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Revisitando las culturas del Siglo de Oro

mentalidades, tradiciones culturales, creaciones paraliterarias y literarias

Before the deluge

public debt, inequality, and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the ...

El fantástico reino del Preste Juan

el secreto de las tres cartas

A partir del año 1165 tres importantes líderes de Occidente reciben sendas cartas procedentes de un reino lejano firmadas por un tal Preste Juan de las Indias. Manuel Comneno, emperador de Bizancio; Federico I Barbarroja, monarca del Sacro Imperio Germánico, y el papa Alejandro III ...

Rulers, guns, and money

the global arms trade in the age of imperialism

The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the 19th century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialised nations subsist by supplying their ...

Democratic accountability

why choice in politics is both possible and necessary

It is common for political leaders to claim they have no control over bad outcomes. Indeed, they often cite the arguments of political theorists and public intellectuals as to why: history rushes onward oblivious of human will; force and violence overcome political aims; globalization undermines ...

Islands of agreement

managing enduring armed rivalries

We are culturally conditioned to think of war and peace in binary terms of strict opposition. Correspondingly, we tend to focus our attention on conflict prevention or conflict resolution. But as "Islands of Agreement" demonstrates, peace and war are seldom polar totalities but increasingly can ...

The age of independence

interracial unions, same-sex unions, and the changing american family

Michael Rosenfeld offers a new theory of family dynamics to account for the interesting and startling changes in marriage and family composition in the United States in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960. This stage is experienced ...

An archaelogical evolution

Stanley South has been a leading figure not only in historical archaeology but also in anthropological archaeology. His work (both past and present) has put him in the forefront of monumental changes in American archaeology in the last 40 years. His personal perseverance in field ...

Multinational federations

This is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism. Multinational federations are federal states intended to provide a framework that can accommodate, manage and resolve some of the most intractable political conflicts of our time ...

Subrogation

Law and practice

Subrogation: Law and Practice provides a clear and accessible account of subrogation, explaining when claimants are entitled to the remedy, how they should formulate their claims, and what practical difficulties they might encounter when attempting to enforce their subrogation rights. Although subrogation is a remedy ...

Clausewitz's puzzle

the political theory of war

Blending detailed contextual analysis with issues in modern-day international relations this book provides a major new analysis of the theory of Clausewitz and its relevance to contemporary society. This book argues that Clausewitz developed a wide-ranging political theory of war by reflecting on the success ...

Business and competitive analysis

effective application of new and classic methods

Business success begins with deep clarity about your competition and your business environment. But, even as data gathering has improved dramatically, few business professionals know the state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing their data. Now there#s a comprehensive, immensely practical guide to today#s best tools ...

La vida en la frontera

El principal reto para España es la creciente desigualdad en su frontera sur. España viene sufriendo oleadas periódicas de emigración, como otros países cuyos vecinos son mucho más pobres. A lo largo de este libro se analizan las 20 fronteras más desiguales del mundo por ...

Responsabilidad sanitaria por incumplimiento del deber de información al paciente

La obra analiza las consecuencias resarcitorias de la falta de información o de consentimiento informado del paciente, centrándose en los casos en que la actividad sanitaria de la que ha derivado el perjuicio se ha desarrollado, por lo demás, con absoluta corrección. El estudio de ...

El interés del menor

En el interés del menor, en su acepción más trascendente -entendido en su propia entidad, y en cuanto criterio instrumental para resolver otros problemas-, incluso desde una estricta óptica jurídica, hay también importantes componentes no racionales (pre-juicios, sentimientos, sobre todo) que el Derecho, en general ...

Falsedad y comunicación

publicidad engañosa, información falsa, imagen manipulada

INDICE: Introducción. Publicidad. Periodismo. Comunicación audiovisual. Internet. Epílogo.

El Derecho de la competencia y los jueces

El libro pretende cubrir tanto la aplicación judicial directa como la revisión judicial de las decisiones administrativas-comunitarias y nacionales-materia de competencia en ambos casos, desde una perspectiva específica: los problemas particulares que se presentan a los jueces, distintos de los que deben afrontar las Administraciones ...

Cycles of time and meaning in the mexican books of fate

In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of ...

Realism and anti-realism

There are a bewildering variety of ways the terms "realism" and "anti- realism" have been used in philosophy and furthermore the different uses of these terms are only loosely connected with one another. Rather than give a piecemeal map of this very diverse landscape, the ...

A glossary of Islam

This concise, accessible glossary of key Islamic terms is written by two of France's most eminent scholars of Islam. It offers brief explanations of the core background elements required by those beginning the study of Islam and covers the following: famous historical figures; theological ...