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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...