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Impeachment

what everyone needs to know

Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know® is the step back and deep reflection on the law of impeachment that everyone needs now. Written in an accessible and lively question-and-answer format, it offers a timely explanation of the impeachment process from its very meaning to its ...

In defense of openness

why global freedom is the humane solution to global poverty

The topic of global justice has long been a central concern within political philosophy and political theory, and there is no doubt that it will remain significant given the persistence of poverty on a massive scale and soaring global inequality. Yet, virtually every analysis in ...

The AI advantage

how to put the Artificial Intelligence revolution to work

Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage. In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for ...

Mussolini and Hitler

the forging of the fascist alliance

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes? From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded ...

Los fantasmas favoritos de Roald Dahl

una antología de cuentos

«Las buenas historias de fantasmas, al igual que los buenos libros infantiles, son tremendamente complicadas de escribir. Yo mismo soy escritor de relatos, y aunque llevo cuarenta y cinco años ejerciendo y siempre he deseado escribir una sola historia de fantasmas decente, nunca he logrado ...

Empress

Queen Victoria and India

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and ...

Leer y vivir

'Tzvetan Todorov, a diferencia de muchos otros autores más famosos que él, no era ni un presuntuoso ni un charlatán. Era un suave intransigente, un intelectual lúcido (desgraciadamente, la expresión no es un pleonasmo), un erudito humilde, un investigador enciclopedista y pedagogo (un 'contrabandista', decía ...

King Arthur

the making of the Legend

A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not ...

Fragile nation, shattered land

the modern history of Syria

The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire ...

The phoney victory

the World War II illusion

Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the ...

The Oxford Handbook of greek and roman art and architecture

The study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture has a long history that goes back to the second half of the 18th century and has provided an essential contribution towards the creation and the definition of the wider disciplines of Art History and Architectural ...

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution argues for a new interpretation of the seventeenth-century Scottish revolution that goes beyond questions about its radicalism ...

Londinium: a biography

Roman London from its origins to the Fifth Century

This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical ...

Among the wolves of Court

the untold story of Thomas and George Boleyn

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life - her father Thomas and brother George - are often relegated to the margins of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533 ...

La batalla

La senda de los Tercios II

Este segundo volumen de la trilogía «La senda de los Tercios» se centra en la batalla de Nordlingen (1634), en la que las tropas del cardenal-infante don Fernando aplastaron al ejército luterano sueco, considerado hasta entonces invencible, en la Guerra de los Treinta Años.

La hija del relojero

Regresa una de las grandes autoras contemporáneas. ¿Mi nombre verdadero? Nadie lo recuerda. ¿Los sucesos de aquel verano? Nadie más los conoce. En el verano de 1862, un grupo de jóvenes artistas, guiados por el apasionado y brillante Edward Radcliffe, viaja a Birchwood Manor, una ...

Jornadas sobre los efectos de la nulidad de los planes urbanísticos y el Registro de la Propiedad

Madrid 2017

Una risa nueva

posthumor, parodias y otras mutaciones de la comedia

¿Te imaginas un festival del humor donde no se ríe nadie? Este libro no solo lo imagina, además trata de explicar por qué no sería un fracaso, sino, más bien, la posibilidad de una nueva forma de comedia. Hace casi diez años un buen puñado ...

Josep Pla y Miguel Delibes

el escritor y su territorio

Este libro es un intento de rendir un modesto –pero sincero y sentido– homenaje a la memoria de dos de los mejores escritores españoles del siglo xx. Dos grandes tipos –dos homenots– cuya personalidad es analizada y estudiada aquí desde el rigor académico, pero también ...

Anécdotas de Londres y Nueva York

“El mundo está amargado no por un exceso de crítica sino por la ausencia de autocrítica”. En este libro, Chesterton, consciente de la precariedad y de la mutabilidad de la posición del crítico, emprende la difícil tarea de juzgar las costumbres y manías de la ...