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Emancipación residencial y sistema de provisión de vivienda en España

hacia un análisis explicativo comparado por Comunidades Autónomas

Los sistemas de provisión de vivienda pueden definirse como el conjunto de iniciativas (públicas y privadas) que configuran las opciones disponibles en cada sociedad para conseguir un lugar en el que residir. Desde esta perspectiva cabe considerarlos como un elemento central de los regímenes o ...

Financial Instrument Pricing Using C++

C++ is one of the best languages for the development of financial engineering and instrument pricing applications. This book applies C++ to the design and implementation of classes, libraries and latest applications for option and derivative pricing models.

The Constitution of ancient China

How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which ...

Chaos in the liberal order

the Trump presidency and international politics in the twenty-first century

Donald Trump's election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists, historians ...

Bits to Bitcoin

how our digital stuff works

An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader. Most of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and ...

Risk assessment

procedures and protocols

A guide to the methodologies, typical mathematical notation, and assumptions used in risk assessment calculations Risk Assessment describes the methodologies, the math, and assumptions needed in risk assessment calculations and explores the various statistical analysis procedures that are used for estimating the parameters employed in ...

Jerusalem

a brief history

Shows how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures confer providential meaning to the fate of the city and how modern Jerusalem is haunted by waves of biblical fantasy aiming at mutually exclusive status-quo rectification. It presents the major epochs of the history of Jerusalem's urban ...

Economics of regulation and antitrust

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound regulatory and antitrust policy. Regulation and antitrust are key elements of government policy. This new edition of the leading textbook on government and business ...

A Companion to city of Rome

An authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its legendary foundations as a settlement on the banks of the Tiber up until circa AD 600.

Napoleon

a very short introduction

This Very Short Introduction provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility-for both good and ill-that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was ...

La voz del desterrado

Antología de la Literatura española del exilio en la primera mitad del siglo XIX

Este libro recoge, en todos sus géneros, las voces del destierro español durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. David Loyola López y Eva María Flores Ruiz compilan cuidadosamente los textos, y nos introducen a su contexto histórico e intelectual. La convulsa historia de España ...

Gastronomía y turismo en Iberoamérica

Hablar de gastronomía desde un punto de vista turístico está relativamente de moda. El papel de la gastronomía en la definición y en la diferenciación de la oferta de los destinos turísticos es cada vez más relevante en el ámbito internacional. Sin embargo, el nexo ...

The white working class

what everyone needs to know

In recent years, the world has been re-introduced to the constituency of "white working class" people. In a wave of revolutionary populism, far right parties have scored victories across the transatlantic political world: Britain voted to leave the European Union, the United States elected President ...

Inscripciones o títulos del más ilustre teatro (1565)

el museo como contenedor de objetos maravillosos

Escrita en latín y publicada en Múnich (1565), la obra de Samuel Quiccheberg, consejero artístico de Alberto V, duque de Baviera, es el primer tratado sobre museología de la historia de esta disciplina. Traducida por vez primera al castellano por Eduardo Fernández, la presente edición ...

The AI delusion

We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before ...

La ira

El fiscal Teodor Szacki no está en su mejor momento. Desde que abandonó Varsovia, siente un perpetuo desajuste tanto en su vida de pareja como en las relaciones con su hija adolescente. Tal vez ese sea el motivo de que un día no adopte todas ...

Environmental pollution in China

what everyone needs to know

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty ...

Hombres en guerra

Hombres en guerra es un clásico que habla de soldados en la línea de fuego, y uno de los mejores testimonios jamás escritos sobre cualquier guerra. Su autor, Alvah Bessie, fue un escritor y periodista estadounidense que en 1938 combatió en la guerra civil española ...

The monarchy of fear

a philosopher looks at our political crisis

From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country. For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honours for ...

Informe sobre Cataluña

una historia de rebeldía (777-2017)

Como consecuencia de los acontecimientos de los últimos años, una parte de la sociedad catalana ha optado por la ironía y otra por la ilusión por la República: es el efecto de las emociones, esperanzas y convicciones colectivas, pero también de las decepciones, los engaños ...