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The Hermaphrodite

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 42)

Antonio Beccadelli (1394-1471), known as Panormita from his native town of Palermo, was appointed court poet to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti (1429), crowned poet laureate by Emperor Sigismund (1432), and ended his days as panegyrist to King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples, where he ...

Alexander the Great an his Empire

a short introduction

This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets ...

A short history of the Jews

"A Short History of the Jews" is the story of the Jewish people told in a sweeping and powerful historical narrative. Michael Brenner chronicles the Jewish experience from Biblical times to today, tracing what is at heart a drama of migration and change, yet one ...

Informe sobre la Ley de Promoción de la Autonomía Personal y Atención a las personas en situación de dependencia

Auts. Santiago González Ortega...[et.al]. La Ley de Promoción de la Autonomía Persal y Atención a las personas en situación de dependencia significa uno de los mayores avances de los últimos años en materia de política social en España.Ley que reconoce, por primera ...

Sistemas de información para la gestión de fundaciones

El papel que los Sistemas de Información juegan en las organizaciones ha experimentado un cambio profundo, pasando de ser simples herramientas de tratamiento de datos para convertirse en la columna vertebral que afecta a todas las actividades, tanto a nivel interno como en lo que ...

Electricidad verde

energías renovables y sistema eléctrico

Eds. Boaz Moselle, Jorge Padilla, Richard Schmalensee. La generación de electricidad es responsable de una parte significativa de las emisiones de CO2 a la atmósfera. El sector eléctrico está destinado, pues, a jugar un papel decisivo en la revolución industrial que implica la lucha contra ...

The Constitution of South Africa

a contextual analysis

South Africa's 1996 'Final' Constitution is widely recognised as the crowning achievement of the country's dramatic transition to democracy. This transition began with the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990. This book presents the ...

The microtheory of innovative entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are widely recognized for the vital contributions they make to economic growth and general welfare, yet until fairly recently entrepreneurship was not considered worthy of serious economic study. Today, progress has been made to integrate entrepreneurship into macroeconomics, but until now the entrepreneur has ...

The new dynamic public finance

Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this ...

Learning by example

imitation and innovation at a global bank

In business, as in other aspects of life, we learn and grow from the examples set by others. Imitation can lead to innovation. But in order to grow innovatively, how do businesses decide what firms to imitate? And how do they choose what practices to ...

Unsettled account

the evolution of banking in the industrialized world since 1800

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In "Unsettled Account", Richard Grossman takes the ...

Valuing the unique

the economics of singularities

In this landmark work of economic sociology, Lucien Karpik introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for singularities. Singularities are goods and services that cannot be studied by standard methods because they are multidimensional, incommensurable, and of uncertain quality. Examples include movies ...

Caminando por los escenarios de la Guerra Civil

Sierras del Rincón, Guadarrama y Malagón

Ponemos en tus manos el extraordinario trabajo de campo llevado a cabo por Domingo Pliego para localizar los numerosos restos que la Guerra Civil española dejó dispersos por las Sierras próximas a Madrid. ¿Cómo llegar hasta ellos? Pues recorriendo a pie los 28 itinerarios arqueológicos ...

A republic of statutes

the new american constitution

The Constitution is often conceived as our nation's Grand Blueprint and the embodiment of our Highest Aspirations. The authors, using prominent cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, maintain that this conception is myth. Instead, William Eskridge and John Ferejohn propose an original ...

Internet architecture and innovation

The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of networks over which the Internet can run. Questions about the relationship between innovation and the Internet ...

The spirit of the Law

religious voices and the Constitution in Modern America

A new constitutional world burst into American life in the mid- twentieth century. For the first time, the national constitution's religion clauses were extended by the United States Supreme Court to all state and local governments. As energized religious individuals and groups probed the ...

The errors of atheism

This work fills the gap for a much needed analytical philosophical work articulating and defending agnosticism as a critique of both theism and atheism. "The Errors of Atheism" is a response to the glaring gap that exists in the analytical philosophical literature on the problem ...

Bad for democracy

how the presidency undermines the power of the people

Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power - from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush - as a grave threat to the United States ...

The divided world

Human Rights and its violence

CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The International Division of Humanity 1 Conscience Denied: Amnesty International and the Antirevolution of the 1960s 2 Who Claims Modernity? The International Frame of Sexual Recognition 3 A Duty to Intervene: On the Cinematic Constitution of Subjects for Empire in Hotel ...

Teoría y práctica para una ordenación racional del territorio

Coords. Luis Galiana, Julio Vinuesa. En la enseñanza de la Ordenación del Territorio es primordial no disociar la teoría de la práctica. Este manual incorpora los fundamentos teóricos relativos a los componentes más relevantes del análisis territorial junto con ejemplos prácticos de la acción planificadora ...