Libros de

Furinkazan

La epopeya del clan Takeda

Resulta difícil creer la fama que rodea a Yamamoto Kansuke como genial estratega militar y samurái feroz. Entrado en años, y con una visible cojera de una pierna, es tuerto y lastimosamente bajo de estatura. Sin embargo, el lector no tardará en comprobar, a través ...

El régimen local tras la reforma de la Ley de racionalización y sostenibilidad

La obra tiene un contenido claramente transversal, referido a todas las materias del ámbito e interés local, aproximándose a ellas, y muy especialmente a las novedades introducidas por la Ley de Racionalización y Sostenibilidad de la Administración Local, en conexión siempre con las determinaciones de ...

Europeanisation of english tort Law

Tort law is often regarded as the clearest example of traditional common law reasoning. Yet, in the past 40 years, the common law of England and Wales has been subject to European influences as a result of the introduction of the European Communities Act 1972 ...

Dentro del Archivo Secreto Vaticano

guía para la investigación a partir de documentos sobre el País Vasco. Época Medieval (1198-1458)

El Archivo Secreto Vaticano es el depósito de información histórica más voluminoso y rico que conocemos en el mundo: 85 kilómetros lineales de estantería, más de 650 fondos archivísticos y un arco cronológico que cubre más de doce siglos. Saber qué buscar y dónde hacerlo ...

Financial and managerial accounting

the basis for business decisions

With the seventeenth edition of Financial and Managerial Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions, the Williams author team continues to be a solid foundation for students who are learning basic accounting concepts. Hallmarks of the text - including the solid Accounting Cycle Presentation, relevant pedagogy, and ...

Making money

the philosophy of crisis capitalism

What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself? In "Making Money, " Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than ...

Anti-Nietzsche

Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be-- the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to ...

Bohemians

a graphic history

The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ...

Comparative political economy

states, markets and global capitalism

This new textbook provides an authoritative analysis of Comparative Political Economy and how it can help us to understand the global capitalist marketplace in the 21st century in all its variant forms. The author provides broad-ranging empirical examples throughout and relates classical concerns to current ...

Kant and the Meaning of Religion

the critical philosophy and modern religious thought

Without Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) there would probably be no modern discipline of 'the philosophy of religion'. Kant's considerable influence has ensured that philosophers, in addressing religious questions, have focused on such issues as arguments for and against the existence of God; the question of ...

Judging positivism

Judging Positivism' is a critical exploration of the method and substance of legal positivism. Margaret Martin is primarily concerned with the manner in which theorists who adopt the dominant positivist paradigm ask a limited set of questions and offer an equally limited set of answers ...

Money as organization, Gustavo Del Vecchio's theory

Can money improve economic organization? Between 1909 and 1917, Gustavo Del Vecchio, an Italian economist, developed a 'theory of circulation'. In a series of articles he set out his thoughts on the utility and value of money, credit, discount rates, banking and international payments. Tusset ...

Behavioral economics

a history

This book presents a history of behavioral economics. The recurring theme is that behavioral economics reflects and contributes to a fundamental reorientation of the epistemological foundations upon which economics had been based since the days of Smith, Ricardo, and Mill. With behavioral economics, the discipline ...

Redefining Human Rights in the struggle for peace and development

Human rights in peace and development are accepted throughout the Global South as established, normative, and beyond debate. Only in the powerful elite sectors of the Global North have these rights been resisted and refuted. The policies and interests of these global forces are antithetical ...

Consumer democracy

the marketing politics

This book argues that marketing is inherent in competitive democracy, explaining how we can make the consumer nature of competitive democracy better and more democratic. Margaret Scammell argues that consumer democracy should not be assumed to be inherently antithetical to 'proper' political discourse and debate ...

Valuation and risk management in energy markets

Valuation and Risk Management in Energy Markets surveys the mechanics of energy markets and the valuation of structures commonly arising in practice. The presentation balances quantitative issues and practicalities facing portfolio managers, with substantial attention paid to the ways in which common methods fail in ...

Cervantes: camina e inventa

(un recorrido literario por la España cervantina)

'Cervantes: Camina e inventa' no es sólo un recorrido por la obra literaria de nuestro más insigne escritor, Miguel de Cervantes, sino también el reflejo de la sociedad de la España de finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII a través de la ...

El unicornio

Cuando Marian Taylor acepta un empleo de institutriz en el castillo de Gaze y llega a ese remoto lugar situado en medio de un paisaje terriblemente hermoso y desolado, no imagina que allí encontrará un mundo en que el misterio y lo sobrenatural parecen precipitar ...

Estudio y edición crítica de los comentarios de Iodocus Badius Ascensius al poeta satírico Persio

ÍNDICE: I. ESTUDIO: 1. Introducción: 1.1. El comentario escolar parafrástico. 1.2. Algunos apuntes biográficos. 1.3. La suerte de Badio. 1.4. Por qué una edición de los Commentarii in Persium. 2. Historia del texto: 2.1. Las dos ediciones. 2.2. Etapas ...

La piedras de Jerusalén

Dos viajes de Lasse Söderberg a Jerusalén en los años noventa detonan sólo una década después con toda la compleja magnitud simbólica de esta ciudad, para la concepción de este libro. Personajes y protagonistas antiguos del nomadismo humano en la búsqueda de dios o de ...