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Isaac Newton

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based ...

Comentarios de jurisprudencia tributaria constitucional

año 2005

INDICE: I.-Principios generales del Estado de Derecho; II.-Fuentes: reglamento; III.-Derechos fundamentales; IV.-Hacienda General del Estado. Hacienda de las Comunidades Autónomas. Haciendas Locales.

Oracles of Science

celebrity scientists versus God and religion

Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson, and physicists Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg have become public intellectuals, articulating a much larger vision for science and what role it should play in the modern worldview. The scientific prestige and literary ...

The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus

The origins and development of Greek historiography cannot be properly understood unless early historical writings are situated in the framework of late archaic and early classical Greek culture and society. Contextualization opens up new perspectives on the subject in The Historian's Craft in the ...

Episcopal elections 250-600

hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity

Peter Norton covers a topic of great relevance to students of early Church history and late antiquity alike. He challenges the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops, and ...

Cultures of devotion

folk saints of Spanish America

Spanish America has produced numerous "folk saints" - venerated figures regarded as miraculous but not officially recognized by the Catholic Church. Some of these have huge national cults with hundreds - perhaps millions - of devotees. In this book, Frank Graziano provides the first overview in any language ...

Oxford Bible atlas

This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology and topography. The Atlas will help readers of the Bible understand the ...

The origins of the christian mystical tradition

from Plato to Denys

Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas ...

Modeling maximumtrading profits with C++

"Mr. Salov has taken one of my favorite creations "Perfect Profit" and provided an expanded description of his interpretation of it and put it in your hands with the included software. Like I said fifteen years ago, "Perfect Profit" is an important tool for the ...

International economic indicators and central banks

This book presents an in-depth look at the investment implications of international indicators and foreign central banks. This book fills a major information void on measures of international economic performance. It discusses how major industrial countries measure and report their national economic performance information and ...

Al-Kindi

This will be the first book in the Great Medieval Thinkers series to focus on an Islamic philosopher. It will offer a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of the philosopher al-Kindi (died about 870 AD). The classical tradition of Arabic philosophy may be said ...

Debt defaults and lessons from a decade of crises

This work provides detailed case studies of debt defaults by Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Moldova, and Uruguay, framed by a comprehensive discussion of the history, economic theory, legal issues, and policy lessons of sovereign debt crises. The debt crises in emerging market countries over the ...

Sustainable development in Europe

concepts, evaluationa and applications

Evaluating sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in policy making, evaluation practice and the scientific world in general. However, at present, there is neither a generally accepted set of measures and evaluation methods, nor specific standards to be met. "Sustainable Development in Europe" addresses these ...

Generative social science

studies in agent-based computational modeling

Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In "Generative Social Science", Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interest in an artificial ...

Globalization theory

approaches and controversies

"Understanding Globalization" is the fourth volume in the highly acclaimed Global transformations series. It follows in the footsteps of "Global Transformations", the "Global Transformations Reader" and "Governing Globalization". All these volumes have been widely adopted in courses on globalization and global governance across the world ...

Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructings

This book provides modern restructuring techniques for a global business landscape. Corporate restructurings are an indispensable tool in building a new generation of re-engineered companies with the power and resources to compete on a global playing field. Written from a practical and historical perspective, "Mergers ...

Cost benefit analysis

Should Malaysia build a new steel mill, or New York City an urban motorway? Should higher education expand, or water supplies be improved? These are typical questions to which cost-benefit analysis, the key economic tool for analyzing problems of social choice can contribute to as ...

Equity hybrid derivatives

Take an in-depth look at equity hybrid derivatives. Written by the quantitative research team of Deutsche Bank, the world leader in innovative equity derivative transactions, this book presents leading-edge thinking in modeling, valuing, and hedging for this market, which is increasingly used for investment by ...

The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies

Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy ...

El acusado en el ritual judicial

ficción e imagen cultural

INDICE: Prólogo. Introducción. Arte y literatura: el proceso penal como ficción e imagen cultural. El espacio judicial y el acusado, una imagen cultural. La palabra judicial y el acusado, una ficción sagrada. El público y el acusado, un sujeto ritual y sagrado. Bibliografía.