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How the West came to rule

the geopolitical origins of capitalism

Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told ...

La imputación objetiva del resultado

desarrollo, fundamentos y cuestiones abiertas

En el presente libro el reputado Profesor alemán Wolfgang Frisch (Catedrático emérito de Derecho penal de la Universidad de Friburgo de Brisgovia) aborda de forma condensada, sistemática y clara la denominada "teoría de la imputación objetiva del resultado", tanto en lo relativo a su desarrollo ...

Apologetic writings

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 68)

First brought to Florence by Lorenzo de Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452 1498), a Dominican friar, would ultimately play a major role in the events that convulsed the city in the 1490s and led to the overthrow of the Medici themselves. After ...

Silvae

(Loeb Classical Library; 206)

Statius "Silvae," thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct pictorial quality. Statius ...

Derecho penal y redes sociales

La extraordinaria expansión de Internet y, en especial, de las redes sociales, durante la última década, ha creado un nuevo escenario delictivo en el que concurren delitos tradicionales y delitos de nuevo cuño. La confluencia de la normativa específica de esta materia y de la ...

Prevención de riesgos laborales

Teoría y práctica de administración de empresas

fundamentos y opciones estratégicas

Esta ofrece una perspectiva integradora sobre los distintos ámbitos de actuación de una empresa, abarcando desde el ámbito funcional, hasta el ámbito competitivo y el ámbito corporativo. El lector podrá conocer cómo tomar las decisiones relativas a la operativa del día a día de una ...

Fragments of the histories; Letters to Caesar

(Loeb Classical Library; 522)

Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign as ...

At the heart of the State

the moral world of institutions

The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete and situated reality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues ...

El nuevo régimen de impugnación de los acuerdos sociales de las Sociedades de Capital

La reforma del sistema impugnatorio de los acuerdos sociales es una novedad de gran importancia que, sin duda, está llamada a incidir profundamente en el funcionamiento de nuestras sociedades.

El plagio en el Derecho de autor

La obra ofrece un análisis profundo de la conducta plagiaria a la luz del derecho civil y penal español, examinando las cuestiones más controvertidas, con un profundo estudio de la jurisprudencia española y foránea y desde una óptica actual y practica que toma en cuenta ...

Sucesión "mortis causa" de la familia recompuesta (del a reserva vidual a la fiducia sucesoria)

La problemática que suscita la postergación de un grupo familiar por el nacimiento de nuevos afectos ha sido una constante histórica a la que el Derecho sucesorio ha dado respuesta a través de diversas instituciones, como la reserva clásica o vidual. La cotidianeidad actual de ...

De nuestros impuestos y su administración

claves para una mejor administración fiscal

La viabilidad financiera de nuestro sector público depende de manera crucial no solo de qué impuestos tenemos y de cómo los regulamos, sino también de cómo los administramos. De nada sirve legislar estableciendo como objetivos, por ejemplo, la justicia o la sostenibilidad financiera si después ...

Advances in heavy tailed risk modeling

a handbook of operational risk

A cutting-edge guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to heavy tailed risk modeling Focusing on the quantitative aspects of heavy tailed loss processes in operational risk and relevant insurance analytics, Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk presents ...

Common precedents

the presentness of the past in victorian Law and fiction

Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society ...

Politics in commercial society

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society ...

Ideas of liberty in Early Modern Europe

from Machiavelli to Milton

Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever ...

The great escape

health, wealth, and the origins of inequality

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton - one of ...

Economics for everyone

a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Economics for Everyone, now published in second edition, is an antidote ...

The shape of the new

four big ideas and how they made the Modern World

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the ...