Libros de

Derecho y Religión

nociones de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado

Esta obra permite conocer la toma de postura del Estado español ante el factor social religioso. Esa toma de postura, adoptada a nivel constitucional, fija las coordenadas en las que se mueve la normativa que hace referencia a cuestiones religiosas. El núcleo del Derecho Eclesiástico ...

Data protection and privacy

the Internet of bodies

The subjects of Privacy and Data Protection are more relevant than ever, and especially since 25 May 2018, when the European General Data Protection Regulation became enforceable. This volume brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy ...

Protección de datos, responsabilidad activa y técnicas de garantía

Curso de 'Delegado de Protección de Datos'. Adaptado a la nueva Ley Orgánica 3/2018, de 5 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos Personales y garantía de los derechos digitales

La entrada en vigor del Reglamento (UE) 2016/679 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo de 27 de abril de 2016 relativo a la protección de las personas físicas en lo que respecta al tratamiento de datos personales y a la libre circulación de estos ...

The balance between worker protection and employer powers

insights from around the world

This book analyses the most important problems and challenges of the current labour market from the point of view of the balance between the parties of the employment contract. The contributions here are related to various pressing topics, including, for example, the future of work ...

Health at work, ageing and environmental effects on future social security and labour Law systems

This volume analyses the most important problems and challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, and how these factors affect both the way people work and their rights. The contributions here focus on the main challenges for social security systems ...

Legal validity and soft Law

This book features essays that investigate the nature of legal validity from the point of view of different traditions and disciplines. Validity is a fascinating and elusive characteristic of law that in itself deserves to be explored, but further investigation is made more acute and ...

The digital party

political organisation and online democracy

From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK, to Jean-Luc Melenchon's presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the ...

The integrity of criminal process

from theory into practice

Criminal proceedings, it is often now said, ought to be conducted with integrity. But what, exactly, does it mean for criminal process to have, or to lack, 'integrity'? Is integrity in this sense merely an aspirational normative ideal, with possibly diffuse influence on conceptions of ...

The constitutional systems of the independent Central Asian States

a contextual analysis

This book undertakes the first comparative constitutional analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic and Republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in their cultural, historical, political, economic and social context. The first chapter provides a general overview of the diverse and dynamic constitutional landscape across the ...

EU Criminal Law after Lisbon

rights, trust and the transformation of Justice in Europe

This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on EU criminal law. By focusing on key areas of criminal law and procedure, the book assesses the extent to which the entry into force ...

Parliament

legislation and accountability

This collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles-as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new ...

Just giving

why philanthropy is failing democracy and how it can do better

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today's democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society's benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn't the ...

Uneven Centuries

economic development of Turkey since 1820

The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries, Sevket Pamuk examines the economic growth and ...

El Gran Libro de los Mitos Griegos

Bienvenido al maravilloso mundo de los mitos griegos. Un mundo tejido a través de relatos que han sido transmitidos de padres a hijos durante generaciones. En este libro encontrarás doce de las más famosas historias de la mitología griega, relatadas con un lenguaje coloquial y ...

Merger masters

tales of arbitrage

Merger Masters presents revealing profiles of monumentally successful merger investors based on exclusive interviews with some of the greatest minds to practice the art of arbitrage. Michael Price, John Paulson, Paul Singer, and others offer practical perspectives on how their backgrounds in the risk-conscious world ...

The urban commons

how data and technology can rebuild our communities

Through voicemail, apps, websites, and Twitter, Boston's sophisticated 311 system allows citizens to report potholes, broken streetlights, graffiti, and vandalism that affect everyone's quality of life. Drawing on Boston's rich data, Daniel T. O'Brien offers a model of what smart technology ...

Pequeña teología de la lentitud

Pasamos por las cosas sin habitarlas, hablamos con los demás sin escucharlos, acumulamos información en la que no llegaremos a profundizar. Todo transcurre a un galope ruidoso, vehemente y efímero. La velocidad a la que vivimos nos impide vivir. Precisamos de una lentitud que nos ...

Post Elcano Circumdedisti me

los circunnavegadores

Tecnología del agua

con diagramas de flujo, tablas, casos prácticos resueltos y otras ilustraciones, para la formación de profesionales en esta materia

Este libro trata toda la Tecnología del agua totalmente actualizada, que incluye los sistemas de potabilización del agua de consumo, el tratamiento de aguas residuales urbanas e industriales, la desalación de agua de mar y aguas salobres, la energía hidráulica, el agua y la energía ...

Energía geotérmica: manual técnico

con diagramas de flujo, tablas, casos prácticos resueltos y otras ilustraciones, para la formación de profesionales en esta materia

Geotermia es la ciencia encargada de estudiar las variaciones de temperatura en el interior de la tierra y la energía geotérmica es la que procede del interior de la tierra. La temperatura de la tierra va en aumento a medida que vamos profundizando, llegando a ...