Libros de

Trotski

una biografía

"Al ser asesinado se convirtió en un mártir político y, a partir de ahí, muchos autores que de otro modo lo hubieran tratado con escepticismo le otorgaron el beneficio de la duda. También había algo más: Trotski les había proporcionado argumentos para desacreditar la reputación ...

Fundamentals of traffic simulation

Ed. Jaume Barceló. The increasing power of computer technologies, the evolution of software engineering and the advent of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) worldwide has helped make traffic simulation one of the most used approaches for traffic analysis in support of the design and evaluation of ...

La caída de Roma

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº1, año 2010)

The orthodox Church

an Introduction to its history, doctrine, and spiritual culture

This important work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Orthodox Church available, providing a detailed account of its historical development, as well as exploring Orthodox theology and culture * Written by one of the leading Orthodox historians and theologians in the English-speaking world ...

Quantitative analysis in archaeology

Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology introduces the application of quantitative methods in archaeology. It outlines conceptual and statistical principles, illustrates their application, and provides problem sets for practice. * Discusses both methodological frameworks and quantitative methods of archaeological analysis * Presents statistical material in a clear and straightforward ...

Wallenstein

the enigma of the Thristy Years War

A minor Bohemian nobleman who within the space of a few years became a prince and one of the greatest landowners of his age; a military entrepreneur who twice saved the Holy Roman Emperor from disaster with armies he raised, financed and led, but was ...

The enlightenment

a genealogy

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, Edelstein departs from ...

Writing, Law and kingship in old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization - home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code ...

The Big Ditch

how America took, built, ran, and ultimately gave away the Panama Canal

On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of ...

Reading Obama

dreams, hope, and the american political tradition

Barack Obama puzzles observers. Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Obama does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Instead, his writings and speeches reflect a principled aversion to absolutes that derives from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. "Reading Obama ...

Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations. Instead, he embraced tradition and habit as the guides ...

Limits of constitutional democracy

Eds. Jeffrey K. Tulis, Stephen Macedo. Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise - and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What ...

Economic lives

how culture shapes the economy

Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development ...

Cultivating conscience

how good laws make good people

Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day, we behave unselfishly - few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go ...

Credit engineering for bankers

a practical guide for bank leading

More efficient credit portfolio engineering can increase the decision- making power of bankers and boost the market value of their banks. By implementing robust risk management procedures, bankers can develop comprehensive views of obligors by integrating fundamental and market data into a portfolio framework that ...

Matisse y la Alhambra

1910-2010

Dir. Mª del Mar Villafranca Jiménez. Catálogo de la exposición. Matisse #regresa# a la Alhambra cien años después de su visita al Monumento nazarí. Matisse y la Alhambra (1910-2010) es el título de la exposición con la que el Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife ...

Historia de Toledo

de la Prehistoria al presente

Coord. Julio de la Cruz Muñoz. La HISTORIA DE TOLEDO. DE LA PREHISTORIA AL PRESENTE ofrece un amplio y científico histórico de la ciudad de Toledo a lo largo de todo un proceso de aculturación que la han conferido como una urbe singular en la ...

Obra poética

Edición, introducción y notas de Aránzazu Borrachero Mendíbil, Karl McLaughlin. Con este libro se rescata la obra de una de las escritoras españolas de los Siglos de Oro más destacadas, Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán, que nació en Llerena (Extremadura) en 1618 y murió, probablemente ...

The Druids and King Arthur

a new view of Early Britain

An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 BC, bringing to ...

En construcción

José Luis Guerín (2001)