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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 ...

Venganza de sangre

Hector Cross no es un héroe; es sólo un hombre, pero cuando un hombre como él pierde todo lo que posee, su dolor y su furia pueden ser implacables. Alguien ha acabado con la vida de la mujer que amaba. Ahora tiene que buscar al ...

Beckett en 90 minutos

La obra de Samuel Beckett provoca reacciones apasionadas. Lectores y público o reverencian al autor o consideran que escribe un montón de sinsentidos pretenciosos. Pero siempre habrá una generación de jóvenes lectores para su filosofía del pesimismo, capaz de hacer aflorar las burbujas de jabón ...

Nabokov en 90 minutos

Muy pocos autores del siglo XX, si es que hay alguno, pueden alardear de haber escrito tantas obras maestras. Al usar el inglés, Nabokov transformaba la lengua haciéndola enteramente suya. Le iba a su carácter como un guante: su compleja articulación, sus florituras y guiños ...

The U.S. Navy

a concise history

This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones ...

Memorias de un cura liberal exaltado

(1800-1889)

Las Memorias de un cura liberal exaltado de Antonio María García Blanco constituyen una obra excepcional tanto por su rareza como por su interés como fuente de primera mano para el conocimiento de casi toda la centuria decimonónica. Su larga vida e ingente obra hacen ...

Landscape, nature, and the sacred in Byzantium

Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the ...

Law and authority in the Early Middle Ages

the frankish leges in the Carolingian Period

The barbarian law codes, compiled between the sixth and eighth centuries, were copied remarkably frequently in the Carolingian ninth century. They provide crucial evidence for early medieval society, including the settlement of disputes, the nature of political authority, literacy, and the construction of ethnic identities ...

Making early medieval societies

conflict and belonging in the Latin West, 300-1200

Making Early Medieval Societies explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale communities of the late Roman and early medieval West together, at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart? Historians and anthropologists have traditionally asked parallel questions about the ...

El Estado en la encrucijada

retos y desafíos en la sociedad internacional del siglo XXI

Se trata de un análisis de la importancia de los diferentes actores de la sociedad internacional. En concreto, se estudia con objetividad y en un marco jurídico profundo los grandes problemas y cuestiones que rodean a los Estados, en particular los europeos de nuestro entorno ...

Autonomía del paciente e intereses de terceros

límites

Fruto de la investigación de un equipo multidisciplinar que desde hace años viene colaborando en actividades relacionadas con el Derecho sanitario y la Bioética, la obra recoge las principales conclusiones de un proyecto de investigación destinado a profundizar en el alcance de ciertos intereses ajenos ...

The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism

Medievalism - the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages - has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material and political domains reveal that the ...

La protección de testigos en delitos de criminalidad organizada

Esta obra realiza un estudio exhaustivo del fundamento, la regulación y la eficacia de los diferentes mecanismos de protección a testigos, víctimas, coimputados y agentes encubiertos, en casos de criminalidad organizada. La importancia del objeto de estudio radica en que los mecanismos de protección a ...

The rise and decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie

Manresa in the Later Middle Ages, 1250-1500

The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European narratives to place the ...

Inadempimento e ripartizione dell'onere probatorio

La monografia affronta il tema della modulazione dell’onere della prova nell’inadempimento contrattuale, con riferimento a diversi settori della responsabilità considerati emblematici, quale quello del professionista intellettuale. Dall’analisi della casistica giurisprudenziale in materia è emersa la necessità di ridimensionare la portata della regula ...

Private wrongs

A waiter spills coffee on a customer. A person walks on another person's land. A frustrated neighbor bangs on the wall. A reputation is ruined by a mistaken news report. Although the details vary, the law recognizes all of these as torts, different ways ...

From steel to slots

casino capitalism in the postindustrial city

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was once synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on a new industry: casino gambling. From Steel to Slots tells the story of a city struggling to make sense of the ways in which local jobs, landscapes ...

Fed power

how finance wins

The Federal Reserve is the most powerful central bank in the world. Without its central bank, the American economy would be subject to devastating fluctuations and instability. In maintaining this stability, The Fed dictates interest rates and designs bailouts without the usual checks and balances ...

Finance and industrial policy

beyond financial regulation in Europe

The 2008 global financial crisis, together with the experience of de-industrialization across Western Europe over the last three decades, has focussed attention on financial regulation and industrial policy. Industry and finance policies have largely been discussed separately, and this book argues that the two should ...

Status interaction during the reign of Louis XIV

Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a ...