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The responsive judge

international perspectives

This book focuses on the changing role of judges in courts, tribunals, and other forums across a variety of jurisdictions. With contributions by international experts in judicial administration and senior judicial figures, it provides a unique comparative perspective on the role of modern judges in ...

Liquid legal

transforming legal into a business savvy, information enabled and performance driven industry

This book compels the legal profession to question its current identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives, clients and stakeholders, transforming legal into a function that creates incremental value. It provides a uniquely broad range of forward-looking perspectives from several ...

21 lecciones para el siglo XXI

¿Cómo podemos protegernos de las guerras nucleares, los cataclismos ecológicos o las tecnologías disruptivas? ¿Qué podemos hacer contra la propagación de la posverdad o la amenaza del terrorismo? ¿Qué debemos enseñar a nuestros hijos? Con la misma prosa inteligente, fresca y provocadora, Harari vuelve a ...

Introducción a la fiscalidad de la empresa

esquemas básicos y 600 preguntas de test

MEMENTO EXPERTO-Tributación de las actividades agrícolas, ganaderas y forestales

La presente obra trata de llenar un vacío existente en relación con las escasas publicaciones que, sobre la fiscalidad del sector agrario (actividades agrícolas, ganaderas y forestales) se han efectuado, dando respuesta a todos los temas complejos derivados del ejercicio de las citadas actividades, bien ...

Inside the Arab State

Inside the Arab State offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary Arab politics before and after the 2011 uprisings. Mehran Kamrava examines a broad range of political, economic, and social variables that shaped conceptions of power, functions and institutions of the state, the rise and evolution ...

Visual power in Ancient Greece and Rome

between art and social reality

Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and ...

Society and puritanism in pre-revolutionary England

The role of Puritanism in the formation of modern Britain In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Professor Hill shows Puritanism as a living faith, one that responded to social ...

La abstracción del mundo

Sobre el 'mal autoinmune' de la juridicidad moderna

La subjetividad moderna, que ha prometido siempre la emancipación humana, parece conducirnos indefectiblemente a nuevas formas de alienación. A partir de un párrafo de Th. W. Adorno, y en un recorrido que va desde la crisis bajo medieval hasta nuestros días, este texto repasa las ...

Both Eastern and Western

an intellectual history of iranian modernity

Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has become subsumed by this narrative. Here, Afshin Matin-Asgari ...

On Germany

After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the ...

La ciencia del derecho como ciencia real

Los artículos de Hans Albert, recogidos en este libro, exploran las posibilidades de convertir al derecho en una ciencia real, esto es, una ciencia cimentada sobre bases empírico-críticas. Se rechaza el normativismo dominante en la actualidad metodología del derecho y, en su lugar, se propone ...

The global 1970s

radicalism, reform, and crisis

No other decade evokes such contradictory images as the 1970s: reform and emancipation on the one hand, crisis and malaise on the other. In The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis, Duco Hellema portrays the 1970s as a period of global transition. Across the world ...

Japanese reflections on World War II and the american occupation

This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and ...

The Marshall Plan

dawn of the Cold War

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today. In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials ...

Writing the Early Crusades

text, transmission and memory

The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with the so-called "eyewitness" accounts of the crusade and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and verse. From the time ...

Medieval life

archaeology and the life course

The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the ...

Memory unbound

tracing the dynamics of memory studies

Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic approach, this ...

Cómo mantenerse sano

Plutarco (46–120 d.C.) no dejó de manifestar un muy vivo interés por la medicina, que estudia al mismo tiempo que la filosofía. En este breve tratado, escrito después de la muerte del emperador Tito en el año 81 de nuestra era, la salud ...

El libro de los libros de Chilam Balam

Después de la conquista española, los libros conocidos con el nombre genérico de Chilam Balam fueron redactados en lengua maya, con caracteres latinos. Las cuatro partes del libro relatan las vicisitudes de los itzaes, la dominación del Mayab por los toltecas, el fin y destrucción ...