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Selected letters. Volume II

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 77)

Restos mortales

El infalible comisario Brunetti necesita unas vacaciones. Así se lo ha recomendado su doctora y también insiste en ello su esposa Paola, que finalmente convence a su marido para que se vaya una temporada a una casa familiar en San Erasmo, la isla más grande ...

Creativity and data marketing

a practical guide to data innovation

The world is moving towards universal connectivity at a dizzying rate; underpinning this complex system of incessant transaction, connection and digital experience is an infrastructure that generates a trail of data. This trail not only tells us about human behaviour, but provides vital insights into ...

Malcolm McDonald on marketing planning

understanding marketing plans and strategy

A primer for marketing professionals and students, the second edition of Malcolm McDonald on Marketing Planning provides a clear guide to marketing planning. Focussing on the practical application of marketing planning this book will guide readers through the production of a marketing plan that has ...

Mobile marketing

how mobile technology is revolutionizing Marketing, Communications and Advertising

Mobile Marketing is a clear, practical guide to harnessing the mobile consumer and tackling the rising challenges of divided user attention across multiple screens at the same time. It demystifies the vast spectrum of tools and techniques now available and explains how to optimize these ...

Breve manual actualizado del Golpe de Estado

La vía parlamentaria, el llamado impeachment, se extiende hoy en día para revertir la voluntad popular refrendada en las urnas. El golpe de Estado ha evolucionado: ahora se habla de golpes ‘blandos’, ‘suaves’, no violentos; en todos ellos, el objetivo sigue siendo alterar el orden ...

La cuestión juvenil

¿una generación sin futuro?

Basado en una ambiciosa investigación sobre la juventud realizada por el Grupo de Estudio sobre Tendencias Sociales (GETS) y en los datos que aportan varias encuestas sociológicas elaboradas entre 2009 y 2015, La cuestión juvenil. ¿Una generación sin futuro? es la mejor radiografía que actualmente ...

Poesía, cine y humor

relatos de excepción en los años de autarquía

Los años en torno a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sin duda la etapa más dura de la dictadura franquista, fueron también el escenario en el que se gestó la nueva cultura de vanguardia en España, cuyo nacimiento tuvo lugar, según la historiografía tradicional, entre 1947 ...

Discursos de la crisis

respuestas de la cultura española ante nuevos desafíos

Hace ya casi una década que la crisis económica comenzó a afectar a todos los sectores de la sociedad española: estalló la burbuja inmobiliaria, los bancos quebraron, el número de parados aumentó de forma dramática, hubo recortes en los sueldos, en la sanidad, en la ...

Regreso a Berlín

Como las viejas y buenas historias, esta fascinante novela comienza en un buque repleto de pasajeros muy distintos entre sí. Tras un largo viaje por el Caribe, lleno de conversaciones y complicidades, el londinense Eric Devon, su esposa Nora y una lúcida periodista estadounidense deciden ...

Sociosofía

La sociosofía es un punto de vista que se inspira en el arquetipo fratriarcal aparecido hace 2500 años en la civilización occidental. Para construirlo el autor escribe encima de R. Guénon, J. Evola, el gnosticismo y el «Corpus Hermeticum» de Hermes Trimegisto. Con esa (re ...

Juan Ramón Jiménez y el legado de la Modernidad

La consideración de la obra de Juan Ramón Jiménez como exponente de la Modernidad literaria occidental es el eje fundamental de este libro, otorgando una visión global de sus principales facetas, con atención simultánea al análisis del texto, a su hermenéutica y al diálogo que ...

Anti-jewish riots in the Crown of Aragon and the royal response

1391-1392

The most devastating attacks against the Jews of medieval Christian Europe took place during the riots that erupted, in 1391 and 1392, in the lands of Castile and Aragon. For ten horrific months, hundreds if not thousands of Jews were killed, numerous Jewish institutions destroyed ...

John of Brienne

King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinolple, c.1175-1237

John of Brienne's progress, from mid-ranking knightly status to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, traces one of the most remarkable careers in the entire medieval period. But how and why did he achieve such heights? This biographical study of aristocratic ...

The Frankfurt School, jewish lives, and antisemitism

The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key figures in the Frankfurt School, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal and ...

Scylla

myth, metaphor, paradox

What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut 'figure' and proposes instead to define the name 'Scylla' as a combination of three concepts - sea ...

Proclus

an introduction

Proclus of Lycia (412-485) was one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity, producing the most systematic version of late Neoplatonic thought. He exercised enormous influence on Byzantine, medieval, Renaissance and German Classical philosophy, ranking among the top five of ancient philosophers in terms of the ...

Just and unjust military intervention

european thinkers from Vitoria to Mill

Classical arguments about the legitimate use of force have profoundly shaped the norms and institutions of contemporary international society. But what specific lessons can we learn from the classical European philosophers and jurists when thinking about humanitarian intervention, preventive self-defense or international trusteeship today? The ...

Mapping medieval geographies

geographical encounters in the Latin West and beyond, 300-1600

Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book ...

Authority and identity in medieval islamic historiography

persian histories from the peripheries

Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what ...