Ancient jomon of Japan

Insurance Law

cases and materials

Given the sheer expanse of insurance law, the aims of this book must necessarily be modest. While it is intended that it should complement "Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles", the authors have taken the opportunity presented by fashioning a casebook to integrate the jurisprudence from ...

The papal reform of the Eleventh Century

lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII

Una metodología para el Derecho comparado europeo

Derecho público comparado y Derecho administrativo europeo

El presente libro colma una importante laguna en la bibliografía sobre el Derecho Comparado y afronta el reto de exponer de manera concisa, pero con el suficiente grado de detalle, los problemas metodológicos que se presentan en cualquier estudio jurídico comparativo. La creciente relevancia del ...

La codificación penal en España

los códigos de 1848 y 1850

Esta obra aborda el proceso de gestación del código de 1848 y la incidencia de su publicación en la sociedad, el Derecho y en la Administración de Justicia de la época. Analiza las transformaciones que se fueron produciendo hasta convertirlo en el código de 1850 ...

La pensión de viudedad

En estas páginas se ofrece una guía sistemática y accesible sobre la estructura de la prestación de la pensión de viudedad en la Seguridad Social. El entramado de normas y de doctrina judicial se condensa en una exposición que resuelve las dudas más comunes y ...

The fate of the nation state

Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles. The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists ...

Anabasi di Alessandro

.Vol.II: (Libri IV-VII)

Economics of antitruts

new issues, questions and insights

ECONOMICS OF ANTITRUST: NEW ISSUES, QUESTIONS, AND INSIGHTS contains perspectives that should prove indispensable to attorneys, government regulators, economists, academicians, students, and others seeking a full understanding of the topic. By showing how economics is applied in the "real world," the book provides insights into ...

Platonic theology. Volume 4: Books XII-XIV

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 13)

The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar- philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism ...

Short epics

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 15)

Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and ...

God willing?

political fundamentalism in the White House, the "War on terror", and the echoing press

In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush and his administration offered a 'political fundamentalism' that capitalized upon the fear felt by many Americans. Political fundamentalism is the adaptation of a conservative religious worldview, via strategic language choices and communication ...

Sabra and Shatila

september 1982

The book covers the history of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which took place over three bloody days in the Lebanese capital Beirut. It was committed against Palestinian refugees by Lebanese militias, aided and supervised by the Israeli Army, which had encircled the district. Now ...

Jesus, a jewish galilean

a new reading of the Jesus-story

In his latest book, Sean Freyne draws on his detailed knowledge of Galilean society in the Roman period, based on both literary and archaeological sources, to give a fresh and provocative reading of the Jesus story within its Galilean setting. Jesus, a Jewish Galilean focuses ...

Trafalgar

The biography of a battle

This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost tangible ...

L'enseignement religieux dans la Couronne de Castille

incidencies spirituelles et sociales (XIIIe-XVe siècle) : Colloque tenu à la Casa de Velázquez (17-18 fébrier 1997)

Byzance et ses périphéries

hommage à Alain Ducellier

Nelson's fleet at Trafalgar

Mathematical methods in economics and social choice

In recent years, the usual optimization techniques, which have proved so useful in microeconomic theory, have been extended to incorporate more powerful topological and differential methods, and these methods have led to new results on the qualitative behavior of general economic and political systems. These ...

Economics of the environment

theory and policy

The book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. It offers a theoretical study of the allocation problem and describes different policy approaches to the environmental problem. The entire spectrum of the allocation issue is studied: the use of the environment in a ...