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Memory unbound

tracing the dynamics of memory studies

Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic approach, this ...

History and Philosophy of the Humanities

an introduction

The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common, which distinguishes them from e.g. physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences ...

Reformation to Industrial Revolution

In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 it possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialised power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and tries to explain how England won its unique ...

The Chronicle of Ireland

Volume 1: Introduction. Text

The Chronicle of Ireland is the principal source for the history of events not only in Ireland itself but also in what is now Scotland up to 911. It incorporated annals compiled on Iona up to c. 740 - a monastery which played a major role ...

Regional identities and cultures of medieval jews

Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional Jewish identities is often overlooked. Yet all these subcultures emerged in the Middle Ages. Scholars ...

Fascist interactions

proposals for a new approach to fascism and its Era, 1919-1945

Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained focus ...

Cómo mantenerse sano

Plutarco (46–120 d.C.) no dejó de manifestar un muy vivo interés por la medicina, que estudia al mismo tiempo que la filosofía. En este breve tratado, escrito después de la muerte del emperador Tito en el año 81 de nuestra era, la salud ...

La cordura del Arte

"El hombre que escribe de sí mismo y su tiempo es el único ser humano que escribe acerca de toda la gente y acerca de todos los tiempos. El otro tipo de hombre, el que cree que él y su época son tan distintos a ...

El libro de los libros de Chilam Balam

Después de la conquista española, los libros conocidos con el nombre genérico de Chilam Balam fueron redactados en lengua maya, con caracteres latinos. Las cuatro partes del libro relatan las vicisitudes de los itzaes, la dominación del Mayab por los toltecas, el fin y destrucción ...

A Macat analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Burton Malkiel's 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel's text remains an indispensable contribution to the world ...

La tarea de ser hombre

notas de antropología filosófica

"La tarea de ser hombre" es un esbozo a grandes rasgos de una antropología filosófica clásica que se vertebra a partir de dos ideas: qué es el ser humano y quién es el ser humano. A la primera cuestión el libro responde con una exposición ...

The Market

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about "market forces" as if they are immutable laws of the universe. But what exactly is "the market"? Originally an abstract idea from economic theory - the locus of supply and demand - it has come to inform ...

Intelligence in an insecure world

Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, groups, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable information in order to increase their sense of security.

Soft Law and public authorities

remedies and reform

This book considers the phenomenon of soft law employed by domestic public authorities. Lawyers have long understood that public authorities are able to issue certain communications in a way that causes them to be treated like law, even though these are neither legislation nor subordinate ...

El valor normativo de la Constitución Española de 1978

sistema de fuentes

Can democracy survive global capitalism?

In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity-between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Yet, from the 1970s on, a power shift occurred in which financial ...

Advice and dissent

why America suffers when economics and politics collide

A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations ...

Derecho constitucional español

Una gestión pública orientada al ciudadano

justificación, logros y retos

Esta obra analiza las cuestiones esenciales que caracterizan la Gestión Pública de nuestros días y que mayor interés o preocupación social suscitan entre la población: la eficiencia y la calidad de los servicios públicos; la situación de su personal; la elaboración de los presupuestos; la ...

Wölfe!

la Batalla del Atlántico

Esta obra va dirigida a diferentes tipos de aficionados. Modelistas, coleccionistas de militaria y amantes de la historia disfrutarán de un gran libro de consulta y referencia. En este libro encontramos una gran recopilación de fotografías de época, ilustraciones, procesos paso a paso de pintura ...