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Guía del lector del Quijote

La delicada gama psicológica que acompaña los caracteres de Don Quijote y Sancho es bien distinta del simplismo con que vulgarmente ha sido apreciada esta genial novela. Don Quijote y Sancho sintetizan dos modos de ser opuestos, o más bien complementarios. A lo largo del ...

La gran destrucció

els danys de la Guerra Civil a Catalunya (1936-1957)

Tot i que en els darrers anys s'ha avançat en l'estudi de la Guerra Civil Espanyola i de la posterior dictadura franquista, encara avui dia hi ha diferents aspectes d'aquest període que no han rebut un tractament adequat. Un d'ells és ...

La conquista de la Ciudad del Cielo

la epopeya española en Nuevo México

La conquista de la ciudad de Acoma (la milenaria ciudad del cielo de los indios Queres construida sobre una inmensa roca de más de cien metros de altura) por las huestes de Juan de Oñate en Nuevo México, constituye una hazaña imperecedera y una de ...

Historias del Dios

Este libro lo componen sobre todo narraciones acerca del Dios de la Biblia, pero también de diosas y dioses de la Antigüedad clásica, a veces narraciones no sobre ellos, sino acerca de hombres y mujeres creyentes o descreídos. Los relatos se encadenan en el curso ...

El libro secreto del Ratoncito Pérez

¡Hola! ¡Soy el ratoncito Pérez! ¿Queréis saber dónde vivo? ¿Quiénes son mis amigos? ¿Mis aficiones? ¿Conocer los maravillosos lugares que visito? Puede que seáis muy curiosos y queráis conocer mis secretos, pero sobre todo, estoy seguro de que os gustaría averiguar una cosa muy importante ...

The Constitution of Taiwan

a contextual analysis

In addition to the economic miracle, with surprising growth in the 1970s and 1980s, Taiwan has further shown the world two others. One is the democratic miracle which brought about a silent revolution from notorious authoritarian regime to full democracy in Asia. Intertwined with that ...

The seven secrets of Germany

economic resilience in an era of global turbulance

German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent ...

The political and economic dynamics of the Eurozone crisis

This is the first book to provide a full and dispassionate account of the politics and economics of the Eurozone crisis, focusing on the interlinked origins and impacts of the Euro-Zone crisis and the policy responses to it. The book is distinguished from existing research ...

Maths for economics

Drawing on his extensive experience teaching in the area, Geoff Renshaw has developed Maths for Economics to enable students to master and apply mathematical principles and methods both in their degrees and their careers. Through the use of a gradual learning gradient and the provision ...

Targeted sanctions

the impacts and effectiveness of United Nations Action

International sanctions have become the instrument of choice for policymakers dealing with a variety of different challenges to international peace and security. This is the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of all the targeted sanctions regimes imposed by the United Nations since the end of ...

Enacting european citizenship

What does it mean to be a European citizen? The rapidly changing politics of citizenship in the face of migration, diversity, heightened concerns about security and financial and economic crises, has left European citizenship as one of the major political and social challenges to European ...

Currencies, commodities and consumption

Currency values, prices, consumption and incomes are at the heart of the economic performance of all countries. In order to make a meaningful comparison between one economy and another, economists routinely make use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, but while PPP rates are ...

Learning, policy making, and market reforms

In the 1980s and 1990s, market reforms swept the world. It is widely believed that the reformist wave can be partly explained in terms of the lessons learned from policy failures of the past. Whereas this interpretation of events is well established, it has never ...

Third way reforms

social democracy after the golden age

This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of 'third way' reforms. It proposes a set of theories about the possibility for continuing social democratic ideological adaptation, for ideologies to overcome institutional constraints in triggering path-breaking innovations, and for social democracy ...

Bankers, bureaucrats, and Central Bank politics

th myth of neutrality

Most studies of the political economy of money focus on the laws protecting central banks from government interference; this book turns to the overlooked people who actually make monetary policy decisions. Using formal theory and statistical evidence from dozens of central banks across the developed ...

CUP

viaje a las raíces y razones de las Candidaturas de Unidad Popular

Una primera aproximación sobre las CUP, las Candidaturas de Unidad Popular, como concepto político operativo. Proyecto y propuesta de unidad popular como expresión de la voluntad de arraigo en la vida municipal. El primer libro donde hablan y se interpelan la historia, el presente y ...

Behavioral rationality and heterogeneous expectations in complex economic systems

Recognising that the economy is a complex system with boundedly rational interacting agents, the book presents a theory of behavioral rationality and heterogeneous expectations in complex economic systems and confronts the nonlinear dynamic models with empirical stylized facts and laboratory experiments. The complexity modeling paradigm ...

Economic and social rights after the global financial crisis

The global financial and economic crises have had a devastating impact on economic and social rights. These rights were ignored by economic policy makers prior to the crises and continue to be disregarded in the current 'age of austerity'. This is the first book to ...

Fomento artístico y sociedad liberal

exposiciones nacionales de Bellas Artes (1917-1936)

Institución fundamental de la cultura artística española, las exposiciones nacionales de Bellas Artes se crearon en 1853 bajo la protección de los poderes públicos con el objetivo de proteger y promover el desarrollo del arte español. En un anterior libro de la misma autora, Historia ...

Balancing Constitutional Rights

the origins and meanings of postwar legal discourse

The language of balancing is pervasive in constitutional rights jurisprudence around the world. In this book, Jacco Bomhoff offers a comparative and historical account of the origins and meanings of this talismanic form of language, and of the legal discourse to which it is central ...