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Sri Lanka in the modern age

a history of contested identities

INDEX: Pre-independence years : changing lives. Colonial encounters.Colonialism and constructed identities.National framings : authentic bodies and things.Before independence : communities and conflicts.The post-independence years : political cultures.Citizens, communities, rights, constitutions, 1947-2000.The search for equality : the left movement and insurrections.The search for sovereignty ...

Globalización

nuevo desafío para la economía giennense

En la actualidad no sólo los especialistas sino el conjunto de la ciudadanía y de la opinión pública son perfectamente conscientes de la importancia de la dimensión internacional de la actividad económica de un territorio. Este trabajo pretende concretar cómo la provincia de Jaén está ...

La calidad del gobierno

evaluación económica de las políticas públicas

Sin información perfecta, los ciudadanos y los responsables públicos toman decisiones periódicamente cuya ejecución demanda recursos económicos. La acción electoral y las decisiones de gobierno pueden ser más eficientes cuando sus protagonistas disponen de más y mejor información. Las consecuencias de estas decisiones, las alternativas ...

Electricity markets

pricing, structures and economics

The relationship between policy objectives, free markets, and the technicalities of electricity production, network flow, supply and consumption, is not a simple one. In this context the book relates electricity market structures, economics for electricity, and derivative pricing of electricity. It is intended as a ...

Nationalism and globalism

debating future projections

A fresh examination of the evolving relationship between nationalism and globalization. This new study tackles the key questions this complex relationship is generating: Are we entering a new phase in the relationship between internationality and nationalism, or is nationalism being rendered irredeemably contradictory, and anachronistic ...

Dirección estratégica

Se trata de un libro de Dirección Estratégica centrado en el marco de análisis de la estrategia. Después de analizar el entorno, los recursos y capacidades nos enseña a escoger la estrategia más adecuada y su posterior implantación. En este texto se incorpora un caso ...

Tristezas

Hunting causes and using them

approaches in philosophy and economics

Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this ...

The judaean poor and the Fourth Gospel

Judaean society in the first century did not conform to the stereotypical 'Mediterranean honour culture', in that it lacked a significant gentile population and was dominated by a powerful religious elite. Timothy Ling argues that this demands a new social-scientific approach to the Gospel and ...

An introduction to political philosophy

Providing a comprehensive introduction to political philosophy, this book combines discussion of historical and contemporary figures, together with numerous real-life examples. It ranges over an unusually broad range of topics in the field, including the just distribution of wealth, both within countries and globally; the ...

Families across cultures

a 30-nation psychological study

Contemporary trends such as increased one- parent families, high divorce rates, second marriages and homosexual partnerships have all contributed to variations in the traditional family structure. But to what degree has the function of the family changed and how have these changes affected family roles ...

The Cambridge Handbook of acculturation psychology

In recent years the topic of acculturation has evolved from a relatively minor research area to one of the most researched subjects in the field of cross-cultural psychology. This edited handbook compiles and systemizes the current state of the art by exploring the broad international ...

The risk society at war

terror, technology and strategy in the Twenty-first Century

In the globalised world of the twenty-first century, security policy in Western societies is driven by a wish to prevent future threats from becoming reality. Applying theories of 'risk society' to the study of strategy, this book analyses the creation of a new approach to ...

The nuclear taboo

the United States and the non-use of nuclear weapons since 1945

Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' as incomplete. She argues in favour of a 'nuclear taboo' - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing ...

The Cambridge history of Russian.Vol.3: Twentieth Century

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but ...

Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium

1204-1330

This is the first systematic study of Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-1261) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi. The book explores Byzantine political ...

Byzantine style, religion and civilization

in honour of Sir Steven Runciman

Sir Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades (1951-4) remains widely read and influential to this day but represents only a part of his wide-ranging, erudite and immensely readable literary activity. His early work focused on Byzantium in the tenth century (The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus ...

The Cambridge history of Russian.Vol.2: Imperial Russia, 1689-191

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the ...

The Cambridge history of Russian.Vol.1: From Early Rus' to 1689

This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in ...

The forging of races

race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000

This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and prejudices. Fixing his ...