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International encyclopedia of hospitality management

Ed. Abraham Pizam. "The International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management" is the definitive reference work for any individual studying or working in the hospitality industry. This new edition updates and significantly revises 25 per cent of the entries and has an additional 20 new entries. New ...

Founding a company

handbook of legal forms in Europe

Eds. Michael J. Munkert, Stephan Stubner, Torsten Wulf. The book "Founding a Company - Handbook of Legal Forms in Europe" provides an easily accessible overview of the most important information any entrepreneur or manager needs when deciding for a legal form of the business. This makes ...

Leonardo's Legacy

how Da Vinci reimagined the world

By the international best-selling author of "The Science of Happiness" and "The Secret Pulse of Time", this is a fresh exploration of Da Vinci's real 'code'-science. Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart ...

Terrorism and the ethics of waar

Most people strongly condemn terrorism; yet they often fail to say how terrorist acts differ from other acts of violence such as the killing of civilians in war. Stephen Nathanson argues that we cannot have morally credible views about terrorism if we focus on terrorism ...

Snith!

a history of the modern intelligence informer

This is a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by 'informing' on others, such as during the Cold War and the current campaign against terrorism. With "Snitch!", Steve Hewitt provides a thorough study of human informers, i.e., people who secretly ...

Philosophy of Religion

an introduction

This is a comprehensive textbook for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time. "Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction" is a comprehensive textbook for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time. It sets traditional arguments such as the problem of ...

Building social business

the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus looks more deeply into the concept of social business, an alternative to unfettered capitalism that channels the best energies of capitalism while addressing pressing human needs, by showing how the theory and practice of this idea is growing in the business ...

La resistencia hispana contra Roma

Cuando en el año 208 a.C., las primeras tropas romanas pusieron pie en la Península Ibérica, concretamente en la antigua colonia griega de Emporion, rebautizada como Emporiae (hoy Ampurias, Gerona), para combatir contra los cartagineses en la recién iniciada Segunda Guerra Púnica, comenzaba un ...

Cartago Nova 209 a.C.

primera victoria de Escipión en España

Il. Ángel García Pinto. En el año 209 a.C., mientras en Italia el gran Aníbal imponía su genio batalla tras batalla a Roma, un joven desconocido al que la Historia honraría con el sobrenombre de #el Africano# consiguió una de las hazañas más espectaculares ...

La Legión 1921

la reconquista tras el desastre de Annual

Texto e ilustraciones de Franicsco Martínez Canales. INDICE: Los conflictos en el Rif. La Legión. Las Cábilas rifeñas. La Legión en Melilla, primera fase: defensa de la plaza. Segunda fase: reconquista del territorio. Balance de la campaña y objetivos futuros.

Siete semblanzas políticas

republicanos, falangistas, monárquicos

El autor traza las semblanzas de tres exiliados republicanos #Victoria Kent: la coherencia democrática; Jesús González Malo: un anarquista en América; Salvador de Madariaga: un liberal heterodoxo y europeísta#, tres falangistas disidentes #Antonio Tovar: del falangismo al liberalismo con emboscadura; Pedro Laín Entralgo: del fascismo ...

El Príncipe

Nicolás Maquiavelo

No ha habido hombre poderoso del que no se haya dicho que leía secretamente el Príncipe para inspirar su conducta política. Esta edición alterna el texto de Maquiavelo con los comentarios de Napoleón Bonaparte ante su lectura, tan interesantes como el propio texto. Nicolás Maquiavelo ...

El poeta subterráneo o mis tres criptomanifiestos

La caballería de ficción como "educación sentimental"

Confidence game

how a hedge fund manager called Wall Street's bluff

The collapse of America's credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff is the story of Bill Ackman's six-year campaign to warn that the ...

Análisis arqueológico de las murallas de Marchena

INDICE: INtroducción. Estado de la investigación. Análisis arqueológico. Conclusiones. Bibliografía. Textos. Planos.

La imprenta de Blai Bellver

el diseño gráfico y el producto impreso

En este libro se traza el contexto, la trayectoria y los resultados no solo de su protagonista, Blai Bellver, sino de una época convulsa en una ciudad Xátiva, por donde entró el papel en la peninsula. La figura del impresor, convertido en precursor de lo ...

Slapped by the invisible hand

the panic of 2007

Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton's "The Panic of 2007" garnered enormous attention and is considered by many to be the most convincing take on the recent economic meltdown. Now, in Slapped by the Invisible Hand, Gorton builds upon ...

Expectations, employment and prices

Expectations, Employment and Prices brings Keynesian economics into the 21st century by providing a new paradigm that explains how high unemployment could potentially persist forever without a little help from the government. The book fills in logical gaps that were missing from Keynes' General Theory ...

The making of legal authority

non-legislative codifications in historical and comparative perspective

Accounts of the nature of legal authority typically focus on the authority of officially sanctioned rules issued by legally recognised bodies - legislatures, courts and regulators - that fit comfortably within traditional state-centred concepts of law. Such accounts neglect the more complex processes involved in acquiring legal ...