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Energía solar térmica

Acompaña CD-ROM. El Código Técnico de la Edificación establece la obligatoriedad a partir de 2007 de instalar captadores de energía solar térmica en toda edificación de nueva construcción en la que exista demanda de ACS o calentamiento de piscina. Los sistemas de calefacción, aire acondicionado ...

The world guide to CSR

a country-by-country analysis of corporate sustainability and responsibility

Eds. Wayne Visser, Nick Tolhurst. This is the first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility for more than 60 countries. Each regional and national profile includes key information about the relevant history, country- specific ...

A short history of celebrity

Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life - and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's ...

A dictionary of 20th-Century Communism

Eds. Silvio Pons, Robert Service. The first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former ...

Hispanic New York

a sourcebook

Ed. Caludio Iván Remeseira. Over the past few decades, a huge wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within ...

América en las Cortes de Cádiz

La invasión napoleónica en 1808 provocó una crisis de los fundamentos del poder de la monarquía hispana. Uno y otro bando se propusieron redefinir el Estado, y contaron con la opinión de quienes vivían al otro lado del Atlántico. Napoleón convocó a representantes americanos a ...

Responsabilidad civil

cuestiones generales y su efecto reparador

Dentro de las distintas obras que sobre la responsabilidad civil tema tan actual, conflictivo y generador de innumerables procesos# se están publicando en esta colección Códigos Magíster, aparece ahora el que abarca los conceptos generales aplicables a todo supuesto de este amplio tema. Esta obra ...

Securing the State

Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism and proliferation, and of natural hazards such as pandemics ...

Païens et Chréteiens dans un âge d'angoisse

aspects de l'expérience religieuse de Marc Aurèle à Constantin

Le thème abordé par E R Dodds dans cet ouvrage - la transition du paganisme au christianisme de Marc Aurèle à Constantin - est de ceux auxquels on revient indéfiniment, car il reste, malgré tout, le grand mystère :pourquoi et comment des païens cultivés de ce temps ...

La participación de los sindicatos en las funciones normativas de los poderes públicos

INDICE: El Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho: implicaciones participativas. De la participación a la participación institucional. El ejercicio de la participación institucional en España y otros mecanismos de intervención: el diálogo social tripartito

What about Darwin?

all species of opinion from scientistis, sages, friends, and enemies who met, read, and discissed the naturalist who changed the world

Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P. T. Barnum, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma ...

The limits of U.S. military capability

lessons from Vietnam and Iraq

Political scientist James H. Lebovic establishes that the size, strength, flexibility, and adaptability of the U.S. military cannot ensure victory in asymmetrical conflicts. In "The Limits of U.S. Military Capability", Lebovic shows how political and psychological factors trumped U.S. military superiority in ...

Another freedom

the alternative history of an idea

From political debates about global free markets to local free lunches, today the word 'freedom' is in danger of becoming a distorted and tired cliche. In "Another Freedom", Svetlana Boym explores the rich history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece ...

Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945

foreign authors report from Germany

Ed. Oliver Lubrich. 'Even now', wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Diary of 1933, 'I can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened'. Three years later, W. E. B. DuBois described Germany as 'silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers'. In contrast ...

Why Europe?

the medieval origins of its special path

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe's unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, "Why Europe?" tackles these classic questions with ...

Poética. Libro I

Anónimos sobre la comedia

Edición bilingüe, introducción y notas de Paloma Ortiz García. ÍNDICE: Introducción. Primera parte. La historia del texto: Habent sua fata libelli.-La composición de la Poética.- Poesía y pintura, artes imitativas.- La poesía, ¿educadora?- Poesía y purificación emocional. # La Poética y las téchnai.- ¿Don natural ...

English legal system in context

English Legal System in Context provides a critical overview of the legal system, and establishes a sound theoretical framework within which to analyse the system. It discusses the intricacies of the legal system, showing the blurred distinction between the legal and the non-legal, and the ...

Derecho procesal del trabajo

La 16ª edición del Derecho Procesal del Trabajo, manteniendo la estructura de la obra, añade las novedades legislativas posteriores a julio de 2008, fecha de cierre de la anterior. La novedad fundamental consiste en la incorporación de la Ley 13/2009, de 3 de noviembre ...

Decrecimientos

sobre lo que hay que cambiar en la vida cotidiana

Dir. Carlos Taibo. Hoy en día disponemos de una teoría general sobre el decrecimiento que ha ido adquiriendo cada vez más fuerza. Para completar este proyecto, sin embargo, urge trasladar los conceptos teóricos generales a ámbitos más concretos. Esto es precisamente lo que proponen los ...

Transformations of the Welfare State

small states, big lessons

Auts. Herbert Obinger...[et.al]. Transformations of the Welfare State gives a new twist to the longstanding debate on the impact of economic globalization on the welfare state. The authors focus on several small, advanced OECD economies in order to assess whether (and how) the ...