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Corpus de inscripciones latinas de Cáceres

III. Capera

El tercer volumen de Corpus de Inscripciones Latinas de Cáceres corresponde al territorio de Capera, un espacio ubicado en el norte de la provincia que surgió en tierras vetonas al amparo de la Vía de la Plata. Comprende zonas claramente diferenciadas por su evolución geológica ...

Between monopoly and free trade

the English East India Company, 1600-1757

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue ...

The Euro trap

on bursting bubbles, budgets, and beliefs

This book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states. The euro induced huge capital flows from the northern to the southern countries of the Eurozone ...

How to do ecology

a concise handbook

Most ecology books and courses focus on the facts and the concepts. While these are essential, many young ecologists need to figure out how to actually do research themselves. How to Do Ecology provides nuts-and-bolts advice on how to develop a successful thesis and research ...

Masters of the universe

Hayek, Friedman, and the birth of neoliberal politics

Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was ...

Scenario based strategy

navigate the future

We need strategy. The world is changing, the future uncertain. What is required is vision: What might the future bring? Where is our business going? What are our fundamental business values? This book is a manual for all those who want to apply strategy in ...

The emerging markets handbook

an analysis of the investment potential in 18 key emerging market economies

Finding tomorrow's markets first. Tomorrow's booming economies are today's emerging markets. Overlooked by most investors, these markets offer serious opportunities for those prepared to move ahead of the crowd and take their investing off the beaten path. If you're an investor ...

Perspectives on global constitutionalism

the use of foreign and international Law by domestic courts

This book investigates how constitutionality and internationally accepted principles of human rights influence state action. The first part reviews the limitation of sovereignty in the context of the creation, amendment and interpretation of national constitutions. The following questions are addressed: how far has the process ...

Key developments in constitutionalism and constitutional Law

This book brings together the papers presented at the round table, held in Belgrade in May 2012, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). The essays explore the key developments of constitutionalism and constitutional law since the foundation of ...

Solvency II

stakeholder communications and change

With the Solvency II deadline approaching, and full implementation expected from January 2016, affected entities are at varying states of readiness with embedding Solvency II into everyday practices becoming a major focus. Programme stakeholder communications needs to be robust to secure compliance and buy-in on ...

Trayectoria política e intelectual de Mariano Ruiz-Funes

República y exilio

Este volumen aborda el estudio de la prolífica trayectoria histórica e intelectual del murciano, Catedrático de Derecho Penal, Mariano Ruiz-Funes, en sus múltiples facetas: como político comprometido con la II República (Ministro de Agricultura y de Justicia) y esforzado colaborador del gobierno republicano durante la ...

The rise of the humans

how to outsmart the digital deluge

The rapid growth of our digital world has brought huge advantages - access to information anywhere, at any time, and the ability to communicate with colleagues, family and friends around the globe in real-time. But in other ways, the same technology has also disconnected us. Computers ...

Yo abdico

todas las claves

Cuáles son los verdaderos motivos que llevaron al Rey Juan Carlos, que tan solo un año atrás había asegurado que moriría siendo rey, a abdicar la Corona?. ¿Su estado anímico y de salud? ¿La crisis del sistema de partidos y el estrepitoso fracaso de las ...

Siberia

a history of the people

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet Hartley explores the ...

Thomas Aquinas

a portrait

Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered about this man, his mind ...

The Spanish Inquisition

a historical revision

In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, he incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new - and thought-provoking - view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of ...

The Age of Democratic Revolution

a political history of Europe and America, 1760-1800

For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary ...

Wandering greeks

the Ancient Greek diaspora from the Age of Homer to the death of Alexander The Great

Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success ...

Doble abdicación

Juan Carlos I: ¿el hacedor de la III República?

Los motivos de la abdicación del rey Juan Carlos no están nada claros. La precipitación e improvisación de todo el proceso ha llamado la atención de la prensa internacional. Se abren muchos interrogantes. ¿Qué hacía la sobrina de Rajoy, recién incorporada a la carrera diplomática ...

Los maestros del Barroco de la Colección Fundación Cajasol

Piezas singulares (siglos XVII-XVIII)

Los Maestros del Barroco de la Colección Fundación Cajasol es una emblemática exposición compuesta por una selección reducida de obras de entre las más significativas de los siglos XVII y XVIII, época que coincide con el brillante desarrollo de la escuela barroca andaluza. De ella ...