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Literatvra

hibridaciones televisivas en la narrativa española actual

Los textos reunidos en esta obra, dando la vuelta a una supuesta literaturización de la pequeña pantalla, ofrecen un recorrido diacrónico dedicado a la obra de diferentes autores (Enrique Vila-Matas, Juan Goytisolo, Fernando Soto Aparicio, Santiago Roncagliolo, Juan Francisco Ferré, Javier Cercas y Jorge Carrión ...

Guía del buen gobierno corporativo

Este libro demuestra que el buen gobierno corporativo es básico para que las empresas alcancen resultados óptimos, de forma eficiente y sólida. Permite entender el cambio legislativo en la Ley de Sociedades de Capital y en el Código Penal de 2015, cómo preparar a la ...

Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and ...

Fluxes, fevers, and fighting men

war and disease in Ancien Régime Europe 1648-1789

The proportion of wartime soldiers dying of disease as against combat injury, ran at about 70-75 percent in armies campaigning in Europe in the century and a half (1648-1789) between the end of the Thirty Years War and the French Revolution. During this time, field ...

The causes of war

Volume 2: 1000 CE to 1400 CE

This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of ...

Iran after the Mongols

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today's Iran ...

Why North is up

map conventions and where they came from

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and users to understand it? This book ...

Alfonso X of Castile-León

royal patronage, self-promotion and manuscripts in Thirteenth-Century Spain

This book analyses text, image and manuscript layout to deepen our understanding of the different ways in which Alfonso is presented as a learned king in the manuscripts he commissioned, and reassesses the number of manuscripts copied for him.

Writing the history of Nationalism

What is nationalism and how can we study it from a historical perspective? Writing the History of Nationalism answers this question by examining eleven historical approaches to nationalism studies in theory and practice. An impressive cast of contributors cover the history of nationalism from a ...

Cataclysm

the war on the Eastern Front 1941-45

The significance of the Second World War and its relevance to the lives of so many, has generated a legacy of published material on the topic sufficient to fill a library quite a few times over. Yet disproportionately few publications deal exclusively with the true ...

Católicos en tiempos de + confusión

Decía Walter Benjamin que el significado auténtico de la historia solo brilla en tiempo de peligro. Nuestra actual crisis ha sacado a la luz la indefensión de una sociedad que creyó posible olvidarse de sus propios fundamentos éticos y ha hecho ver con claridad las ...

Un sueño hecho ficción

los prostíbulos en la novela latinoamericana (Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso y Juan Carlos Onetti)

Es un ensayo dedicado a la novela latinoamericana. "Burdel, prostíbulo, mancebía, lupanar, chongo? Los escurridizos sinónimos de este espacio de trasgresión y corrupción, pero también de liberación y festejo, señalan un hito en la literatura latinoamericana. Félix Terrones los recorre, con la exigencia y sutileza ...

Periodismo y desastres

múltiples miradas

No todas las catástrofes (terremotos, huracanes, incendios…) son sucesos del mismo orden, pero su cobertura periodística siempre es difícil. Abordar desastres supone trabajar con mucha presión y más en entornos donde reina el desconcierto. Aquí se reúnen estudios de casos muy bien escogidos. La conclusión ...

La vida inquieta

conflictos sociales en la Edad Moderna

Recurriendo a una gran variedad de fuentes, no solo las de tipo judi­cial como pudiera tal vez anticiparse, y combinando métodos cualitativos y estadísticos esta obra colectiva se consagra al análisis y explicación de la conflictividad social en sus expresiones y procedimientos de resolución ...

Survive and resist

the definitive guide to dystopian politics

Authoritarianism is on the march-and so is dystopian fiction. In the brave new twenty-first century, young-adult series like The Hunger Games and Divergent have become blockbusters; after Donald Trump's election, two dystopian classics, 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, skyrocketed to the New York ...

Pork barrel politics

how government spending determines elections in a Polarized Era

Conventional wisdom holds that legislators who bring "pork"—federal funds for local projects—back home to their districts are better able to fend off potential challengers. For more than four decades, however, the empirical support for this belief has been mixed. Some studies have found ...

One Nation undecided

clear thinking about five hard issues that divided us

How to think intelligently about the most divisive public issues confronting us today We've all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions, it's hard to know how to think ...

China and the next crash

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability. But beneath the surface lies a network of fissures that look likely to erupt into the next big financial crash. A bloated ...

What color is your parachute?

a practica manual for job-hunters and career-changers

In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a shifting economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N ...

Rancière

El presupuesto de la igualdad en l apolítica y ne l aestética

Rancière no es un libro sobre el poder sino sobre la potencia que nace de una inteligencia en común o, si se prefiere, de un comunismo de las inteligencias: lo que hombres y mujeres compartimos a la hora de emanciparnos no es la lucha singular ...