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vestigios arquitectónicos de la Guerra Civil en la provincia de Jaén

La publicación recoge los resultados de una investigación realizada desde la Universidad de Jaén, y financiada por la Delegación Provincial de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía en Jaén, con el objetivo de realizar un censo a nivel provincial de los vestigios arquitectónicos de la ...

Tratado de bailes de sociedad

Regionales españoles. Especialmente andaluces, con su historia y modo de ejecutarlos

En 1912 el maestro de bailes José Otero le pedía a Manuel Chaves Rey, padre de Manuel Chaves Nogales, el prólogo para un libro: el Tratado de Bailes, donde recogía las reglas con las que ejecutar no sólo danzas extranjeras y españolas sino también las ...

Joaquín Costa

el fabricante de ideas

El presente libro forma parte del programa de actos de conmemoración y es fruto del catálogo de la exposición "Joaquín Costa: el fabricante de ideas", celebrada en el Paraninfo de la Universidad de Zaragoza (del 22 de marzo al 16 de julio de 2011) y ...

Il Barocco

Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di Barocco? In che modo, ed entro quali limiti, questa discussa categoria storiografica e stilistica può ancora essere usata per definire l'arte italiana ed europea del Seicento? La scommessa del volume di Tomaso Montanari è quella di non rinunciare ...

Retórica y política

los discursos de la construcción de la sociedad

Si siempre es necesario tener en cuenta que no se puede hablar de retórica sin atender a su dimensión política, es decir, a su origen más antiguo judicial y político, por su función en la polis, por su uso cívico, esta afirmación adquiere en la ...

Protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU after Lisbon

The changes made by the Lisbon Treaty suggest that its entry into force in December 2009 marks a new stage in the shaping of the EU's commitment to the protection of fundamental rights. This book's concern is to provide an examination of the ...

Los documentos hacen la Historia

El documento escrito, bien sea administrativo, de creación o científico, "ayuda a la memoria a recordar las cosas pasadas y a no olvidar los actos del hombre"; así se expresa Enrique Pérez, director del Archivo Histórico de Las Palmas, en el prólogo de este número ...

Banking the world

empirical foundations of financial inclusion

About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world's adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast "unbanked" population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as ...

Visual leaders

new tools for visioning, management, and organization change

What Visual Meetings did for meetings and Visual Teams did for teams, this book does for leaders. "Visual Leaders" explores how leaders can support visioning and strategy formation, planning and management, and organization change through the application of visual meeting and visual team methodologies organization ...

Public capital, growth and welfare

analytical foundations for public policy

In the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant mortality rates to higher life expectancy. Yet, 1.3 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty in the developing world, leading policymakers to place a renewed emphasis ...

Democretic reason

politics, collective intelligence, and the rule of the many

Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In "Democratic Reason", Helene Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a ...

Court of Justice of the European Union

commentary on statue and rules of procedure

This Commentary provides for a comprehensive overview of the procedural rules of the EU Courts in Luxembourg. The substantive aspects of the legal remedies at the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal are laid down in the primary legislation, as ...

The construction of commercial contracts

This book adopts a principled approach to the law applied in the construction of commercial contracts. This approach is presented as part of a coherent theory of the law of contract construction which makes a unique contribution to scholarship and understanding of the most important ...

Advanced topics in revenue Law

corporation tax; international and european tax; savings; charities

The last several years have seen fundamental changes to the UK tax system. Nearly the entirety of the UK corporation tax and international tax rules have been rewritten by three new statutes the Corporation Tax Acts 2009 and 2010 and the Taxation (International and Other ...

Yield curve modeling and forecasting

the Dynamic Nelson-Siegel spproach

Understanding the dynamic evolution of the yield curve is critical to many financial tasks, including pricing financial assets and their derivatives, managing financial risk, allocating portfolios, structuring fiscal debt, conducting monetary policy, and valuing capital goods. Unfortunately, most yield curve models tend to be theoretically ...

Elementos para el análisis comparado y procesos políticos

Este volumen es uno de los resultados directos del proyecto de innovación docente “Compilación y creación de indicadores para la categorización de variables en la docencia de sistemas políticos comparados”, desarrollado en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la UGR, cuyo objeto era ...

Corso di giustizia costituzionale plurale

SOMMARIO: La giurisdizione costituzionale in Italia. La Corte Costituzionale. Il sindacato di costituzionalità della legge e degli atti equiparati. I conflitti di attribuzione.Il giudizio di ammissibilità del referendum abrogativo. Giudizio di accusa. XIV corso di giustizia costituzionale plurale. La giustizia costituzionale italiana nell ambito ...

How to sell to retail

the secrets of getting your product to market

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? If you've got a product to sell there's only so much growth you can sustain by selling directly to end users. The ultimate key to really developing your business into a bigger ...

The roman market economy

The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. "The Roman Market Economy" uses the tools of modern economics to show how ...

Principles of international economic Law

Principles of International Economic Law gives a comprehensive overview of the central topics in international economic law, with an emphasis on the interplay between the different economic and political interests on both the international and domestic levels. The book sets the classic topics of international ...