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Una mujer en el frente

Una mujer en el frente, traducido hasta ahora a numerosas lenguas menos al español, narra la historia del primer matrimonio de la autora: la boda y la luna de miel de una joven ingenua e inteligente y un hombre de letras egoísta. La guerra los ...

La Casta

quiénes son y cómo actúan

¿En qué piensan cuando escuchan la palabra casta? ¿En connivencias políticas? ¿Intereses económicos? ¿Élites financieras? Para dar respuesta a estas y otras preguntas les invitamos a hacer un viaje en el que visitaremos las instituciones y los centros de poder donde eso que llamamos casta ...

Global security in the twenty-first century

the Quest for Power and the Search for Peace

This thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas throughout the world. Sean Kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and ...

Of doubt and proof

ritual and legal practitces of judgment

All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge's professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question ...

Conflict in Ukraine

the unwinding of the Post-Cold War order

The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects ...

Formalism and historicity

models and methods in Twentieth-Century Art

These influential essays by the noted critic and art historian Benjamin Buchloh have had a significant impact on the theory and practice of art history. Written over the course of three decades and now collected in one volume, they trace a history of crucial artistic ...

Cases in intelligence analysis

structured analytic techniques in action

Each case begins with a set of "Key Questions" that frame the case. The case narrative offers background and context (and is built from declassified and open source materials) and ends with a final "Structured Analytic Techniques in Action" section where readers can apply one ...

Making diplomacy work

intelligent innovation for the modern world

Living Diplomacy promises to take a fresh look at the actual practice of diplomacy, setting diplomacy in its contemporary context and analyzing the major factors that have changed the nature of the intelligent conduct of diplomacy. Unlike other books on the market which are written ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.VI: The construction of a global world, 1400-1800 CE - Part 1: Foundations

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 4 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.VI: The construction of a global world, 1400-1800 CE - Part 2: Patterns of change

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material ...

Family offices

the step handbook for advisers

The family office sphere is of great interest to lawyers, accountants, trust companies, those in private banks and the financial world, as well as family office executives and wealthy families themselves. This new handbook, prepared in association with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners ...

Masters of the universe, slaves of the market

This account of the financial crisis of 2008 2009 compares banking systems in the United States and the United Kingdom to those of Canada and Australia and explains why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Central to this analysis are differences ...

Constitutional calculus

the math of justice and the myth of common sense

How should we count the population of the United States? What would happen if we replaced the electoral college with a direct popular vote? What are the consequences of allowing unlimited partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts? Can six-person juries yield verdicts consistent with the needs ...

El dialecto árabe hablado en la ciudad marroquí de Larache

La presente obra se enmarca dentro del ámbito científico de la dialectología árabe magrebí. Desde un enfoque diacrónico, el autor presenta un estudio lingüístico del dialecto árabe hablado en la ciudad marroquí de Larache. La descripción abarca los principales aspectos de la variedad vernácula en ...

El laberinto italiano

del fenómeno Berlusconi a la crisis actual 1994-2014

¿Qué es lo que está sucediendo en Italia para que en sólo dos años haya habido tres primeros ministros diferentes y ninguno de ellos elegido por los italianos? ¿Por qué el Presidente de la República, Giorgio Napolitano, obligó a Silvio Berlusconi a dimitir cuando a ...

Climate shock

If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and ...

Liquidity management

a funding risk handbook

Robust management of liquidity risk within the changing regulatory framework Liquidity Management applies current risk management theory, techniques, and processes to liquidity risk control and management to help organizations prepare in case of future economic crisis and changing regulatory framework. Based on extensive research conducted ...

Las guerras de España en el Norte de África

(Marruecos 1497-1956)

Mucho se ha escrito sobre la presencia española en el norte de África (parte del territorio del actual reino de Marruecos) acerca de los diferentes sucesos que allí ocurrieron. En este libro se narran de forma sencilla e interrelacionada los acontecimientos bélicos acaecidos contra las ...

Camina la noche

En los primeros días de la Guerra Civil el padre de Isabel desapareció y desde entonces la misteriosa figura del ausente ha marcado su vida. Sin embargo, Isabel recibe un día una extraña llamada telefónica que marca un punto de inflexión en su historia. A ...

Esta canalla de literatura

quince ensayos biográficos sobre Joseph Roth

En este fascinante ensayo, Eduardo Gil Bera recorre la vida de Joseph Roth a partir de sus textos, su correspondencia y diversos testimonios de contemporáneos y estudiosos de su obra. Una peculiar biografía en quince actos que se acerca a uno de los grandes narradores ...