Demosthenes : the first Philippic /

Includes bibliographical references.

Mémoires de Madame Campan, 1785-1792 /

"This volume contains ... that part of Madame Campan's Memoirs on the life of Marie-Antoinette which covers the period from 1785 to 1792, when the memoirs end."

Histoire de Sainte Jeanne de France, duchesse d'Orléans et de Berry, 1464-1505 /

BN,

Lettres de Henri VIII à Anne Boleyn, avec la traduction; précédées d'une notice historique sur Anne Boleyn.

Mode of access: Internet.

Le Portefeuille d'un talon rouge; contenant des anecdotes galantes et secrètes de la cour de France. La Journée amoureuse; ou, Les derniers plaisirs de M....-Ant.......; comédie en trois actes, en prose.

Contains reproductions of original t.-p.

Mémoires sur la vie et le caractere de mme. la duchesse de Polignac. Avec des anecdotes intéressantes sur la révolution françoise, et sur la personne de Marie-Antoinette, reine de France.

Introduction in English.

Le collier de la reine.

Sequel to "Me moires d'un me decin."

Don Phelippe, por la gracia de Dios, Rey de Castilla, de Leon, de Aragon, de las dos Sicilias ...

Verso of final leaf blank.

Reform of Spain's profesional services market: Implementation of the EU Services Directive

The implementation of the European Commission Services Directive initiated the modernization process of services markets within the European Union. The objective was to guarantee the creation of a single market by ensuring the freedom of establishment and circulation. The transposition of the Directive in Spain triggered an initial wave of reforms in the Spanish legal system. A second package of reforms is currently underway, following recommendations by the EC, IMF and OECD, which highlight the relative lack of competition in Spain’s services as one of the major imbalances in its economy, alongside the public deficit and unemployment. Both the implemented and planned reforms represent a major step forward. Nevertheless, the government has recently announced modifications to the draft bill of the Professional Services and Associations Law, which is expected to soon be submitted for parliamentary debate and approval. Taking into consideration modifications already introduced, together with anticipated further changes, it will be important to maintain the main points of the draft bill and to introduce a deeper review of the legal framework for professional services, of the professional associations themselves, and for the activities that are subject to compulsory membership within a professional association. Spain’s territorial map of professional associations must too be redrawn.

Comparing copepod time-series in the north of Spain: Spatial autocorrelation of community composition

Four time-series of copepod species biomass in the north of Spain were contrasted to demonstrate spatial autocorrelation of local communities and their responses to short-term local and regional variability in oceanographic conditions. The series represented coastal and oceanic environments along a marked gradient of influence of seasonal upwelling from Galicia to the Mar Cantábrico (S Bay of Biscay), and each one included at least 10 years of continuous data collected at monthly frequency. Community composition (i.e. species number and diversity) was very consistent through the region, but local variations in the presence of new species and the relative proportions of common species allowed for the characterisation of the response to the environment at each site. Small-sized species were more frequent near the coast. A few species, however, captured the main patterns of variability in all series. Calanus helgolandicus and Acartia (mainly Acartia clausi) were generally the main contributors to total biomass, while other species as Paracalanus parvus and Clausocalanus spp. were important only at some locations. Most copepod indices were positively correlated with upwelling, either considering the whole community (biomass, species richness and diversity) or individual species, but only in the coastal series analysed since 1991. Copepods in the nearby ocean, however, showed negative correlations with upwelling in the period 1960–1986. The effects of upwelling may have been modulated by local factors, as showed by the increases in biomass, number of species and diversity in associations with increases in sea surface temperature in Galicia, while in the Mar Cantábrico only the warming-tolerant species increased and those typical of upwelling decreased. Density stratification of the water column was associated with decreases in total copepod biomass in Galicia, while it favoured the increase in species richness in the Mar Cantábrico. Nearly all significant responses of copepods to environmental variability were delayed by up to 5 months, showing the importance of considering time-lags in the analysis of temporal responses of zooplankton.