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The second creation

fixing the american Constitution in the founding era

Americans widely believe that the U.S. Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. Jonathan Gienapp recovers the unknown story of the Constitution's second creation in the decade after its adoption-a story with explosive implications for ...

Environmental ethics

a very short introduction

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming ...

Ending overcriminalization and mass incarceration

hope from civil society

Mass incarceration is an overwhelming problem and reforms are often difficult, leading to confusion about what to do and where to start. Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Hope from Civil Society introduces the key issues that need immediate attention and provides concrete direction about effective ...

Comparative religious Law

judaism, christianity, islam

Comparative Religious Law provides for the first time a study of the regulatory instruments of Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious organisations in Britain in light of their historical religious laws. Norman Doe questions assumptions about the pervasiveness, character and scope of religious laws, from the ...

Atiyah's accidents, compensation and the Law

Now in its ninth edition, Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law explores the recent and continuous developments in personal injury law by applying social context to the relevant legal principles. Those principles remain in need of radical reform. Updates to the text include discussion ...

Churchill

walking with destiny

A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be ...

What justices want

goals and personality on the U.S. Supreme Court

The most sophisticated theories of judicial behavior depict judges as rational actors who strategically pursue multiple goals when making decisions. However, these accounts tend to disregard the possibility that judges have heterogeneous goal preferences - that is, that different judges want different things. Integrating insights from ...

The politico-legal dynamics of judicial review

a comparative analysis

Comparative scholarship on judicial review has paid a lot of attention to the causal impact of politics on judicial decision-making. However, the slower-moving, macro-social process through which judicial review influences societal conceptions of the law/politics relation is less well understood. Drawing on the political ...

Cyberwar

how Russian hackers and trolls helped Elect a President. What we don't, can't, and do know

The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So too has Vladimir Putin. Others ...

Lévy-Strauss

a biography

Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us.

An invitation to Social Theory

Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act, and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult language that ...

Entre España y Palestina

revisión crítica de unas relaciones

Durante los dos siglos de relaciones entre España y Palestina esta última he estado encerrada en el papel de víctima: víctima de haber albergado una ciudad que es santa para tres religiones, víctima de la codicia colonialista (el mandato británico no dejó de ser una ...

Más allá del Equinoccio de Primavera

Poseedora de la oscura melancolía de Kokoro, pero con la frescura de Sanshiro o Botchan, Más allá del equinoccio de primavera es una novela delicada y sutil que entreteje un increíble tapiz emocional de personajes y que eleva a S?seki por encima de cualquier ...

Mi imaginario básico al dedillo

Una pequeña enciclopedia para ayudar a los más pequeños a reconocer las formas, los colores, los números y los contrarios mediante los objetos del mundo que los rodea. Con más de 40 texturas y 120 palabras, este imaginario acompañará a los niños y niñas en ...

Leotolda

Leotolda es una aventura fantástica que alcanzará su fin con el poder de tu creatividad. Un viaje basado en la amistad, en el que descubrimos cómo las experiencias nos ayudan a crecer. Deja que tu curiosidad abra las puertas.

La increíble vida de los paisajes

No, el Sáhara no siempre fue un desierto: hace 9.000 años, su superficie se hallaba cubierta de inmensos lagos. La Amazonia, la selva más grande del mundo, que parece una jungla impenetrable, estaba atravesada hace milenios por larguísimos caminos que unían innumerables aldeas. En ...

Buenas noches, planeta

Un tierno y bellísimo cómic sobre un peluche aventurero que encandilará a los más pequeños, de la mano de uno de los dibujantes de cómic más reconocidos a nivel mundial. ¿Nunca te has preguntado qué sucede en tu habitación cuando se hace de noche? Pues ...

Años salvajes

Años salvajes nos habla de una obsesión, la de William Finnegan con el surf. Finnegan comenzó a hacer surf de pequeño en Hawái y California. En los años setenta, tras finalizar sus estudios universitarios, su pasión le llevó a dejarlo todo y emprender un viaje ...

Historia de una demencia colectiva

En 1534, en la ciudad alemana de Münster, Bockelson, líder de los anabaptistas, se apodera de la localidad por medio del terror y la fuerza. Los resultados de su utopía son desastrosos: abusos de todo tipo, poligamia obligatoria, histeria colectiva y ejecuciones cotidianas. Este libro ...

Estimación de la recaudación impositiva

predicción de ingresos por impuestos

El objetivo es presentar las técnicas relativas a la estimación de los ingresos por impuestos a nivel mensual y repasar toda la metodología de modelización econométrica para aplicarla a casos prácticos de predicciones de IVA, IRPF, SOCIEDADES y otros impuestos del sistema impositivo español. Se ...