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Peasant-citizen and slave

the foundations of athenian democracy

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen ...

Patent enforcement worldwide

writings in honour of Dieter Stauder

This book features 15 country reports on the patent enforcement practice of the world's most litigated countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Litigation strategies for both right owners and alleged infringers are explained against the background of case law on: types of action ...

The age of dignity

Human Rights and constitutionalism in Europe

Human dignity is one of the most challenging and exciting ideas for lawyers and political philosophers in the twenty-first century. Even though it is rapidly emerging as a core concept across legal systems, and is the first foundational value of the European Union and its ...

Economics

making sense of the modern economy

The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again. This is the starting point and theme of this radically revised Economist books classic, now available for the first time in America ...

The great diruption

how business is coping with turbulent times

The Great Disruption is a collection drawn from Adrian Wooldridge's influential Schumpeter columns in The Economist addressing the causes and profound consequences of the unprecedented disruption of business over the past five years. The Great Disruption has many causes. The internet is spreading faster ...

El auditor de cuentas

El auditor de cuentas se ha convertido en una figura de trascendencia práctica para el sistema empresarial español. El libro aborda el régimen jurídico del auditor de cuentas, desde el nombramiento hasta la responsabilidad civil contractual y extracontractual.

Other people's money

the real business of finance

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to ...

Constitutional personae

heroes, soldiers, minimalists, and mutes

Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and bestselling co-author of Nudge ...

Political order and political decay

from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in "The Wall Street Journal," David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's" Origins of Political Order" "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In "The New York ...

Unstoppable

the emerging left-right Alliance to dismantle the corporate State

Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. In Unstoppable, he ramps up the fight and shows how Left-Right coalitions can prevail over the corporate state and ...

Timos, cuentistas, espabilaos y pardillos

«… Cuando el honesto jugador decidió hacer el envite, y mientras sacaba la guita con la que apostar de su bolsillo, le dieron el cambiazo y no advirtió que habían movido un cubilete de lugar. Confiaba plenamente en lo que había visto unos segundos inmediatamente antes ...

Isabella

the warrior queen

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history. In 1474, when most women were ...

Responsabilidad jurídica de las entidades de crédito por la venta de participaciones preferentes = Legal lianility of credit entities due to the sale of preferential shares

La obra persigue un tratamiento de la problemática surgida por la comercialización de productos financieros complejos en el mercado de banca retail o minorista La obra sintetiza para estudiantes de grado y de postgrado toda la problemática de la comercialización de las participaciones preferentes, sin ...

Sobre la conservación de la biodiversidad: la protección de la langosta verde (Panulirus Gracilis)

análisis comparado (República del Ecuador, España, Europa)

La investigación se ha llevado a cabo en el marco legal del prestigioso Programa Prometeo de la Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT) del Gobierno de la República del Ecuador. La implantación de un juzgado ambiental de los derechos de la naturaleza ...

Medieval women

Our understanding of the lives and roles of medieval women has changed dramatically in recent years. This compelling and richly illustrated book explores how they were perceived by others and how they saw themselves - as lovers, wives, mothers, intellectuals, women of God and members of ...

Viaje de novios

Milán en pleno agosto. La ciudad está casi desierta, todas las tiendas están cerradas y el calor es insoportable. El narrador, Jean B., director de documentales, se refugia en su hotel y escucha al barman contándole a otro cliente que hace unos días se suicidó ...

Blues de invierno

Una novela despiadadamente negra. Blues de Invierno narra la historia de tres personajes que deambulan sobre un Nueva York cubierto por la nieve, en su efímera huida del invierno madrileño. No sospechan que son peones en una matemática jugada de ajedrez entre servicios de inteligencia ...

Canción de Navidad

Con una elegante edición y unas magistrales ilustraciones, un clásico de Dickens para estimular el espíritu navideño.

Después de la lluvia

El valor de la solidaridad, el afán de superación y la búsqueda de la felicidad inmaterial están presentes en el VIII Premio Internacional Compostela de Álbum Ilustrado, una obra de intenso colorido y original composición.

La violencia en México

El libro que tienes en tus manos, lector amigo, es un grito contenido de rabia. De cómo un territorio inmenso y fabulosamente diverso, poblado por más de cien millones de almas, haya llegado a identificarse con un delirio homicida trata esta obra. Sin aspavientos, sin ...