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The State and civil society

regulating interest groups, parties, and Public Benefit Organizations in contemporary democracies

State regulation of civil society is expanding yet widely contested, often portrayed as illegitimate intrusion. Despite ongoing debates about the nature of state-voluntary relations in various disciplines, we know surprisingly little about why long-lived democracies adopt more or less constraining legal approaches in this sphere ...

EU Administrative Law

The third edition of EU Administrative Law provides comprehensive coverage of the administrative system in the EU and the principles of judicial review that apply in this area. This revised edition provides important updates on each area covered, including new case law; institutional developments; and ...

Destroying a Nation

the civil war in Syria

Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In ...

Revista La Maleta de Portbou, Nº 32, año 2018

The young Atatürk

from Ottoman soldier to statesman of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal - latterly and better known as Atatürk - is without doubt the most famous figure in modern Turkish history. But what was his path to power? And how did his early career as a soldier in the Ottoman army affect his later decisions as President.

A short history of the Hundred Years War

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In ...

Aleppo

the rise and fall of Syria's great merchant city

A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where ...

Gorbachov

vida y época

Cuando Mijaíl Gorbachov se convirtió en el líder de la Unión Soviética en 1985 la URSS era sin duda una de las dos superpotencias mundiales de aquel entonces. Cuatro años más tarde, la perestroika y la glásnost, máximos exponentes de sus políticas liberales, habían conseguido ...

Dragon Lords

the history and legends of viking England

Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

After his intellectual biography of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest modern admirers: The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's influence on post-war philosophical investigation has been pervasive, while his eccentric personal life has entered ...

El triunfo de la democracia en España

de Franco a Felipe González pasando por Juan Carlos

En esta obra, Paul Preston recorre el camino que pasa por la desintegración del franquismo, la muerte de Carrero Blanco, la etapa de gobierno de Arias Navarro, la llegada de Adolfo Suárez y la reforma política emprendida, la construcción de una democracia con elementos del ...

American cultural history

a very short introduction

In recent decades, culture-the values, attitudes, beliefs, and myths of a particular society and the objects through which they are organized-has earned prominent stature in the annals of American history. The United States often brings to mind Uncle Sam and the cowboys of the Old ...

La destrucción de la democracia en España

reformas, reacción y revolución en la Segunda República

La primera edición de este libro en 1978 se convirtió pronto en una obra de referencia obligada. Esta nueva edición plenamente revisada incorpora diversas acotaciones y reflexiones sobre la interacción de los principales partidos de masas de izquierda y de derecha, poniendo de manifiesto que ...

The witch

a history of fear, from Ancient times to the present

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence-and often a painful death-in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically ...

The Crusader Armies

A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles ...

El pueblo

auge y declive de la clase obrera (1910-2010)

A principios del siglo XX, la mayor parte de la población británica pertenecía a la clase obrera; cien años después, su existencia misma está en entredicho. El más poderoso sujeto de transformación social, aquella fuerza que tuvo en sus manos ganar un mundo nuevo, parece ...

The Kremlin letters

Stalin's wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume-the fruit of ...

The story of Greece and Rome

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However ...

Mussolini and Hitler

the forging of the fascist alliance

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes? From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded ...

La ardilla miedosa se prepara para la Navidad

La Ardilla Miedosa te ha preparado un estupendo regalo para estas fiestas: su manual de Navidad! Una recopilación de consejos, sugerencias e ideas para que puedas superar todos los obstáculos navideños. Podrás sobrepasar todos los obstáculos?