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El rey y el Papa

política y diplomacia en los albores del Renacimiento (el siglo XV en Castilla)

El interés, incluso la actualidad, de un tema como el de las relaciones de la Iglesia con el poder político no es cuestionable fácilmente. Podría serlo si tuviéramos en cuenta los primeros siglos de la España Altomedieval; sin embargo, no debe olvidarse que fue en ...

El secreto de la esfinge

y otros misterios del Antiguo Egipto

¿Cuál es el secreto de la Gran Esfinge de Giza? Charlotte Booth, profesora de Egiptología del Birbeck College, nos cuenta la verdad que se esconde detrás de este y de otros misterios: el de la reina Hatshepsut, que gobernó como un rey; el del poder ...

El ciudadano democrático

reflexiones éticas para una educación intercultural

Editores, Francisco Arenas-Dolz y Daniela Gallegos Salazar. Construir una sociedad intercultural no es tarea fácil. En esta labor la educación debe tener por meta crear una comunidad de personas que desarrollen el pensamiento crítico, que busquen la verdad más allá de las barreras de clase ...

Odes

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 41)

Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His long life saw him as busy ...

The Eve of Spain

myths of origins in the history of christian, muslim, and jewish conflict

The Eve of Spain demonstrates how the telling and retelling of one of Spain's founding myths played a central role in the formation of that country's national identity. King Roderigo, the last Visigoth king of Spain, rapes (or possibly seduces) La Cava, the ...

Ostpolitik, 1969-1974

european and global responses

Eds., Carole Fink, Bernd Schaefer Recent studies of the Cold War transcend a narrow focus on four decades of superpower rivalry, recognizing that leaders and governments outside of Washington and Moscow also exerted political, economic, and moral influence well beyond their own borders. One striking ...

El derecho de sufragio de los extranjeros

En opinión de Elisa Pérez Vera, “la aceptación de una posible participación de los extranjeros en la administración local, mediante el ejercicio del derecho de voto en las elecciones municipales, supone una notable excepción a la regla de base y uno de los rasgos más ...

Exclusión y castigo en la sociedad global

Posición y funciones de los Tribunales Superiores de Justicia

Seminario Barcelona, 4 de junio de 2008

El objeto de la presente obra, fruto del seminario que se celebró en el Instituto de Estudios Autonómicos el mes de junio de 2008, es analizar, tanto desde una perspectiva general como desde el punto de vista de cada orden jurisdiccional concreto, la posición y ...

Handbook of financial time series

The Handbook of Financial Time Series gives an up-to-date overview of the field and covers all relevant topics both from a statistical and an econometrical point of view. Experts present among others various aspects of the important GARCH and Stochastic Volatility classes, like for example ...

Edgar Allan Poe y Otros ensayos

Nuestro poeta, por su organización vigorosa y cultivada, pudo resistir esa terrible dolencia que un médico escritor llama con gran propiedad "la enfermedad del ensueño". Era un sublime apasionado, un nervioso, uno de esos divinos semilocos necesarios para el progreso humano, lamentables cristos del arte ...

Demystifying exotic products

interest rates, equities and foreign exchange

One reason for financial crises is investors misusing and misunderstanding exotic products. Proper understanding of exotic structures might have helped. "Demystifying Exotic Products" contains the fundamentals on exotic products in relation to Interest rates, equity and FX exotics. This practical guidebook discusses how the product ...

Business valuation and bankruptcy

This is an essential guide to business valuation and bankruptcy. "Business Valuation and Bankruptcy" helps you - whether you are an accountant dealing with a troubled company, a lender, an investor, a bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer/financial advisor, or a private equity player - to focus on ...

Electricity reform in Europe

towards a single energy market

Eds. Jean-Michel Glachant, François Lévêque. The realization of a European internal market for energy is still a work in progress. Written by leading European scholars and discussed with major energy stakeholders, this book presents a thorough analysis of the motives and methods needed to achieve ...

Where am I wearing?

a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes

Globalization makes it difficult to know where the things you buy come from. Journalist and travel writer Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, so he traveled from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back. Along ...

Power over peoples

technology, environments, and western imperialism, 1400 to the present

"This is a major contribution to historical studies, as well as the study of technological change and economic history. Headrick asks a set of questions that are infrequently discussed, and analyzes them in an interesting way. This will be an important and widely cited book ...

Introducción al sistema financiero

Este libro, tras destacar los rasgos más relevantes del sector financiero y las razones de su existencia, introduce al lector en los elementos fundamentales de un sistema financiero, a saber: instrumentos, mercados e intermediarios financieros, centrándose a continuación en los que operan en España y ...

Multijuralism

manifestations, causes, and consequences

Eds. Albert Breton...[et al]. At one level of generality, multijuralism is the coexistence of two or more legal systems or sub-systems within a broader normative legal order to which they adhere, such as the existence of civil and common law systems within the EU ...

Solving applied mathematical problems with MATLAB

This textbook presents a variety of applied mathematics topics in science and engineering with an emphasis on problem solving techniques using MATLAB[registered]. The authors provide a general overview of the MATLAB language and its graphics abilities before delving into problem solving, making the book ...

Brands and branding

This is the bestselling guide to the role of brands and brand building. Although the balance sheet may not even put a value on it, a company's brand or its portfolio of brands is in many cases its most valuable asset, accounting for as ...