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La batalla campal en la Edad Media

Durante la Edad Media la batalla constituyó un acontecimiento extraordinario. Frente a la cotidianeidad de otro tipo de operaciones militares, como los asedios o las campañas de devastación, las batallas representaban un evento insólito, de carácter excepcional, un suceso tan inolvidable como fascinante. Hoy día ...

Breve historia de los Judíos

Descubra la apasionante historia de los judíos. Un pueblo hostigado durante siglos y en eterno éxodo, que aún conserva su identidad religiosa. Conozca la sorprendente historia del pueblo que se considera especialmente elegido por Dios. Acompáñele desde su nacimiento y posterior estancia en Egipto, hasta ...

Mujer y Fascismo

(Revista Historia del Presente, Nº 32, año 2018)

Atlas de Historia Antigua

Volumen IV: La Monarquía y la República Romanas

Roma representa la transformación global del mundo mediterráneo. Ya Polibio en el siglo II a. C. se maravilla del poderoso impulso que emanaba de una modesta ciudad del Lacio y busca comprender las claves de su incontestable éxito. Conocer este periodo es fundamental para entender ...

La transparencia como valor del cambio social: su alcance constitucional y normativo

Concreción técnica de la figura y doctrina jurisprudencial aplicable en el ámbito de la contratación

En la actualidad, la noción de la transparencia, como ideal o referente, representa de forma paradigmática el valor del cambio social y de las aspiraciones de reforma que anidan en la convicción de la sociedad española. En este importante contexto, el profesor Orduña Moreno, de ...

A people's Constitution

the everyday life of Law in the Indian Republic

t has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India's greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People's Constitution upends ...

The power of networks

six principles that connect our lives

What makes WiFi faster at home than at a coffee shop? How does Google order search results? Is it really true that everyone on Facebook is connected by six steps or less? The Power of Networks answers questions like these for the first time in ...

When all else fails

the ethics of resistance to State injustice

The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their governments: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in When All Else Fails, Jason Brennan argues that there is a fourth option. When ...

Political hipocrisy

the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond

What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. Political Hypocrisy is a timely, and timeless, book on ...

Decriminalizing domestic violence

a balanced policy approach to intimate partner violence

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in ...

Where economics went wrong

Chicago's abandonment of classical liberalism

How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its way Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman's prediction has not come true. In Where Economics Went Wrong ...

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digital media and society. Meanwhile, regulators, governments, and the public are trying to make sense of it all. In this accessible book, Quinn DuPont guides ...

Apportionment in private Law

This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event. It examines both doctrines and principles that share responsibility between plaintiffs and defendants, on the one hand ...

The myth of capitalism

monopolies and the death of competition

Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high ...

Foundational economy

Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. The end result is the degradation of the foundational economy. The foundational economy encompasses the material infrastructure at the foundation of civilised life - things like ...

A cash-free society

whether we like it or not

Information technology is changing the world through automation, by bypassing middlemen and by digitization. We see dramatic effects today in the music industry, going from CDs to streaming, in newspapers, from paper to online, and in the banking industry, from branch offices to the Internet ...

U.S. National Security Law

an international perspective

The rise of international terrorism in today's globalized world has focused attention on the degree to which international law should shape U.S. national security law and policy. This unique textbook of readings explores how international law relates to U.S. constitutional and statutory ...

Code of Civil Procedure

selected sections and the NCC Rules

The Netherlands Commercial Court (NCC) legislation will be taken up by the Senate Justice and Security Committee in September 2018. The NCC will be an impartial and independent English-language chamber of the ordinary Amsterdam courts, specialised in complex, international business cases. NCC proceedings will be ...

The Janus-faces of cross-border crime in Europe

Europe is changing rapidly, which may also have a bearing on its criminal landscape. This does not mean that all sorts of new crime are emerging: a large part of the crimes remains profit-oriented and is committed by known modus operandi. That is the old ...

Big debt crises

principles for navigating

For the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, one of the world's most successful investors, Ray Dalio, shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to anticipate events ...