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Memorias de ultratumba

François René de CHATEAUBRIAND (1768-1848) fundió en las MEMORIAS DE ULTRATUMBA lo individual y lo universal, su vida doméstica y su existencia de estadista. Destinadas a ser publicadas después de su muerte, pudo analizar en ellas con entera libertad su compleja trayectoria literaria, sentimental y ...

Cuentos filosóficos de la India

El pueblo indio, probablemente más que ningún otro, ha sabido servirse de la magia de la ficción para transmitir de generación en generación sus experiencias. Estas expresiones alegóricas y artísticas, revestidas de cuento apologético, han constituido en la India desde antiguo la forma didáctica más ...

Las historias literarias españolas

repertorio bibliográfico (1754-1936)

Este libro reúne y describe casi dos mil trescientas ediciones de historias de la literatura española, antologías y preceptivas literarias, con localización de ejemplares, desde los Orígenes de la poesía castellana, de Luis José Velázquez, en 1754, texto fundacional de la historiografía literaria española, hasta ...

Sesión doble

Contiene: Vol.1: Los pájaros de Carlos Saura.- Vol.2: La vuelta a Eros en 62 de dibujos de Carlos Saura. Catálogo de la exposición. #Sesión Doble# se compone de 70 imágenes en dos series diferenciadas temáticamente pero resueltas con los mismos recursos plásticos: en ...

Picasso, caballos

Auts. Dominique Dupuis-Labbé, Laurance Madeline, Jean-Louis Gouraud. Catálogo de la exposición. #Picasso.Caballos#, una novedosa revisión del significado del animal en la obra picassiana a través de 54 piezas. Óleos, grabados y dibujos representan al caballo en sus múltiples facetas; bestia de carga, arma de ...

Ottoman fortifications 1300-1710

Illustrated by Adam Hook. The Ottoman Empire was heir to the architectural traditions not only of the Byzantine Empire but also to those of the medieval Islamic Middle East. Having learned from these, the Ottomans created a fusion of military architectural styles to which they ...

Financial alchemy in crisis

the great liquidity illusion

In July 2007, the combination of a seemingly unstoppable rise in house prices and bullish banks swimming in liquidity meant that almost anyone could get a mortgage in the UK or US. Little more than a month later the supply of credit dried up practically ...

Restoring confidence in the financial system

see-through leverage: a powerful new tool for revealing and managing risk

"Restoring Confidence" is a ground-breaking book in which a top mathematician, who is also one of the City of London's most experienced traders, and an experienced City banker explore how confidence in the global financial system was destroyed by the current banking crisis. Drawing ...

Other people's anthropologies

ethnographic practice on the margins

Ed. Aleksandar Boskovic. Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo- American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With ...

Roman imperialism

This book examines the course and nature of Roman expansion during the Republic and Early Empire, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject, and the effect of empire on the imperial power. These are topics which have long generated considerable controversy among ...

Archaeology and Anthropology

understanding similarity, exploring difference

Eds. Duncan Garrow, Thomas Garrow. This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeology's interest in anthropology has remained ...

Ancient mines and quarries

a trans-atlantic perspective

Eds. Margaret Brewer-LaPorta, Adrian Burke, David Field. This volume derives from a meeting on prehistoric mines and quarries held at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006. Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction ...

Viajes en la transición de la arquitectura española hacia la modernidad

actas preliminares. Pamplona, 6/7 de mayo 2010

Los viajes han sido siempre uno de los cauces importantes para la transmisión y extensión de los hallazgos y novedades en todos los ámbitos de la cultura. Pero cobran especial importancia en momentos concretos que se dan a veces en las civilizaciones, cuando se están ...

Estudio de la decoración arquitectónica romana y análisis del reaprovechamiento de material en la Mezquita Aljama de Córdoba

INDICE: Cuestiones generales sobre el reaprovechamiento de material romano. Análisis del reaprovechamiento en la Mezquita Aljama de Córdoba. Conclusiones.

The repo handbook

"The Repo Handbook, 2nd Edition" presents an overview of repo vehicles and markets with sufficient depth for those seeking detailed explanations. In three parts it demonstrates how these secured loans fit into global capital markets and why they account for up to 50 per cent ...

Rule of Law, misrule of men

This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of ...

Taking economics seriously

There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation ...

Crisis in the global economy

financial markets, social struggles, and new political scenarios

Eds. Andrea Fumagalli, Sandro Mezzadra. Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collective reflection on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile "multiversity" of the UniNomade network of international researchers and activists during the months immediately following the first ...

A brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith

with "On my religion"

Ed. Thomas Nagel. John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. "A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith" is Rawls's undergraduate senior thesis, submitted ...

The mystery of economic growth

Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth - its makings and workings - is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. In "The Mystery of Economic Growth", Elhanan Helpman discusses the vast research that has ...