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Caminando por los escenarios de la Guerra Civil

Sierras del Rincón, Guadarrama y Malagón

El autor pone en tus manos esta segunda entrega de itinerarios por los escenarios serranos donde se desarrolló la Guerra Civil. Esta peculiar forma de senderismo nos permitirá disfrutar de la naturaleza a la par que conocer la historia y las construcciones defensivas que han ...

Municipal infrastructure financing

innovative practices from developing countries

Ed. Munawwar Alam. "Municipal Infrastructure Financing" provides an overview of the municipal finances and the extent of private sector involvement in the delivery of municipal services in selected Commonwealth developing countries. Four cities are examined in detail: Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Kampala in Uganda ...

Federal Banking in Brazil

policies and competitive advantages

This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the liberalization of the industry in the 1990s, have realized competitive advantages ...

Biotechnological inventions

moral restraints and patent Law

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far- reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment. As a result, a debate has arisen surrounding the legal, moral and social problems connected with this technology. A central part of this debate focuses ...

Democracy Law and governance

This book concerns the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for the promotion of the public interest in these democracies' public policy. It has two goals - firstly to show why a sound theoretical appraoch ...

Reapraissals in the Law of property

Some of the most basic doctrines of property law are very old, many dating to the medieval era. How can legal rules that were born so long ago remain viable today? In "Reappraisals in the Law of Property", author John V. Orth considers various topics ...

The economics of abundance

a political economy of freedom, equity, and sustainability

No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough. "The Economics of Abundance" is a balanced book in which Wolfgang Hoeschele challenges why this is so. He claims that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured ...

La imitación de los modernos

(Tipografías 2)

Traducción y epílogo de Cristóbal Durán R. Este libro, publicado en 1986, reúne diez conferencias dictadas entre 1978 y 1985. Bajo diversos apremios y recorriendo textos disímiles - Heidegger, Hólderlin, Lyotard, Derrida, Diderot, Nietzsche-, se aboca a la idea de ir siguiendo rigurosamente los lazos que ...

La ciudad vista

mercancías y cultura urbana

A lo largo de varios años, Beatriz Sarlo recorrió la ciudad tomando fotos de aquellos lugares que revelaban una mutación significativa en la vida urbana. A partir de esas imágenes, La ciudad vista, muestra el Buenos Aires que fue configurándose en las últimas décadas sobre ...

Las dos caras de un gueto

ensayos sobre marginalización y penalización

Los ensayos que componen este libro analizan la cambiante conexión entre marginalidad social, división étnica y políticas de Estado en las metrópolis del Primer Mundo desde una perspectiva teórica y comparada. En ello Loïc Wacquant revisita esa dura realidad histórica, a la vez que reconstruye ...

Cábala hebrea y cábala cristiana

En los últimos 30 años el estudio académico de la mística judía ha sido encaminado y liderado por Moshé Idel. Dotado de una erudición y un manejo innovador de las fuentes y de la fenomenología del estudio de las religiones, nos vuelve a sorprender con ...

Mesianismo y razón

escritos judíos

Hermann Cohen es un de los filósofos y pensadores más importantes de la Europa de fines del siglo XIX. Sin embargo, y a pesar de su peso específico en muy diversos campos como la filosofía, la estética y el judaismo, su obra se encuentra escasamente ...

Bajo la cruz del sur

gallegos y asturianos en Buenos Aires (1820-1870)

Desde fines de la etapa colonial Buenos Aires fue un importante ámbito de destino de las migraciones ultramarinas de gallegos y asturianos. En las últimas décadas del siglo XVIII, la habilitación de la línea de Correos Marítimos desde La Coruña a Montevideo y las posibilidades ...

A woman of valor

Jerusalem Ancient near eastern studies in honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz

Eds. Wayne Horowitz, Uri Gabbay, Filip Vukosavovic.

Bloodied banners

martial display on the medieval battlefield

'A penetrating investigation of medieval martial display...The reader is struck by its originality, and by its sophisticated and critical interpretative engagement with historical and literary sources. Particularly notable is the author's subtle exploration of the function of armour: not only its practical role ...

Sovereign wealth funds

States buying the world

Sovereign Wealth Funds - state investment entities - have been hitting news headlines in recent years. Major purchases of European and US financial firms began to-stir increasing debate and concerns about their roles and objectives. This, coupled with the complexity and opaque nature of their strategies and ...

The persistent advocate and the use of force

the impact of the United States upon the Jus ad Bellum in the Post-Cold War Era

This book provides a comprehensive and dispassionate empirical analysis and assessment of the discernible impact that the US has had upon the jus ad bellum in the post-Cold War era. The work focuses on the substantive areas of the jus ad bellum with which the ...

Theodicy and justice in modern islamic thought

the case of Said Nursi

This book explores the theology and philosophy of the distinguished modern Muslim scholar and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [d. 1960]. Nursi wrote in both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic and his life and thought reflected the transition of modern Turkey from an empire to a secular ...

Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) was an economist, historian, philosopher, and legal theoretician. His work was unified by a passionate and resolute commitment to a libertarianism that may be characterized as #anarcho-capitalism# and which implied a belief that even the legal system may be provided privately without ...

The Derrida dictionary

This is an A to Z guide to the work and thought of one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. "The Derrida Dictionary" is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction ...