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Aspects juridiques et protection des mineurs

Representación y cultura audiovisual en la sociedad contemporánea

Thesmophoriazusae

Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae is the story of a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays. Austin and Olson offer a fresh text of the play; an extensive introduction; and a detailed commentary; most Greek cited ...

Marcas versus nombres de dominio en Internet

La presente obra aborda el interesante problema del conflicto marcas-nombres de dominio (o en sentido amplio direcciones de Internet). La monografía se encuentra adaptada al régimen jurídico de la actual Ley de Marcas; analizándose también el régimen jurídico de otros Estados, destacando entre ellos el ...

El concurso de las sociedades

Son varias las razones que sustentan la importancia del estudio del concurso de las sociedades en la Ley 22/2003, de 9 de julio, Concursal. En primer lugar, la profusión de normas societarias que remiten la regulación de las situaciones concursales de los empresarios sociales ...

La violencia y los enfrentamientos de las culturas

Este libro examina la génesis de la difícil convivencia entre las culturas existentes en el mundo, que, a comienzos del siglo XXI, no han conseguido una coincidencia mínima entre sí que permita el establecimiento de un espacio civilizado común en el que se respeten por ...

Virginia political economy

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue in two treatises

Boardwalk of dreams

Atlantic City and the fate of urban America

During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and ...

Chants democratic

New York City and the rise of the american working class, 1788-1850

Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of ...

Common morality

deciding what to do

Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian controversy

the making of a Saint and of a heretic

Susan Wessel recounts the historical and cultural process by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was turned into a heretic. The associated religious controversy was to result in a permenent schism in the Eastern Churches ...

European universities from the Enlightenment to 1914

European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 is an authoritative and unique work. Though patronized by a social elite, universities before 1914 were not ivory towers, but reflected the political and social conflicts of their day. Anderson combines chapters on national university systems (including Britain ...

Guests of God

pilgrimage and politics in the Islamic World

Each year, about two million pilgrims from over 100 countries converge on the Islamic holy city of Mecca for the hajj. While the hajj is first and foremost a religious festival, it is also very much a political event. No government can resist the temptation ...

Nicaea and its legacy

an approach to Fourth-Century trinitarian theology

Lewis Ayres offers a new account of the most important century in the development of Christian belief after Christ. He shows how the doctrine of the Trinity was developed, and in particular argues that a conception of God's mysteriousness and spiritual progress towards understanding ...

Nietzsche's New Darwinism

Amadis de Grecia

The outbreak of the First World War

To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. Ever since ...

The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible

This useful alphabetical guide offers approximately 325 articles that describe people and places that appear in the New Testament and Hebrew Bible, from prophets, apostles, and groups (such as Hebrews, Angels) to kingdoms and countries and cities and mountains where biblical events took place.

St John Damascene

tradition and originality in Byzantine Theology

John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century. He never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet his influence on Byzantine theology was ultimately determinative, and beyond that his ...