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La gestación subrogada en la Unión Europea

Perspectiva normativa y jurisprudencial

La gestación subrogada en la Unión Europea. Perspectiva normativa y jurisprudencial supone una versión actualizada, detallada y completa de la legislación y de los pronunciamientos judiciales más relevantes en materia de gestación subrogada de todos y cada uno de los veintisiete Estados que conforman la ...

Comparecen los olvidados

Mujeres abandonadas, homosexuales, gitanos, prostitutas, esclavos, expósitos y otros en los protocolos notariales

En comparecen los olvidados, el autor, notario de profesión, nos descubre la otra cara de la historia entresacada de los textos notariales. Mujeres abandonadas, homosexuales, gitanos, prostitutas, esclavos, expósitos, judeoconversos, moriscos, leprosos, son los protagonistas de una historial “real” que no deja indiferente. Es otra ...

El largo camino hacia la coherencia del instrumento público con el catastro

Más de diez años después de la reforma de la Ley Hipotecaria y del Catastro nadie ignora que el objetivo real jamás fue la quimérica coordinación Catastro-Registro, sino conseguir la subsistencia de una Base de Datos gráfica en manos privadas susceptible de explotación. La coordinación ...

Análisis forense digital

Metodologías, herramientas y aplicaciones

Evidencias digitales al descubierto: Domine el análisis forense en la era de la ciberseguridad En un mundo hiperconectado, donde la información circula a través de múltiples dispositivos y redes, el análisis forense digital se ha convertido en un pilar esencial de la ciberseguridad. Los ciberataques ...

Los retos de la psicología del testimonio ante los tribunales

Análisis de la credibilidad del relato de testigos y criterios de validez del dictamen pericial

La Psicología del Testimonio aporta a los jueces y tribunales conocimientos y herramientas esenciales para valorar la credibilidad del testimonio de un testigo que ha presenciado de manera directa y personal un suceso con relevancia y trascendencia jurídica. La transmisión de estos conocimientos al órgano ...

The broken China dream

how reform revived totalitarianism

A provocative book that demystifies China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country's embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hoped When China ...

Making democracy count

how mathematics improves voting, electoral maps, and representation

How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least ...

Insecurity politics

how unstable lives lead to populist support

The everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism In Insecurity Politics, Lorenza Antonucci examines the lived, everyday experiences that underpin political disaffection. Countering the reductive portrayals of populist voters as left-behind outsiders, Antonucci focuses on the ordinary, yet increasingly ...

Charm

how magnetic personalities shape global politics

The utilization-and weaponization-of charm in contemporary global politics Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person-perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical performances we ...

The last human job

seeing each other in an age of automation

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections ...

The AI paradox

how to make sense of a complex future

A user's guide to navigating the intricate, often contradictory relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence Artificial intelligence will shape our future in unforeseen ways, and it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it could someday dictate the terms of ...

The land where nothing works

how Britain lost the plot

Tracing the origins of Britain's current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public services ...

The firearm revolution

from Renaissance Italy to the European empires

A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the world In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on the battlefield by 1440; later in ...

Adversary and ally

how China shapes the frontier politics of India and Pakistan

In recent years, China has played an increasingly significant role in international affairs, wielding its economic and political strength to solidify its position as a global power. Within its immediate neighborhood, however, Chinese influence is not new. Chinese actions have affected how the Indian and ...

China's weaponization of trade

resistance through collective resilience

In recent years, China and the United States have each turned economic interdependence into an instrument of coercion, using their dominant positions in international trade to push states and firms to comply with their political goals. What is distinctive about this form of economic pressure ...

Ignorance

What We Do Not Know, Cannot Know, Must Not Know, and Refuse to Know

Does the lack of evidence mean that aliens don't exist? Why does an unproven mathematical hypothesis have profound consequences? Are humans capable of grasping the nature of divinity? Is it ethical to give a patient a placebo? Why do people persist in demonstrably false ...

Make China great again

online alt-history fiction and popular authoritarianism

On the Chinese internet, alternate history is booming. Millions of writers and readers fantasize about going back in time and changing their country's fate. One envisions saving the Southern Song Dynasty from the Mongols and turning China into a capitalist democracy. Another portrays a ...

Europe's populist condition

Challenging the notion that populism is an anomaly in European politics, this book argues that the main threat to democracy is the exclusionary nature of European democratic traditions. Drawing on decolonial studies, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and democratic theory, the book reveals how liberal democracy in ...

Lawyer 3.0

a guide to next-wave lawyering

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing will transform all sectors of the economy, including the legal profession. But technology has dramatically impacted lawyers before. In this book, author Ray Brescia shows how the new technologies of the late 19th century spurred the emergence ...

What are nuclear weapons for?

Peacekeepers, effective deterrent or potential cause of ultimate disaster? Understanding what nuclear weapons are for has never been more essential. This book traces the history of nuclear weapons from their first use in 1945 when they brought the Second World War to an end, through ...