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Redemptus ab hostibus

La ricerca è suddivisa in due parti: nella prima si discute della condizione giuridica in cui versa il cittadino romano riscattato dal nemico (civis redemptus ab hostibus), il quale, in base alle opinioni dei giuristi classici e ai rescritti imperiali, risulta assoggettato al potere del ...

Againts borders

the case for abolition

Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished. Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, which impact migrants and citizens both. Bradley and de Noronha tell what should by ...

Market civilizations

neoliberals East and South

Where does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the Mont Pelerin Society has allowed for closer study of the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions. Yet even as this literature brought neoliberalism down to earth, it tended to ...

Rebellion, rascals, and revenue

tax follies and wisdom through the ages

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in ...

Origins of order

project and system in the american legal imagination

An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a ...

Vulnerable minds

the neuropolitics of divided societies

Neuroscience research has raised a troubling possibility: Could the tendency to stigmatize others be innate? Some evidence suggests that the brain is prone to in-group and out-group classifications, with consequences from ordinary blind spots to full-scale dehumanization. Many are inclined to reject the argument that ...

Policing the second amendment

guns, law enforcement, and the politics of race

The United States is steeped in guns, gun violence-and gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been overlooked-Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun ...

Making space for justice

social movements, collective imagination, and political hope

From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today, progressive social movements have been at the forefront of social change. Yet it is seldom recognized that such movements have not only engaged in political action but also posed crucial philosophical questions about the meaning of justice ...

Gender and the dismal science

women in the early years of the economics profession

The economics profession is belatedly confronting glaring gender inequality. Women are systematically underrepresented throughout the discipline, and those who do embark on careers in economics find themselves undermined in any number of ways. Women in the field report pervasive biases and barriers that hinder full ...

Las palabras de la Ciencia

historia sobre el lenguaje científico y los hechos que explica

El término 'célula', acuñado en 1665 por Robert Hooke, procede de 'celda', el pequeño habitáculo de los monjes. Muchas palabras científicas que hoy creemos fiel reflejo de la esencia de las cosas, en realidad son metáforas que se han fosilizado, que han perdido la viveza ...

A Greek state in formation

the origins of civilization in Mycenaean Pylos

Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, takes readers on a tour of the beginnings of Mycenaean civilization through a case ...

Tutankhamón. Howard Carter en España

El Duque de Alba y las conferencias del egiptólogo en Madrid

El 4 de noviembre de 1922 tuvo lugar uno de los mayores hallazgos de la historia de la arqueología, la tumba intacta del faraón Tutankhamón era descubierta por el arqueólogo británico en el Valle de los Reyes. este acontecimiento causó un gran impacto mediático y ...

La Guerra de los Seis Días. Junio 1967

(Revista Historia de la Guerra, Nº 30, año 2022)

Aspectos de la muerte en la Antigüedad Clásica

Aspectos de la muerte en la Antigüedad clásica trata del tema de la muerte desde un punto de vista cultural y antropológico; no biológico, médico o técnico. Ha sido compuesto a partir de las mimbres que el autor está acostumbrado a manejar: las fuentes clásicas ...

Toni Segarra y la publicidad

conversaciones con David Torrejón

Primer libro en el que Toni Segarra desvela las claves del pensamiento creativo. En él desarrolla su proceso de creación aportando soluciones hasta ahora inéditas. Pero, sobre todo, es una mirada lúcida y sin concesiones al negocio de la publicidad, descubriendo en este recorrido los ...

Plan General de Contabilidad Pública

Orden EHA/1037/2010, por la que se aprueba el Plan General de Contabilidad Pública

Este manual recoge la Orden EHA/1037/2010, de 13 de abril, por la que se aprueba el Plan General de Contabilidad Pública, incluidas las posteriores modificaciones hasta la última, llevada a cabo por la Orden HAC/820/2021, de 9 de julio. Se estructura ...

The Imperial Guard of Napoleon

1799-1815

The main aim of this book is to present a detailed overview of the history, organization and uniforms of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard. The latter was created in 1799 with the official denomination of Consular Guard, soon after Bonaparte became the “First Consul” of France ...

Clandestina

escritora, traductora, mujer

Pauline Réague fue el pseudónimo con el que Dominique Aury firmó una de las novelas más famosas del s. XX, pseudónimo a su vez de Anne Desclos tal como indicaba su partida de nacimiento... Tras estos nombres se esconde una figura reservada y singular, imprescindible ...

The EU regulations on matrimonial property and property of registered partnerships

As on 1 January 2020, some three percent of the population of the EU were citizens of one member state living and/or working in the territory of a member state other than that of which they are a citizen. In addition, around five percent ...

La responsabilidad de los socios por los acuerdos en la junta general

a presente obra proporciona un sólido fundamento a la responsabilidad como remedio de carácter general para la tutela de los socios (y terceros) ante los acuerdos de la junta general que dañen sus intereses. Partiendo de la aplicación de las normas comunes del derecho civil ...