Libros de

Fortuny

o al arte como distinción de clase

La vida, signifique lo que signifique, no es algo que pueda explicarse desde la eternidad. La memoria de Mariano Fortuny y Marsal ha estado demasiado condicionada por la épica de un destino artístico situado más allá de los avatares terrenales. Sin embargo, como todos los ...

Secularism

politics, religion, and freedom

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth ...

Cómo entender una obra musical

y otros ensayos de filosofía de la música

Este libro ofrece una interesante colección de ensayos sobre filosofía de la música escritos por Stephen Davies, uno de los filósofos más prestigiosos en este campo. Davies analiza diversos temas propios de la fi­losofía de la música: la expresión de emoción en la música ...

The Constitution of European democracy

Europe is in crisis. With rising unrest among citizens of EU member states exemplified by the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the growing popularity of anti-EU political parties, Dieter Grimm presents the argument that Europe has to change its method of further ...

La invención del juicio de quiebra

Francisco Salgado de Somoza (1591-1665)

Con su Labyrinthus creditorum concurrentium (1651), Francisco Salgado de Somoza (1591-1665) creó una obra de referencia sobre el procedimiento de quiebra. Además, en dos libros anteriores, defendió el derecho de la corona española de intervenir contra los abusos de la jurisdicción eclesiástica y el de ...

From International to Federal Market

the changing structure of European Law

What are the different market types that shape the European Union's internal market? Schütze proposes three models that assist in explaining the transitions in the structure of the EU internal market. The international model demands that each state limits its external sovereignty, while retaining ...

Cayendo al vacío

El periodista ávido de historias, Doug Mcgregor, está tratando de localizar a un violador convicto que ha escapado tras ser perseguido y acosado por una banda de linchadores hasta echarlo de su casa. Pero un truculento suicidio ocurrido en el corazón turístico de Edimburgo despierta ...

The guardians

the league of nations and the crisis of empire

The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific colonies, and the Ottoman provinces in the Middle East fell into allied hands. Britain, France, Belgium, Japan, and the British ...

El hijo del capitán

Un viejo periodista, aquejado por la edad y los desengaños de la vida, rememora los acontecimientos decisivos que han marcado su existencia. Siguiendo los consejos de su hija, los recoge en su magnetófono. Sus recuerdos de infancia y adolescencia están marcados por la ausencia de ...

Merchants of labor

recruiters and international labor migration

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking ...

Chains of finance

how investment management is shaped

Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that chain is of huge importance: The world's ...

Calendario Desperta Ferro 2018

Desperta Ferro Ediciones te trae el calendario imprescindible para los apasionados de la Historia militar. En una edición limitada, y acompañado por una selección de las mejores ilustraciones históricas de nuestras revistas, con el Calendario 2018 podrás rememorar, día a día, las más trascendentales batallas ...

Copyright user rights

contracts and the rosion of property

This is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation of the unsettled nature, scope and dynamics of copyright user rights in an increasingly dematerialized environment. Combining a detailed theoretical framework with practical applications, the book provides a comprehensive perspective on copyright user rights, exploring ...

The European Convention on Human Rights

The seventh edition of Jacobs, White and Ovey: The European Convention on Human Rights is a clear and concise companion to this increasingly important and extensive area of the law. The authors examine each of the Convention rights in turn, explore the pivotal cases in ...

Imagine

IMAGINE es un álbum infantil pensado para compartir con los más pequeños las ganas de John Lennon de crear un único mundo en paz. El álbum cuenta con un prólogo expresamente escrito por Yoko Ono Lennon para esta publicación: “Imagine es un alegato lleno de ...

Foundations of modern macroeconomics

The study of macroeconomics can seem a daunting project. The field is complex and sometimes poorly defined and there are a variety of competing approaches. It is easy for the senior bachelor and starting master student to get lost in the forest of macroeconomics and ...

Cracking the China conundrum

why conventional economic wisdom is wrong

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's ...

Tiempo de mudanza

la instauración de la Nueva Planta borbónica en la ciudad de Zaragoza (1707-1715)

Investigación sobre las repercusiones de la Guerra de Sucesión centrada exclusivamente en la ciudad de Zaragoza y en un período de tiempo muy concreto: 1707-1715, que trata de reorganizar lo ya conocido para, después, formular nuevas preguntas buscando apuntar algunas respuestas. La obra se divide ...

Artificial intelligence for marketing practical applications

practical applications

PRAISE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MARKETING "Yes, AI is going to upend much of the marketing world too. Jim Sterne gives us a peek into that future, which is already happening." Seth Godin, Author, Purple Cow "The marketing we knew is about to disappear forever ...

On the ocean

the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500

For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the ...