and is accessible to readers with little background in economics. Recognizing that abstract models and theories can leave readers puzzling over the meaning and significance of economics, Putterman addresses such questions as: Why is the economy organized ...

Roman History, Volume IV: Books 41-45

(Loeb Classical Library; 66)

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He ...

Roman Antiquities, Volume II: Books 3-4

(Loeb Classical Library; 347)

Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BCE and went to Italy before 29 BCE. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for a history of Rome, and writing. His Roman Antiquities began to appear in 7 BCE. Dionysius states ...

Uncommon grounds

the history of coffee and how it transformed the world

In this work, Mark Prenderghast pours out a history of the coffee industry, presenting lush tropical regions where the crop is grown, busy street corners that are home to Starbucks, and boardrooms where millions of dollars are at stake

The spirit of capitalism

nationalism and economic growth

The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics, a question neither economists nor economic historians have been able to answer: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Taking her title from Max Weber's famous study on ...

Ensayos de teoría monetaria II

Este volumen, junto con el anterior, recogen los principales ensayos de F.A. Hayek sobre dinero y teoría monetaria. Los cinco ensayos que integran este volumen analizan las consecuencias del ‘principio de composición’, según el cual no puede trasladarse a la sociedad en su conjunto ...

Ensayos de teoría monetaria I

El presente volumen, junto con el siguiente: Ensayos de teoría monetaria, volumen II, recoge los principales ensayos de F. A. Hayek sobre dinero y teoría monetaria. Este volumen I lo integran siete artículos escritos a partir de los años 1920 en los que se critica ...

La personnalité des animaux

Livres 1 à 9

" Que les bêtes brutes, elles aussi, possèdent par nature un certain sens moral, et qu'elles partagent avec l'homme bon nombre de privilèges qui ont été impartis aux humains, voilà bien, pour le coup, quelque chose de grandiose. ", s'émerveille Élien qui, dans La ...

Cómo hacer la valoración de puestos de trabajo en un Ayuntamiento

la relación de puestos de trabajo

La clave de la correcta gestión de los recursos humanos en las Administraciones públicas radica en la integración entre las personas con su formación, experiencia, características y aptitudes, y los puestos de trabajo entendidos como unidades elementales de la estructura que cubren todas las funciones ...

Moralia, Volume XII: Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon. On the Principle of Cold. Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful. Whether Land or Sea Animals Are Cleverer. Beasts Are Rational. On the Eating of Flesh

(Loeb Classical Library; 406)

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He ...

History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2. (Persian War)

(Loeb Classical Library; 48)

Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer. In 527 CE he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535 against the ...

On the Unchangeableness of God. On Husbandry. Concerning Noah's Work As a Planter. On Drunkenness. On Sobriety

(Loeb Classical Library; 247)

The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile ...

On the Cherubim. The Sacrifices of Abel and Cain. The Worse Attacks the Better. On the Posterity and Exile of Cain. On the Giants

(Loeb Classical Library; 227)

The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile ...

On Flight and Finding. On the Change of Names. On Dreams

(Loeb Classical Library; 275)

The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile ...

Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo

Una hipnótica novela en torno a un gran misterio en el que se funden la fantasía y la realidad.El joven Tooru Okada, que acaba de dejar su trabajo en un bufete de abogados, recibe un día la llamada anónima de una mujer. A partir ...

Apuntes parlamentarios

Se presenta una agrupación de crónicas sobre la vida política española, comprendidas entre los años 1977 a 1990, y que el autor denomina de la siguiente manera; La Tentación Canovista, El Pecado Consensual y Escaños de Penitencia.