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Estudios musicales del clasicismo 7

Esta séptima entrega de los Estudios Musicales del Clasicismo presenta tres evocaciones a la memoria del doctor Remigio Coli (1932-2021), destacado biógrafo de Luigi Boccherini, y tres artículos sobre diversos aspectos relacionados con el compositor de Lucca que incluyen algunas novedades biográficas.

Work

the last 1,000 years

Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of ...

Abortion and woman's choice

the state, sexuality, and reproductive freedom

This prize-winning study is the definitive work on the politics of abortion and fertility. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky provides overwhelming evidence against the anti-abortion forces and in the process takes up issues of teenage sexuality, the politics of eugenics, and women's relationship to medical technology.

The good die young

the verdict on Henry Kissinger

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion ...

The Russian FSB

a concise history of the Federal Security Service

An introduction to Putin's formidable intelligence and security organization Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before ...

Default

the landmark court battle over Argentina's $100 billion debt restructuring

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on its debt, the international financial system ...

Referendums as representative democracy

In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues no. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways that voters give direction to their representatives. In this ...

Parliament and the law

The third edition of Parliament and the Law presents a timely and valuable resource covering recent developments. Brexit, the #MeToo movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic all presented Parliament with a series of challenges. This edition includes new chapters on Brexit, legislation and scrutiny, the restoration ...

Conspiracy

why the rational believe the irrational

Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 ...

Data-Driven personalization

how to use consumer insights to generate customer loyalty

Make your marketing truly resonate by personalizing every message, powered by data, research and behavioral economics. To break through the noise, marketers today need to be hyper-relevant to their customers. To do that takes data and a deep understanding of your audience. Data-Driven Personalization breaks ...

The poverty of growth

How do we combat poverty and rising inequality? In our age of impending climate catastrophe, the conventional wisdom around GDP and economic growth is no longer fit for purpose; a rising tide sinks all boats. Olivier De Schutter argues that we must rethink the fight ...

After Zionism

one state for Israel and Palestine

After Zionism brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question. In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and explore possible forms of a one-state solution in the most conflicted part of the ...

CRR III

The EU Implementation of Basel IV - The Next Generation of Risk Weighted Assets

The revised banking package of CRD VI and CRR III contains a large number of new requirements, the implementation of which will pose major challenges for the banking industry. In addition to the adoption of the final Basel IV regulations, other topics such as crypto ...

The political brain

the emergence of neuropolitics

We have politics on our mind-or, rather, we have politics in different parts of our brains. In this path-breaking study, Matt Qvortrup takes the reader on a whistle stop tour through the fascinating, and sometimes frightening, world of neuropolitics; the discipline that combines neuroscience and ...

The new politics of Russia

interpreting change

This illuminating book explains how and why Russia's relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of 'great power competition'. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in relations since the early 2000s ...

El soft law en el Derecho Internacional y Europeo

su capacidad para dar respuesta a los desafíos normativos actuales

Esta monografía sobre El Soft Law en el Derecho Internacional y Europeo: Su capacidad para dar respuesta a los desafíos normativos actuales reflexiona sobre el soft law, su definición, su naturaleza jurídica, su función, sus procedimientos de formación, los sujetos que participan en dicho proceso ...

Guía práctica sobre responsabilidad patrimonial de las administraciones públicas

incluye casos prácticos, esquemas y formularios de la vía administrativa y contenciosa

La presente guía sobre la responsabilidad patrimonial de las Administraciones Públicas pretende ser una obra rigurosa y detallada a la par que práctica y accesible, que permita a juristas y operadores adentrarse con garantías y de forma integral en esta figura clave de nuestro Derecho ...

El Derecho a entender el Derecho

Como sistema de protección, el Derecho se dirige a los ciudadanos, por cuya libertad y seguridad vela. Y, sin embargo, también tiene a los profesionales como destinatarios, pues son ellos los encargados de su efectividad. Existe, por esta razón, una tensión inmanente al lenguaje jurídico ...

Análisis del entorno económico

Este libro, en su segunda edición, acerca los conceptos económicos a todos aquellos que quieren entender la «lógica» de la economía, e intentar dar un paso más en cuanto a la explicación del análisis económico y su utilidad. Para ello M.ª Teresa empieza analizando ...

Imperio y reputación

El viaje de los hermanos Nodal y su mundo

Imperio y reputación es el primer libro en relatar el épico viaje de los hermanos Nodal al estrecho de Magallanes y la Tierra del Fuego (1618-1619) desde un enfoque global que aborda las claves de su tiempo. Gracias a un conocimiento profundo de las fuentes ...