Libros de

Histoire des idées en criminologie au XIXe et au XXe siècle

Gabriel Tarde

L'#uvre de Gabriel Tarde, criminologue du XXe siècle, est ici examinée sous ses différentes facettes. Gabriel Tarde était juge d'instruction, directeur de la statistique criminelle au ministère de la Justice, mais aussi philosophe de l'histoire, sociologue, psychosociologue, culturaliste. Homme de son époque ...

Respecter la vie, disposer de sa mort!

pour une loi Vicent Humbert

Je vous demande le droit de mourir !" A l'interpellation de Vincent Humbert les parlementaires ont répondu, dans la loi promulguée le 22 avril 2005, par un droit tout à fait particulier, celui de "laisser mourir sans faire mourir". Si quelqu'un endure de terribles ...

Tesoro lexicográfico del español de Puerto Rico

El Tesoro Lexicográfico del Español de Puerto Rico, de las autoras María Vaquero y Amparo Morales, ofrece las palabras del país recogidas durante el siglo xx en diccionarios, vocabularios, investigaciones dialectales y estudios heterogéneos sobre el léxico local. Como todos los tesoros de este tipo ...

Procedimiento sancionador, infracciones y sanciones tributarias

(comentarios, jurisprudencia, formularios, ejemplos prácticos y legislación)

Comentarios al Título IV (De la Potestad Sancionadora) de la Ley 50/2003, de 17 de diciembre, General Tributaria, y al Real Decreto2063/2004, de 15 de octubre, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento General del Régimen Sancionador Tributario. La presente obra, a diferencia ...

Botanicorum summa

botánicos de los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII

El libro nace con vocación de convertirse en un clásico de referencia en la historia de la Botánica que es, también, la historia de los botánicos que la hicieron posible, muchos de ellos completamente desconocidos a pesar de sus imprescindibles aportaciones. En esta magna obra ...

Contra el eje del mal

El mundo se está convirtiendo en un lugar peligroso para Occidente. Varios regímenes son los enemigos más visibles de las democracias occidentales. Son los países del llamado Eje del Mal, contra los que E.E.U.U. se dispone a luchar. En defensa de la ...

European welfare states

comparative perspectives

"European Welfare States" is a timely textbook that offers a comprehensive but accessible overview of issues concerning European welfare states. It brings together a discussion of the theories and techniques of comparative policy analysis and a description of current developments in selected welfare state regimes ...

Understanding contractual and tortious obligations

This new text provides an overview of the two foundational law subjects of Obligations I (contract) and Obligations II (tort). It does not aim to be a textbook covering both subjects in full detail. It is intended, instead, to provide students with a basic structural ...

The Law of business organisations

This highly accessible text provides both a legal and practical examination of the law of business organisations. It places the law in context by examining the changing legal and business problems encountered during the life of a fictional business.It considers first the formation of ...

Ibn 'Arabi

heir to the prophets

Muhyi ad-Din Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born mystic and one of the most prolific writers in Islamic history. He made major contributions to the fields of Qur'an commentary, jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, cosmology, and spiritual psychology, and he was also a great poet ...

Al Ma'mun

The Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun (786-813) is best known for sponsoring the translation of Greek philosophy into Arabic and for promoting the activity of mathematicians, astronomers, engineers, physicians and cartographers. In his own time, however, he was a wildly controversial figure: having come to power ...

Amir Khusraw

the poet of sultans and Sufis

The Indian courtier, writer, musician and Sufi Amir Khusraw (1253-1325) is widely regarded as one of his country's greatest poets. As a writer in India, he was conscious of the larger Persian literary world as well as local tastes and preferences and wrote a ...

Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis

Fazlallah Astarabadi was a 14th-century Islamic religious leader who believed that the world was about to come to an end. He claimed that he had received direct revelations from God in his dreams and that this made him equal in stature to the prophets Moses ...

Shaykh Mufid

This work is a highly readable introduction to Shaykh Mufid, the leading Shi'i scholar of his time, and it examines his contributions in the fields of jurisprudence, theology, and sacred history in clear and straightforward language.

Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi

in the path of the prophet

Ahmad Riza Khan (1856-1921), the leader of the twentieth-century Barelwi movement, was a scholar of Islamic law and a Sufi mystic in British India. This book examines the life and thought of Ahmad Riza Khan in the context of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British ...

Abu Nuwas

a genius of poetry

Abu Nuwas (c.756-813) was one of the greatest Arab poets of the classical period. In literary history he is remembered chiefly as the hard-drinking and eloquent composer of dissolute wine poems, from which he emerges as one of the most charismatic figures in world ...

'Abd al-Malik

'Abd al-Malik , who came to prominence during the second civil war of early Islam, ruled the Islamic empire from 692 until 705. Not only did he successfully suppress rebellion within the Muslim world and expand its frontiers, but in many respects he founded the empire ...

'Abd al-Rahman III

the first cordoban caliph

Covers the life and work of Abd al-Rahman III, the greatest of the Umayyad rulers of Spain and the first to take the title of Caliph, as well as doing much to stabilise the borders with Christian Spain.

Théories de l'intégration européenne

approches, concepts et débats

Néo-fonctionnalisme, fédéralisme, transactionnalisme, intergouvernementalisme libéral, institutionnalisme, constructivisme, gouvernance multiniveaux, autant de termes qui sont utilisés dans les approches politologiques de l'intégration européenne. Cet ouvrage vise précisément à familiariser le lecteur à ces concepts. Ceux-ci ont été développés principalement dans les universités anglo- saxonnes depuis ...

El libro para conducir reuniones con éxito

¿Cómo cubrir objetivos? ¿Cuándo convocar? ¿Por qué reunirse? ¿Cpn quiénes? Protocolo, seguimiento y dirección. Personas y rol

La mayoría de los profesionales de élite se queja del tiempo que pierden en reuniones de su ámbito laboral. Por una parte son necesarias desde una perspectiva ejecutiva, y por otra en muchas ocasiones se desbordan en contenidos y exposiciones y el tiempo se les ...