Writing about Troilo over a century after his birth and nearly fifty years after his death implies a certainty: the artist, who performed with him, in all but a few cases, no longer exist. That vast absence compels us to seek Troilo where he never left: the music. “Troilo: Biography of Argentina” is a music book, but also a precise and rigorous painting of a mobilized, vigorous and encompassing country where culture –and tango– were in the spotlight. It might well be read as a text that uncovers the keys of growth and decline of Argentina
This volume, long out of print, is now reissued in a new edition with the approval and support of the hereditary chiefs and elders of the Mowachaht, one of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribes. Included are Mozino's catalog of flora and fauna, his dictionary of the Nootka language, and reproductions of the drawings made by Atanasio Echeverria, the artists who accompanied the expedition.
In April 2014, after years of growth in customer acquisition, at rates well above the competition, and largely as a result of this; JAZZTEL, a Spanish company whose main line of business is the rental and operation of broadband (BB) telecommunications networks, news came of a possible takeover bid by Orange (France Telecom). One of the executives of the company (Juan) considered that the business model had run its full course and that it was time to sell. In contrast, another of the executives (Julia) thought that it was possible to adapt to the new circumstances, although with lower growth after the changes in the market due to: (a) the massive introduction of the new fibre optic technology; (b) the competitors strategy of concentration; (c) the in market growth rates and also in JAZZTEL itself; and that if they had to sell, it had to be at a fair price for the shareholder. Against this back, Elena, in charge of Market Intelligence, had to make a recommendation to Julia, indicating whether the possible offer would be a wise move or not, on the basis of the economic valuation of the company's BB customers, Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) and its portfolio, "Customer Equity" (CE) and justify her decision based on expected market circumstances.
Financial Mathematics Solved Exercises is a handbook for students, faculty and professionals interested in understanding appraisal methods for the most popular banking products. The handbook addresses the main topics of Financial Mathematics studied in the graduate and postgraduate courses of Business Administration with exercises that are always solved step by step to strengthen the concepts that can be learnt. This design allows people interested in Financial Mathematics to learn specific routines by following the instructions provided for the different exercises. This handbook results the years of academic experience that the writers have in graduate and postgraduate courses of Financial Mathematics, with a major focus on understanding and applying the different methodologies. The selected exercises allow a proper and concise understanding of some of the terms and concepts commonly used in commercial banking that are applied either to retail banking or to corporate banking. Each one of the six chapters starts with a brief introduction of the banking product to appraise, continues with detailed step?by-step solutions for different types of exercises and concludes with a series of unsolved exercises for which the answers are provided.
A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided in California at the time. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. With his project, undertaken for historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California’s past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre–gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods—conflated into one “Mission era.” Instead, Vallejo’s history emphasized the role of the military in the Spanish colonization of California and argued that the missionaries after Junípero Serra, with their medieval ideas, had actually retarded the development of California until secularization in the early 1830s. Culture, he contended, was of intense interest to the Californio people, as was the education of children. His accounts of Indigenous peoples, while often sympathetic, were also characteristic of his time: he and other California military leaders, Vallejo maintained, had successfully subdued “hostile” Indians and established mutually beneficial relationships with others. Out of keeping with Bancroft’s American triumphalism, Vallejo’s monumental project was consigned to the archives. With their deft translation and commentary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz—authors of a companion volume on Vallejo’s work—have brought to light a remarkable perspective, often firsthand, on important events in early California history. Their efforts restore a critical chapter to the story of California and the American West.
This “well-researched and insightful study” reveals the secret deliberations that decided the Vatican’s stance on evolution (Catholic Historical Review). Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics—five clerics and one layman—tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species. As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo’s condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new paradigms, the Church found it prudent to avoid publicly and directly condemning Darwinism and thus treated these cases carefully. The authors reveal the ideological and operational stance of the Vatican, providing insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief.
The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa’s army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of political idealism, an authentic representation of Mexico’s peasant life, and a timeless portrait of revolution, The Underdogs is an iconic novel of the Latin American experience and a powerful novel about the disillusionment of war.
