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The military orders. Vol. 3

History and heritage

In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the Military Orders. With a history stretching from the early twelfth century to the present day, they were among the richest and most powerful orders of the church in medieval Europe ...

The rape of Troy

evolution, violence, and the world of Homer

Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from the ...

Barbarism and religion

Volume 4: Barbarians, savages and Empires

'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the ...

Israel since 1980

Over the last quarter century, a radical demographic, economic and political transformation has been taking place from within Israel. Israelis are beginning to ask some fundamental questions about the country they live in and what it means to be an Israeli. This book, written by ...

The occitan war

a military and political history of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218

In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict. Laurence Marvin ...

The Tribunal of Zaragoza and crypto-judaism, 1484-1515

Tribunos del pueblo

demócratas y republicanos durante el reinado de Isabel II

Necesidad y venalidad

España e Indias, 1704-1711

Las perentorias necesidades financieras de la Guerra de Sucesión obligaron a la monarquía a una movilización de recursos extraordinarios que pudiera compensar tanto la disminución de los ingresos de las rentas ordinarias como los gastos de formación de un numeroso ejército. Durante los años que ...

Los regímenes matrimoniales en Europa y su armonización

Tras estudiar la profunda multiculturalidad de las sociedades en las que los modelos familiares se propagan por los Estados europeos, el presente estudio plantea como propuesta de “lege ferenda” la redacción de un futuro Reglamento europeo sobre los regímenes matrimoniales que permita adoptar normas a ...

Nazism, war and genocide

new perspectives on the history of the Third Reich

The history, psychology, and pathology of Nazism and its practices have been addressed by an almost limitless list of authors, historians, and researchers since the twilight of the Third Reich. This volume of specially commissioned essays from internationally recognized scholars, available for the first time ...

Wettbewerbs und kartellrecht

eine systematische darstellung des deutschen und euopäischen rechts für studium und praxis

Der "Klassiker" in 7. Auflage: Das Wettbewerbs- und das Kartellrecht weisen in Theorie und Praxis vielfältige Berührungspunkte auf. Die Neuauflage hält deshalb an dem bewährten Konzept fest und fasst beide Rechtsgebiete so zusammen, wie es die Studien- und Prüfungsordnungen vorsehen und wie es auch die ...

Bayesian methods in finance

The aim of Bayesian Methods in Finance is to provide an overview of the theory of Bayesian methods and explain their real-world applications to financial modeling. While the principles and concepts explained in the book can be used in financial modeling and decision making in ...

Risk analysis

a quantitative guide

"Risk Analysis" concerns itself with the quantification of risk, the modeling of identified risks and how to make decisions from those models. Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) using Monte Carlo simulation offers a powerful and precise method for dealing with the uncertainty and variability of a ...

Econopower

how a new generation of economists is transforming the world

EconoPower offers practical advice on personal financial matters - earning, saving, investing, and retiring - based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioral economists. It reveals exciting discoveries by economists to solve domestic problems, such as road congestion, health care, public education, crime, and other issues high on ...

The Red Queen among organizations

how competitiveness evolves

There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all ...

Pop finance

investment clubs and the new investir populism

During the 1990's, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. "Pop Finance" follows the trajectory of this new market populism via the rise of ...

Taxation in colonial America

"Taxation in Colonial America" examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka ...

Code red

an economist explains how to revive the healthcare system without destroying it

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition - but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In "Code ...

Electronic elections

the perils and promises of digital democracy

Since the 2000 presidential election, the United States has been embroiled in debates about electronic voting. Critics say the new technologies invite tampering and fraud. Advocates say they enhance the accuracy of vote counts and make casting ballots easier - and ultimately foster greater political participation ...

The associates

four capitalists who created California

One hundred forty years ago, four shopkeepers in Sacramento, California, rose to become the force behind the American transcontinental railroad, achieving along the way wealth beyond measure. To build influence and maintain power, they lied, bribed, and, when necessary, arranged for obstacles, both human and ...