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Humanism and the latin classics

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 78)

Aldus Manutius (c. 1451–1515) was the most important and innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy, and science than any other publisher before or since. A companion volume to I Tatti’s ...

Marketing 4.0

moving from traditional to digital

Marketing has changed forever this is what comes next Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital is the much-needed handbook for next-generation marketing. Written by the world's leading marketing authorities, this book helps you navigate the increasingly connected world and changing consumer landscape ...

Society and economy

framework and principles

Society and Economy--a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology--is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined. The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities ...

The activist director

Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have ...

Derecho procesal III

Proceso penal

Hace bastante tiempo que la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal está amenazada de reforma. En estos momentos parece –por enésima vez– que dicha reforma se acabará produciendo, tarde o temprano. La ley de 1882 no da para mucho más, y es el momento de conseguir grandes ...

El arte de la rivalidad

amistad, traición y ruptura en el Arte Moderno

Manet rasga un retrato de él y su mujer pintado por Degas. De Kooning pelea con Pollock y al poco de la muerte de este se junta con su amante, Ruth Kligman. Freud rompe con su mentor y amigo íntimo Bacon tras haberse inmiscuido sin ...

L'incidente probatorio

tra tutela della prova e protezione della persona

L’ incidente probatorio è stato investito, nel corso degli anni successivi all’entrata in vigore del nuovo codice processuale, di funzioni del tutto nuove. Concepito, infatti, come (eccezionale) parentesi processuale collocata all’interno di una fase squisitamente investigativa e correlato al requisito dell’indifferibilità della ...

Giudizio penale e ragionevole dubbio

Il principio dell'"oltre ogni ragionevole dubbio" rappresenta un passaggio decisivo tra le questioni di epistemologia generale e il quomodo della scelta giudiziaria penale, passaggio in cui si annodano inscindibilmente approcci disciplinari diversi e differenti interrogativi sul processo. Si pensi emblematicamente, da un lato, alle ...

Wars in the Third World since 1945

With nuclear stalemate holding the superpowers in check during the Cold War, violence proliferated in the Third World. Sometimes this took the form of colonial liberation wars as the old European empires disintegrated after the Second World War (Algeria 1954-1962 or Kenya 1952-1959); sometimes the ...

The World since 1945

an international history

A masterly synthesis of the history of the contemporary world, The World Since 1945 offers the ideal introduction to the events of the period between the end of the Second World War and the present day. P. M. H. Bell and Mark Gilbert balance a ...

Romania since the Second World War

a political, social and econommic history

Romania since the Second World War is the first book about Romania designed to chart the progress of the nation under the communist regime as well as the transition period that followed, providing detailed analysis of the aspects of continuity and change that can be ...

The spanish civil wars

a comparative history of the First Carlist War and the Conflict of the 1930s

This book provides a comparative history of the domestic and international nature of Spain's First Carlist War (1833-40) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as well as the impact of both conflicts. The book demonstrates how and why Spain's struggle for liberty was ...

Las máscaras de Dios

Volumen I: Mitología primitiva

En su prólogo al monumental estudio comparativo de las mitologías, cuya nueva edición inicia Atalanta con este primer volumen, Campbell afirma que el hombre no puede sostenerse en el universo sin otorgar un sentido a las ideas míticas heredadas, porque la crónica de nuestra especie ...

Les Amériques

du precolombien à nos jours

Par sa dimension interdisciplinaire, traitant aussi bien de questions archéologiques que de sujets historiques, littéraires, diplomatiques ou politiques, ce dictionnaire propose une approche globale des enjeux qui traversent le continent américain dans son intégralité, de l'époque précolombienne à nos jours. L'organisation en deux ...

History by numbers

an introduction to quantitative approaches

Fully updated and carefully revised, this new 2nd edition of History by Numbers stands alone as the only textbook on quantitative methods suitable for students of history. Even the numerically challenged will find inspiration. Taking a problem-solving approach and using authentic historical data, it describes ...

Freud lee el Quijote

No consta que Miguel de Cervantes leyera a Sigmund Freud, pero sí que Freud leyó a Cervantes desde su juventud. José Luis Villacañas los ha leído a ambos, y nos invita en este ensayo a interpretar de la mano del padre del psicoanálisis ese sueño ...

La vista desde aquí

una conversación con Valentí Puig

Dos ideales recorren este sincero y sustancioso diálogo entre Valentí Puig e Ignacio Peyró: el arte de conversar y la voluntad de conservar, ante la urgencia de rescatar el primero como aprendizaje recíproco de la humanidad y la segunda como alternativa a la ruptura; a ...

A short history of Christianity

A vivid, concise and balanced history of the world's largest religion, written for readers of all religious backgrounds. Christianity has played a central role in world history, for better or worse, but beyond the life of Jesus many people know little of this story ...

Tacitus

The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and concentrated prose, marked by sometimes bitter and ironic ...

Lingo

guía de Europa para el turista lingüístico

Aviso al lector: este libro abunda en datos increíbles. Y el más increíble es el punto de partida: en Europa se hablan más de sesenta lenguas. Lenguas con su gramática, su tradición literaria, su vocabulario y sus rarezas; dialectos y hablas regionales aparte. Gaston Dorren ...