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España y su mundo (1500-1700)

Los ensayos reunidos en este volumen ilustran algunos temas y diversos problemas surgidos del interés del autos por la historia de Europa, especialmente del mundo hispánico, en los siglos XVI y XVII. En su calidad de complemento de los otros libros escritos por John Elliott ...

El hombre que detuvo a García Lorca

Ramón Ruiz Alonso y la muerte del poeta

En el verano de 1932 llega a Granada un enemigo fanático del socialismo. Nacido en Salamanca en 1903 y educado por los salesianos, Ramón Ruiz Alonso, tipógrafo de profesión, ha llegado a odiar, en Madrid, a los líderes del PSOE. Al conseguir trabajo en los ...

Getting started in commodities

Shows readers how to invest in the commodities market in futures, stocks, stock indices, and options. This book explains how the commodities market works as well as how investors can identify and track commodity opportunities using fundamental factors such as supply and demand and technical ...

Pitch invasion

three stripes, two brothers, one feud: Adidas, Puma and the making of modern sport

Unlacing the story of how sport became so full of money ...Today, sport is big business, and Adidas and Puma are two of the biggest global brands, paying stars, clubs and competitions to wear their label, dominating everywhere from football pitches to magazine pages. This ...

Art history

Egypt in the byzantine world, 300-700

Egypt in the period from the reign of the emperor Constantine to the Arab conquest was both a vital part of the Late Roman and Byzantine world, participating fully in the culture of its wider Mediterranean society, and a distinctive milieu, launched on a path ...

Pro Mundi beneficio

los trabajadores gallegos en la construcción del Canal de Panamá, 1904- 1914

En este libro se analiza la participación de los trabajadores gallegos en la construcción del canal de Panamá (1904-1914), en unas condiciones de trabajo especialmente duras. Se analiza el Canal en su perspectiva histórica, las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Panamá, la contratación de los ...

World War One

a short history

The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of ...

The force of destiny

a history of Italy since 1796

The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy going country. "The Force of Destiny", Christopher Duggan's immensely enjoyable ...

Interventions

"Interventions" is Noam Chomsky at his best. At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible and ...

The last thousand days of the British Empire

"I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously proclaimed his loyalty ...

Virgins

a cultural history

In the Middle Ages, it was believed that only a virgin could charm a unicorn out of hiding, but far from being a quaint, anachronistic concept, virginity remains a central value in western culture. Type 'virgin' into Google and you instantly get over 400,000 ...

Identification for prediction and decision

This book is a full-scale exposition of Charles Manski's new methodology for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. He recommends that researchers first ask what can be learned from data alone, and then ask what can be learned when data are combined with ...

Forex wave theory

a technical analysis for spot and futures currency traders

Trading in foreign exchange currency markets has recently exceeded $2 trillion a day and this is expected to double within the next five years. This book is intended for independent currency traders, day traders, managers of hedge funds, corporate financial officers, and portfolio managers. It ...

Law firm strategy

competitive advantage and valuation

The legal services marketplace has become ever more competitive. Identifying a robust business strategy and sources of competitive advantage are difficult challenges for law firms today. The review of legal services carried out by Sir David Clementi, leading to the Legal Services Bill, paves the ...

Hans Kelsen's pure theory of Law

legality and legitimacy

Hans Kelsen is commonly considered to be among the founding fathers of modern legal philosophy. Despite Kelsen's prominence as a legal theorist, his political theory has so far been mostly overlooked. This book argues that Kelsen's legal theory, the Pure Theory of Law ...

Intellectual property

To offer a core concept of intellectual property, to consider various justifications for the recognition of intellectual property rights and to expound their operation in particular areas of activity is the purpose of this book. It is essential to examine both the concept of intellectual ...

Buying social justice

equality, government procurement, and legal change

Governments spend huge amounts of money buying goods and services from the private sector. How far should their spending power be affected by social policy? Arguments against the practice are often made by economists - on the grounds of inefficiency - and lawyers - on the grounds of ...

Family Law

text, cases and materials

Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials covers all main areas of family law and provides everything the family law student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive experience in the field of family law, the authors provide a detailed and authoritative exposition of the ...

The foundations of European Community Law

an introduction to the constitutional and administrative Law of the European Community

The Foundations of European Community Law is renowned as a highly reliable and authoritative text valued by students and practitioners alike. Providing a clear and in-depth account of the constitutional and administrative law of the EC, Hartley examines the institutions, the Community legal system and ...