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The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought

This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of western political thought during the European enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established ...

The palaeography of gothic manuscript books

from the twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century

This book is the first to present a detailed survey of all book scripts in use in western and central Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1530 (with the exception of Humanistic script). This period has been poorly served in almost all other palaeographical handbooks ...

The Cambridge companion to Heidegger

Martin Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. He transformed mainstream philosophy by defining its central task as asking the 'question of being'. His thought has contributed to the recent turn to hermeneutics and to current postmodernism ...

How to write and publish a scientific paper

This practical guide is designed to help scientific researchers write and publish their work in a scientific journal. It provides information on how to prepare each section of a scientific paper, covering the abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements and references. Retaining the core material ...

Culture, crisis and America's war on terror

Since the infamous events of 9/11, the fear of terrorism and the determination to strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. The 'war on terror' discourse has developed not only through American politics but via other channels including the ...

A social history of England, 1200-1500

What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores the central themes of ...

The Cambridge history of medicine

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology ...

From Gutenberg to Google

electronic representations of literary texts

As technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticated engines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes are underway in the way we write, transmit and read texts. In this thought-provoking work, Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials and pitfalls, the enhancements and distortions ...

Nietzsche's philosophy of religion

In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly ...

The endurance of nationalism

ancient roots and modern dilemmas

Aviel Roshwald directly challenges prevalent scholarly orthodoxies about the exclusively modern character of nationalism. He argues that nationalism's enduring power to shape the world we live in arises directly out of its position at the heart of inescapable social and political paradoxes that are ...

Brazil since 1980

This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary ...

El silencio

INDICE: Introducción. I. Los silencios de la conversación. II. Políticas del silencio. III. Las disciplinas del silencio. IV. Manifestaciones del silencio. V. La espiritualidad del silencio. VI. El silencio y la muerte. Notas. Bibliografía.

Modernidad y holocausto

El Holocausto se ha convertido para los occidentales en un símbolo del mal, en un icono cultural que representa la barbarie incomprensible, la cara negra del siglo XX. Se ha convertido también en un símbolo sagrado para los judíos que, en cierta forma, lo han ...

Valoración de operaciones financieras

El doble objetivo de este libro es por un lado, definir de una forma clara y concisa los conceptos y herramientas más importantes en los que se sustenta la matemática financiera y, por otro lado, abordar la valoración de las operaciones financieras que con más ...

Information and communication technologies for development and poverty reduction

the potential of telecommunications

The IT revolution made some glorious promises to the world's poor: instant access to information and far-flung markets, political empowerment, greater growth, even the possibility that countries could leapfrog entire stages of development. But when none of that happened in a hurry, the hoopla ...

Pronósticos en los negocios

INDICE: Capítulo 1. Introducción a los pronósticos. Capítulo 2. Revisión de conceptos estadísticos básicos. Capítulo 3. Exploración de los patrones de datos y selección de la técnica de pronóstico. Capítulo 4. Promedios móviles y métodos de suavizamiento. Capítulo 5. Series de tiempo y sus componentes ...

Retribución y los resultados de la organización

investigación y práctica empresarial

Este libro resulta útil no sólo porque va a permitir conocer el estado de la cuestión a las retribuciones y su efecto en la eficiencia organizacional sino, y lo que es aún más importante, porque va a servir de base para establecer una serie de ...

La exigencia de justicia

Gustavo Zagrebelsky y Carlo Maria Martini abordan en este libro un tema que viene siendo objeto de reflexión desde hace siglos: la justicia, sus formas de expresión y su significado tanto para la cultura laica como para la religiosa. La perspectiva que ofrecen es novedosa ...

La autoridad de los derechos

los derechos entre instituciones y normas

Contemplados desde la perspectiva de la tradición del constitucionalismo liberal, los derechos han aparecido como defensa del individuo contra los abusos del poder. Hoy en día, una vez inaugurado «el tiempo de los derechos», éstos se convierten realmente en fundamentales sólo en la medida en ...

Mártires y anticristos

análisis bibliográfico sobre la Revolución francesa en España

A partir de una exhaustiva investigación, Yvonne Fuentes ofrece un análisis evaluativo sobre la producción bibliográfica en torno a la Revolución francesa en España a lo largo de tres grandes períodos que coinciden con los años 1789-1799, 1808-1814 y 1823-1833. A través de la información ...