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Me enamoré del fútbol tal como más adelante me iba a enamorar de las mujeres: de repente. sin explicación. sin hacer ejercicio de mis facultades críticas. sin ponerme a pensar en el dolor y en los sobresaltos que la experiencia traería consigo . confiesa Nick Hornby. quien reconoce abiertamente que para él este deporte no es ni una vía de escape ni un entretenimiento. sino toda una forma de ver y estar en el mundo.Fiebre en las gradas es el relato autobiográfico de la tumultuosa relación del autor con el fútbol y con su equipo. el Arsenal londinense. durante más de veinte temporadas. Con un entusiasmo contagioso y su característica ironía. Hornby nos cuenta lo que ocurre cuando uno deja que el fútbol llene unos cuantos huecos que deberían haber estado ocupados por otras cuestiones.Esclavo del calendario de competiciones y del devenir de su equipo. este adicto al fútbol rechaza invitaciones a bodas porque ese día el Arsenal juega en casa. o asocia su primera gran ruptura amorosa a la pérdida de un jugador emblemático.Así. este deporte y su equipo serán aquello que marque la iniciación a la vida y luego la continuamente postergada entrada a la adultez del autor. alguien cuya unidad de medida vital son los partidos de su equipo y para quien todo acontecimiento significativo en su vida tiene un matiz futbolístico (con la consiguiente incomprensión de aquellos que le rodean).Hornby se interroga aquí sobre la esencia de esta obsesión y describe con humor y gran perspicacia en qué consiste verdaderamente ser hincha de un equipo. sin caer en tópicos reduccionistas. por lo general poco rigurosos y negativos. al mismo tiempo que realiza una suerte de crónica sentimental de veinte años de la historia de su equipo.Además de la honesta y divertida confesión de un obsesivo aficionado al fútbol.

EAN: 9788480130875 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Deportes y aire libre Culturismo y musculación Título: Orientacion en Centros Educativos y Deportivos Autor: Angel Martinez Editorial: Grada Gymnos (10 mayo 2004) Idioma: ES Páginas: 160 Año de publicación: 2004

New perspectives on the history of famine―and the possibility of a famine-free worldFamines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.The book begins with a taboo topic. Ó Gráda argues that cannibalism, while by no means a universal feature of famines and never responsible for more than a tiny proportion of famine deaths, has probably been more common during very severe famines than previously thought. The book goes on to offer new interpretations of two of the twentieth century’s most notorious and controversial famines, the Great Bengal Famine and the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine. Ó Gráda questions the standard view of the Bengal Famine as a perfect example of market failure, arguing instead that the primary cause was the unwillingness of colonial rulers to divert food from their war effort. The book also addresses the role played by traders and speculators during famines more generally, invoking evidence from famines in France, Ireland, Finland, Malawi, Niger, and Somalia since the 1600s, and overturning Adam Smith’s claim that government attempts to solve food shortages always cause famines.Thought-provoking and important, this is essential reading for historians, economists, demographers, and anyone else who is interested in the history and possible future of famine.

Italian Edition - Catalogo della grande retrospettiva organizzata dalla Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bagheria (Palermo) nel 1987. A cura di Dora Favatella Lo Cascio e Maria Concetta Di Natale. Testi di Maurizio Calvesi, Enrico Crispolti, Raffaele De Grada, Antonio Del Guercio, Franco Grasso, Dario Micacchi, Vittorio Rubiu, Francesco Lo Piparo. «Questa mostra, così com'è, comprendente tutta l'opera (quella reperibile e raggiungibile per il prestito) dagli esordi fino al 1940, con in più un'antologia degli affollati anni della guerra, era stata concordata con lo stesso Renato Guttuso poco prima della morte».

Cormac Ö Gráda unites historical research with economic theory in this original and stimulating book, which will be essential reading for all students of Irish history. Within a broadly chronological framework, Ireland offers a fresh, comprehensive examination of all the well-known puzzles of Irish economic history including the inevitability of the Famine, the role of land tenure in agricultural backwardness, and the failure of the economy to industrialize. O'Gráda's account is both accessible, with technical discussion kept to a minimum, and intellectually exciting.

This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987. This updated edition aims to go even further in disputing whether this pivotal period in Irish history really was an inevitable disaster and whether Ireland was the classic "Malthusian country". The author stresses the Irish ability to cope with harvest failure before 1845 and looks at the very real advances in the economy before the Great Famine that suggest that had the potato famine been delayed for a few decades, the economy would have been in a stronger position to withstand the harvest failures. Without neglecting the poverty and injustice of the pre-Famine economic regime, this book points to positive developments such as demographic adjustment, economic integration, emigration and improvements in agriculture and communications. The author argues that these features were already changing Ireland and could have gradually lifted it out of the morass.

The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century. Cormac Ó Gráda's concise survey puts the Famine in the context of the Irish economy, assesses the Famine itself, and discusses its many consequences. Despite a devastating food shortage, the huge death toll of one million was hardly inevitable; a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief could perhaps have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain.

Cormac Ö Gráda unites historical research with economic theory in this original and stimulating book, which will be essential reading for all students of Irish history. Within a broadly chronological framework, Ireland offers a fresh, comprehensive examination of all the well-known puzzles of Irish economic history including the inevitability of the Famine, the role of land tenure in agricultural backwardness, and the failure of the economy to industrialize. O'Gráda's account is both accessible, with technical discussion kept to a minimum, and intellectually exciting.

New perspectives on the history of famine―and the possibility of a famine-free worldFamines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.The book begins with a taboo topic. Ó Gráda argues that cannibalism, while by no means a universal feature of famines and never responsible for more than a tiny proportion of famine deaths, has probably been more common during very severe famines than previously thought. The book goes on to offer new interpretations of two of the twentieth century’s most notorious and controversial famines, the Great Bengal Famine and the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine. Ó Gráda questions the standard view of the Bengal Famine as a perfect example of market failure, arguing instead that the primary cause was the unwillingness of colonial rulers to divert food from their war effort. The book also addresses the role played by traders and speculators during famines more generally, invoking evidence from famines in France, Ireland, Finland, Malawi, Niger, and Somalia since the 1600s, and overturning Adam Smith’s claim that government attempts to solve food shortages always cause famines.Thought-provoking and important, this is essential reading for historians, economists, demographers, and anyone else who is interested in the history and possible future of famine.

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation--whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies--devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed author who chronicled the tragic Irish famine in books like Black '47 and Beyond, here traces the complete history of famine from the earliest records to today. Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from the Great Famine of fourteenth-century Europe to the famine in Niger in 2005. He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine, including the roles that population pressure, public policy, and human agency play in causing famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes and failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places as different as Ukraine under Stalin, 1940s Bengal, and Mao's China. And he examines the prospects of a world free of famine. This is the most comprehensive history of famine available, and is required reading for anyone concerned with issues of economic development and world poverty.