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Sleepwalking into a new world

the emergence of Italian city communes in the twelfth century

Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous ...

Oil for food

the global food crisis and the Middle East

In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008, Middle Eastern oil producers have announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East ...

China's economic transformation

Now available in a fully-revised and updated third edition, thisestablished textbook provides a penetrating and comprehensiveanalysis of the historical, institutional, and theoretical factorsthat have contributed to China s economic success. * Includes coverage of China s foreign investments, tradewith regional partners, Chinese human capital, and bureaucraticeconomic ...

Would you kill the fat man?

the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong

A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is ...

The Federal Reserve and the financial crisis

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In ...

The energy world is flat

opportunities from the end of peak oil

A stronger, more informed approach to the energy markets The Energy World Is Flat provides a forward-lookinganalysis of the energy markets and addresses the implications oftheir rapid transformation. Written by acknowledged expert DanielLacalle, who is actively engaged with energy portfolios in thefinancial space, this book ...

The price of rights

regulating international labor migration

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always ...

The medieval way of war

studies in medieval military history in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach

Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention, but demanding of it. In his many publications Bachrach has established unequivocally the relevance of military institutions and activity for an ...

Ceremonial entries in Early Modern Europe

the iconography of power

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that a "voiceda (TM) the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the ...

Nation builder

John Quincy Adams and the Grand strategy of the republic

America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy John Quincy Adams s famous words are often quoted to justify noninterference in other nations affairs. Yet when he spoke them, Adams was not advocating neutrality or passivity but rather outlining a national policy that ...

Strafgesetzbuch

lehr-und praxiskommentar

ist das Standardwerk zum StGB für Studium, Referendariat und erste Berufsjahre. Die vorzügliche Kombination aus Lehrbuch und Kommentar überzeugt mit einer konzentrierten und verständlichen Darstellung zu einem erschwinglichen Preis. Seine besonderen Vorteile: Schnelles Erfassen, Wiederholen und Beantworten der Fallfrage wie die Durchdringung des Stoffs im ...

Comprender Portugal

Sus páginas acogen una reflexión sobre por qué Portugal existe como instancia independiente, una consideración general de la historia del país, una aproximación a la literatura portuguesa, una reflexión sobre la relación de Portugal y Galicia a través de la lengua y una miscelánea en ...

Clausewitz in his time

essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war

Far from being a detached theorist, Carl von Clausewitz was as intensely aware of the cultural and intellectual currents of his time as he was engaged in its political and military conflicts. The society in which he lived and the people with whom he served ...

Hun sen's Cambodia

To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist ...

Feminicidio

el asesinato de mujeres por ser mujeres

Son múltiples las formas que puede tomar la violencia contra las mujeres y desgraciadamente hay veces que implican la muerte de las mujeres. Entonces hablamos de feminicidio, del asesinato de mujeres por el hecho de ser mujeres. Pero no se trata de un acto puntual ...

Decolonization and the Cold War

negotiating independence

Home > 20th Century Home > Books > Society and Culture > Human Geography > Emigration and Immigration ISBN: 9781472571199 - Decolonization and the Cold War Bookmark and Share Decolonization and the Cold War Free delivery on orders over £20 in the UK Negotiating Independence Leslie James, Elisabeth Leake ISBN: 9781472571199 ...

La brecha

¿Qué lleva a una sociedad a permitir que la pobreza se instale en su seno, mientras una parte de ella hace ostentación de riqueza y lujo? ¿Qué ley natural empuja a las sociedades contemporáneas a polarizarse por la desigualdad creciente entre sus ciudadanos. La Brecha ...

Administración local práctica

casos prácticos de Derecho administrativo y haciendas locales

Esta segunda edición de Administración Local Práctica ve la luz como respuesta a la extraordinaria acogida que la primera mereció entre sus lectores. La problemática práctica del derecho, la economía y la gestión pública resulta inagotable, es por ello que esta segunda edición brinda otro ...

The World Crisis

The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades ...

The emergence of León-Castile c. 1065-1500

essays presented to J.F. O'Callaghan

To many medieval Europeans north of the Pyrenees, the Iberian Kingdom of Leon-Castile was remote and unfamiliar. In many ways such perceptions linger today, and the fact that Leon-Castile is mentioned at all in current textbooks is the result of efforts begun by scholars some ...