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Euskal Memoria Fundazioa ha consagrado su más reciente trabajo monográfico al fenómeno de las pegatinas, un instrumento de comunicación protagonista por méritos propios en una de las batallas más largas, duraderas y trascendentales para nuestro pueblo. La que libramos por el derecho a la libre expresion de las ideas. Desde aquellas primeras pegatinas elaboradas a mediados de los años sesenta, hasta las mas actuales, seran registradas en un trabajo monumental que abarcara tres volumenes y alrededor de 9.000 pegatinas. El primero, correspondiente al periodo entre los años 1965 y 1979, ha dado arranque al proyecto.

Catalogación y estudio de las cloacas viarias de Caesaraugusta ordenadas por zonas (intra y extramuros), de los grandes canales relacionados con espacios o edificios concretos (el teatro, el foro, las termas) y de las pequeñas conducciones y los canales domesticos. Se abordan asimismo temas complementarios como el agua y los canales en epoca musulmana, la conservacion y exposicion de las cloacas, la justificacion de la trama teorica de la red viaria de la ciudad deducida a partir de los restos de las cloacas conocidos hasta la fecha y el estado actual de los estudios sobre las cloacas romanas de Hispania.

Volumen dedicado al Neolítico y Edad de los Metales. Trata de profundizar en los contenidos relacionados con la Península Ibérica, las Islas Baleares y Canarias adaptando a cada ámbito las características de cada una de las grandes divisiones historicas que se contemplan. Esa riqueza de matices que aparece en la Protohistoria de la Peninsula Iberica anticipa y explica la variedad cultural de las posteriores epocas historicas.

The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice is an original contribution to the general theory of strategy. While heavily indebted to Carl von Clausewitz, Sun-tzu, and the very few other classic authors, this book presents the theory, rather than merely comments on the theory as developed by others. The author explains that the purpose of strategy is to connect purposefully politics and policy with the instruments they must use. The primary focus of attention is on military strategy, but this focus is well nested in discussion of grand strategy, for which military strategy is only one strand.The book presents the general theory of strategy comprehensively and explains the utility of this general theory for the particular strategies that strategists need to develop in order to meet their historically unique challenges. The book argues that strategy's general theory provides essential education for practicing strategists at all times and in all circumstances. As general theory, The Strategy Bridge is as relevant to understanding strategic behaviour in the Peloponnesian War as it is for the conflicts of the twenty-first century.

This book contains chapters concerning cultural heritage and clays: 'Cultural heritage':a review of characte-rization, weathering and conservation studies of the stones ceramics and mortars of some the main Spanish monuments is included, concerning the Cathedrals of Almery, Avila, Cádiz, Granada... etc. 'Clays': some of the chapters deal with genesis of clay minerals in soils and sediments, eith alteration of minerals and rocks, with iron oxides in soils and with wildfire effects on soil mineralogy...

Dividida en cinco volúmenes, esta Historia de la vida privada -ampliada y actualizada- aborda más de dos mil años de historia y se extiende desde la Europa del Norte hasta el Mediterráneo. Parte del contraste que desde siempre y en todas partes ha opuesto lo privado y lo publico. La ambicion de esta obra consiste en hacer perceptibles los cambios, lentos o precipitados, que, al filo de las epocas, han afectado a la nocion y los aspectos de lo privado. Encuadernacion: Rustica.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span-Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas-and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.

Les memories de Jordi Pujol, iniciades lany 2007, han suposat un impacte important en la societat catalana. Aquest darrer volum, que estalona lestricta actualitat, neix amb el suport de CiU a un govern del PSOE assetjat per la corrupcio, continua amb el famos i mal publicitat Pacte del Majestic amb el PP que Jordi Pujol contextualitza amb revelacions impagables, i abraça tambe la seva retirada de la primera linia i laposta aleshores molt discutida per Artur Mas.

At crucial moments in modern British history, it has been the actions of pairs of politicians that have changed the course of government. In this original account, acclaimed political biographer Giles Radice shows how combinations of politicians, often with contrasting though complementary talents, have at key 'crossroad moments' worked together to shape events. Despite clashing ambitions, sometimes conflicting, and always strong egos, these leaders were able to overlook their differences in pursuit of a common cause, proving that cooperation can exist between political rivals. As Radice argues, successful pairings usually require an alliance between initiators (such as Churchill, Thatcher, Macmillan and Blair) and facilitators (Attlee, Whitelaw, Butler and Brown). Gordon Brown's eventual inability to accept the power relationship between himself and Tony Blair was the key to the ultimate failure of New Labour and was in contrast to Attlee's loyalty to Churchill or Butler's continuous support for Macmillan. Radice narrates the stories of some of the greatest political players of post-war British politics, showing how their relationships determined the great successes - and sometimes the greatest downfalls - of their careers.

On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the 'Prague Spring' reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially reluctant to use military force and tried to pressure his counterpart in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, to crack down. But during the summer of 1968, after several months of careful deliberations, the Soviet Politburo finally decide that military force was the only option left. A large invading force of Soviet, Polish, Hungarian, and Bulgarian troops received final orders to move into Czechoslovakia; within 24 hours they had established complete military control of Czechoslovakia, bringing an end to hopes for 'socialism with a human face.' Dubcek and most of the other Czechoslovak reformers were temporarily restored to power, but their role from late August 1968 through April 1969 was to reverse many of the reforms that had been adopted. In April 1969, Dubchek was forced to step down for good, bringing a final end to the Prague Spring. Soviet leaders justified the invasion of Czechoslovakia by claiming that 'the fate of any socialist country is the common affair of all socialist countries' and that the Soviet Union had both a 'right' and a 'sacred duty' to 'defend socialism' in Czechoslovakia. The invasion caused some divisions within the Communist world, but overall the use of large-scale force proved remarkably successful in achieving Soviet goals. The United States and its NATO allies protested but refrained from direct military action and covert operations to counter the Soviet-led incursion into Czechoslovakia. The essays of a dozen leading European and American Cold War historians analyze this turning point in the Cold War in light of new documentary evidence from the archives of two dozen countries and explain what happened behind the scenes. They also reassess the weak response of the United States and consider whether Washington might have given a 'green light,' if only inadvertently, to the Soviet Union prior to the invasion.