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El delito de trato degradante discriminatorio

Se han detectado problemas y disfunciones en la respuesta de los tribunales españoles ante los llamados delitos de odio, debido a que el delito contra la integridad moral del artículo 173.1 del Código Penal no tiene incorporado en su tipo básico la prohibición de ...

The destruction of Palestine is the destruction of the Earth

Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in ...

Economic war

Ukraine and the global conflict between Russia and the West

Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections ...

Moral abdication

how the world failed to stop the destruction of Gaza

Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported the war waged by Israel against Palestinians after Hamas's attack on 7 October 2023 ...

Old Gods, New Enigmas

Marx's Lost Theory

Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years working blue collar jobs and sitting behind the wheel of an eighteen wheeler before his profile as one of the world ...

The dreadful history and judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer

the life and times of an early German revolutionary

How did the son of a coin-maker from central Germany, Thomas Müntzer, rise in just a few short years to become one of the most feared revolutionaries in early modern Europe? Andrew Drummond charts the life and times of the man Martin Luther denounced as ...

Rebooting a nation

the incredible rise of Estonia, e-government and the startup revolution

How did a small post-Soviet state become a digital and e-government powerhouse, producing world-leading tech companies and pioneering policies for remote residency? Three decades after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia is a nation transformed. Today, the country is known worldwide as a startup ...

Road to October 7

a brief history of Palestinian Islamism

In Road to October 7, Erik Skare argues that Palestinian Islamism is far more complex and dynamic than generally assumed. The phenomenon has continuously developed through disputes between moderates and hardliners. These struggles have largely been settled by external drivers - intra-Palestinian competition, Israeli violence and ...

Weaving political time in Morocco

the imaginary of the state in the neoliberal age

Analyses of state power in Morocco have always been mired in exoticism or exceptionalism. The Kingdom is said to be a prototype of political immobility; a country caught in the authoritarian and conservative grip of its monarch, known as the ‘Commander of the Faithful’; a ...

The late Marx's revolutionary roads

colonialism, gender, and indigenous communism

In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient ...

Should the world fear China?

For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do so. For Europe, the People’s Republic is a ‘partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival’. For ...

Kant

During the early 1950s, Alexandre Kojève resumed his ambitious project to bring the analytic reason of Kantianism in line with Hegel's logic and philosophy of history. Kant is one of the most extensive text fragments where Kojève turned his attention to the gaps left ...

Christopher Hill

the life of a radical historian

Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. While his career brought many of ...

Buenos Aires

Libro de mitos

orge Carrión y la ilustradora Josefina Joly recorren la capital argentina, suma de estilos, literatura y melodías tristes que se bailan. 'Buenos Aires no existe', escribió Marcel Duchamp en noviembre de 1918, a poco de llegar a ella. En cambio, el escritor Jorge Carrión y ...

Crisis cycle

challenges, evolution, and future of the Euro

How the euro survived a series of crises, and how to make it more resilient The euro has survived crises unimagined at its founding: the financial meltdown of 2007-2009, the sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2012, the pandemic, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The European ...

Tensiones y conflictos entre la administración de justicia y los medios de comunicación

El choque entre las necesidades de una correcta administración de justicia y las de una opinión pública que requiere información oportuna y precisa sobre los procesos judiciales en curso se está convirtiendo en un problema global, y que hasta ahora no ha encontrado una solución ...

Nuevos retos en la docencia ante la digitalización y la sostenibilidad

La presente obra colectiva aborda el análisis de ciertas prácticas docentes llevadas a cabo en el aula universitaria atendiendo a dos enfoques: la digitalización y la sostenibilidad, en la medida en que estas variables se están erigiendo en los ejes sobre los que debe pivotar ...

Cuidar bien tu cerebro de 'Profe'

Domingo Malmierca y el equipo de especialistas colaboradores del Instituto de NeuroPsicología y Tecnología Aplicadas a la Educación (INTAE) y de la Cátedra de Comunicación Digital en la Infancia y la Adolescencia reflexionan, con la ayuda de la Encuesta realizada a más de 5.700 ...

Estudios generales sobre las medidas cautelares y provisionales

La obra analiza la regulación general de las medidas cautelares y provisionales en el régimen del Código General del Proceso. La elección del tema surge de la necesidad de contar con un material actualizado que reúna y sistematice la doctrina y la jurisprudencia más reciente ...

Prescripción extintiva y caducidad en el Derecho Civil

Estudio de su régimen jurídico en el Código Civil y en la Ley de Relaciones de Consumo

En la presente obra encontrará el lector un tratamiento sistemático de la prescripción extintiva y la caducidad en el ámbito del Derecho Civil. Se trata de dos instituciones que guardan estrechos puntos de contacto, por estar vinculadas al transcurso del tiempo, pero que también presentan ...