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Force and statecraft

diplomatic problems of our time

This book is for upper division courses in Diplomatic History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, or history of foreign relations, and has sold extremely well through three editions. For the fourth edition, the original co-authors, Craig and George, were joined by Paul Lauren from the University of ...

Essays in the philosophy of religion

This volume presents a selection of essays by the late Philip Quinn, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion. Quinn left behind an influential body of work on a wide variety of topics. He was the author of "Divine Commands and Moral Requirements ...

Enlightenment contested

philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation of man 1670-1752

Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling "Radical Enlightenment", and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer ...

The Bible in History

how the texts have shaped the times

No one can doubt that the Bible has exerted a tremendous influence on Western civilization since the dawn of Christianity. But few of us have considered the precise nature of that influence in particular historical contexts. In this book, David Kling traces the fascinating story ...

Nuestros paradores

Este volumen propone al lector un viaje por la geografía artística y humana de los paradores de turismo de España, contemplando la belleza de los edificios, conociendo a los personajes históricos que los habitaron, desgustando la gastronomía típica de cada lugar y disfrutando de los ...

Fathers' rights activism and law reform in comparative perspective

Bring together leading international commentators, this book provides a critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women ...

Lecciones sobre Platón

La lectura que Hegel practica sobre Platón es una lectura paradigmática que le permite postular al gran pensador alemán una historia de la filosofía genuinamente filosófica; es decir, no apelando a la cita de sucesiones de ideas carentes de espesor.

El gran capitán

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, el Gran Capitán (1453-1515), es uno de los grandes mitos de la historia de España, y sin duda uno de los más enigmáticos. Juan Granados se centra sobre todo en sus campañas militares en Italia (asedio en Barletta, batallas de Ceriñola ...

Controlling currency mismatching in emerging economies

This book addresses a vulnerability that has been present in virtually every major financial crisis in emerging markets over the past decade: currency mismatches. By "currency mismatch," the authors mean the sensitivity of an entity's net worth or net income to changes in the ...

Juvenile Law violators, Human Rights, and the development of new juvenile justice systems

This volume brings together scholars and practitioners specialising in juvenile justice from the US and Europe alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human rights issues in developing countries or countries in transition. The book presents two types of papers: descriptive and ...

Gloria de los Siglos de Oro

mecenas, artistas y maravillas en la España Imperial

La gloria de los Siglos de Oro descubre, histórica, literaria y visualmente una época en la que nacieron, crecieron y vivieron genios como Cervantes o Velázquez, y la que se levantó la "octava maravilla" del mundo: el Monasterio de El Escorial. Esta obra recoge la ...

Diseño y organización de puestos en nuevos entornos de trabajo

Este texto analiza en profundidad el diseño de puestos de trabajo así como la problemática en torno a la asignación de puestos a trabajadores en las organizaciones actuales. Igualmente se adentra en el estudio de la influencia de las nuevas tecnologías en los puestos de ...

Monetary theory and Bretton Woods

the construction of an international monetary order

Over the twentieth century monetary theory played a crucial role in the evolution of the international monetary system. The severe shocks and monetary gyrations of the interwar years interacted with theoretical developments that superseded the rigid rules of commodity standards and led to the full-fledged ...

Natural gas and geopolitics

from 1970 to 2040

By most estimates, global consumption of natural gas - a cleaner-burning alternative to coal and oil - will double by 2030. However, in North America, Europe, China, and South and East Asia, which are the areas of highest-expected demand, the projected consumption of gas is expected to ...

Memoria de la guerra y del franquismo

A pesar de toda la confusión levantada durante los últimos años en torno a la amnesia colectiva y el olvido de la Guerra Civil y del franquismo de los que habría estado enferma nuestra sociedad, lo cierto es que su presencia no ha dejado de ...

Los Derechos de la infancia y de la adolescencia

congresos mundiales y temas de actualidad

La Convención de los Derechos del Niño, adoptada por las Naciones Unidas el 20 de noviembre de 1989, fue ratificada por el Estado Español en el año 1990. La importancia de esta norma internacional en el ámbito de los Derechos de la infancia y de ...

Pablo

el judío de Tarso

Pablo, el judío de Tarso, es una biografía muy completa. Vidal descubre a un Pablo #transmisor del mismo mensaje de Jesús y del resto de los apóstoles, pero con una especial capacidad#, a la vez que una persona #tremendamente sensible, preocupada por los demás, incluso ...

Precautionary politics

principle and practice in confronting environmental risk

This work is a study of the precautionary principle - its meaning, its rationale, its policy implications, and the controversies provoked by its use in environmental regulation. The precautionary principle - which holds that action to address threats of serious or irreversible environmental harm should be taken ...

Web campaigning

This work talks about the evolution of electoral politics on the Web, based on extensive analysis of hundreds of campaign sites produced by candidates in U.S. elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004; a practice-based theory approach to understanding the relationship between the Web and ...

The political future of social security in aging societies

A quantitative analysis of the political sustainability of social security reform in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US, with the suggestion that population aging will lead to more pension spending and that raising the retirement age is the most politically viable reform ...