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1917. La Revolución rusa cien años después

La Revolución rusa fue el acontecimiento más trascendental del siglo xx. El asalto al Palacio de Invierno de Petrogrado en octubre de 1917 fue vivido como la materialización inesperada de una utopía largamente perseguida: la de la ocupación del poder por parte del proletariado y ...

La codificación penal española

tradición e influencias extranjeras: su contribución al proceso codificador (parte general)

Esta obra contiene una nueva visión sobre el papel de la tradición y de las influencias extranjeras en la Codificación penal española, superando así el tradicional planteamiento doctrinal e historiográfico, un tanto alejado de la realidad histórica. Se trata del primer estudio monográfico que se ...

Retos de la formación en el empleo juvenil

La formación es un valor estratégico para favorecer la productividad y la competitividad de las empresas y, a su vez, para potenciar la empleabilidad de los jóvenes. Su eficacia como instrumento de empleo radica en la adecuación entre la formación y las cualificaciones que demanda ...

El Impuesto sobre la Administración de Justicia

estudio histórico y actual. Análisis crítico

La obra es un completo análisis de los gravámenes que han incidido sobre la Administración de Justicia. Se inicia con una breve exposición de las cargas fiscales que incidían sobre determinados aspectos del acceso a la administración de justicia en la Grecia clásica y en ...

Un sombrero muy anticuado

Harbet tenía un sombrero. En realidad era un gorro, un gorro un poco anticuado. ¿Debía seguir la última moda en sombreros o simplemente ser él mismo?

Design and analysis of time series experiments

Design and Analysis of Time Series Experiments presents the elements of statistical time series analysis while also addressing recent developments in research design and causal modeling. A distinguishing feature of the book is its integration of design and analysis of time series experiments. Drawing examples ...

Contract and procurement fraud

investigation guidebook

Contract and procurement fraud, collusion, and corruption are worldwide problems. Such wrongdoing causes federal, state, and local governments, as well as private-sector corporations and businesses, to lose funds and profits, while the wrongdoers unjustly benefit. Bid riggers conspire to eliminate fair and open competition and ...

The ideas industry

The concept of the "public intellectual" has a rich and colorful history. It began in the early twentieth century, when the new mass media catapulted intellectuals who were able to write for the general public to semi-stardom. The first wave included figures like Walter Lippmann-who ...

Superinvestors

lessons from the greatest investors in history

Superinvestors, by experienced financial journalist Matthew Partridge, follows the backgrounds, careers and decisions of some of the world's greatest investors, both modern and historical, providing an informative and exciting take on how their experience and technique can be adapted for the ordinary investor.

Property in the body

feminist perspectives

We live in an era when all bodies are potentially 'feminised' by being rendered 'open-access' for biomedical research and clinical practice. Adopting a theoretically sophisticated and practical approach, Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives rejects the notion that the sale of bodily tissue enhances the ...

The responsabilities of online service providers

This volume focuses on the responsibilities of online service providers (OSPs) in contemporary societies. It examines the complexity and global dimensions of the rapidly evolving and serious challenges posed by the exponential development of Internet services and resources. It looks at the major actors - such ...

Argument evaluation and evidence

This monograph poses a series of key problems of evidential reasoning and argumentation. It then offers solutions achieved by applying recently developed computational models of argumentation made available in artificial intelligence. Each problem is posed in such a way that the solution is easily understood ...

Copyright Law in the digital world

challenges and opportunities

This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of changes in the copyright law and corresponding judicial responses. Using concrete examples, the book does not assume any prior knowledge of copyright law, but brings together leading intellectual property researchers to consider the ...

Brussels ibis regulation

changes and challenges of he renewed procedural scheme

This book focuses on major amendments introduced in the Brussels I regulatory framework. The contributions scrutenise the changes introduced in the Brussels Ibis Regulation, a legal instrument that presents a core of the unification of private international law rules on the European Union level. It ...

L'imperatore prigioniero

Valeriano, la Persia e la disfatta di Edessa

Nel 260 d.C. l’imperatore Valeriano viene catturato dal ‘re dei re’ Shapur I: finirà i suoi giorni in Persia in una vergognosa prigionia. Per i Romani è una catastrofe senza precedenti, ancor più terribile di quella avvenuta a Carre nel 53 a.C ...

Uruk, la prima città

Nella bassa Mesopotamia del IV millennio a.C. si compie il salto dalla «barbarie» neolitica alla «civiltà» storica, ossia alla complessità organizzativa dello Stato, della vita urbana, dell'amministrazione e della scrittura.

Procesos de Hidalguía de la Real Corte de Navarra que se conservan en el archivo Real y General de Navarra

Siglo XVI

La Real Asociación de Hidalgos de España, a través de su Fundación Instituto Español de Estudios Nobiliarios continúa con la tarea iniciada ya hace años de publicar los extractos de la información nobiliaria, genealógica y heráldica de los expedientes de hidalguía e infanzonía que se ...

Early Rome

myth and society

The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern and accessible translations and commentaries on Italian legends. This work examines the tales of ...

Diana

réquiem por una mentira

"¿Y si Diana no estuviera enterrada donde miles de personas van, año tras año, a rendirle homenaje? ¿Se respetaron, realmente, sus últimas voluntades? ¿Cuánto dinero sigue generando su memoria? ¿Quién estuvo detrás de su muerte, que muchos tildan de asesinato? Y lo más importante: ¿Quién ...

Age of anger

a history of the present

'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco 'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely...throws light on our contemporary predicament, when the neglected and dispossessed of the world have suddenly risen up to transform the world we thought ...