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Dragonslayers

from Beowulf to St. George

With its fiery breath, scaly armour, and baleful, malevolent stare, the dragon became the ultimate symbol of evil and corruption in European folklore and mythology. Often serving as a stand-in for Satan, or the power of evil gods, dragons spread death and hopelessness throughout the ...

Livingstone

David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition, Jeal draws on fresh sources and ...

La revolución sentimental

Hugo Chávez ha liderado una revolución y muchos sostienen que él mismo ha sido la gran revolución. Sus decisiones, sus proyectos, su forma de hacer política o su sentido de la justicia, la economía o el socialismo cambiaron para bien o para mal la vida ...

Banking across boundaries

placing finance in capitalism

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. An ...

The big trade

simple strategies for maximum market returns

A powerful, profitable, and elegantly simple system for traders Markets can be extraordinarily complex, and unfortunately most trading systems are too. The Big Trade presents a new system that helps filter out the noise. It leaves behind only meaningful signals you need to listen to ...

The Devil within

possession and exorcism in the Christian West

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms - violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others - exorcists ...

Introducing money

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of 'economic' approaches, for it does not see money as an outgrowth of market exchange via barter. Instead, the social, political, legal and religious origins of ...

Crises and opportunities

the shaping of modern finance

As the world's political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the Financial Debacle of 2008, this book asks the question: have financial crises presented opportunities to rebuild the financial system? Examining eight global financial crises since the late nineteenth century, this new ...

Analysis of economic data

Introduces students to basic econometric techniques and shows the reader how to apply these techniques in the context of real-world empirical problems.

The end of the Roman Republic, 146 to 44 BC

conquest and crisis

This title deals with a crucial and turbulent century for the Roman Republic. By 146, Rome had established itself as the leading Mediterranean power. Over the next century, it consolidated its power into an immense territorial empire. At the same time, the internal balance of ...

Strategic transformation

changing while winning

Today's global marketplace offers opportunities for fast growth, but a winning strategy over the long term raises a special challenge: how to make major strategic changes while maintaining high levels of performance. Business historian Manuel Hensmans and renowned management experts Gerry Johnson and George ...

Liberty's dawn

a people's history of the Industrial Revolution

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how ...

Return from the natives

how Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most complex, modern societies and ...

The bazaar in the islamic city

design, culture, and history

The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions ...

Who needs the cuts?

The Coalition Government in the United Kingdom, like other governments, is embarking on an unprecedented round of spending cuts. Talk of deficits, the National Debt, Quantitative Easing, and other economic terminology is presented to the public as evidence that there is a vital need for ...

Jason and the Argonauts

The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts and their hunt for the Golden Fleece is one of the most enduringly popular of all of the Ancient Greek heroic myths. Accepting the quest in order to regain his kingdom, Jason assembled a crew of legendary heroes ...

El recurso extraordinario por infracción procesal

La Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil de 2000 diseñó un nuevo régimen de recursos extraordinarios, en el que junto al recurso de casación, reservado para el control de la infracción procesal como recurso adecuado para el control de la infracción de normas procesales y de la ...

Tratamientos médicos

su responsabilidad penal y civil

Tratamientos médicos: su responsabilidad penal y civil, analiza el problema de la responsabilidad médica contraída en el ejercicio de la profesión. Para ello, se parte de la fundamentación jurídica del propio ejercicio de la Medicina y, en su caso, se trata de legitimar y de ...

Régimen jurídico de las energías renovables en Andalucía

Es absolutamente necesario impulsar una educación energética como elemento de la educación ambiental para que la ciudadanía y los sectores productivos respeten y colaboren con la consecución de los intereses generales perseguidos en este sector. Puede decirse con toda certeza que este libro está llamado ...

Escrituras silenciadas

el paisaje como historiografía

Al hablar de Escrituras Silenciadas nos referimos a todos aquellos textos y testimonios que han sido censurados, ocultados, prohibidos o en pocas palabras acallados a lo largo del tiempo y los que al ser descubiertos e integrados en sus respectivas investigaciones, permiten al estudioso romper ...