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Z Generation

into the heart of Russia's fascist youth

How did Vladimir Putin win Russians' support for his genocidal war in Ukraine and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, bottom-up narrative reveals the dark realities of youth fascism in Russia-and the darker future awaiting the country if that ...

Belarus in crisis

from domestic unrest to the Russia-Ukraine war

In 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant crisis on the European Union's border. But where many ...

White Malice

the CIA and the neocolonisation of Africa

The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice Lumumba ...

Economic war

Ukraine and the global conflict between Russia and the West

Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections ...

Derecho sindical

Volumen III: Conflictos colectivos de trabajo

El tratamiento de los contenidos seleccionados para su incorporación a la obra Derecho Sindical concluye con este tercer volumen, dividido en dos partes. En la primera se analizan, previa determinación de la noción de conflicto colectivo como especie de los conflictos de trabajo, los procedimientos ...

The righteous of the Armenian genocide

Shines long-overdue light on the heroic individuals who took action in the face of the Armenian genocide. This book tells the stories of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who made a courageous stand against the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, the first ...

Eje cronológico de la evolución del procesamiento de la información

(una cápsula del tiempo)

Dicen que en la actualidad vivimos en un mundo plagado de información de todos los tipos imaginables. En esta obra de no ficción destinada a fines informativos, el lector tiene la posibilidad de explorar, algunos de los hitos más importantes que permiten encajar las piezas ...

Conciliación familiar a la medida: un desafío empresarial en el marco de la Agenda 2030

Los cambios familiares y sociales hacen que las necesidades de conciliación familiar de los trabajadores resulten cada vez más diversas y requieran en muchas ocasiones un auténtico “traje a medida”. Esta obra explora algunas de esas necesidades particulares- familias monoparentales, discapacidad, mayores y dependientes, familias ...

Criptoderecho. La regulación de Blockchain

Esta monografía trata de aportar soluciones a los principales problemas legales que se plantean en el contexto de las cadenas de bloques formadas por grupos de participantes cuyas identidades no se conocen de antemano (son anónimos o usan seudónimos). Todos estos participantes están en pie ...

El aspecto legal del dinero

con referencia especial al Derecho internacional privado y público

Éste es un libro acerca del derecho monetario inglés. No hay ningún derecho monetario que sea común a las naciones del mundo. Pero el dinero es una institución universal. Por lo tanto, el método comparativo tiene un valor peculiar. Revela dónde ha seguido el derecho ...

The State of Capitalism

Economy, Society, and Hegemony

The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of 2007-9. The Pandemic Crisis has catapulted the state to the centre of economic activity. However, a historic impasse ...

El problema de los derechos humanos

historia, filosofía, política y derecho

Dirigido, coordinado y editado por el profesor Miguel Ayuso, de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas y director de la revista Verbo, participan en este libro, que reúne las actas de la LIX Reunión de Amigos de la Ciudad Católica, celebrada en 2022 en la Universidad Antonio ...

History made conscious

politics of knowledge, politics of the past

During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociologies, the great social history wave instated the value of social explanation. Then, responding to new theoretical debates, the cultural turn upset many of those ...

Formularios habituales de Compliance

El Compliance constituye un conjunto de procedimientos y buenas prácticas, que las organizaciones adoptan con el fin de identificar y clasificar los riesgos operativos y legales a los que se enfrentan, a los efectos de establecer mecanismos internos de prevención, gestión, control y reacción frente ...

The power of emotion

a history of Germany from 1900 to the present

Emotions make history and have their own history. Exploring the emotional worlds of the German people, this book tells a very different story of the twentieth century. Ute Frevert reveals how emotions have shaped and influenced not only individuals but entire societies. Politicians use emotions ...

Everyday life in the classic Maya world

Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World introduces readers to a range of people who lived during the Classic period (200-800 CE) of Maya civilization. Traci Ardren here reconstructs the individual experiences of Maya people across all social arenas and experiences, including less-studied populations, such ...

Decolonizing the study of Palestine

indigenous perspectives and settler colonialism after Elia Zureik

Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists the mission of guiding the "backward" natives of ...

The political history of modern Iran

revolution, reaction and transformation, 1905 to the present

From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and intolerance causing national discontent and ...

A companion to chivalry

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture. Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary ...

Runes

A Handbook

Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they ...