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En 1968, por expreso deseo de Franco y durante la presidencia del almirante Carrero Blanco, se creó el primer órgano de información que se encargaría de seguir la incipiente subversión en el ámbito universitario. La necesidad de cubrir además otros sectores conflictivos (el laboral, el religioso, el intelectual o el nacionalista) dio lugar a la creación de la Organización Contrasubversiva Nacional (OCN), que pasó a depender directamente del ministro de la Gobernación. Sin embargo, las discrepancias entre los diversos organismos estatales involucrados en la toma de decisiones aconsejaron pronto la creación de un nuevo instrumento que coordinase, desde la Presidencia del Gobierno, todas las actividades relacionadas con la lucha antisubversiva. Así, en 1972 se constituyó el Servicio Central de Documentación (SECED) como herramienta fundamental de información del Estado. Su estructura cubrió todo el territorio nacional y mejoró exponencialmente la capacidad de elaboración de inteligencia ...

The translation and grammatical notes to be used with Minna no Nihongo Chukyu. The books are divided into two parts: Part 1 provides a translation of all new vocabulary, conversational expressions and proper nouns found in the main text, and Part 2 provides an explanation of the grammatical items found in the Speak and Listen (dialogues) and Read and Write (reading material) sections of the main texts. Product details Format Paperback Dimensions 184 x 253 x 8mm | 326g ...

Little Anton is a gripping historical novel series that discloses covert technological inventions and the prominent leaders who exploited them during the turbulent years leading up to WWII and the Battle of Norway in 1940. Part love story and part dark satire, the book masterfully interweaves a fictional adventure within factual reportage, revealing in greater detail why Adolf Hitler tasked his personal hero Professor Ferdinand Porsche and his brilliant engineering mind to build the world's fastest, almost invincible race cars and potent military machines. The book tracks the life of Dr. Ferdinand Porsche while Hitler rises to power. Porsche and his family are pacifists, but like many industrialist families, they get caught up in Germany's "economic miracle" during the Great Depression and its aftermath. With Hitler's patronage, Porsche becomes Germany's heralded "Reich Designer," creating the Volkswagen Beetle and Auto Union's futuristic Gra...

During the 17th century, Europe experienced only four years of general peace: 1610 and 1680-82. This scenario of almost continuous strife provided the terrain for the rise of the standing professional armies. The states were eager to avoid a repetition of the chaos and destruction that had plagued Europe during the Thirty Years' War, and therefore invested in these larger, more powerful armies to reduce the risks and costs of war. Some historians considered this act to be one of the most important institutional developments of the early modern world. The permanent armies became an organic feature of the Old Regime, a symbol of its power and strength, the means by which the prince could defend his interest and play an active role in the International policy. In the opinion of many contemporaries, it offered an opportunity to exploit strategic knowledge, to examine the effectiveness of military tactics and become aware of the increasing importance of the overall organization of the a...

STOP PRESS NEWS! NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER, AND OPTIONED FOR FILM WITH JULIA ROBERTS TO STAR IN AND PRODUCE If your husband was murdered And you were a witness How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam? You thought you trusted him. Now you can't even trust yourself. Dark secrets and a terrifying hunt for the truth lie at the heart of this gripping new thriller by the 'master of the double twist', Harlan Coben. Product details Format Paperback | 416 pages Dimensions 110 x 178 x 26mm ...

El doctor Mark Hyman analiza cuidadosamente cada grupo alimenticio, nos explica en qué nos hemos equivocado. ¿Sabías que comer avena en el desayuno no es tan saludable como creías? ¿Qué la leche no ayuda a construir huesos fuertes y que los huevos no son tu enemigo? Incluso quienes estamos más preocupados por nuestra salud tenemos dificultades para decidir qué comer si deseamos perder peso, mantenernos en forma y mejorar nuestra salud. ¿Y quién puede culparnos? Cuando se trata de dietas la información cambia constantemente y es tan contradictoria que es imposible saber dónde buscar consejo. Y décadas de "sentido común" errado, información manipulada por la industria de la comida y políticas alimentarias erradas sólo han agravado nuestra confusión y ansiedad cuando nos enfrentamos a las opciones en el supermercado. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to give us the skinny on what to eat. Did you...

