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Financial services management

a qualitative approach

Sweeping changes have taken place within financial services over the course of the past thirty years in response to a variety of influences, such as changes in customer attitudes, an evolving regulatory environment, innovations in information technology and the intense level of competition within the ...

The great debate

Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left

For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented ...

The zero marginal cost society

the internet of things, the collaborative commons, and the eclipse of capitalism

The capitalist era is passing - not quickly, but inevitably. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Ironically, capitalism's demise is not coming at the hands of hostile external forces. Rather, The Zero Marginal ...

Biggs on finance, economics, and the stock market

Released to the public for the first time, writings by the incomparable Barton Biggs Long considered one of the best brains on Wall Street, Barton Biggs acquired the stature of a legend within his lifetime. Among his many coups, he accurately called the rise and ...

Argentina contra Franco

el gran desafío a la impunidad de la dictadura

La Justicia argentina exige a España la extradición de varias personas implicadas en la represión franquista, en la única causa abierta hoy en el mundo por los crímenes de la dictadura. Este libro examina el origen y las perspectivas de la Querella Argentina y revela ...

Cómo leer casas

una guía sobre arquitectura doméstica

Cómo leer casas es una guía práctica que le enseñará a reconocer y a apreciar la diversidad de la arquitectura doméstica según su ubicación, su estilo y la pericia tecnológica de la época, desde los entramados de madera de las casas de estilo Tudor hasta ...

Cómo leer puentes

un apasionante recorrido a lo largo de la historia

Cómo leer puentes es una introducción práctica a la estructura y finalidad de los puentes. Es una guía que ayuda a desentrañar las claves estructurales de cada puente, permitiendo apreciar mejor su variedad e ingenio. Lo suficientemente pequeña para llevarla en el bolsillo, pero también ...

Velázquez o la salvación de la circunstancia

y otros escritos sobre el pintor

Enrique Lafuente Ferrari (1898-1985) perteneció a la segunda generación de historiadores del arte españoles y siempre se consideró discípulo de Elías Tormo y Manuel Gómez-Moreno, aunque probablemente fue el filósofo José Ortega y Gasset quien más duradera influencia ejerció sobre su trabajo. Entre los múltiples ...

La biblioteca del Greco

El catálogo que acompaña la exposición incluye un texto introductorio de Javier Docampo y tres ensayos, uno de Fernando Marías y Richard Kagan sobre la consideración del Greco como pintor intelectual, otro de José Riello sobre la biblioteca del Greco y, el último, de Leticia ...

Veracruz 1519

los hombres de Cortés

El análisis de un documento como la Petición al Cabildo de Veracruz, firmada por los “compañeros, vecinos y estantes en la villa” de la compañía de Cortés y presentada por el procurador Francisco Álvarez Chico el 20 de junio de 1519, pone de manifiesto la ...

La cuna de la Humanidad = The cradle of Humankind

`La Cuna de la Humanidad´ es una muestra pionera fuera de las fronteras africanas que profundiza en la evolución de los homínidos en este continente, tanto desde el punto anatómico como en lo relativo a su comportamiento en un entorno medioambiental cambiante. La Garganta de ...

Bolívar

american liberator

SIMÓN BOLÍ VAR —El Libertador—freed six countries from Spanish rule and is still the most revered figure in South America today. He traveled from Amazon jungles to the Andes mountains, engaged in endless battles and forged fragile coalitions of competing forces and races. He ...

'Merely for money'?

business culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815

In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they ...

A brief history of death

A Brief History of Death offers a topical survey of views concerning death and its aftermath in the Western tradition, from prehistory to the present. It explores how humans understand and come to terms with the fact of mortality and looks at the physical and ...

Twentieth Century Europe

a brief history, 1900 to the present

Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries.such as chronological Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political ...

Meditaciones del Quijote y otros ensayos

«Meditaciones del Quijote» es una de las cumbres de la literatura en español y un ensayo filosófico movido por el amor intellectualis que busca la conexión de lo existente. Su publicación en 1914 consagró a José Ortega y Gasset como portavoz de la generación de ...

British trade with Spanish America

1763-1808

In this erudite and comprehensive study Adrian Pearce offers a detailed survey of British trade with Spanish America in the latter half of the eighteenth century drawing together a variety of sources and looking at all aspects of commercial activity. The history and vicissitudes of ...

Argentina's partisan past

nationalism and the politics of history

Argentina's Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the use of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive research of primary and published sources, it analyses how nationalist views about ...

The empire of civilization

the evolution of an imperial idea

The term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, setting up a dichotomy wherein people, cultures, and histories are "civilized" - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and socio political engineering, relatively few scholars have stopped ...

The Encyclopedia of the Novel

Part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Arranged in A-Z format and featuring over 140 contributors Written by an international cast of leading scholars, overseen by an Advisory Board of 37 specialists Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of ...