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El aeropuerto de Girona-Costa Brava es un claro exponente de cómo el turismo influye en el desarrollo del transporte y sus infraestructuras. Efectivamente, fueron aquellos primeros turistas que conocieron estas tierras catalanas, tras aterrizar en los aeropuertos vecinos de Barcelona y Perpignan, quienes propiciaron la creacion y posterior desarrollo de este aeropuerto, como entrada abierta a las turisticas localidades de la Costa Brava.Con habilidad y teson, las autoridades municipales y provinciales, asi como las entidades sociales y economicas de la region apoyaron su construccion. En 1967 este proyecto se hizo realidad, lo que supuso un gran apoyo e impulso para el desarrollo turistico y en general para toda la economia regional.Con la liberalizacion del transporte aereo, impulsada por la Union Europea, el Aeropuerto de Girona ha visto resurgir su potencial, superando las previsiones mas optimistas. No cabe duda que la contribucion de sus trabajadores y las inversiones llevadas a cabo por Aena han permitido hacer frente a este crecimiento y conservar unas importantes expectativas de desarrollo futuro. Por ello la publicacion de este libro resulta una oportunidad para dar a conocer toda una historia de superacion, esfuerzo y colaboracion entre instituciones y trabajadores que han permitido que hoy se dibuje un devenir prometedor y repleto de esperanzas para esta infraestructura gerundense.Indice de la publicacion:1. Ales sobre GironaLes festes daviacioPrimer Raid aeri catalaLes primeres opotunitats per al transport aeriLactivitat aeronautica en els anys trentaLorganitzacio del transporte aeriLorganitzacio aeronautica catalanaAus migratoriesLautogir De La CiervaLescala dAir France a RosesLaviacio esportiva i altres intents de linies aeriesEls camps de vol durant la Guerra Civil2. De lautarquia al desarrollismeIberia, Linies aeries dEspanyaEl Ministeri de lAireUn nou impuls al transit aeriLa decada dels cinquantaEl naixement dels vols CharterLorigen del turismo a la Costa BravaEl naixement de lAeroportEl Pla dAeroports i Rutes AeriesLa construccio de lAeroportLa inauguracio de lAeroportEls primers passosArt a la TerminalÈpoca de dificultats i desnvolupament3. Nous horitzonsUn Aeroclub a GironaLAeroport el 1976Anys dificilsLa nova organitzacio del transport aeri esuropeuBuscant nous horitzonsCosmo86Aena, Aeroports Espayols i Navegacio AeriaEls ultims passos de lAeroclubEls aerodroms propersEl reneixer del transport aeriLa remodelacio de la terminal de passatgersComença lenlairamentMirant al futurAnnex: Bibliografia

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history.Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders'' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books).Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de'' Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham aims at integrating documentary and archaeological evidence together, and also, above all, at creating a comparative history of the period 400-800, by means of systematic comparative analyses of each of the regions of the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt (only the Slav areas are left out). The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These are only a partial picture of the period, but they are intended as a framing for other developments, without which those other developments cannot be properly understood. Wickham argues that only a complex comparative analysis can act as the basis for a wider synthesis. Whilst earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as ''typical'', with divergent developments presented as exceptions, this book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it. This is the most ambitious and original survey of the period ever written. a tremendous achievement, demonstrating mastery over half a dozen fields of scholarship. David Abulafia, THES ''This is a book and a subject with a pedigree that demands the closest attention.... a tour de force.... Wickham''snds Framing the Early Middle Ages may be the last great historical work of the last century.''--The New Republic ''History doesn''t get any better.... More than almost any history I''ve read, Wickham''s manages to be at once grand and rigorous. In its adroit and confident treatment of an array of subjects

This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4 0 International licence It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations Following the centenary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics this volume features contributions from leading science historians from around the world on the changing roles of the institution in international affairs from its foundation in 1922 to the present The case studies presented in this volume show the multitude of functions that IUPAP had and how these were related to the changing international political contexts The book is divided into three parts The first discusses the interwar period demonstrating how the exclusion of communities of the Central Powers from international scientific institutions imposed by victorious allied countries made IUPAP ineffective until the end of World War II The second part analyzes the changing roles assumed by IUPAP starting from its complete renovation after World War II Case studies covering the role of IUPAP in physics education in metrology in joint commissions with other unions and in defining the complex relations between pure and applied physics provide examples of IUPAP s