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Adam H. BeckerSince the period dealt with is a time of transition from the ancient to Medieval world, it is particularly helpful to have a book that shows how these two worlds were intimately linked from a cultural point of view prior to the political separation brought about by the Arab conquests in the seventh century."--Sebastian Brock, Oxford University

David E. SmithThe Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first book-length scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first such analysis of the upper house as one chamber of a bicameral legislature. David E. Smith's aim is to demonstrate the inter-relationship of the two chambers and the constraint this poses for Senate reform. He analyzes past literature on the Senate and current proposals for reform - such as Triple-E Senate - drawing detailed comparisons between Canada's upper chamber and the upper chambers of Australia, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. There is a revival of interest and literature abroad in upper chambers and also in bicameralism. Using Parliamentary debates and committee reports, as well as a broad reading of comparative literature, The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective sets the Canadian Senate into this international milieu, contextualizing the debate and arguing for a renewed investigation into its future.

CollinsThe largest-scale, most revealing view of New York ever published, covering all five boroughs and beyond. NEW YORK: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS combines the vertical aerial photography of Getmapping.com with American Map street mapping -- an unbeatable combination of photography and cartography. If you know New York well, you will already possess a personal stake in this book -- within its pages you will be able to find familiar landmarks, trace a route around Central Park, visit some of your favourite shops, locate the homes of friends and family. On closer inspection you will spot patterns that are invisible from the ground, discover surprising links between unconnected areas, find large areas of greenery that you never knew existed, and explore new neighbourhoods for the first time. Even if you don't know New York well, you will find this book utterly fascinating. The photographic atlas is easy to use. The photography and the cartography share the same standard grid system, meaning you can cross-reference quickly between the two elements. And the scope of the book means that no part of New York and its five boroughs -- and slightly beyond -- is left unexplored.Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx are of course included, but the atlas goes beyond to cover a substantial strip of the New Jersey coastline, and from Yonkers in the north to Long Beach in the south. Once they have it in the hand, the many lovers of New York all over the world will be incapable of putting this extraordinary and compelling book down.

El tomo tercero y último de la magistral historia escrita por James Dunn sobre los primeros ciento veinte años de la fe cristiana, titulado Ni judío ni griego. Una identidad cuestionada, abarca el periodo subsiguiente a la destruccion de Jerusalen en 70 d

The Presidentialization of Politics shows that the politics of democratic societies is moving towards a presidentialized working mode, even in the absence of formal institutional changes. These developments can be explained by a combination of long-term structural changes in modern politics and societies' contingent factors which fluctuate over time. While these contingent, short-term factors relate to the personalities of office holders, the overall political agenda, and the majority situation in parliament, there are several structural factors which are relatively uniform across modern nations. First, the internationalization of modern politics (which is particularly pronounced within the European Union) has led to an 'executive bias' of the political process which has strengthened the role of political top elites vis-a-vis their parliamentary groups and/or their parties. Their predominance has been amplified further by the vastly expanded steering capacities of state machineries which have severely reduced the scope of effective parliamentary control. At the same time, the declining stability of political alignments has increased the proportion of citizens whose voting decisions are not constrained by long-standing party loyalties. In conjunction with the mediatization of politics, this has increased the capacity of political leaders to by-pass their party machines and to appeal directly to voters. As a result, three interrelated processes have led to a political process increasingly moulded by the inherent logic of presidentialism: increasing leadership power and autonomy within the political executive; increasing leadership power and autonomy within political parties; and increasingly leadership-centred electoral processes. The book presents evidence for this process of presidentialization for 14 modern democracies (including the US and Canada). While there are substantial cross-national differences, the overall thesis holds: modern democracies are increasingly following a presidential logic of governance through which leadership is becoming more central and more powerful, but also increasingly dependent on successful immediate appeal to the mass public. Implications for democratic theory are considered.

Vale la pena seguir tartado de hacer que la Ordenación del Territorio una política y cuestión de Estado por casua del interés general? Qué aporta de más el territorio, el enfoque territorial, a las posibilidades de desarrollo y a una gestion politica mas eficaz? Como repercute en la mejore de los niveles de bienestar y progreso de la ciudadania? Esta obra ofrece respuesta mediante aportaciones reaizadas desde la academia y desde la experiencia acumulada tras años de practica profesional en el ambito de la consultoria y de la toma de decisiones por parte de sus autores

Ramón Cotarelo, Catedrático emérito de Ciencia Política en la UNED, ha sido profesor en las universidades de Oviedo y Complutense, es uno de los politólogos españoles más notables de nuestro tiempo. En su extensa obra, ha afrontado cuestiones fundamentales de la dinamica politica contemporanea. Sus libros sobre: las teorias politicas; la metodologia de la ciencia politica; los partidos politicos; el Estado de Bienestar; la politica comparada e internacional; el analisis de las instituciones y el cambio politico en España; la comunicacion politica, el poder de los medios y las repercusiones de Internet en la vida politica asi como en la democracia contemporanea; la iconografia politica y las relaciones entre arte y politica; las izquierdas y sus crisis, estan escritos con pasion y un estilo erudito, argumentalmente riguroso y elegante. Polemista temible, Cotarelo destaca como intelectual etico, comprometido, independiente y siempre atento a su tiempo, indomito individualista libertario, conserva vivo el espiritu enrage del año 1968 en el que se licencio en ciencias politicas. Este libro homenaje reune las contribuciones de relevantes politologos, historiadores, ensayistas, colegas y amigos suyos. El conjunto de aportaciones acompañan y analizan algunos hitos de su trayectoria; ademas, exponen, pasajes de su biografia intelectual, conformando un retrato de un miembro destacado de su generacion.

Explore the latest Long Term Release (LTR) of QGIS with Discover QGIS 3.x,a comprehensive up-to-date workbook built for both the classroom and professionals looking to build their skills.Designed to take advantage of the latest QGIS features, this book will guide you in improving your maps and analysis.Discover QGIS 3.x is an update of the original title, using QGIS 3.6, covering Spatial analysis, Data management, and Cartography.What's new in this edition:Fifteen new exercisesA new section, Advanced Data Visualization, covering:Blending modesLive layer effectsGeometry generatorsRendering PointsTime ManagerNative 3DMesh dataAppendices covering:Keyboard shortcutsUseful PluginsGetting involvedThe book is a complete resource and includes:Lab exercisesChallenge exercisesAll data, discussion questions, and solutions