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The troubled Empire

China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer ...

Sudan

Darfur and the failure of an african State

Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the ...

When the Gods were born

Greek cosmogonies and the Near East

Ancient Greece has for too long been studied in isolation from its Near Eastern neighbors. And the ancient Near East itself has for too long been seen as an undifferentiated cultural monolith. Classics and Near Eastern Studies, in our modern universities, continue to be separated ...

A new science

the discovery of religion in the Age of Reason

We see the word 'religion' everywhere, yet do we understand what it means, and is there a consistent worldwide understanding? Who discovered religion and in what context? In "A New Science", Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion ...

Pope and devil

the Vatican's archives and the Thrid Reich

The Vatican's dealings with the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich have long been swathed in myth and speculation. After almost seventy years, the crucial records for the years leading up to 1939 were finally opened to the public, revealing the bitter conflicts that ...

The roman army

the greatest war machine of the Ancient World

Ed. Chris McNab. This book follows the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to the shameful defeats inflicted upon the late Roman army by the Goths and Huns. Tracing the development of ...

Salamis 480 BC

the naval campaign that saved Greece

Ill. Peter Dennis. In 480 BC, the Greek and Persian fleets met in a battle in the strait between Attica and the island of Salamis. Although outnumbered, the Greeks delivered a crushing victory that ended the Persian threat to Greece. This book draws on the ...

Julius Caesar

leadership, strategy, conflict

One of the greatest military commanders in history, Julius Caesar's most famous victory - the conquest of Gaul - was to him little more than a stepping stone to power. An audacious and decisive general, his victories over the Gauls allowed him to challenge for the ...

Carlos III y los bienes de los jesuitas

la gestión de las temporalidades por la Monarquía borbónica (1767-1815)

La expulsión de los jesuitas del reino de Carlos III en 1767 conllevaba la ocupación de su patrimonio. Este hecho supuso la puesta en marcha de un sistema administrativo novedoso que se ocupase de la gestión de tales propiedades. Un conjunto patrimonial supuestamente inmenso sobre ...

Buques españoles hundidos

o naufragados durante los años de la Gran Guerra (1914-1918)

INDICE: Introducción. 1914. 1915. 1916. 1917. 1918. Listado de buques. Bibliografía.

The history of english Law before the time of Edward I

Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic "The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I" expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and ...

The CEO's boss

tough love in the boardroom

In order to avoid another Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco, company directors have assumed a bold and independent role in the boardroom, monitoring the actions of the CEO and supervising his or her day-to-day operations. This dramatic shift has created a new atmosphere, one that requires ...

Venture capital

investment strategies, structures, and policies

Ed. Douglas Cumming. This is an essential guide to venture capital. Studies have shown that venture capital backed entrepreneurial firms are on average significantly more successful than non-venture capital backed entrepreneurial firms in terms of innovativeness, profitability, and share price performance upon going public. Understanding ...

The handbook of infrastructure investing

Ed. Michael D. Underhill. A comprehensive overview of cutting edge infrastructure investment topics from sector experts. Infrastructure investing is one of the fastest growing and most complex asset classes facing investment professionals, practitioners, and academics. "The Handbook of Infrastructure Investing" examines this dynamic discipline by ...

Exploring general equilibrium

With a previously unpublished paper by the author and a new foreword by Edward Glaeser Fischer Black was known for his brilliance as well as for his sometimes controversial opinions. Highly respected for his scholarly writings in finance, with this book he moved into different ...

Escultores del siglo XVI en Cuenca

Gran formato con ilustraciones.

Compromiso cívico y democracia

los efectos democráticos del asociacionismo sociopolítico en España

El objetivo de esta investigación, del doctor en Ciencias Políticas por la Universidad de Granada, Rafael Vázquez García, es explicar los efectos que la participación en asociaciones voluntarias tiene sobre determinadas actitudes cívico-democráticas. En concreto, se trata de saber si la participación en asociaciones genera ...

Viaje a un Oriente europeo

patrimonio y turismo en Andalicía (1800-1929)

El libro se remonta a la Andalucía de hace casi dos siglos y realiza un recorrido histórico hasta 1929, año en el que Sevilla acogió la Exposición Iberoamericana. En este sentido, profundiza en la transformación de la imagen #pintoresca# que ofrecía España, con recursos típicamente ...

Sevilla y los Machado

VV.AA. Catálogo de la exposición. Catálogo de la exposición sobre la dinastía de los Machado y sus vínculos con Sevilla. Desde el científico D. Antonio Machado y Núñez, pasando por "Demófilo", abuelo y padre, respectivamente, de los poetas Manuel y Antonio, a éstos y ...

Habermas

an intellectual biography

This book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jurgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas's most influential theories - of the public sphere, communicative action, and modernity - were decisively shaped ...