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El final de Sancho Panza y otras suertes

Al morir don Quijote, quedaron sus parientes y amigos, entre ellos Sancho y el bachiller Sansón Carrasco, su sobrina Antonia y el ama Quiteria, en el mayor desconsuelo y desconcierto. La muerte del caballero trajo a todos transformaciones asombrosas: aprendió a leer Sancho, que leyó ...

La España de Isabel

un viaje por los lugares que marcaron la vida de una reina

En tono divulgativo, el libro muestra –respetando y partiendo del contexto de la época–la vida y hechos más relevantes de una reina singular, acercándonos a aquellos lugares en los que transcurrió su vida, de los que conoceremos sus secretos y en los que podremos ...

Fronteras de la Ciencia

dilemas

El surgimiento de la ciencia moderna es una historia fascinante de diferenciación y delimitación de las fronteras. El avance del conocimiento va definiendo un territorio de incertidumbres, promesas, riesgos y dilemas. La búsqueda de un criterio de demarcación para el conocimiento científico y las comunidades ...

Durruti en el laberinto

"¿Quién ha muerto a Durruti?" es la pregunta que ha perdurado como una de las cuestiones cruciales de la revolución, la guerra y la contrarrevolución que, entre 1936 y 1939, se disputaron aquel presente a vida o muerte. Pero, como muestra Miquel Amorós, dicha pregunta ...

Matar al chino

entre la revolución urbanística y el asedio urbano en el barrio del Raval de barcelona

EL BARRIO DEL RAVAL, cuyo sur geográfico ha sido el histórico Barrio Chino de Barcelona, es desde hace más de un siglo el símbolo y la representación de los pánicos sociales y morales de la burguesía barcelonesa. La concentración de población obrera, la pobreza estructural ...

Vida y obra de los grandes historiadores

No trata este libro de ofrecer un estudio riguroso (y, mucho menos, exhaustivo) sobre las biografías y la producción de los treinta grandes historiadores que en él se incluyen. Nos hemos limitado, más sucintamente, a esbozar las líneas maestras de sus pensamientos y los rasgos ...

Les finances des cités grecques

Disciple de Louis Robert, Léopold Migeotte, aujourd'hui professeur émérite de l'Université Laval (Québec), a d’abord étudié l’endettement des cités grecques, puis d’autres aspects de leurs finances. La synthèse qu’il offre aujourd’hui est l’aboutissement des recherches qu’il ...

Derecho procesal de los Derechos Humanos

Codifying contract Law

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law.With contributions from leading international scholars, the chapters present a range ...

Who needs jobs

spreading poverty or increasing welfare

In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the ...

Trading thalesians

what the ancient world can teach us about trading today

What can the ancient world teach us about modern money markets? How can we use examples from the ancient world, philosophers and writers to better understand the markets? Just as historians such as Herodotus living in ancient Greece examined the past, can traders look to ...

Private island

why Britain now belongs to someone else

"In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy - rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing - have been sold to remote, unaccountable private owners. In a series of brilliant portraits James Meek shows how Britain's common wealth became private ...

A Straightforward guide to contract Law

the comprehensive guide to contract Law

Contract law is a very complex area, one that affects us all, in one way or another. Quite often we find ourselves in need of clear advice, which isn't available. However, this latest edition of A Straightforward Guide to Contract Law provides clear and ...

Codes of finance

engineering derivatives in a Global Bank

The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lepinay, a former employee of one of the world's leading ...

Hart on responsability

In the 1950s and 1960s, H. L. A. Hart's writings were responsible for the revitalizing of legal philosophy in the United Kingdom and worldwide. In this new collection, ten distinguished philosophers and legal theorists address the enduring significance of Hart's work and focus ...

L'economie mondiale 2015

Chaque année, le CEPII publie dans la collection « Repères » des analyses inédites des grandes questions économiques mondiales. Cette édition tire les enseignements des évolutions conjoncturelles avant d'approfondir trois thèmes : le rôle des politiques monétaire et budgétaire dans le désendettement de la zone euro ; les ...

The paradox of german power

Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Bismarck and even Hitler in the European media. And yet few can deny that Germany today is very different ...

Financialization

the economics of finance capital domination

This book explores the process of financialization whereby economies are increasingly dominated by finance capital. This process is characterized by rising income inequality, wage stagnation, increased indebtedness, a rising financial sector share of profits, and tendencies to generate asset price bubbles. The financial crisis of ...

Gamechangers

creating innovative strategies for business and brands

Shake up and redefine the market by changing your game! Gamechangers are brands that have turned the world of business upside down. They win through ambition and innovation rather than legacy and scale, out-thinking the competition, focusing on the growth markets, and embracing technology in ...

Europe entrapped

Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, that what urgently needs to be done is also extremely ...