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The Age of Trade

the Manila galleons and the dawn of the global economy

This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world's leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the ...

Textbook on criminal Law

Textbook on Criminal Law, now in its thirteenth edition, has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past twenty years. This thorough text enables readers to feel confident in their knowledge of the law, while ...

The business of America is lobbying

how corporations became politicized and politics became more corporate

Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money ...

Hitler's shadow Empire

Nazi economics and the Spanish Civil War

Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco s Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes ...

Public rights, private relations

The abuse of workers in export processing zones in developing countries, the undignified treatment of elderly people in care homes, and the dangers for internet users' privacy arising from private companies' control of their data are prominent examples of how our most fundamental interests are ...

Energy from waste

a practical handbook

Generating energy from waste is an attractive solution, as governments around the world grapple with the challenges of providing energy security, mitigating carbon emissions and disposing of increasing waste volume. It offers the possibility of recovering energy from resources that would otherwise be landfilled and ...

Applied financial macroeconomics and investment strategy

a practitioner's guide to tactical asset allocation

Understanding our interconnected macroeconomic world is important for money managers and investment professionals alike. Here author Robert McGee brings together insights from finance and macroeconomics that are useful for investment strategists concerned with asset allocation decision-making. McGee provides a thorough look at each stage of ...

American foreign policy and its thinkers

Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of United States's image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts Anderson charts the entwined ...

Public procurement and the EU competition rules

Public procurement and competition law are both important fields of EU law and policy, intimately intertwined in the creation of the internal market. Hitherto their close connection has been noted, but not closely examined. This work is the most comprehensive attempt to date to explain ...

Russell en 90 minutos

Russell afirmó que fueron tres las pasiones que le dominaron: un anhelo de amor, la búsqueda de conocimiento y una angustiosa compasión por el sufrimiento humano. Guiaron tanto su vida personal como su quehacer intelectual. Su punto de vista filosófico, profundamente imbuido de la ciencia ...

Descartes en 90 minutos

Descartes fue enviado a un internado a la edad de ocho años. Como el director del colegio era un amigo de la familia, el joven René tenía una habitación para él solo y podía levantarse cuando quería, que era hacia el mediodía. A pesar de ...

Tomás de Aquino en 90 minutos

Creemos que nuestra época es la más grande de la historia de la humanidad, llena de una originalidad que parece ilimitada, pero este dinamismo no es una característica necesaria de las grandes épocas. Entre las civilizaciones más duraderas y estables ha estado la Europa medieval ...

Relaciones actuales entre Convenio y Ley

INDICE: I. INTRODUCCIÓN. PARTE I: LA SITUACIÓN DE NORMALIDAD CONSTITUCIONAL. II. FUENTES FORMALES Y FUENTES MATERIALES DEL DERECHO. III. LA RUPTURA DEL MONOPOLIO ESTATAL DE CREACIÓN DEL DERECHO. EL PLURALISMO JURÍDICO. IV. EL PODER SOCIAL DE CREACIÓN DE NORMAS JURÍDICAS. EN ESPECIAL, EL PODER SOCIAL ...

La economía no da la felicidad

pero ayuda a conseguirla

La crisis financiera de 2008 cambió radicalmente nuestra concepción del futuro. Las recetas económicas aplicadas en Europa han hecho tambalearse los cimientos del estado de bienestar que tanto esfuerzo costó construir, los casos de corrupción se suceden sin fin, los partidos tradicionales se hunden en ...

Venezuela

what everyone needs to know

Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading ...

Partisanos

una historia de la Resistencia

Primo Levi, uno de los escritores fundamentales del siglo XX, combatió como partisano en el valle de Aosta en otoño de 1943 hasta ser capturado y deportado a Auschwitz. Pese al carácter autobiográfico de su obra, corrió un tupido velo sobre esas semanas de lucha ...

Sex

Antiquity and its legacy

Sex is fundamental to society. We cannot think about politics, power, identity or culture without also thinking about sexuality. Despite this, the scientific study of sexual behaviour is a relatively recent phenomenon. Doctors, legal experts and other intellectuals have all pondered challenging questions in an ...

Hacia el realismo especulativo

ensayos y conferencias

partir de originales lecturas de autores como Heidegger, Whitehead, Ortega y Gasset, McLuhan, Bruno Latour, y Clement Greenberg, esta compilación de ensayos logra darnos una idea del alcance que el realismo especulativo -perspectiva filosófica que promete superar los dilemas del acceso humano a la realidad ...

Después de la finitud

ensayo sobre la necesidad de la contingencia

La posmodernidad es autolimitación de la filosofía, que al abstenerse de toda definición absoluta involuntariamente acaba por "resucistar lo religioso bajo todas sus formas, incluidas las más inquietantes". Es también confinamiento del ser del mundo a un círculo correlacina que lo ata a la conciencia ...

Emotion

Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and ...