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Entre la Edad Media y la Modernidad

la ruptura del espacio en Europa y en el Nuevo Mundo

El 'espacio' es un tópico que nos lleva, lógicamente, a las consideraciones físicas y geográficas. La intuición universal nos lleva al espacio, pero su sentido dista mucho de ser inequívoco y/o unívoco. La inclusión del hombre en la concepción del espacio nos conduce a ...

Le crépuscule des Saints

Histoire et politique du salafisme en Egypte

Une contribution majeure à l’étude des transformations de l’islam et de son rapport au politique à l’époque contemporaine.

Une histoire des droits dans le monde

Est-il possible, à l'heure de l'histoire globale, transnationale ou connectée, d'écrire une histoire des droits affranchie du point de vue eurocentré qui a structuré tant d'histoires dites "? universelles ? " depuis le XIXe ? siècle ? Est-il possible, à l'heure de l'histoire globale ...

Les grands arrêts de la jurisprudence administrative

Approche politique

L'étude de la jurisprudence constitue le coeur de l'apprentissage du droit administratif, structuré autour de l'analyse des grands arrêts. Le projet de cet ouvrage est non seulement de reprendre cette tradition et de présenter chaque grand arrêt et le droit qu'il ...

L'avant-projet de réforme du droit des contrats spéciau

Présentation de la réforme et texte du projet rédigé et commenté par la commission de réforme

Après la réforme du droit commun des contrats, l'oeuvre de modernisation du Code civil en matière contractuelle se poursuit pas à pas. C'est désormais au tour du droit des contrats spéciaux, tant pour réduire le décalage entre te Code de 1804 et le ...

Imperialism and the National Question

Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was Imperialism, the Highest ...

The jail is everywhere

fighting the new geography of mass incarceration

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails are now the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. As jails grow, they transform ...

Immediacy or, The style of too-late capitalism

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand ...

Unconditional freedom

universal basic income and social power

As the rich get richer and take more of our wealth, our democratic freedoms are also in danger. The elite are gaining large profits without contributing back to society, hollowing out our public services and institutions and preventing the vast majority of us from living ...

Death glitch

how techno-solutionism fails us in this life and beyond

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death "A compelling collection of case studies about how technology breaks down when faced with the messiness of mortality."-Gabriel Nicholas, Washington Post Since the internet's earliest days, people have died ...

Radicalisation

A Global and Comparative Perspective

Radicalisation has become an important part of the twenty-first-century security and political landscape. It is a seemingly ubiquitous term, employed by academics, policymakers, civil society actors, practitioners and media alike, in ever-expanding ways--describing everything from changing domestic social movements to the growth of international terrorism ...

Political technology

the globalisation of political manipulation

'Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political ...

Monografía de las aguas acidulo-alcalino-ferruginosas de Puertolllano

Bailarina en Madrid

Janet Riesenfeld

Inteligente, curiosa y atenta a todo lo que sucedía a su alrededor, Janet Riesenfeld se convirtió en testigo excepcional de la vida en Madrid durante los tres primeros meses de la guerra civil española y en protagonista de una historia de amor desgarradora. De regreso ...

Law is a moral practice

A powerful argument for the essential role of morality in law, getting at the heart of key debates in public life. What is law? And how does it relate to morality? It's common to think that law and morality are different ways of regulating ...

Fintech explained

how technology is transforming financial services

Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation strategy, business model, and valuation of leading fintechs in cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi), crowdfunding and online lending, robo-advice and digital wealth management, payments and ...

Thoughtfulness and the rule of law

An essential study of the rule of law by one of the world's leading liberal political and legal philosophers. The meaning and value of the rule of law have been debated since antiquity. For many, the rule of law has become the essence of ...

The man who understood democracy

the life of Alexis de Tocqueville

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward ...

Economics in America

an immigrant economist explores the land of inequality

From the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist's craft When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed ...

International relations theories

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to international relations theories with a unique emphasis on positioning IR theories within their social, political, and historical contexts to help students fully understand IR theories and their influence. A comprehensive first introduction to international relations theories which encourages students ...