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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 ...

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 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 ...

The Hebrew Bible as literature

a very short introduction

The Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the classics of world literature. The stories of Jacob and David, for ...

The Cambridge History of Capitalism

The Cambridge History of Capitalism is a comprehensive two-volume work that provides an authoritative account of the evolution of capitalism and its spread and impact across the world. Adopting a wide geographical coverage and strong comparative perspective, an international team of leading scholars delve deep ...

The economic history of China

from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial ...

¿Cómo educar para la libertad y la felicidad?

Necesitamos un nuevo modelo educativo. Lo saben los profesores, los sabemos los padres y terminarán por saberlo, o eso esperamos, los políticos. Entretanto, han surgido más y más escuelas «alternativas»: Waldorf, Montessori, Escuelas Libres, Escuelas Democráticas, colegios públicos excepcionales que apuestan por proyectos heterodoxos… Todas ...

The Cambridge Companion to Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and physics. While most famous for his Principia, his work on light and colour, and his discovery of ...

El lugar de la crítica

toería crítica, hermenéutica y el problema de la trascendencia intrahistórica

El libro efectúa una discusión con el modo formal y abstracto en que J. Habermas y A. Honneth fundamentan los parámetros normativos de la crítica. Ello los vuelve incapaces de hacerse cargo de la historicidad y carácter perspectivista de la crítica y conduce a una ...

Legislating instability

Adam Smith, free banking, and the financial crisis of 1772

From 1716 to 1845 Scotland's banks were among the most dynamic and resilient in Europe, effectively absorbing a series of economic shocks that rocked financial markets in London and on the continent. Legislating Instability explains the seeming paradox that the Scottish banking system achieved ...

Law and the modern mind

consciousness and responsibility in american legal culture

Headline-grabbing murders are not the only cases in which sanity has been disputed in the American courtroom. Susanna Blumenthal traces this litigation, revealing how ideas of human consciousness, agency, and responsibility have shaped American jurisprudence as judges struggled to reconcile Enlightenment rationality with new sciences ...

War by other means

geoeconomics and statecraft

Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between. Not so in the United States, however. America ...

Naturalism, realisml and normativity

Hilary Putnam's philosophical oeuvre has been called "the history of recent philosophy in outline"-an intellectual achievement that has shaped disciplinary fields from epistemology to ethics, metaphysics to the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of mathematics to the philosophy of mind. Naturalism, Realism, and ...

Commercial Law

Commercial Law offers a fresh, modern, and stimulating exploration of this diverse and fascinating area of law. The text provides thorough coverage of all key aspects of the syllabus, including the law of agency, the sale of goods, international trade, and methods of payment, finance ...

The pursuit of development

economic growth, social change, and ideas

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself ...

Superintelligence

paths, dangers, strategies

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come ...

Inequality

what everyone needs to know

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States ...

Isotopes

a very short introduction

An isotope is a variant form of a chemical element, containing a different number of neutrons in its nucleus. Most elements exist as several isotopes. Many are stable while others are radioactive, and some may only exist fleetingly before decaying into other elements. In this ...