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War

a short history

In this concise history of war, Jeremy Black ranges widely, giving due attention to non-western as well as western traditions. Black probes the diverse character of military capability and the varied nature of military change. The history of war is inextricably bound to the history ...

The siege of Jerusalem

crusade and conquest in 1099

This book offers a fascinating insight to the final siege of the First Crusade. The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of 6 June, 1099. There were other sieges that lasted longer ...

Alexander the great failure

the collapse of the Macedonian Empire

In this authoritative book John Grainger explores the foundations of Alexander's empire and why it did not survive after his untimely death in 323 BC. Alexander the Great's empire stretched across three continents and his achievements changed the nature of the ancient world ...

Guía práctica de los contratos de gestión de servicio público y de servicios

En una saministración moderna, la externalización es una forma de afrontar las innovaciones de nuestra sociedad, y de eso trata la guía, de las formas de externalizar servicios por parte de la Administración.

Análisis de los paisajes históricos. De al-Andalus a la sociedad feudal

Ed., Antonio Malpica Cuello. Este libro abre una nueva colección sobre la historia y la arqueología del paisaje, fruto de un proyecto de investigación, en su primera fase, financiado por la Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa de la Junta de Andalucía.

Imperialism and global political economy

In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of ...

From coexistence to conquest

international Law and the origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891- 1949

Foreword by Richard Falk. The Palestine-Israel conflict often raises questions about international law, related to both Israel's legitimacy and violent Palestinian resistance to occupation. This book is the first of its kind to study the international legal methods used to create Israel, shedding light ...

Los invisibles de Kolda

historias olvidadas de la inmigración clandestina

Una detallada reconstrucción periodística del drama de un cayuco en el cual los 160 ocupantes fallecieron ahogados cruzando el Atlántico con destino a Canarias. El 23 de abril de 2007 un cayuco con 160 jóvenes a bordo zarpaba de la desembocadura del río Casamance, al ...

El libro de las vivencias, de las obras no escritas y del llanto

(a modo de 'memorias')

Por circunstancias ajenas a mis propósitos, desempeñé cargos de cierta responsabilidad. A la primera ocasión, aparté esos cálices de mí. Fuí Vicepresidente de la Asociación Nacional de Catedráticos de Instituto, dimití; Presidente de la Asociación Provincial de Catedráticos de Instituto de Madrid, dimití; Director del ...

Ficçoes tributárias

identificaçao e controle

Angela Pacheco é a autora deste livro sobre ficções jurídico- tributárias. Creio que nenhum tema poderia ser tão específico, tão fortemente ligado à manifestação deôntica própria do direito, a ponto de dizer-se até, numa daquelas afirmações contundentes, porém redutoras, que o direito mesmo, em sua ...

Estudios sobre la hipoteca

Se recogen en el presente volumen doce estudios sobre la hipoteca. Cronológicamente, cubren el largo lapso de tiempo que va desde 1981 hasta 2008. Excepto dos, todos han visto la luz en distintas publicaciones. El primero, en Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario, acometía el tema ...

Las obligaciones personales del matrimonio en el Derecho comparado

Los consejos de garantía estatutaria

Las revisiones constitucionales de 1999 y 2001 en Italia y las reformas de los estatutos de autonomía en España, significadamente el de Cataluña de 2006, han supuesto una importante modificación del Derecho regional respectivo. Entre las novedades que ofrecen ambos sistemas jurídicos, destaca la relevancia ...

Economic growth

a unified approach

How can society improve its living standards? What are the conditions necessary for prosperity? These are the questions that define the essence of growth theory. In this user-friendly book, Olivier de la Grandville provides a fascinating introduction to the theory of economic growth and shows ...

Milton Friedman on economics

selected papers

Afterword by Gary S. Becker.Upon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era" by the "New York Times" and "the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth ...

Economic reforms in India and China

emerging issues and challenges

Ed. B. Sudhakara Reddy. The role of India and China is expanding in the global economy. A whole new array of economic and financial issues are emerging which need to be tackled if the current period of growth is to endure. The issues that need ...

El lugar del campesino

en torno a la obra de Reyna Pastor

Ed. Ana Rodríguez. Múltiple ha sido para Reyna Pastor el lugar del campesino. Ha sido un lugar físico, donde cultivar y donde habitar, pero también un lugar en los bosques y en los baldíos; un espacio de lucha y de cooperación, un lugar social: en ...

China's emerging financial markets

challenges and global impact

Eds. Zhu Min, Cai Jinqing, Marthe Avery. This comprehensive resource presents the views of China's most highly respected economists, bankers, and policy makers - along with opinions from Western authorities - on the current state of banking and finance in China. Tracing the history of China ...

The invisible Hook

the hidden economics of pirates

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss - it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes ...

Ecology of cities and towns

a comparative approach

Eds. Mark J. McDonnell, Amy K. Hahs, Jürgen H. Breuste.The unprecedented growth of cities and towns around the world, coupled with the unknown effects of global change, has created an urgent need to increase ecological understanding of human settlements, in order to develop inhabitable ...