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Supreme justice

speeches and wrintings: Thurgood Marshall

The origins of justice

the evolution of morality, human rights, and law

Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily

Arabic speakers and the end of Islam

The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by ...

The history of economic thought

a reader

With clearly written summaries putting each selection into context and useful questions for discussion, this reader should be useful to students and lecturers of the history of economic thought and goes beyond the simple reprinting of articles. Selections and discussions include such thinkers as Aristotle ...

The fourth estate

a history of women in the Middle Ages

Did women really constitute a ´fourth estate´ in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of varying attitudes to women and their status in Western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth ...

The royalist war effort, 1642-1646

The English Civil War remains the most prolonged and traumatic example of internal violence in the history of the state. The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 shows how such a war was achieved and sustained, and how ultimately it was won and lost. In the introduction ...

Warfare and society in the Barbarian West

450-900

When women kill

questions of agency and subjectivity

Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost ...

Criminological perspectives

essential readings

De la vague à la tombe

la conquête néolithique de la Méditerranée (8000-2000 avant J.-C.)

Faire societé

La politique de la Ville aux Etats-Unis en France

La France espagnole

les racines hispaniques de l'absolutisme français

La France de Louis XIV, le " Roi-Soleil ", qui a rayonné sur l'Europe, n'est pas une construction sui generis. L'historien du début du siècle Ernest Lavisse fut l'un des premiers à l'affirmer : " Louis XIV fut un roi plus espagnol que français ...

Michelangelo´s Florence Pietá

True religion

Britain since 1945

The origins of adversary criminal trial

Contemporary Spanish culture

TV, fashion, art and film

Marketing insights from A to Z

80 concepts every manager needs to know

Indispensable recorrido por todos los conceptos fundamentales del marketing, de la mano de la más reconocida figura internacional en el campo de los estudios de marketing, Philip Kotler... The most renowned figure in the world of marketing offers the new rules to the game for ...

The world of cities

places in comparative and historical perspective

Hegel and the feminist philosophy