Libros de

Victus

1. Veni

Ambientada en la Guerra de Sucesión Española, VICTUS narra la tragedia de una ciudad y del hombre que la traicionó. Martí Zuviría, joven alumno del Marqués de Vauban, se convertirá en un genio de la ingeniería militar y una pieza clave en el asedio de ...

La pequeña Nunca-Jamás

Este moderno cuento nos pone en contacto con la eterna naturaleza de lo tradicional. En la tierra todo crece: el amor, la tristeza y también el miedo. El Día ayuda a la pequeña Nunca-Jamás a superar sus miedos, la consuela incluso cuando es de noche ...

¿Un unicornio en una granja?

En la pequeña granja de la montaña se había montado un gran revuelo. Todos los animales esperaban la llegada del caballo nuevo. Lo imaginaban alto, esbelto y blanco como la nieve. Cuando llegó el remolque a la granja, la vaca Katya lo vio. Vio sus ...

Theories of international economics

a pluralistic approach

International economic theories emerged within particular social, economic and political frameworks and were developed as solutions to the problems of contemporary economics. In order to understand the increasingly complex and interdependent state of today's international economy, we need to realise the importance of those ...

Responsabilidad civil y entidades aseguradoras

el Derecho de repetición en el seguro del automóvil

La importancia del riesgo de circulación se traduce en la suscripción de un seguro que cubra los posibles daños, con la finalidad de que las víctimas de accidentes de tráfico sean siempre indemnizadas. Sin embargo, el seguro suscrito no ofrece una cobertura ilimitada, sino concreta ...

El crimen contra la humanidad

El crimen contra la humanidad, al ser una figura penal que aglutina delitos comunes en un contexto determinado, ha sido, y sigue siendo, interpretado de maneras diversas en función de los hechos atroces que se pretenden castigar. Esta maleabilidad del crimen ha provocado que existan ...

The future of foreign intelligence

privacy and surveillance in a digital age

Since the Revolutionary War, America's military and political leaders have recognized that U.S. national security depends upon the collection of intelligence. Absent information about foreign threats, the thinking went, the country and its citizens stood in great peril. To address this, the Courts ...

Europe's functional Constitution

a theory of constitutionalism beyond the State

Constitutionalism has become a byword for legitimate government, but is it fated to lose its relevance as constitutional states relinquish power to international institutions? This book evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism, as an empirical idea and normative ideal, can be adapted to institutions beyond ...

Law in american history

Vol.II: From reconstruction through the 1920s

In this second installment of G. Edward White's sweeping history of law in America from the colonial era to the present, White, covers the period between 1865-1929, which encompasses Reconstruction, rapid industrialization, a huge influx of immigrants, the rise of Jim Crow, the emergence ...

La jurisdicción contenciosa

análisis práctico

La regulación de la Jurisdicción Contencioso-administrativa se encuentra en constante evolución. No sólo por las recientes modificaciones legales -que sobre todo afectan al recurso de casación-, sino sobre todo por la incesante aparición de conflictos y dudas que surgen en la diaria aplicación de aquella ...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, and politics. Every chapter takes the form of an interpretative essay ...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War

The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires ...

El Zohar: traducido, explicado y comentado

Vol. XXI: Secciones Ajarei Mot - Kedoshim (56a - 88a)

El Zohar es, sin duda alguna, la obra más famosa del pensamiento místico universal, y de la Cábala en particular. Sus enseñanzas influyeron en el pasado y repercuten actualmente en todas las religiones conocidas. Rabí Shimón Bar Iojai y sus alumnos, fuera del espacio y ...

The Near West

medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age

Viewing the history of North Africa and Europe through the eyes of Christian kings and Muslim merchants, emirs and popes, Sufis, friars and rabbis, this book argues that they together experienced the twelfth-century renaissance and the commercial revolution. In the midst of this common commercial ...

Crimea

a history

In 2016 Crimea shapes the headlines much as it did some 160 years ago, when the Crimean War pitted Britain, France and Turkey against Russia. Yet few books have been published on the history of the peninsula. For many readers, Crimea seems as remote today ...

Algeria Modern

from opacity to complexity

Spared by the Arab revolts, Bouteflika's Algeria continues to intrigue observers. How does its political system function? Who really governs? Who are behind the protests? How strong are the Islamists? Are there alternatives to dependence on hydrocarbons? And how will the regime securitise its ...

Biblioteca histórica

Libros XVIII-XX

En estos libros, Diodoro de Sicilia trata los conflictivos años en los que los sucesores de Alejandro Magno, tras la inesperada muerte de éste en Babilonia (323 a.C.), se disputaron el poder supremo, llegando su relato hasta poco antes de la batalla definitiva en ...

The Catholic Enlightenment

the forgotten history of a global movement

"Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as prevalent today as ...

Nectar and illusion

nature in byzantine art and literature

Nature and Illusion is the first extended treatment of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. In this richly illustrated study, Henry Maguire shows how the Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in the decoration of their churches during the fifth to seventh centuries but ...

Sikhism

a very short introduction

The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains mysterious to many. This ...