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La Corte y los soberanos

Un acercamiento europeo a la singularidad estadounidense

La historia de los Estados Unidos de América es, en buena medida, la de un forcejeo entre el gobierno federal y cincuenta entes soberanos, de Alabama a Wyoming. A lo largo de más de doscientos años, las tensiones generadas por esta soberanía dual han ido ...

Corruption

what everyone needs to know

Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know®, renowned scholars Ray Fisman and Miriam A. Golden provide ...

El concurso de normas y el concurso de delitos en el Libro II del Código Penal

La obra se ocupa de un aspecto central en las relaciones entre la Parte General y la Parte Especial del Derecho penal: la legitimidad y conveniencia de establecer reglas concursales específicas en determinados supuestos de posible aplicación de varios tipos delictivos de la Parte Especial ...

The causes of war and the spread of peace

but will war rebound?

Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an irresistible drive nor a cultural invention, deadly violence and warfare ...

Peru

elite power and political capture

While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this 'Pink Tide' has so far failed to reach Peru. Instead, the corporate elite remains firmly entrenched, and the left continues to be marginalised. Peru therefore represents a particularly stark example of 'state capture', in which ...

Playing at acquisitions

behavioral option games

It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by growing uncertainty, together with the advent of new competitors, are further complicating the task of valuing acquisitions. Too often, managers rely on flawed valuation ...

They came from the sky

the spanish arrive in Texas

In the fall of 2018, the University of Texas Press will publish the inaugural volume of the Texas Bookshelf, a major new history of Texas by Stephen Harrigan, the New York Times best-selling author. The Texas Bookshelf promises to be the most ambitious and comprehensive ...

Barometer of fear

an insider's account of rogue trading and the greatest banking scandal in history

The LIBOR affair has been described as the 'biggest banking scandal in history', a deception affecting not only banks but also corporations, pension funds and ordinary people. But was this just the tip of the iceberg? Was the scandal the work of a few 'bad ...

The Riemann hypothesis

a million dollar problem

Baffling the greatest minds for over one hundred and fifty years, the Riemann hypothesis is generally considered one of the most important and intriguing open problems in mathematics. In addition, it was chosen as one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems by the Clay Mathematics ...

Razón del juicio seguido contra los falsificadores de la Alcazaba del Albaicín de Granada

"Razón del Juicio", como su extenso título indica, reúne en un volumen toda la documentación histórica y jurídica, generada a raíz del juicio que tuvo lugar en Granada entre los años 1774 y 1777, contra varios falsificadores de monumentos, sagrados y profanos, caracteres, tradiciones, reliquias ...

Breaking the pendulum

the long struggle over criminal justice

The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps ...

The long and the short of It

a global guide to finance and investment for those not in the industry

The follies of finance have threatened the stability of the global economy, and the world of finance has become increasingly complex and sophisticated, but also greedy, cynical and self-interested. The Long and the Short of It provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance ...

La infancia recuperada

Libro sobre libros, LA INFANCIA RECUPERADA es un conjuro literario para evocar la huella gozosa dejada en la memoria del escritor por los relatos que animaron su adolescencia y primera juventud. Porque las hermosas historias inventadas por Robert L. Stevenson, Julio Verne, Zane Grey, Jack ...

Elementos para una teoría crítica del sistema prostitucional

Esta obra surge con la determinación de abordar la prostitución desde una mirada crítico-reflexiva, como una institución básica para la perpetuación de las sociedades patriarcales. Plantea con contundencia cómo es posible que los innegables avances de las mujeres hacia la igualdad vayan acompañados de una ...

Reflexiones y propuestas sobre la reforma de la Constitución Española

A principios del mes de octubre del 2016, un grupo de profesores y profesoras de Derecho Constitucional celebramos, en el Instituto de Derecho Público de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, un seminario de investigación donde se abordó, a través de las respectivas ponencias y comunicaciones ...

Concepto de culpabilidad y fundamento punitivo de la participación

Never split the difference

negotiating as if your life depended on it

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations ...

Derecho penal. Parte general I

El hecho punible

Günter Stratenwerth, catedrático emérito de Derecho penal en la Universidad de Basilea (Suiza), es uno de los discípulos más destacados de Hans Welzel y uno de los representantes más importantes de la ciencia del Derecho penal alemana. Su obra es un manual de referencia en ...

Come distinguere scienza e non-scienza

Uno dei principali scopi della riflessione filosofica sulla scienza è quello di formulare un criterio in grado di distinguere le scienze empiriche non solo dalle scienze formali (logica e matematica), ma anche e soprattutto dalle non-scienze, come la metafisica, la teologia, la religione, il mito ...

El acoso sexual

un aspecto olvidado de la violencia de género

La presente monografía analiza el fenómeno del acoso sexual en el trabajo. Se parte del hecho de que en España no ha existido un importante debate social sobre este tipo de violencia, ni tampoco ha sido objeto de estudio por parte de la Academia. Por ...