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Lo que el mundo le debe a España

Europa es el resultado de las interrelaciones entre cinco ámbitos culturales que se expresan por medio de los grandes idiomas —español, francés, inglés, alemán e italiano— y que son independientes de las estructuras políticas, cambiantes en el tiempo. La ciencia humana alemana, o su música ...

Legado de cenizas

el proceso independentista que devoró al hereu de Pujol

La deriva secesionista de Artur Mas acabó con el otrora todopoderoso partido de Convergència y Unio (CIU), poniendo fin a la formación política catalana más importante desde que se restableciera la democracia. ¿Qué ha sido de ese CIU que durante años dio su apoyo al ...

O império marítimo português

1415-1825

Primeiro império colonial moderno e, também, o último a desaparecer, espalhado por cinco continentes, o "mundo que os Portugueses criaram" foi bem o exemplo da tenacidade de um povo que conseguiu opor-se e sobreviver aos choques com inimigos bem mais poderosos. O Professor Charles R ...

El florido pensil

Partiendo de los libros de texto de la época y de sus inefables ilustraciones, Andrés Sopeña evoca, con una gracia y un humor irresistibles, la escuela cotidiana, la radio local, los tebeos de Roberto Alcázar, el cine de los jueves con Franco inaugurando pantanos y ...

El tercer chimpacé

origen y futuro del aninmal humano

Con su habitual estilo provocador y su sutil inteligencia, el profesor Jared Diamond profundiza en el fenómeno de la evolución de la especie humana. Pese a compartir el 98 % del código genético con los chimpancés, los humanos han logrado crear civilizaciones, obras de arte y ...

Su santidad pecadora

secretos de los Papas de Roma

Su santidad pecadora no es otro libro de divulgación dedicado a narrar las faltas de los papas de Roma. Y no lo es porque su autor ha aunado dos tradiciones de investigación histórica, habitualmente incompatibles, la de los historiadores más favorables al papado, de origen ...

Behavioural corporate finance

Orthodox financial theory often ignores the role played by managers' personal characteristics in their decision-making processes. However, as anyone with experience in the business world knows, managers' personalities are crucial in the choices they make. Indeed, it should be noted that firms do not make ...

Los juicios verbales de desahucio en la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil

Qué duda cabe de que los juicios verbales de desahucio, sobre todo los derivados de la falta de pago de la renta arrendaticia, son uno de los procesos civiles más frecuentemente utilizados en la práctica forense. Ello es debido, sobre todo, a que en el ...

War in Europe

1450 to the present

War in Europe is an overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume. Beginning with the impact of the Reformation and continuing up to ...

Legal writing

Legal Writing guides students comprehensively through this vital legal skill and addresses a range of assessment methods from exam questions to final essays and problem answers. It considers how to deconstruct essay and problem questions and how to conduct and apply legal research to answer ...

Distress dynamics in bankrupcy

A change in the dynamics of bankruptcy procedures is taking place in the Netherlands and United States. In the Netherlands, the opening of a bankruptcy procedure traditionally leads to the sale of the assets of the debtor and a distribution of the proceeds among creditors ...

35 years CISG and beyond

This book contains the presentations given at the conference 35 Years CISG and Beyond, hosted by the University of Basel, SVIR/SSDI (Swiss Association for International Law) and UNCITRAL on 29 and 30 January 2015.The Conference focused on open issues in regard to the ...

Postcapitalismo

hacia un nuevo futuro

El analista Paul Mason nos advierte que el capitalismo como modelo económico ha llegado a su fin y debemos prepararnos para una transición a un nuevo sistema basado en las nuevas tecnologías y la reestructuración del trabajo Los pilares del modelo capitalista se están derrumbando ...

The economics of poverty

history, measurement, and policy

While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years, until recent times the bulk of that progress had been made in wealthy countries only. The good news is that we have seen greater progress ...

Global tax fairness

This book addresses sixteen different reform proposals that are urgently needed to correct the fault lines in the international tax system as it exists today, and which deprive both developing and developed countries of critical tax resources. It offers clear and concrete ideas on how ...

Taking rites seriously

Law, politics, and the reasonableness of faith

Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical of the influence of religion in politics or in the formation of law. Covering three general ...

Overarching views of crime and deviancy

rethinking the legacy of the Utrecht School

On October 1st 1934 Willem P.J. Pompe (1893-1968), Professor of Criminal Law at Utrecht University between 1928 and 1963, founded the 'Criminological Institute' (Criminologisch Instituut) within the Faculty of Law of Utrecht University. Pompe initiated a rather influential academic movement, based on multidisciplinary cooperation ...

The contours of international prosecutions

as defined by facts, charges, and jurisdiction

By nature, core international crimes have indistinct factual parameters. War crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide generally occur on a massive scale, spread out over a large geographical area and a long time span, involving many perpetrators at various distances from the crime scene(s ...

Debating modern revolution

the evolution of revolutionary ideas

Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium ...

Property and Human Rights in a Global Context

Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed ...