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Televisión studies after TV

understanding television in the post-broadcast era

Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside ...

Circus maximus

the economical gamble behind hosting the olympics and the World Cup

The numbers are staggering: China spent $40 billion to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and Russia spent $50 billion for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Brazil's total expenditures are thought to have been as much as $20 billion for the World ...

Luces de otro tiempo

la exhibición cinematográfica en la provincia de Segovia

La presente obra supone un recorrido por todos los aspectos de la exhibición cinematográfica en la provincia de Segovia desde la llegada del cinematógrafo hasta nuestros días. El nomadismo de los primeros proyeccionistas, la llegada del sonoro, las primeras salas, la rica realidad del mundo ...

Legal and compliance risk

a strategic response to a rising threat for global business

Over the last 30 years, risks and costs associated with legal conflicts, compliance breaches, litigation, regulatory investigations, criminal prosecution, trials, and arbitration have increased exponentially in frequency and financial harm. Peter Kurer, former business lawyer, GC and chairman of UBS, and board member from various ...

An introduction to empirical legal research

Is the death penalty a more effective deterrent than lengthy prison sentences? Does a judge's gender influence their decisions? Do independent judiciaries promote economic freedom? Answering such questions requires empirical evidence, and arguments based on empirical research have become an everyday part of legal ...

Public sector entrepreneurship

U.S. technology and innovation policy

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity. These initiatives can transform a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and innovative activities in the face of uncertainty. Public Sector ...

Teatro completo

Este Teatro completo de Ramón J. Sender (1901-1982) reúne por primera vez trece obras dramáticas del autor. La vocación escénica del dramaturgo, muy temprana y en cualquier caso anterior a la Guerra Civil, se vio frustrada por las circunstancias de su exilio, primero en México ...

Rastafari and the arts

an introduction

Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The religious underpinnings of the Rasta movement are often overshadowed by Rasta's association with reggae music, dub, and performance ...

China's bitter victory

the war with Japan 1937-1945

"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of ...

The Oxford handbook of the French Revolution

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along ...

Pequeño peludo

la abuela caramelo

Suaves nubes rosas, una fábrica de bombones, montones de chucherías, dos perritos gruñones y una entrañable abuelita con delantal…

Barcelona

los vagabundos de la chatarra

El progreso es un mito –dice el prólogo de este libro– que deja a su paso montones de basura. Los autores de este cómic siguen sus múltiples rastros por Barcelona. Aunque la crisis, el paro o los desalojos parezcan locales, son en realidad argumentos universales ...

La Campaña de Rusia

El autor del presente libro, Philippe Paul de Ségur, nació y murió en París (1780-1873). Su vida y su obra se hallan estrechamente ligadas al mundo napoleónico. De orígenes aristocráticos, perteneció a una familia muy distinguida de militares, diplomáticos y hombres de letras. Tras participar ...

Moby dick

Moby Dick es una de las mayores obras de todos los tiempos. La intensidad de su historia, acumulada en cada detalle, ha conmocionado a todo tipo de lectores. Eso mismo ha conseguido Christophe Chabouté con esta impactante adaptación de la novela de Herman Melville. Mediante ...

Boca de diablo

Yuri, un joven huérfano ucraniano apodado “boca de diablo” por culpa de una malformación en el labio, cae en las manos tutelares de la KGB en pleno estalinismo, que le someterá a una formación intensiva para hacer de él un soldado espía de primera fila ...

El color del aire

“Han atracado. Han desembarcado en nuestra terraza, cubiertos de una película negra de grasa fétida… Parecían perdidos, terriblemente desconectados de todo… Incluso de sí mismos...sobre todo de sí mismos...” En un nuevo ejercicio de monocromía, Bilal regresa al universo narrativo de sus dos últimas ...

The edge of the Cold War

american diplomats and spies in postwar Prague

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was ...

After the cataclysm

postwar Indochina and the reconstruction of imperial ideology. The political economy of Human Rights. Vol.II

The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date. In a much discussed chapter on Cambodia, Chomsky and Herman questioned official Western narratives on the Khmer Rouge and suggested that the evidence ...

Connecting the nineteenth-century world

the telegraph and globalization

By the end of the nineteenth century the global telegraph network had connected all continents and brought distant people into direct communication 'at the speed of thought' for the first time. Roland Wenzlhuemer here examines the links between the development of the telegraph and the ...

The decline of the traditional pension

a comparative study of threats to retirement security

The traditional (final or average salary) pension that employers have provided their employees has suffered a huge decline in labor force coverage in the United Kingdom and the United States, and less severe declines in Canada and elsewhere. The traditional pension provides a precious measure ...