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Doñana en su historia

cuatro siglos entre la explotación y la conservación bajo la posesión de la Casa de Los Guzmanes

Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, VII duque de Medina Sidonia (1558-1615), fue el artífice de la articulación territorial de Doñana. Don Pedro de Alcántara Pérez de Guzmán y Pacheco (1739-1779), XIV duque de Medina Sidonia, como intelectual ilustrado de la época, intentó poner ...

Constitutional courts in comparision

the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court

Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right. The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional ...

La jurisdicción voluntaria notarial en el ámbito sucesorio

La jurisdicción voluntaria se encuentra de plena actualidad. Con la aprobación de la Ley 15/2015, de 2 de julio, se aborda la modernización de una institución con extraordinaria trascendencia práctica que, no obstante, ha sido relegada por el legislador. Su tradicional configuración como categoría ...

La isla del día siguiente

crónica de una travesía por el Pacífico

En 1988, hace ahora 28 años, cinco españoles, Kitín Muñoz, director de expedición, Kiko Botana, navegante, Pepe de Miguel, cámara de televisión, Juan Ginés García, teniente del ejército y responsable de logística y comunicaciones y yo, como fotógrafo y "conseguidor", realizamos una de las mayores ...

The shape of the new

four big ideas and how they made the Modern World

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the ...

La Ley de las aulas

la enseñanza española desde Franco hasta Wert

Una de las ideas más extendidas en la España actual es que la Educación Primaria y Secundaria no está a la altura de lo que se espera de un país moderno y desarrollado, un mantra que se repite cada vez que se publica un nuevo ...

Europe since 1989

a history

The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely ...

Unequal democracy

the political economic of the new gilded age

The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised and expanded edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of ...

Capitalism and desire

the psychic cost of free markets

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma ...

Grandes enigmas de la historia

Un completo compendio de los grandes misterios del pasado que han excitado la imaginación de millones de lectores de todo el mundo desde una nueva perspectiva.

Métodos de investigación histórica

La omnipresencia de Internet en la sociedad actual hace necesario replantearse muchas cuestiones en la investigación histórica. Este libro, dirigido tanto a estudiantes como a investigadores, tiene como principal objetivo enseñar a investigar en la era de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y de ...

Marketing plans

how to prepare them, how to profit from them

A fully revised and updated 8th edition of the highly renowned international bestseller The 8th edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller is thoroughly revised with every chapter having been updated with special attention to the latest developments in marketing. Marketing Plans is designed as a ...

Should we fear Russia?

Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way. In ...

When conflict resolution fails

an alternative to negotiation and dialogue

Bringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. But what happens when those negotiations falter and conflict resolution fails? Is everything lost or are there prospects for meaningful change in even the most intractable of conflicts? In this insightful ...

Legal risk management, governance and compliance

interdisciplinary case studies from leading experts

This new volume charts the biggest successes – and failures – of legal risk management, governance and compliance at global brands over the past two decades; the cases that have led to our understanding, and myriad national and international regulations, today. Succeeding bestseller Legal Risk Management, Governance ...

Richard Posner

Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential ...

History of financial institutions

essays on the history of European finance, 1800–1950

History of Financial Institutions contributes to the analysis of how the modern corporation, business and finance have shaped and keep on shaping our world. In a collection of nine succinct essays, this volume looks at the role of finance in European history from the beginning ...

Time, capitalism, and alienation

a socio-historical inquiry into the making of modern time

In Time, Capitalism and Alienation: A Socio-Historical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time, Jonathan Martineau offers an account of the histories of social time in Europe, from the innovation of the clock around 1300 to the making of World Standard Time around the turn ...

La integración de la República Democrática del Congo en la economía mundial

el caso de la industria minera

Cómo puede la República Democrática del Congo lograr su desarrollo socioeconómico es la pregunta que articula este libro y parece que la respuesta está inevitablemente relacionada con la principal fuente de recursos del país: la minería. A pesar de los retos o dificultades —la falta ...

La Gran Pacificación

[Taiheiki]

La Gran Pacificación narra las guerras acaecidas en torno al año 1333 entre el gobierno militar del sogún y los partidarios del emperador Godaigo. Son dramáticas guerras civiles entre el rudo este del país con su centro de Kamakura y el refinado oeste con su ...