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Reflexiones sobre el régimen jurídico de las cajas de ahorro

el epílogo

Reflexionar sobre el régimen jurídico de las cajas de ahorro, como nos propone Fernando García Rubio con esta monografía, es atender al capítulo final o epílogo de unas peculiares instituciones, De más de medio centenar de cajas que durante décadas regaron con suficiente fluidez los ...

James Madison and constitutional imperfection

This book presents a provocative account of James Madison's political thought by focusing on Madison's lifelong encounter with the enduring problem of constitutional imperfection. In particular, it emphasizes Madison's alliance with Thomas Jefferson, liberating it from those long-standing accounts of Madisonian constitutionalism ...

El castillo de Zafra

y otros castillos molineses

al vez movida por el éxito internacional que la serie televisiva norteamericana “Juego de Tronos” tiene hoy en día, y el hecho de que haya sido elegido el castillo de Zafra como elemento capital de uno de sus episodios, la editorial Aache se ha animado ...

Aviador de combate

las cartas secretas del mentor del Barón Rojo

As de la aviación alemana con 40 victorias confirmadas entre julio de 1915 y octubre de 1916, creador de toda una doctrina de combate aéreo que sigue vigente hoy en día, mentor del Barón Rojo… Las cartas escritas por Oswald Boelcke a su familia y ...

A practitioner's guide to MiFID II

A complete practitioner's guide to the provisions and practical implications of the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, MiFID II. The book will cover both the original Directive and all the changes and extensions brought about by MiFID II, how the directive will impact ...

Desde las trincheras

la vida en las trincheras del frente oeste contada por los soldados que combatieron en ellas durante la Gran Guerra

12:00. Quedan tan sólo cinco minutos para que salgamos del refugio y ataquemos. La vela ha caído al suelo pero nadie la vuelve a prender. Un camarada enciende su linterna, que ilumina rostros lúgubres y miradas en blanco; todos estamos atrapados por la fuerza ...

The europeanization of politics

the formation of a european electorate and party system in historical perspective

In a broadly comparative, historical and quantitative analysis, this study reveals the unity of European electorates and party systems. Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern Europe over 150 years of electoral history, the author shows the existence of common alignments and parallel waves of ...

Una vida en el aire

Memorias completas

El alemán Ernst Udet (1896-1941) fue una de las figuras más notables de la aviación de la primera mitad del siglo pasado. Sus 62 victorias aéreas durante la Primera Guerra Mundial lo colocaron en el quinto puesto del palmarés de ases del aire. En el ...

King William's Tontine

why the retirement annuity of the future should resemble its past

In a time before bonds, treasury notes, or central banks, there were tontines. These were schemes in which a group of investors lent money to a government, corporation, or king, similar to a modern-day loan syndicate. But unlike conventional debt, periodic interest payments were distributed ...

Con los Rangers

los diarios y memorias del comandante Robert Rogers

Debíamos desplazarnos en cuatro barcos balleneros hasta el lago George y, una vez allí, emplear de tiempo en tiempo nuestros mejores esfuerzos para acosar a los franceses y a sus aliados mediante el saqueo y la quema; debíamos destruir sus casas, graneros, barracones, canoas y ...

Conquerors

how Portugal forged the first global empire

In Empires of the Sea and City of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley established himself as our generation’s preeminent historian of the great European seafaring empires, and the go-to author for post-Crusade clashes of East and West. Now, in Conquerors, Crowley ...

The Cambridge companion to public Law

The Cambridge Companion to Public Law examines key themes, debates and issues in contemporary public law. The book identifies and draws out five key themes: the notions of government and the state; the place of the state and public law in the world at large ...

El ascenso del Clan Takeda

El segundo volumen, Takeda Nobutora y la unificación de Kai, retoma la historia del clan Takeda de Kai en los albores de la Guerra ?nin (1467-1477), conflicto que nos sumerge definitivamente en el Sengoku Jidai o “Era de los estados combatientes”. El líder del clan ...

The prisoner's dilema

The Prisoner's Dilemma is one of the most fiercely debated thought experiments in philosophy and the social sciences, presenting the simple insight that when two or more agents interact, the actions that most benefit each individual may not benefit the group. The fact that ...

Ockham's razors

a user's manual

Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in current physics, biology, and psychology. The razor also gets used outside ...

Takeda Nobutora

la unificación de Kai

El segundo volumen, Takeda Nobutora y la unificación de Kai, retoma la historia del clan Takeda de Kai en los albores de la Guerra ?nin (1467-1477), conflicto que nos sumerge definitivamente en el Sengoku Jidai o “Era de los estados combatientes”. El líder del clan ...

Corporate forms and organisational choice in international insurance

Given the infinite variety of risks throughout history, it is perhaps unsurprising that insurance - the world's primary risk mitigation industry - developed a wide range of organisational forms by which it was delivered. Yet we know little about how and why different forms were chosen ...

Parliaments and government formation

unpacking investiture rules

Parliaments and Government Formation explores the role of national legislatures in shaping government formation in parliamentary regimes. Under parliamentarism, the government comes from, and remains responsible to, the national parliament. Yet, although legislatures and the politics of government formation are two of the most studied ...

The EU as a children's rights actor

Law, policy and structural dimensions

This edited collection critiques, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the growing body of EU children’s rights activities in the light of broader political, economic and legal processes. Specifically, it interrogates whether EU intervention effectively responds to what are perceived as violations of children’s rights ...

En busca de la felicycidad

A la edad de veinte años, Chris Gardner, nativo de Milwaukee, recién terminando La Marina, llegó a San Francisco para seguir una carrera prometedora en la medicina. Considerado un hijo prodigio de la investigación científica, sorprendió a todos y a sí mismo estableciendo su punto ...