Learn about the kinds of learning tools and experiences that are most likely to foster a positive and engaged sense of purpose for diverse groups of youth. This groundbreaking research is among the first in recent years to explicitly address the supports of youth purpose and construct youth purpose interventions. Presenting the current state of the field on instructing for youth purpose, it’s a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, and policymakers who are interested in promoting positive youth development. This is the 132nd volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.
This book presents the work and thought of Bartolome de Las Casas, taking into account his hunger and thirst for justice for the peoples of the New World, discovered and dominated by the Spanish. Las Casas defends the right of Amerindian peoples to live in freedom, to resist Spanish rule, to respect and preserve their own cultures, to respect their religiosity and to preserve after conversion the elements compatible with Christianity, to reject a Christianity preached in the shadow of arms. The defence of these rights and of the unity and equality of the human family makes Bartholomew de las Casas a "forerunner" both of the Second Vatican Council and of the post-colonial and globalized world of our time. Bartolome de Las Casas has become an important figure in the history of the church and of humanity and in the history of literature and of art. Las Casas, who called himself 'a Christian, a religious, a bishop, a Spaniard' (Las Casas, In Defense, 21), - note the sequence is above all else, however, a 'prophet' in the biblical sense of the word: one called by God who persistently-conveniently as well as inconveniently-reminds his contemporaries of the demands of the word of God in the face of the injustice which causes the suffering and misery of one's neighbor. Many such witnesses have been officially recognized and canonized by the church. Others, though, have been covered with the cloak of slander to this day; they are still waiting for us to muster the courage to pull off this cloak and to incorporate their irksome witness into the prophetic tradition of the Church.
Examines the background material for the secret history of early Christianity as presented in "The Da Vinci Code," including the role of secret societies, the contents of hidden manuscripts, and the history of the Merovingian bloodline.
In April 2014, after years of growth in customer acquisition, at rates well above the competition, and largely as a result of this; JAZZTEL, a Spanish company whose main line of business is the rental and operation of broadband (BB) telecommunications networks, news came of a possible takeover bid by Orange (France Telecom). One of the executives of the company (Juan) considered that the business model had run its full course and that it was time to sell. In contrast, another of the executives (Julia) thought that it was possible to adapt to the new circumstances, although with lower growth after the changes in the market due to: (a) the massive introduction of the new fibre optic technology; (b) the competitors strategy of concentration; (c) the in market growth rates and also in JAZZTEL itself; and that if they had to sell, it had to be at a fair price for the shareholder. Against this back, Elena, in charge of Market Intelligence, had to make a recommendation to Julia, indicating whether the possible offer would be a wise move or not, on the basis of the economic valuation of the company's BB customers, Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) and its portfolio, "Customer Equity" (CE) and justify her decision based on expected market circumstances.
Financial Mathematics Solved Exercises is a handbook for students, faculty and professionals interested in understanding appraisal methods for the most popular banking products. The handbook addresses the main topics of Financial Mathematics studied in the graduate and postgraduate courses of Business Administration with exercises that are always solved step by step to strengthen the concepts that can be learnt. This design allows people interested in Financial Mathematics to learn specific routines by following the instructions provided for the different exercises. This handbook results from the years of academic experience that the writers have in graduate and postgraduate courses of Financial Mathematics, with a major focus on understanding and applying the different methodologies. The selected exercises allow a proper and concise understanding of some of the terms and concepts commonly used in commercial banking that are applied either to retail banking or to corporate banking. Each one of the six chapters starts with a brief introduction of the banking product to appraise, continues with detailed step‑by-step solutions for different types of exercises and concludes with a series of unsolved exercises for which the answers are provided.
La nouvelle édition de Prisma ("nuevo Prisma") est un cours d'espagnol divisé en six niveaux selon une approche communicative de la langue, orientée vers l'action et centré sur l'élève, afin de promouvoir l'apprentissage de l ́espagnol pour la communication, à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la classe. Ce cours est une évolution du manuel Prisma, avec la mise à jour des activités, des textes et des thèmes, et une conception renouvelée des graphiques. Il intègre également de nouveaux outils multimédias et interactifs qui offrent un bonus à l'enseignement / apprentissage de l'espagnol à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la classe.
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