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This award-winning reporter shows how the threat from Islamic terrorism comes not from a single criminal mastermind, or even from one group. Using hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Burke shows how "Al-Qaeda" is a convenient label applied misleadingly to a diverse, disorganized global movement dedicated to fighting a "cosmic battle" with the West. This book retells their story from scratch and challenges many myths that threaten the foundations of the "War on Terror."

This book talks about the approaches that different countries and systems have addressed when trying to improve the quality of teaching and research services in the university level. It gives a recount on the context and the precedents that this topic has nowadays, in relation to university quality and how this is qualified globally. The authors emphasize on the importance of the new rules of management, in where the common denominator is the notion of accountability and also another point worth mentioning is the way they classify university institutions in four types: the Missionaries (they...

Después de la segunda guerra mundial, la herencia de la modernidad hizo crisis y dejó a su paso a una posmodernidad cuyos contenidos se desconocen. El resultado es el reino de la incertidumbre y del escepticismo que es evidente, tanto en la ciencia como en la filosofía, la historia, la política y las artes.

Este volumen recoge el esfuerzo de dos historiadores franceses por analizar el peso de la tradición religiosa en la cultura política decimónica de nuestro país. En esta perspectiva se enfoca tres momentos de un mismo fenómeno denominado "revolución conservadora de fundamento religioso": la insurrección de Quito (1809-1812); la derrota de un dirigente progresista, Vicente Rocafuerte (1835-1843); y la dictadura católica de García Moreno (1859- 1875). "¿Por qué los primeros movimientos independentistas se tradujeron en una guerra religiosa dirigida por el obispo que pensaba edificar...