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Agua y energía

Dir. Antonio Embid Irujo. Agua y energía se señalan unánimemente como los dos grandes problemas de este siglo XXI del que ya se ha recorrido la primera década. Al margen de los problemas insitos en un crecimiento más que sensible de la población del planeta ...

A short guide to political risk

In a competitive and increasing internationalized business world, many companies rely on the high risk/reward ratio of operating in unstable areas. Those companies willing to engage in emerging or developing countries can often be exposed to a politically volatile environment over which they have ...

The politics of means and ends

policy instruments in the European Union

Policy instruments are techniques used to implement policy goals. Subject to political conflict, they address the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed. Why do political actors choose certain policy instruments to implement policy goals? Systematically comparing policy instruments employed in the ...

The crime of our time

why Wall Street is not too big to jail

A hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The #News Dissector# explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed. To tell this story Schechter speaks ...

Energy and climate wars

how naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate

By depoliticizing the energy-climate debate the authors succeed in exposing corrupt political thinking and 'green' myth-making about issues that affect every one of us. Today, energy is the most important commodity in the world. Yet our basic energy security is threatened by an ideological social ...

From so simple a beginning

the four great books of Charles Darwin

Edited, with introductions by Edward O. Wilson. Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin - Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872 ...

The New Cambridge History of Islam

V.V.A.A. The New Cambridge History of Islam is a comprehensive history of Islamic civilization, tracing its development from its beginnings in seventh- century Arabia to its wide and varied presence in the globalised world of today. The six volumes reflect the geographical ...

Muslim women of power

gender, politics and culture in Islam

This is an exploration of powerful Muslim women covering issues of gender, culture and politics in Islam. Five women have served as leaders of Muslim countries, namely Megawati Sukarnoputri (Vice President of Indonesia, 1991-2001 and President 2002-4), Benazir Bhutto (PM of Pakistan, 1988-90 and 1993-6 ...

Marlborough

leadership, strategy, conflict

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is one of the great commanders of history. Using his great charm and diplomatic skills he was able to bind troops from various European states into a cohesive army that won a string of victories over the French armies ...

Bernard Montgomery

leadership, strategy, conflict

This Osprey Command title looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), perhaps the best-known, most highly respected and most controversial British general of World War II. Monty's ...

Imperial armies of the Thirty Years' War.T.2

Cavalry

This history of the Catholic armies of the Habsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years' War explores the role of cavalry during the last major religious war in mainland Europe, which saw the end of the large mercenary forces and the beginnings of the ...

Kohima 1944

the battle that saved India

Illustrated by Peter Dennis. In March 1944, the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British ...

The peninsular war atlas

The Peninsular War saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Napoleonic Wars. Despite the exposure given this theatre the soldiers who fought there have received little public recognition. The bicentennial commemorations of this war, aim to bring the war to wider recognition, bringing the ...

Rubens

guía de la colección

Esta publicación es una guía detallada de las obras de Rubens que posee el Museo del Prado, la mayor colección que existe de este pintor. una exaltación de la vida a través de la pintura del artista más admirado de su época.

Fouché

retrato de un hombre político

La ambición y la intriga son las únicas pasiones de este hombre político, carente de escrúpulos y moral, que navega a través de las convulsiones sociales y políticas de la Francia revolucionaria y del imperio sin mudar el gesto. Como muy bien dice Zweig: «Los ...

La llave de oro

madres y madrastras en los cuentos infantiles

Tanto para los amantes de la literatura popular como para las personas interesadas en la psicolog?aplicada, este libro resulta revelador y clarificador. Escrito con sencillez, desentra??os misterios de los cuentos a partir de la aplicaci??r?ica de las teor? de Jung, con ...

En busca de la China moderna

Convertida no sólo en un gigante demográfico, sino en un agente económico de primera magnitud, China desempeña desde hace años un papel decisivo en el orden mundial. Este libro ofrece una completísima síntesis de todo cuanto al lector occidental le interesa conocer sobre la historia ...

Cultura oral, visual y escrita en la España de los Siglos de Oro

Con un manifiesto deseo de interdisciplinariedad, los estudios aquí recogidos examinan tanto ejemplos concretos de lo oral, lo visual o lo escrito en el contexto de la conformación de difusión de la cutura áurea, como las frecuentes interrelaciones y trasvases entre estos diversos cauces.

Gramática, canón e historia literaria

(1750 y 1850)

Eds. Victoriano Gaviño Rodríguez y Fernando Durán López. El periodo que abarca la segunda mitad del XVIII y la primera del XIX, uniendo erudicción dieciochesca con la revolución literaria romántica, es una época privilegiada y verdaderamente fundacional para la filología española...

Contribución a la historia de la Guerra de la Independencia de la Península Ibérica contra Napoleón I

Tomo I

ÍNDICE: Prólogo.- Introducción del traductor.- Contribución a la historia de La Guerra de la Independencia de la Península Ibérica contra Napoleón.- Introducción.- Fuentes bibliográficas de la primera parte.- Libro I: La toma de Tarragona y de Figueras permite a Suchet emprender la expedición contra Valencia ...