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Formularios procesales civiles

El libro Formularios Procesales Civiles contiene formularios revisados y adaptados a las últimas reformas legislativas, para el uso de abogados y procuradores, en las distintas fases del proceso civil y en los procedimientos especiales. En la elaboración de los mismos se ha tenido en cuenta ...

Foro. Revista de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales. Nueva Época; Vol. 18. Núm 2 / 2015

Murallas, torres y dependencias de La Alhambra

una revisión de los avatares sufridos por las estructuras poliorcéticas y militares de La Alhambra

Los elementos poliorcéticos de la Alhambra, i.e. sus murallas, torres, fosos y baluartes, son quizá los elementos arquitectónicos más abundantes y visibles del conjunto monumental, a la par que los menos accesibles, los más desconocidos y los más olvidados. Si han conseguido llegar en ...

The talents of Jacopo da Varagine

a genoese mind in Medieval Europe

Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228 1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work, The Golden Legend, a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260-67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints lives. One indication of its ...

Recuerdos literarios en honor a un gran historiador de Castilla Gonzalo Martínez Díez (1924-2015)

El 21 de abril de 2015 fallecía, el P. Gonzalo Martínez Díez, Catedrático emérito de Historia del Derecho y de las Instituciones en las Universidades de Valladolid y Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, historiador infatigable del pasado jurídico e institucional castellano, maestro insustituible, amigo entrañable ...

The Byzantine dark ages

The Byzantine Dark Ages explores current debates about the sudden transformation of the Byzantine Empire in the wake of environmental, social and political changes. Those studying the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, have long recognized that the mid-7th ...

Pirates and emperors, old and new

international terrorism in the real world

Pirates & Emperors, Old & New constitutes a collection of extended essays written between 1986 and 2001 which explore how "selected incidents of terrorism" are used as a cover for Western violence across the globe. Topics covered include the Lockerbie Bombing, the Second Palestinian Intifada and the ...

Family Law in Islam

divorce, marriage and women in the muslim world

In both the West and throughout the Muslim world, Islamic family law is a highly and hotly debated topic. In the Muslim World, the discussions at the heart of these debates are often primarily concerned with the extent to which classical Islamic family law should ...

The american Supreme Court

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey s classic work on the Supreme Court s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation s highest court. As in prior editions, McCloskey s original text remains ...

What Galileo saw

imagining the scientific revolution

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new ...

De la amistad extrema

Montaigne y La Boétie

Una obra sobre la perfecta amistad con la que Montaigne describió su relación con el también célebre autor Étienne de La Boétie. Hermosamente literaria, por momentos poética, Jean-Luc Hennig ha escrito una obra sobre un misterio que se mantiene indescifrable, la naturaleza y la forma ...

What they do with your money

how the financial system fails us and how to fix it

Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren't told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance ...

Big Data in practice

how 45 successful companies used Big Data analytics to deliver extraordinary results

The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data. Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the ...

AI

its nature and future

The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the ...

The Federal Courts

an essential history

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of ...

Hate crimes in cyberspace

Some see the internet as a Wild West where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to ensure verbal attacks in the name of free speech protection. Danielle Keats Citron rejects this view. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, and legal precedents ...

Microeconomics

a critical companion

Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both its historical and interdisciplinary ...

Más liviano que el aire

Un exceso de confianza condenó al ladrón. O quizás, el ímpetu de la adolescencia. Tiene apenas catorce años, y la anciana a la que pretende robar mientras ingresa a su casa, noventa y tres. En principio, nada puede salir mal. Pero sale mal. Cuando el ...

Alicia en el País de las Maravillas; A través del espejo y lo que Alicia encontró allí

Una generación de lectores tras otra ha entrado en la madriguera del conejo, divertidos, perplejos y asustados, junto a Alicia, la pequeña protagonista de esta gran obra de la literatura universal. Las versiones de «Alicia en el País de las Maravillas» y «A través del ...

Palabras entrevistas

diecisiete autores hablan sobre su oficio

Es muy probable que estos logros los consiguiese Pessoa sin ser plenamente consciente de lo que estaba haciendo, de que estaba en un cambio de direcciones. En la actualidad sabemos que él sintió como algo natural ese deseo de crear “otros”, sus heterónimos, y de ...