Im Inneren des Kontinents gab es ein "Magisches Tal", Shambal Jah, wo auf hohen Obsidiansäulen die 33 Städte des Wissens ruhten - mit dem Meisterkristall dieser Kultur, Akasha, als Zentrum. In ihm ist alles Wissen der Vergangenheit wie der Zukunft gespeichert. Davon, wie der Schüler der Weisheit in diese berühmten Kristallstädte gelangen konnte, erzählt dieses Buch. Product details Format Paperback | 259 pages Dimensions 172 x 241 x 17mm | 524g ...

A perfect guide to speed up the predicting power of machine learning algorithms Key Features Design, discover, and create dynamic, efficient features for your machine learning application Understand your data in-depth and derive astonishing data insights with the help of this Guide Grasp powerful feature-engineering techniques and build machine learning systems Book DescriptionFeature engineering is the most important step in creating powerful machine learning systems. This book will take you through the entire feature-engineering journey to make your machine learning much more systematic and effective. You will start with understanding your data-often the success of your ML models depends on how you leverage different feature types, such as continuous, categorical, and more, You will learn when to include a feature, when to omit it, and why, all by understanding error analysis and the acceptability of your models. You will learn to convert a problem statement into useful new feature...

A Reverse Harem Vampire RomanceHow many Blood will come to the vampire queen's call... and will they be able to protect her from the king?For the first time in her adult life, Shara has plenty of money thanks to the Isador legacy--and she's not alone. Daire and Rik are devoted lovers, but they know other Blood are coming. Blood who may challenge Rik for the coveted alpha spot at her back.As her power grows, so does her hunger. But without fangs, she fears she'll never be the queen her Blood expect. More Blood means power struggles and complications, and she has no idea how to keep everyone happy. Worse, her dreams are quickly becoming something to fear.Moving to establish her permanent nest, she can't stop dreaming of the king. A massive monster. Chained in darkness. Lost to madness. He roars with fury in her dreams, demanding his release. But is he the key to unraveling her own mysterious past--or the most dangerous threat of all? ...

Postfix is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA): software that mail servers use to route email. Postfix is highly respected by experts for its secure design and tremendous reliability. And new users like it because it's so simple to configure. In fact, Postfix has been adopted as the default MTA on Mac OS X. It is also compatible with sendmail, so that existing scripts and programs continue to work seamlessly after it is installed. Postfix was written by well-known security expert Wietse Venema, who reviewed this book intensively during its entire development. Author Kyle Dent covers a wide range of Postfix tasks, from virtual hosting to controls for unsolicited commercial email. While basic configuration of Postfix is easy, every site has unique needs that call for a certain amount of study. This book, with careful background explanations and generous examples, eases readers from the basic configuration to the full power of Postfix. It discusses the Postfix interfaces to various tools that...

PRACTICAL TACTICS AND REAL STORIES TO HELP YOU MAKE BREAKTHROUGHS IN YOUR CAREER You don't need a fancy ivy-league degree, to be born into wealth, or have great connections to achieve MASSIVE SUCCESS Not everyone is like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. However, that doesn't mean massive success isn't right around the corner. Often times, our perceived weaknesses are our greatest strengths. FLIP YOUR WEAKNESSES INTO STRENGTHS. Our Most valuable resource is time. It is the only resource that is not replenishable. In the name of networking, we waste precious time spending it on networks that hold us back. Stay away from the Frenemy Zone and learn to build a vertical network. LEARN THE TRICKS OF TRADING SOCIAL VALUE TO BUILD POWERFUL CONNECTIONS IN ANY INDUSTRY From building his last startup to a $15M valuation to selling beepers in Compton and making nearly $10K/month after immigrating to the US with broken English, Kevin Hong has learned the power of selling vision. Sell vision to...

