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De la alquería a la aljama

A partir de los sistemas de organización interna y de las estructuras de poder en las comunidades rurales del mundo nazarí y en las aljamas castellanas se intenta explicar cómo la sociedad islámica andalusí se va apartando de sus precedentes medievales, integrándose cada vez más ...

La prueba penal de ADN a través de la jurisprudencia

una visión práctica y crítica

La prueba penal de ADN se ha valorado por los Tribunales desde 1985. Inicialmente, en Inglaterra, primer país que la consideró decisiva en el asunto Queen vs. Pitchfork; con posterioridad, por nuestros Tribunales. En 1992, la Sala Segunda del Tribunal Supremo español se pronuncia por ...

Culture

Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In ...

Genealogía de los Caruncho

contenido de un tratado sobre la utilidad de la Ciencia Genealógica

Rafael de Satrústegui y Caruncho, caballero del Real Cuerpo de la Nobleza de Madrid y señor divisero de Tejada. Nacido en Madrid el 21 de abril de 1990. Es doble licenciado en Derecho y Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración por la Universidad San Pablo ...

Corruption in America

from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to citizens united

When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that "Citizens ...

Armorial de los obispos de Barcelona

siglos XII-XXI

A través del estudio de los escudos de los distintos prelados de este Armorial, se analiza la Historia de Barcelona, en su vertiente política, sociológica, religiosa, económica, artística y nobiliaria.

Strangers in our midst

the political philosophy of immigration

How should Western democracies respond to the many millions of people who want to settle in their societies? Economists and human rights advocates tend to downplay the considerable cultural and demographic impact of immigration on host societies. But moving from one country to another in ...

From the war on poverty to the war on crime

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the land of the free become the home of the world s largest prison system? Challenging the belief that ...

Juego de Tronos

canción de hielo y fuego/1

Tras el largo verano, el invierno se acerca a los Siete Reinos. Lord Eddard Stark, señor de Invernalia, deja sus dominios para unirse a la corte de su amigo el rey Robert Baratheon, llamado el Usurpador, hombre díscolo y otrora guerrero audaz cuyas mayores aficiones ...

Capitalism

money, morals and markets

Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale.And ...

Understanding police intelligence work

This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used ethically to influence policing policy and practice. The author critically examines the development of intelligence structures and ...

The 2020 board

the future of company boards

In fast-paced, turbulent business markets, company boards need greater agility and will find it necessary to be conscious of innovation and technological progress. They ought to encourage companies to explore and value creativity at all levels, to remove red tape from the company's culture ...

Contract rules

decoding english Law

Contract Rules - Decoding English Law encapsulates the general part of the English contract system. For the first time this complex body of law is presented in an accessible and structured form.Marshalling the legal sources, it arranges the law into 22 parts comprising 200 Articles ...

Conflito lingüístico e ideoloxía na Galiza

a situación do galego como síntoma

Os leitores e leitoras teñen na man un libro fundamental na historia moderna do galego e unha peza clave na sociolingüística do noso país. A publicación en 1976 de Conflito lingüístico e ideoloxia na Galiza supuxo un fito na análise, interpretación e diagnóstico dos problemas ...

Syria burning

a short history of a catastrophe

Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee their homes. Militant Sunni groups, such ...

The new rulers of the world

ohn Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in ...

How did we get into this Mess?

politics, equality, nature

Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial, the libertarianism which grants freedom to the powerful at the expense of the powerless, undisclosed interests, complacency ...

La concepción cervantina del hablar

lenguaje y escala de valores en Don Quijote

La concepción cervantina del hablar explora la relación entre el decir y la posición moral del hablante. Los rasgos estilísticos de Cervantes remiten a la conciencia de su estar en el mundo y a una mirada, entre ácida y benévola, a su ambiente. La escritura ...

Chavs

the demonization of the working class

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have ...

The mercenary mediterranean

sovereignty, religion, and violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles, for agreeing to enter ...