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Prescripción e imprescriptibilidad de los delitos

Orígenes. Fundamentos. Naturaleza jurídica

En este libro, de forma novedosa, se trata de forma conjunta la prescripción y la imprescriptibilidad de los delitos, estudiando la evolución histórica de cada una de estas figuras desde sus orígenes hasta su actual regulación en el Código Penal español tras su modificación por ...

El sector turístico español

cuestiones y retos fiscales

La importancia del sector turístico en España es innegable, puesto que su aportación al PIB supera el 10%, siendo, por tanto, una fuente significativa de creación de empleo y riqueza para la economía española. De ahí, que la realización un análisis jurídico-tributario del mismo adquiera ...

An international approach to capital markets and financial regulation

Los mercados e instituciones financieras promueven flujos de fondos en toda nuestra economía, que a su vez afectan a las transacciones nacionales e internacionales, a los resultados empresariales, a la producción de bienes y servicios, y al bienestar económico de individuos y países. Lo que ...

The end of indexing

six structural mega-trends that threaten passive investing

Index-tracking is the flavour of the day - it accounts for around one-third of the total US mutual fund market, and is still growing rapidly. Indexing appears to be unstoppable. But, in The End of Indexing, investment veteran Niels Jensen presents a different vision. In a ...

Introduction to international relations

theory and practice

How do we understand international relations in a globalized world? This clear and concise text takes as its starting point the theoretical frameworks that are the foundation of current IR. Joyce P. Kaufman explains and contextualizes the traditional theories, highlighting both their strengths and weaknesses ...

Sources in American Constitution history

In the second revised and expanded edition of this invaluable reader, Michael Les Benedict draws together the important documents that have shaped and been shaped by the American Constitution from medieval times through the present day. It includes not only the most important Supreme Court ...

Transnational fascism inthe Twentieth Century

Spain, Italy and the global neo-fascist network

Developing a knowledge of the Spanish-Italian connection between right-wing extremist groups is crucial to any detailed understanding of the history of fascism. Transnational Fascism in the Twentieth Century allows us to consider the global fascist network that built up over the course of the 20th ...

Why women will save the planet

Big cities don't have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental sustainability - if we empower women. This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth showcasing pioneering city mayors, key ...

Digital demagogue

authoritarian capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

We're all familiar by now with the ways that Donald Trump uses digital media to communicate, from the ridiculous to the terrifying. This book digs deeper into the use of those tools in politics to show how they have facilitated the rise of authoritarianism ...

The culture of surveillance

From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to protect ...

Fascism

an introduction to comparative fascist studies

The word 'fascism' is used so frequently in journalism and social media that it sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political Right, from Hitler to Donald Trump, and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that ...

The anticipatory organization

turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage

Technology-driven change is accelerating at an exponential rate, but moving fast in the wrong direction will only get you into trouble faster! Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough. The Anticipatory Organization ...

India and the patent wars

pharmaceuticals in the new intellectual property regime

India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes to analyses ...

The world according to XI

everything you need to know about the New China

China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. In ...

Why the Left loses

the decline of the centre-left in comparative perspective

Social Democracy is on the back-foot, and increasingly centre-left political parties are struggling to win office. Bringing together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy, Why the left loses offers an international, comparative view of the changing political landscape ...

Slavery's capitalism

a new history of american economic development

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery ...

Making sense of Brexit

After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger ...

Continent by default

the European Union and the demise of regional order

In Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec, a distinguished analyst of contemporary Europe, considers the European Union as a geopolitical project. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of how the European Union came to organize the continent, first by default through enlargement and in ...

Trusting enemies

How can two states with enemy relations transform their relationship? Nicholas Wheeler argues that the discipline of International Relations has not done a good job of answering this question because its focus has been on the state and the individual levels of analysis. In this ...

Voluntary disruptions

international soft Law, finance, and power

From home mortgages to i-phones, basic elements of our daily lives depend on international economic markets. The astonishing complexity of these exchanges may seem ungoverned. Yet the global economy remains deeply bound by rules. Far from the staid world of treaties and state-to-state diplomacy, economic ...