Do you eat when you're not hungry? Or when you're angry and upset? Do you eat to control your feelings? Allen Carr's Easyway is the most successful self-help stop-smoking method of all time. It has helped millions of smokers all over the world to quit, and has since been used to treat other addictions such as drinking and gambling. Allen Carr's Easyway method works by unravelling the brainwashing that leads us to desire the very thing that is harming us, meaning that we are freed from the addiction rather than merely restricting our behaviour. The Easyway method has now been applied to the problem of emotional eating. With Allen Carr's Easyway method, you can eat as much of your favourite foods as you want, whenever you want, as often as you want, and be the exact weight you want to be, without dieting, special exercise, using willpower or feeling deprived. Do you find that difficult to believe? Read this book. What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway met...

This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed. For courses in general microbiology. Authoritative. Accurate. Accessible Brock Biology of Microorganisms sets the standard for accuracy, impeccable scholarship, a visually stunning art program, and the use of cutting edge research to illustrate basic concepts. The text guides students through the six major themes of microbiology - Evolution, Cell Structure and Function, Metabolic Pathways, Information Flow and Genetics, Microbial Systems, and the Impact of Microorganisms - as outlined by the American Society for Microbiology Conference on Undergraduate Education (ASMCUE). This robust and modern approach takes students through the genomics revolution and "omics" maze that has transformed microbiology and shares powerful tools that microbiologists use to probe deeper and ...

Der allererste Fall für Guido Guerrieri! Guerrieri verteidigt einen Senegalesen, der des Kindesmords beschuldigt wird. Ein vielschichtiger und sehr spannender Justizthriller. Product details Format Paperback | 316 pages Dimensions 118 x 165 x 20mm | 254g Publication date 13 Feb 2004 ...

Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal innovations brought her fame and a remarkable career than spanned half a century and won her generations of fans around the world. Acclaimed author Andrea Davis Pinkney has told Ella's inspiring story in the voice of Scat Cat Monroe, a feline fan whose imagined narrative sings with the infectious rhythms of scat. Two-time Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pinkney's dramatic perspectives and fantastical images offer a jazzy improvisation all their own. Product details For ages 12-17 Format Paperback | 32 pages ...

Balthus: The Last Studies is an undisclosed corpus of nearly 2,000 photographs produced during the last ten years of the painter's life. They are the preliminary studies for his last three major paintings. His hands incapacitated by old age, Balthus resorted to the camera as a sort of prosthesis, at once eye, hand and pencil, thus reassuming the mysterious ritual of sketching, for him the one and only way to approach and define the mental image from which the painting's composition would proceed. As a substitute for drawing, these never before seen photographs fully participate in the slow, painstaking practice which had been Balthus' for nearly a century. As such, they give a major insight into the painter's endless quest of beauty. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Product details Format Hardb...

In recent years, debates have arisen concerning the encroachment of the criminal process in regulating fatal medical error, the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the recent release of the Director of Public Prosecution's assisted suicide policy. Consequently, questions have been raised regarding the extent to which such intervention helps, or if it in fact hinders, the sustained development of medical practice. In this collection, Danielle Griffiths and Andrew Sanders explore the operation of the criminal process in healthcare in the UK as well as in other jurisdictions, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, France and the Netherlands. Using evidence from previous cases alongside empirical data, each essay engages the reader with the debate surrounding what the appropriate role of the criminal process in healthcare should be and aims to clarify and shape policy and legislation in this under-researched area. ...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. A MAN LAY DEAD Sir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis - so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to figure out the whodunit... ENTER A MURDERER The crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using bribery instead of talent; and the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases... THE NURSING HOME MURDER A Harley Street surgeon and his attractive nurse are almost too nervous to operate. Their patie...

