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God's country

christian zionism in America

The United States is Israel's closest ally in the world. The fact is undeniable, and undeniably controversial, not least because it so often inspires conspiracy theorizing among those who refuse to believe that the special relationship serves America's strategic interests or places the ...

Nuevas tendencias del desarrollo de las Haciendas Locales

Este libro aborda aspectos de la tributación local diversos entre sí, pero vinculados por un elemento común: ser indicativos de nuevas tendencias en la Hacienda local y afrontar algunos de los grandes retos que se le están planteando en la actualidad. Los trabajos se han ...

Elf Queens and Holy Friars

fairy beliefs and the Medieval Chuch

In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that the major cultural gulf in the Middle ...

La lucha que no cesa

los derechos del colectivo LGBTI como Derechos Humanos

La protección de las minorías y las personas vulnerables frente a la violencia y la discriminación ha sido una preocupación constante desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, el colectivo de lesbianas, gais, bisexuales, transgénero e intersexuales (LGBTI) no ha recibido la ...

Derechos Humanos y Constitución

Los coordinadores de este libro, Derechos humanos y Constitución, creemos que los lectores van a encontrar en él algo distinto de las exégesis del articulado constitucional en materia de derechos fundamentales que se escribirán al albur de este 40 aniversario de la Constitución española de ...

Diritto civile italiano

due scoli di storia

Prima delle codificazioni la storia della cultura giuridica italiana si confondeva con la storia del diritto europeo e anche dopo le codificazioni, lungi dal rinchiudersi nei confini nazionali, è stata vivificata dalle esperienze straniere. Il libro segue le trasformazioni del diritto civile italiano sullo sfondo ...

Diritto penale

una conversazione

Negli ultimi quarant’anni il diritto penale ha conosciuto profonde trasformazioni. Sempre più numerosi sono divenuti i beni protetti penalisticamente e sempre più estesi gli ambiti in cui viene richiesta una tutela penale. Si assiste a una spinta alla criminalizzazione che talvolta diventa deriva giustizialista ...

Il Diritto in una società che cambia

a colloquio con Orlando Roselli

«Se il mare è mosso, è ancor più necessario un timone che non si irrigidisca ma corrisponda con duttile energia alla mobilità delle onde. Quel timone ? ne sono certo ? è per noi la teorica dell’ordinamento giuridico, strumento duttile che si presta a rivestire la ...

Corso di Diritto costituzionale

Il manuale illustra l’ordinamento costituzionale italiano in modo esauriente e aggiornato. Di esso sono descritti in dettaglio diritti, istituti di garanzia e organi: come funzionano, i reciproci rapporti, la loro evoluzione nel tempo, come si inquadrano nell’ordinamento internazionale e in quello dell’Unione ...

Half in, half out

Prime Ministers on Europe

Born out of a series of Oxford University lectures devised by the former director of the No. 10 Policy Unit, Andrew Adonis, Half In, Half Out presents a comprehensive and enlightening look at Britain's Prime Ministers over the past seven decades - and explores their ...

Churchill and Attlee

the unlikely allies who won the war

In 1940, Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government and serving under Churchill, becoming the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister. Whilst Churchill concentrated on the war effort, Attlee was left in charge of domestic affairs, effectively ensuring the smooth ...

The last gunfight

the real story of the shootout at the O.K. Corral - and how it changed the American West

As 'The Last Gunfight' makes clear, the real story of the O.K. Corral and the West is far different from what we've been led to believe by countless Westerns. Drawing on new material from private collections as well as documentary research in Tombstone ...

Revoluciones científicas

Antología sobre las corrientes científicas recientes con ensayos de T. S. Kuhn, Dudley Shapere, Hilary Putnam, sir Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos, Ian Hacking, Larry Laudan y Paul Feyerabend, con bibliografía y notas curriculares acerca de los participantes.

Pay no heed to the rockets

Palestine in the present tense

'Pay No Heed to the Rockets' offers a window into the literary heritage of Palestine that transcends the narrow language of conflict. Paying homage to the memory of literary giants like Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Kanafani and the contemporary authors they continue to inspire, this ...

Capsicum y cultura

la historial del chilli

Historia del vegetal llamado chile, que se ocupa de investigar todo su aspecto: antecedentes, difusión en el mundo, formas de cultivo, comercialización, referencias que sobre él se encuentran en los numerosos comentarios de estudiosos entre el siglo XVI y XIX y su taxonomía.

The Ebb of the Pink Tide

the decline of the Left in Latin America

Following the election of Hugo Chavez to the Venezuelan presidency, and the Cochabamba water wars, Latin American politics were radicalised and their governments populated with former activists and trade union leaders. In this book, renowned Latin Americanist Mike Gonzalez explores the course of the Left ...

Market rules

bankers, presidents, and the origins of the Great Recession

Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry. In 1971, members ...

The Balfour Declaration

empire, the mandate and resistance in Palestine

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine On 2 November 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared it was in favour of "the establishment in Palestine of a national home ...

New borders

hotspots and the european migration regime

To many, a border is a geographical fact; an immoveable, unchanging entity. But what happens when a border is subject to an emergency? Today, as millions are forced to migrate due to homelessness through war, famine and political unrest, it is important to look for ...

The Kaiser's dawn

the untold story of britain's secret mission to murder the Kaiser in 1918

In mid summer 1918 the First World War was still finely balanced. A top secret mission, which has remained classified information for a century, was set in motion to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was felt that by killing their head of state and commander ...