Libros de

Derecho y justicia

La presente obra trata aspectos fundamentales para el estudio del derecho contemporáneo: la relación de derecho y justicia, la irracionalidad del ulterior concepto y la definición del primer termino, partes que intentare explayar aun con un conocimiento mínimo del derecho en general.

El compliance officer, ¿un profesional en riesgo?

perspectiva penal, empresarial, procesal, de la fiscalía y jurisprudencial

Los numerosos escándalos financieros y contables ocurridos en el ámbito empresarial en los últimos años han provocado un aumento de regulaciones, nacionales e internacionales, que garanticen la transparencia y prevengan los delitos. En este contexto, la figura del compliance officer surge como responsable de supervisar ...

Pensamiento utópico, republicanismo y socialismo en España en el Sexenio Democrático

la obra de Elías Zerolo

La cuestión social fue el gran problema surgido de la implantación del régimen liberal en los países occidentales a lo largo del siglo XIX. Dicha cuestión copó el debate público en dicha centuria y constituyó una fuente de inspiración para políticos, intelectuales y participantes de ...

The left case against the EU

Many on the left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater co-operation and progress. If it has drifted rightwards, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes ...

La discriminación retributiva por razón de sexo

brecha salarial y desigualdades de género en el mercado de trabajo

La brecha salarial es un problema real que recae fundamentalmente en la incorrecta por estereotipada valoración del trabajo desempeñado por hombres y mujeres. El presente libro ofrece las herramientas para identificar estas incorrectas valoraciones y expone con detalle los argumentos jurídicos que la sostienen y ...

Un siglo de hospitales entre lo público y lo privado (1886-1986)

Esta obra es fruto del trabajo conjunto de siete especialistas en historia económica e historia de la medicina y ofrece un estudio sobre la construcción histórica del sistema hospitalario en la España contemporánea. Su enfoque se centra en el análisis de una serie de claves ...

Hidalgos e hidalguía en la Península Ibérica

(siglos XII-XV)

El presente volumen reúne un nutrido conjunto de estudios que, globalmente, suponen una revisión crítica sobre el concepto y práctica de la hidalguía. La cuestión se aborda desde la lexicografía a las prácticas documentales, desde los discursos políticos a la materialización del privilegio, desde la ...

Compendio Historia del Derecho español

Instrumento de trabajo destinado a facilitar el estudio de la asignatura de Historia del Derecho. La Historia del Derecho Español que se aborda en este Compendio procura hacer un análisis desde la realidad del Derecho que es siempre histórica. Desde la racionalidad del Derecho, sin ...

Human trafficking

trade for sex, labor, and organs

The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention being paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. A number of international and national policies and protocols have been developed and billions of dollars have been spent to ...

Post-humanitarianism

governing precarity in the digital world

The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such a world, the spread of computers and connectivity, and the arrival of new digital sense-making tools are widely celebrated as helpful.

Habermas and the Media

Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the twenty-first. This book lucidly unpacks Habermas sophisticated contributions to the study of media centring around the three core ...

Political psychology

a social psychological approach

A research-based guide to political psychology that is filled with critical arguments from noted experts Political Psychology is solidly grounded in empirical research and critical arguments. The text puts the emphasis on alternative approaches to psychological enquiry that challenge our traditional assumptions about the world ...

Capitalism in America

a history

'An inspiring, rip-roaring read - like the astonishing story it describes' Liam Halligan, Daily Telegraph Where does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role does innovation play in creating prosperity and why do some eras see the fruits of innovation ...

Digital renaissance

what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that might be a good thing The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has ...

Cents and sensibility

what economics can learn from the humanities

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities-especially the study of literature-offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith ...

The lost history of liberalism

from Ancient Rome to the twenty-first century

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a term of derision-in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers ...

Sentientist politics

a theory of global inter-species justice

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against ...

EU equality Law

the first Fundamental Rights policy of the EU

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers. Although these powers do not include an all-encompassing fundamental rights' mandate, today's existential challenges - from economic to refugee crisis, via concerns for compliance with the rule of law in some of ...

The victims os slavery, colonization and the Holocaust

a comparative history of persecution

This book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this analysis with the experiences of people who have been colonized or enslaved. Using numerous victim accounts and a wide range of ...

The trial of the Kaiser

In the immediate aftermath of the armistice that ended the First World War, the Allied nations of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to put the fallen German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial, in what would be the first ever international criminal tribunal. In Britain ...