A Composite of Over 100 of the World's Top Golfers In a labor of love, novice golfers and professionals alike take to the practice tee to pursue the most coveted element of the game: the perfect swing. But even with a wealth of pros to model your swing after, the secret of the swing remains elusive. Should you grasp the club with a neutral grip like Jack Nicklaus, or use a traditional Vardon grip like Nick Faldo? If only someone would compile the best elements of the pros' swings to show you how to master the techniques for yourself. Dr. Ralph Mann and Fred Griffin did, and now they're sharing the secrets in this groundbreaking book. Joined by premier golf instructor Fred Griffin, Dr. Ralph Mann captures the essence of the skills of golf's greatest champions in Swing Like a Pro. For seventeen years, CompuSport International's biomechanics expert Dr. Ralph Mann devoted himself to studying the swings of more than 100 PGA and LPGA Tour players to uncover the keys t...

Este libro traza el comportamiento de la fuerza de trabajo colectiva al hilo de la experiencia de los diversos movimientos obreros que durante el largo siglo XX han protagonizado en todo el mundo las luchas obreras de nuestro más estricto presente. El análisis de los conflictos laborales se efectúa utilizando un escenario temporal de larga duración y una perspectiva espacial global para demostrar cómo los distintos movimientos obreros han estado relacionados con las dinámicas del capitalismo histórico, la política mundial y los procesos de constitución social desde finales del siglo XIX hasta nuestros días. A lo largo de sus páginas, se pone de manifiesto que allí donde se ha desplazado el capital en busca de superbeneficios y de la explotación de fuerza de trabajo peor retribuida, se ha encontrado indefectiblemente con la lucha encarnizada de los trabajadores. Los lugares de la protesta han cambiado y las composiciones de clase de la fuerza de trabajo también, pero únicamente para dar...

Focusing on the consequences of Brexit for aviation law, this book presents the key legal issues for aviation business and administration, as well as all major stakeholders that could potentially be affected by Brexit. This will include airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers, regulatory and judicial institutions, passengers and employees. The book will indicate groups of legal acts disturbed by Brexit and those few that will remain untouched, and develop on this basis a digest of regulatory and institutional problems that will arise in various areas of the discussed sector. Finally, the short title will deliberate on the directions of possible actions which may be undertaken to avoid post-Brexit legal incoherence. This review should give essential guidance to the industry and the authorities on both sides of the English Channel as to what to expect and how to prepare for the forthcoming legal earthquake. Product details ...

About the Contributor(s): Dean MacNeil holds an MA in theology from Loyola Marymount University and a BA in English Literature from the University of Michigan. His interests lie in the intersection of music and theology. MacNeil has worked in the music industry for two decades and is a lifelong musician. He lives in Los Angeles, where he has served in young adult and music ministries. Product details Format Paperback | 188 pages Dimensions 152 x 229 x 11mm | 28...

Si quieres dejar de lado la ansiedad y abrazar una relación amorosa, aunque nunca hayas podido hacerlo antes, entonces sigue leyendo... ¿Me quiere de verdad o sólo está fingiendo? ¿Y si hago algo malo? ¿Y si nunca encuentro a la persona adecuada para mí? Los pensamientos ansiosos y la preocupación constante plagan las relaciones y amenazan con separar a dos personas antes de que puedan experimentar la maravilla del amor. Ya sea que hayas vivido con ansiedad toda tu vida o que los eventos recientes hayan despertado inseguridades subyacentes, no tienes que aceptar que el resto de tu vida será así. Puedes recuperar el control y sacar la ansiedad. Si estás cansado de vivir en un estado constante de pánico, cansado de analizar todo lo que hace tu pareja para determinar si se va a ir, y abrumado con la carga de llevar el valor de las preocupaciones de una relación sobre tus hombros, es hora de dejar de lado tu miedo. Te mereces una relación amorosa y satisfactoria en la que la ansiedad no ju...