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Knowing the adversary

leaders, intelligence, and assessment of intentions in international relations

States are more likely to engage in risky and destabilizing actions such as military buildups and preemptive strikes if they believe their adversaries pose a tangible threat. Yet despite the crucial importance of this issue, we don't know enough about how states and their ...

La ruina de la "ciudad-negocio"

manual crítico para la búsqueda de una lógica medioambiental en la ciudad y sus edificios

La "ciudad mediterránea" es la sede del Estado de Bienestar, el lugar para el encuentro de los ciudadanos, el refugio de la intimidad de cada uno y el depósito de sus afectos. En los últimos 60 años el Poder Financiero que nos gobierna la ha ...

Las garantías del crédito tributario

La Hacienda Pública goza de un derecho de crédito frente al obligado tributario, que se realiza con el ejercicio de la función recaudatoria. Cuando se producen actuaciones evasivas del deudor, no obstante, la Administración tributaria puede recurrir no sólo a la ejecución forzosa de la ...

Rojo perla

Alberto Mediavilla Quincoces es el atribulado protagonista de 'Rojo perla', la última novela de Jesús Pardo en la que recrea con su afilada observación y su sarcasmo la sociedad santanderina y madrileña de posguerra. Periodista como su autor, Alberto Mediavilla abandona el maternal refugio santanderino ...

Taming the unknown

a history of algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century

What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. Taming the Unknown considers how these two seemingly different types ...

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 ...

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 ...

Los emprendedores

La legislación en torno al mundo de los emprendedores refleja el cada vez mayor protagonismo de este colectivo, que es absolutamente esencial para la creación de empleo en España y para evolucionar hacia un mercado laboral más diversificado, maduro e innovador que contribuya a un ...