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El poder de la propiedad

élites y desamortización en la España interior (Madrid y Castilla-La Mancha)

Este libro pretende enlazar el estudio de la desamortización con la evolución económica de la Región y realizar una sociología rigurosa de los beneficiarios con especial incidencia en el papel de las elites tanto madrileñas como castellano-manchegas. El proceso desamortizador configuró un determinado tipo de ...

What every economics student needs to know and doesn't get in the usual principles text

This short book explores a core group of 40 topics that tend to go unexplored in an Introductory Economics course. Though not a replacement for an introductory text, the work is intended as a supplement to provoke further thought and discussion by juxtaposing blackboard models ...

The modern mercenary

private armies and what they mean for world order

t was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's ...

Erasing the invisible hand

essays on an elusive and misused concept in economics

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed on ...

International relations theory

the game-theoretic approach

Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this is the first textbook on international relations theory to take a specifically game-theoretic approach to the subject, and provide the material needed for students to understand the subject thoroughly, from its basic foundations to more complex models ...

Labor guide to labor Law

Labor Guide to Labor Law is a comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members. This thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition covers new statutes, current issues, and the ...

The racket

a rogue reporter vs. the masters of the universe

While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard's unbridled access over four years to the ...

Labor relations in a globalizing world

Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging ...

Cyber war

Law and ethics for virtual conflicts

Cyber weapons and cyber warfare have become one of the most dangerous innovations of recent years, and a significant threat to national security. Cyber weapons can imperil economic, political, and military systems by a single act, or by multifaceted orders of effect, with wide-ranging potential ...

Marxism and the muslim world

In the wake of the uprisings which rocked the Arab world, Maxime Rodinson's work has taken on a new and powerful resonance. Dating from 1958, the time of his expulsion from the French Communist Party, to 1972, the assembled articles, papers and essays which ...

Finanzas cuantitativas básicas

Este libro está orientado tanto a alumnos de programas de grado del área de Economía y Empresa como a alumnos de programas de posgrado especializados en Finanzas, que no tengan necesariamente conocimientos previos en este campo. Finanzas Cuantitativas Básicas es un manual que trata de ...

Estudios sobre Francisco Salzillo

Cuando repasamos mentalmente la geografía del arte barroco español identificamos el antiguo reino de Murcia con una figura de las más singulares, exquisitas y entrañables de la escultura del Setecientos: Francisco Salzillo. Su fama ha ido aumentando con el paso de los años, en gran ...

The Consul at Rome

the civil functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic

In modern times there have been studies of the Roman Republican institutions as a whole as well as in-depth analyses of the senate, the popular assemblies, the tribunate of the plebs, the aedileship, the praetorship and the censorship. However, the consulship, the highest magistracy of ...

The Cambridge history of painting in the Classical World

Painting was one of the major achievements of the Classical world. This book examines the development of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the earliest Minoan and Cycladic frescoes of the Aegean Bronze Age to late Roman painting, from approximately 1800 BC ...

The burdens of empire

1539 to the present

Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not only a definition but also a working description. This ...

La lengua de las matemáticas y otros relatos exactos

Eratóstenes halló la longitud de la circunferencia de la Tierra asomándose a un pozo que reflejaba los rayos del Sol, pero quizá le sorprenda saber que, de todo el antiguo mundo occidental, solo allí podía hacerse ese descubrimiento. Otra historia mil veces repetida cuenta que ...

Ancient Teotihuacan

early urbanism in Central Mexico

First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions of tourists every year. The book begins with Cuicuilco, a ...

Cartografía hispánica

una cartografía inestable en un mundo convulso (1800-1975)

Por tercera vez consecutiva, las circunstancias nos han sido favorables. El impulso ejercido por la Real Sociedad Geográfica y la Real Liga Naval Española en los dos libros precedentes, hace unos años, sigue encontrado eco en instituciones y personalidades diversas; particularmente propicia ha sido la ...

Ciudad y territorio

transformaciones materiales e ideológicas entre la época clásica y el Altomedievo

Los adjetivos peyorativos tales como caótico, desordenado o anárquico han sido los más frecuentemente utilizado por la tradición historiográfica a la hora de describir el urbanismo de la urbe islámica. Dichas características, cuya presencia en estos asentamientos se atribuía a la supuesta ineficacia del estado ...

Teresa de Jesús y sus fundaciones en Castilla-La Mancha

En Teresa de Jesús y sus fundaciones en Castilla-La Mancha, libro con texto de Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra y fotografías de David Blázquez, se da testimonio de la vida y la obra de la Santa y se detalla la gran tarea que llevó a ...