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Stalin and the fate of Europe

the postwar struggle for sovereignty

Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order, Norman Naimark suggests that Stalin was far more open to a settlement than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Finland and ...

Nihilistic times

thinking with Max Weber

One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading-and confounding-political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility. How has politics become a playpen for ...

The falling sky

words of a Yanomami shaman

A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the ...

Metternich

strategist and visionary

Metternich is often portrayed as the epitome of reactionary conservatism, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power to stifle liberalism and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. But in this landmark biography, the first to make use of state ...

Encountering Early America

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement. The book traces the dynamism of early English encounters with ...

An archaeology of innovation

approaching social and technological change in human society

An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology ...

Divine doppelgängers

YHWH's ancient look-alikes

The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him-but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH's ...

La capacidad jurídica de las personas con discapacidad medidas de origen legal y judicial

La Ley 8/2021, de 2 de junio, supone un importante avance en la protección de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica, al promover el respeto a su autonomía y voluntad, y al establecer medidas de apoyo ...

Derechos fundamentales y democracia en el constitucionalismo digital

Este libro contiene un análisis muy complejo y completo de las diversas vertientes que configuran el mundo digital y que tienen relevancia para el derecho y especialmente para el derecho constitucional. Desde las cuestiones generales, relacionadas con la nueva cultura constitucional que se está perfilando ...

El régimen jurídico-tributario de los criptoactivos

El objeto de este trabajo son los criptoactivos, entendidos como activos digitales de tercera generación: la primera generación estaría constituida por las divisas digitales «clásicas», en la segunda, estas divisas evolucionan a «programables» con la inserción de smartscontracts en ellas y, en la tercera, estos ...

La tributación de los datos: ¿la última distopía tributaria?

En febrero de 2013, David Brooks publicó de manera profética cuál es la filosofía que prevalece en la sociedad digital: el "dataismo". Si en la era moderna la violencia fue el máximo exponente del poder y el petróleo fue su fuente principal de energía, hoy ...

Teletrabajo y Derecho internacional privado

problemas y soluciones

El objetivo principal que persigue este trabajo es arrojar luz sobre algunas de las cuestiones jurídicas que se observan por las circunstancias excepcionales actuales (en particular, el teletrabajo y mecanismos adecuados para legitimar transferencias internacionales de datos entre miembros de un mismo grupo empresarial, la ...

Perspectives on the history of ancient Near Eastern studies

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches-synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational-this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of ...

We need to talk about inflation

14 urgent lessons from the last 2,000 years

From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality. How have ...

Tribunal Constitucional Federal Alemão: decisões anotadas sobre direitos fundamentais

Volume V: Liberdade profissional, direito fundamental de propriedade, garantia de não expatriação e não extradição

Este livro é o quinto e último volume da obra. Como um todo a obra cobre as principais decisões do Tribunal Constitucional Federal alemão (TCF) que tenham interpretado e aplicado os direitos fundamentais da Constituição da Alemanha (Grundgesetz, a seguir: GG). Neste quinto volume foram ...

Of fear and strangers

a history of xenophobia

Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and a “New Xenophobia” seems to have ...

Voice, choice, and action

the potential of young citizens to heal democracy

Voice, Choice, and Action is the fruit of the extraordinary personal and professional partnership between a psychiatrist and neurobiologist whose research and social activism have informed each other for the last thirty years. Inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Felton ...

Shields of the Republic

the triumph and peril of america's alliances

For the first century and a half of its existence, the United States had just one alliance—a valuable but highly controversial military arrangement with France. Largely out of deference to George Washington’s warnings against the dangers of “entangling alliances,” subsequent American presidents did ...

The power of creative destruction

economic upheaval and the wealth of nations

Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. We hear more and more calls for radical change, even the overthrow of capitalism. But the answer to our ...

The rise and decline of nations

economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many ...