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American insecurity

why our economic fears lead to political inaction

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn ...

Achieving democracy

the future of progressive regulation

Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country. Americans have relied on philosophical pragmatism and on the impulse of political progressivism to express those creedal democratic values. Achieving Democracy argues that, in the last 30 ...

Insurgencias invisibles

resistencias y militancias en Estados Unidos

Ensayo político, crónica e historia oral para acercarnos a la insurgencia política en el seno de Estados Unidos. Este libro transita entre el ensayo político, la crónica y la historia oral. Su sujeto: la heterogeneidad y multiplicidad de luchas contra el imperialismo y el capitalismo ...

Sleepwalking into a new world

the emergence of Italian city communes in the twelfth century

Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous ...

Oil for food

the global food crisis and the Middle East

In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008, Middle Eastern oil producers have announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East ...

Ceremonial entries in Early Modern Europe

the iconography of power

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that a "voiceda (TM) the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the ...

Strafgesetzbuch

lehr-und praxiskommentar

ist das Standardwerk zum StGB für Studium, Referendariat und erste Berufsjahre. Die vorzügliche Kombination aus Lehrbuch und Kommentar überzeugt mit einer konzentrierten und verständlichen Darstellung zu einem erschwinglichen Preis. Seine besonderen Vorteile: Schnelles Erfassen, Wiederholen und Beantworten der Fallfrage wie die Durchdringung des Stoffs im ...

Clausewitz in his time

essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war

Far from being a detached theorist, Carl von Clausewitz was as intensely aware of the cultural and intellectual currents of his time as he was engaged in its political and military conflicts. The society in which he lived and the people with whom he served ...

Feminicidio

el asesinato de mujeres por ser mujeres

Son múltiples las formas que puede tomar la violencia contra las mujeres y desgraciadamente hay veces que implican la muerte de las mujeres. Entonces hablamos de feminicidio, del asesinato de mujeres por el hecho de ser mujeres. Pero no se trata de un acto puntual ...

La brecha

¿Qué lleva a una sociedad a permitir que la pobreza se instale en su seno, mientras una parte de ella hace ostentación de riqueza y lujo? ¿Qué ley natural empuja a las sociedades contemporáneas a polarizarse por la desigualdad creciente entre sus ciudadanos. La Brecha ...

Administración local práctica

casos prácticos de Derecho administrativo y haciendas locales

Esta segunda edición de Administración Local Práctica ve la luz como respuesta a la extraordinaria acogida que la primera mereció entre sus lectores. La problemática práctica del derecho, la economía y la gestión pública resulta inagotable, es por ello que esta segunda edición brinda otro ...

The World Crisis

The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades ...

The emergence of León-Castile c. 1065-1500

essays presented to J.F. O'Callaghan

To many medieval Europeans north of the Pyrenees, the Iberian Kingdom of Leon-Castile was remote and unfamiliar. In many ways such perceptions linger today, and the fact that Leon-Castile is mentioned at all in current textbooks is the result of efforts begun by scholars some ...

Todo llevará su nombre

En la antesala de la muerte, Simón Bolívar es apenas una sombra de su pasado. Y no tanto por su enfermedad como por la pérdida de su influencia y de su poder, por el fracaso de sus ambiciones panamericanas, por los odios y los escarnios ...

The spanish presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Images of Iberia

The sixteenth century marked a critical period both for the formation of Spain as a cultural and political entity and for a new imperial dominance of the Spanish crown over other areas of Europe, in particular the states of the Italian peninsula. The uniqueness of ...

Tolerance and coexistence in Early Modern Spain

old christians and moriscos in the Campo de Calatrava

There has been a widely-held consensus among historians that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this apparent obduracy made their expulsion between 1609 and 1614 both necessary and inevitable. This book ...

Historia de las artes entre los antiguos

En este relato juega un importante papel la traducción de Diego Antonio Rejón de Silva, cuyo manuscrito se encuentra depositado en el Archivo-Biblioteca de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando desde 1797 y que ahora, finalmente, publicamos. Tanto el empeño que demostró ...

Beyond Habermas

democracy, knowledge, and the public sphere

During the 1960s the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas introduced the notion of a "bourgeois public sphere" in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated with the cultural institutions of the early eighteenth-century; since then the "public sphere" itself has ...

Haploidoceros Mediterraneus

una nueva especie de ciervo en el Pleistoceno Ibérico

Este nuevo proyecto expositivo permitirá al público saber más acerca del Haploidoceros mediterraneus, del que prácticamente no se tenía noticia hasta ahora. El Haploidoceros mediterraneus es, probablemente, la especie de cérvido europeo menos conocida. En el sur de Francia ha sido identificado únicamente en dos ...