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The last vikings

the epic story of the great norse voyagers

The English Civil war

a military history

Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law ...

Political theory

a beginner´s guide

Is democracy the best form of government? What does it mean to be ‘free’? Why should we obey the government? In this highly accessible and engaging new introductory textbook, Pete Woodcock examines all these questions and more in a compact outline of the basics of ...

Can liberal states accommodate indigenous peoples?

"The original - and often continuing - sin of countries with a settler colonial past is their brutal treatment of indigenous peoples. Duncan Ivison's book considers how these states can accommodate indigenous populations today, and contends that we need to move towards a historically and theoretically ...

Money

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and hugely important, yet economists cannot even ...

What is cultural sociology?

"Offering a concise answer to the question "What is Cultural Sociology?," this book provides an overview of what you need to know to do cultural sociology. Spillman demonstrates many of the conceptual tools cultural sociologists use to help understand how people make meaning, with vivid ...

American pragmatism

an introduction

"In this comprehensive introduction, Spencer presents a new story of the origins and development of American Pragmatism, from its emergence through the interaction of European and Indigenous American cultures to its contemporary status as a diverse, vibrant, and contested global philosophy. This is an indispensable ...

Prefigurative politics

building tomorrow today

Many of us wonder what we could possibly do to end oppression, exploitation, and injustice. People have studied revolutions and protest movements for centuries, but few have focused on prefigurative politics, the idea of 'building the new society within the shell of the old'. Fed ...

The Gig economy

a critical introduction

All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about the gig economy. From taxi drivers to pizza deliverers to the unemployed, we are all aware of the huge changes that it is driving in our lives as workers, consumers and citizens. This is the first comprehensive ...

The enchantments of Mammon

how capitalism became the religion of modernity

Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can ...

Unfabling the East

How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the ...

The music industry

music in the cloud

Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroughly updated third edition provides an international overview of the music industry and its future prospects in the world of global ...

The uncounted

What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you’re not counted, you don’t count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate ...

Los orígenes de la expansión europea. Ceuta 1415

I Congreso Internacional

El sistema legal de los Estados Unidos

Pese al enorme interés que existe en el extranjero por conocer las instituciones de los EE.UU., lo que se sabe de nuestro sistema legal es, en general, fragmentario. En presencia de lo que un conocido jurista británico ha definido como “una multiplicidad tal de ...

Derecho administrativo

Es propósito de este libro un estudio general del derecho administrativo, abandonando la forma habitual, demasiado concisa y escueta, de los manuales docentes. Aunque nunca he dejado de tener presentes tanto al profesional como al lector no especializado es muy de temer con cierta frecuencia ...

La oralidad y las pruebas en el proceso civil

proceso oral y proceso escrito

Verdaderamente el problema de la oralidad esta, como veremos, tan estrechamente ligado con el de la instrucción probatoria, y en particular con el problema de la asunción y valoración de las pruebas no documentales, que su importancia se atenúa o desaparece, en principio en el ...

Acuerdos prematrimoniales internacionales

Los acuerdos prematrimoniales internacionales en previsión de ruptura matrimonial son cada vez más habituales. El mundo globalizado en el que vivimos hace que las familias transnacionales sean frecuentes. Los cónyuges, en ocasiones, no comparten nacionalidad, a veces ni incluso, residen en el mismo país. Esta ...

Claves en el sistema europeo de protección del contenido de los derechos fundamentales

La apertura constitucional del Ordenamiento jurídico español al orden jurídico internacional -señaladamente, nuestra integración en la UE- nos ha incardinado en materia de Derechos fundamentales en un sistema multinivel de tutela; caracterizado tanto por la coexistencia de una pluralidad de fuentes de garantía iusfundamental vinculantes ...

Violencia contra las mujeres y refugio

estudio de la concesión del estatuto de refugiado desde una perspectiva de género

Las mujeres suelen presentar especificidades en sus experiencias de refugio. En este trabajo se defiende que las mismas tienen que ver con las violencias basadas en el género que sufren las mujeres en general y las refugiadas en particular. Estas violencias específicas condicionan los elementos ...