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Las culturas precolombinas de América

En este volumen se analiza la enorme riqueza cultural que se concentra en un continente de la extensión y complejidad del americano, donde, en cuarenta mil años de historia, se han dado dos mil lenguas diferentes y centenares de nichos ecológicos. Dado que es un ...

El franquismo

1939-1975

La larga dictadura encabezada por el general Francisco Franco Bahamonde es ya historia en nuestro país. Son varias las obras que intentan explicar este período, que arranca con la derrota de la República, en 1939, y acaba con la muerte del dictador, en 1975. El ...

La España de la Ilustración

la reforma de España

El Siglo de las Luces representó para España uno de los períodos más apasionantes y trascendentes de su historia. Perdida la hegemonía mundial del tiempo de los Austrias, se buscó una modernización que nunca llegó a realizarse plenamente. Reforma fue la palabra clave del siglo ...

Destrucción y construcción del territorio

memoria de lugares españoles.Vol. 2: Andalucía y Barcelona

Eds., Aurora Fernández Polanco, Magdalena Mora y Cristina Peñamarín. Gran formato con ilsutraciones. Estos libros se proponen como espacios de encuentro entre diversas voces y miradas sobre el territorio, considerando tanto los aciertos como los desaciertos en las actuaciones que lo conforman y afectan. Cada ...

The legacy of Edward W. Said

With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right have already begun to discredit Said#s work as that of a subversive ...

The riddle of the world

a reconsideration of Schopenhauer´s philosophy

This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style. Hannan emphasizes the peculiar inconsistencies and tensions in Schopenhauer's thought--he was torn between idealism and realism, and between denial and affirmation of the individual will. In addition ...

A modern history of Japan

from Tokugawa Times to the Present

The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate - the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family ...

Zionism

Zionism is an international political movement that was originally dedicated to the resettlement of Jewish people in the Promised Land, and is now synonymous with support for the modern state of Israel. This addition to the Short Histories of Big Ideas series looks at the ...

The relationship between State and individual responsibility for international crimes

This book offers a unique comparison between state and individual responsibility for international crimes and examines the theories that can explain the relationship between these two regimes. The study provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the relevant international practice from the standpoint of both ...

Economic development and transition

thought, strategy, and viability

In Economic Development and Transition, renowned development economist Justin Yifu Lin argues that economic performance in developing countries depends largely on government strategy. If the government plays a facilitating role, enabling firms to exploit the economy's comparative advantages, its economy will develop successfully. However ...

Economic analysis of social common capital

Social common capital provides members of society with those services and institutional arrangements that are crucial in maintaining human and cultural life. The term 'social common capital' is comprised of three categories: natural capital, social infrastructure, and institutional capital. Natural capital consists of all natural ...

Monetary theory and Bretton Woods

the construction of an international monetary order

Over the twentieth century monetary theory played a crucial role in the evolution of the international monetary system. The severe shocks and monetary gyrations of the interwar years interacted with theoretical developments that superseded the rigid rules of commodity standards and led to the full-fledged ...

Russia since 1980

Russia Since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated regime-wrecking radical reforms, Russia has reemerged as a superpower. It has survived a hyperdepression, modernized, restored private ...

Public economics and the household

Economic models in much of the public economics literature have been slow to reflect the significant changes towards double-income households throughout the developed world. This graduate-level text develops a more sophisticated approach to household economics, one that allows for multiple-income earners and shared decision-making. This ...

The unauthorised agent

perspectives from european and comparative Law

Eds. Danny Busch, Laura J. MacGregor. The focus of this book, the legal situation created when an agent acts without authority, is one of the most important issues in agency law. The analysis is divided into three sections: apparent authority, ratification and the liability of ...

The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth

the making and meaning of the australian Constitution

By analysing original sources and evaluating conceptual frameworks, Nicholas Aroney discusses the idea proclaimed in the Preamble to the Constitution that Australia is a federal commonwealth. Taking careful account of the influence which the American, Canadian and Swiss Constitutions had upon the framers of the ...

Darfur and the crime of genocide

In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that verified Colin Powell's U.N. and congressional testimonies about the Darfur genocide. The survey cost nearly a million dollars to conduct and yet it languished in the archives ...

Cross-border Internet dispute resolution

The internet has the potential to increase the number of cross-border disputes between a wide range of different users. For many internet disputes, the use of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) becomes critical. ODR uses information technology (such as expert systems) and internet communication applications (such ...

Economía española y del País Valenciano

Ed. Vicent Soler i Marco. Uno de los objetivos de este libro es que el lector conozca de manera sencilla, pero con todo el rigor que reclama la materia, cuál es la realidad económica valenciana y española en el marco europeo. Así mismo, proporciona la ...

Troppo vero

Non è vero, troppo vero, ben trovato. Cuando se supo que el emperador Carlos V se había prosternado ante Tiziano para recoger del suelo el pincel que a aquél se le había caído, la época se quedó atónita. «Non è vero», pensaron muchos. Un siglo ...