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Shakespeare and company

Memorias de la librera Sylvia Beach, dueña de la mítica librería inglesa de Paris Shakespeare and company, fundada en 1919, y verdadero punto de encuentro de los grandes escritores y artistas de la época. En un momento crucial para la historia de la literatura, la ...

Manual de antropología forense

ÍNDICE: Prefacio.- Agradecimientos.- Autores.- 1.Introducción a la Antropología forense.- 2.Osteología, la biología del hueso.- 3. Cráneo e hioides.- 4. Cintura escapular y tórax: clavícula, escápula, costillas y esternón.

Al margen de los clásicos

Esta obra no es una recopilación de artículos, sino un corpus unitario de ravalorización de los clásicos que Azorín había escrito y terminado en 1912, según demuestra fehacientemente el autor de la introducción, Santiago Riopérez. Al margen de los clásicos es uno de los mejores ...

The last tycoons

the secret history of Lazard Frères and Co.

They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything. This is the astonishing story of Lazard Freres, the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it ...

Production economics

integrateing the microeconomic and engineering perspectives

A production economist focuses on assessment, and will use an aggregate description of technology to answer such questions as: How does the firm compare to its competitors? Has the firm improved its production capabilities? A production engineer focuses on optimizing resources, and will use a ...

Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina

Volumen V: Entremés - García de Arrieta, A.

La gran enciclopedia cervantina es una completa biblioteca resumen de una época (siglos XVI y XVII) y de un escritor (Cervantes) cruciales para conocer cabalmente la cultura y la historia de España e Iberoamérica. Es el resultado de una ambiciosa investigación llevada a cabo por ...

Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana

Tomo II: Del Neoclasicismo al Modernismo

Este segundo volumen de la Historia de la literatura Hispanoamericana, recorre un siglo, el XIX, fundamental para la historia de esa parte del continente americano: el siglo de su independencia, del surgimiento de las identidades nacionales y, por tanto, del desarrollo de sus literaturas autóctonas ...

Documentación medieval de Piedrahíta

estudio, edición e índices. Vol.I: (1372-1447)

Rudesindus

la cultura europea del siglo X

Full employment abandoned

shifting sands and policy failures

The authors' contention in this book is that much of the blame for labour under-utilisation across OECD countries lies with the policy failures of national governments. They argue that at a time when budget deficits should have been used to stimulate the demand needed to ...

Financialization and the US economy

Profound transformations have taken place both in the US and the global economy, most especially in the realm of finance. Financial markets and transactions have been growing continuously in size and in importance while finance in general has acquired an increasingly prominent position in the ...

Ageing labour forces

promises and prospects

This provocative book considers the changing status of older workers, the evolution of public policy on age and work and the behaviour of employers. It attempts to answer the critical question: In an ageing society, can older workers look forward to the prospect of longer ...

Knowledge policy

challenges for the 21st century

"Knowledge Policy" illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge unimportant ...

Innovation policy in Europe

measurement and strategy

This book aims to increase our knowledge of innovation policy by combining quantitative and qualitative assessments of innovation systems, and by adopting a progressive outlook on the conditions for an innovative Europe of tomorrow. Based on the latest developments in innovation research, the authors aim ...

Managing the transition to renewable energy

theory and practice form local, regional and macro perspectives

This book addresses the problem of how to make a large-scale socio-technical transition to renewable energy, so as to realize an environmentally sustainable economy in the long run. Transition thinking has in a short time managed to occupy a central position in the policy debate ...

Pricing in road transport

a multi-disciplinaru perspective

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book ...

Delegation in the regulatory state

independent regulatoru agencies in Eestern Europe

During the past 25 years, independent regulatory agencies have become widespread institutions for regulatory governance. This book studies how they have diffused across Europe and compares their formal independence in seventeen countries and seven sectors. Through a series of quantitative analyses, it finds that governments ...

The governance of global competition

competence allocation in international competition policy

The globalization of market competition and business behaviour fosters globalization of cartels and monopolizing mergers that can lead to abusive and predatory strategies. The globalization of competition therefore also demands an internationalization of competition policy. However, Oliver Budzinski is realistic in his assertion that supranational ...

Mergers and merger remedies in the EU

assessing the cosequences for competition

Headlines are made when the European Commission prohibits a merger, but this is actually very rare. Clearances subject to conditions (i.e. remedies) happen ten times as frequently, but have received far less attention in academic literature. This book provides an empirical assessment of the ...

Get out the vote

how to increase voter turnout

The first edition of "Get Out the Vote!" broke ground by introducing a new scientific approach to the challenge of voter mobilization and profoundly influenced how campaigns operate. In this expanded and updated edition, the authors incorporate data from more than one hundred new studies ...