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Pension reform in Europe

politics, policies and outcomes

This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfare models and pathways, population reactions, and observed and expected outcomes. Pension reform has been a top policy priority for European governments in the ...

Modern political economics

making sense of the post-2008 world

Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did ...

Coomodities for dummies

Get more bang for your buck in the commodities market and start trading today While Wall Street has been troubled, commodity markets have been soaring. Since 2002, commodities have outperformed every other asset class including stocks, mutual funds, and real estate. This hands-on, friendly guide ...

Wild Law

a Manifesto for Earth Justice

Wild Law fuses politics, legal theory, quantum physics and ancient wisdom into a fascinating story. It has been seminal in informing and inspiring the global movement to recognise rights for Nature - a movement destined to shape the twenty-first century as significantly as the human rights ...

New beginnings

constitutionalism and democracy in Modern Ireland

"New Beginnings" covers Irish constitutional development from Home Rule to the Good Friday Agreement, focusing on turning points where radical constitutional change was discussed, attempted, or implemented. It asks what Irish constitution-makers were trying to do in drafting constitutional documents, or significantly amending existing constitutions ...

International legal english

a course for classroom or self-study use

International Legal English is the definitive course for those who need to work in the International Legal community. Suitable for classroom use or self-study, this course teaches language learners how to use English in a commercial law environment. The book focuses on a variety of ...

Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives

(Loeb Classical Library; 60)

The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. This first volume of a ...

Casina. The Casket Comedy. Curculio. Epidicus. The Two Menaechmuses

(Loeb Classical Library; 61)

The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. This second volume of a ...

The Merchant. The Braggart Soldier. The Ghost. The Persian

(Loeb Classical Library; 163)

The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. This third volume of a ...

Saturnalia, Volume II: Books 3-5

(Loeb Classical Library; 511)

The Saturnalia, Macrobius’s encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century CE, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the ...

Saturnalia, Volume III: Books 6-7

(Loeb Classical Library; 512)

The Saturnalia, Macrobius’s encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century CE, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the ...

Los agustinos en América del Sur a comienzos del siglo XIX

el drama de una fiselidad

INDICE: Introducción. El ambiente y las cirsunstancias. Ruotura con España, incomunicación con Roma. Los agustinos al comienzo del siglo XIX. Tres modelos de agustinos ante la independencia. Conclusión. Apéndice

Guanajuato en vísperas de la independencia

la élite local en el siglo XVIII

INDIC E: Guanajuato y su plata: la élite minera y el poder económico. Guanajuato: una élite matriarcal. El ascenso político y social: ¿deseos de cambio?.

Bridging the Island

brazilians' views of Spanish America and themselves, 1865-1912

Bridging the Island explores the interplay between Brazilian interpretations of the national Self and the Spanish-American Other during the critical years spanning the demise of slavery and monarchy, the two central institutions that set Brazil apart from the countries surrounding it for decades in the ...

México

crisis imperial e independecia. T.1: 1808-1830

INDICE: Introducción: doscientos años de historia de México. Cronología. Las claves del periodo. La vida política. México en el mundo. El proceso económico. Población y sociedad. La cultura. Bibliofrafía recomendada. Índice onomástico. La época en imágenes

El socialismo de Estado. Cultura y política

(Revista Ayer, Nº 82, año 2011)

En el mundo de hoy resulta más importante que nunca comprender qué fue el comunismo, por qué alcanzó el poder y por qué fracasó a la hora de cumplir sus propias promesas. Hay que afrontar de manera crítica el legado de la violencia desplegada por ...

Bismarck

a life

This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with ...

Juan Pablo II

el final y el principio. La biografía más esperada del Papa que cambió el curso de la Historia

Cuando fue elegido Papa en el otoño de 1978, apenas se sabía nada del carismático Karol Wojtyla. Pero en un periodo de tiempo muy corto pondría en marcha una revolución de conciencia en su Polonia natal, que desembocaría en el derrumbamiento del comunismo europeo y ...

Historia de las religiones antiguas

Oriente, Grecia y Roma

Los estudios de Ciencias de las Religiones constituyen un campo específico de investigación y analizan su propio objeto de análisis bajo diferentes perspectivas. Un ejemplo de ello lo constituye la Historia de las Religiones, que tiene como objeto las manifestaciones, en la universalidad del tiempo ...

Synodicon Hispanum

X: Cuenca y Toledo

Este volumen X del Synodicon hispanum contiene los sínodos de Cuenca y de Toledo, dos diócesis muy importantes en este tiempo, cercanas en el espacio y con dependencia jerárquica de Cuenca respecto a Toledo, de la que era y sigue siendo diócesis sufragánea. Son en ...