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Il Diritto delle prove penali

Giunto alla sua seconda edizione, il volume reca nuovi approfondimenti sulle questioni più scottanti e discusse nell'attuale dibattito giurisprudenziale e dottrinale. Così, il tema delle acquisizioni tecnologiche fruibili nell'inchiesta penale viene affrontato sia sotto il profilo della teoria generale, mediante una ricostruzione cartesiana ...

La sociedad novohispana

estereotipos y realidades

Este libro trata de desmantelar algunos de los prejuicios dominantes en la visión de la historia del México virreinal y de advertir acerca de la forma en que éstos han contribuido a distorsionar la imagen del pasado. Los dos textos que presentamos se refieren a ...

De una revolución a la otra

Jean Meyer es un historiador mexicano, nacido en Francia, no exclusivamente mexicanista. Entregado al “caos”, como él mismo define el oficio de historiar, sus líneas de investigación son violencia y religión en México, Francia, Rusia e Italia, siempre con una visión internacional para no perder ...

La fabrique des sciences modernes

(XVIIe-XIXe siècle)

La nature à l'aube des Lumières n'est plus un livre à déchiffrer, mais un champ à travailler. Comètes, marées, tremblements de terre, cessent d'être considérés comme les prodiges d'un univers immuable et transcendant. Aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, l'avènement du ...

Droit pénal spécial

infractions du Code pénal

Ce livre est consacré à l'étude de l'ensemble des infractions contenues au Code pénal : Infractions contre les biens, les personnes, la déviance sexuelle, la famille, la paix publique. Parce que le législateur, et tout particulièrement le législateur pénal, n'est pas capable de ...

British financial crises since 1825

This book provides a history of British financial crises since the Napoleonic wars. Interest in crises lapsed during the generally benign financial conditions which followed the Second Word War, but the study of banking markets and financial crises has returned to centre stage following the ...

The jew, the cathedral, and the medieval city

synagoga and ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral facades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries, the Jews of northern Europe prospered financially and intellectually, a ...

Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth

This book reconsiders the role of the Phillips curve in macroeconomic analysis in the first twenty years following the famous work by A W H Phillips, after whom it is named. It argues that the story conventionally told is entirely misleading. In that story, Phillips ...

La prescripción extintiva

¿Cuál es el fundamento de la prescripción extintiva y cuáles los intereses en juego? ¿Cuándo se inician los plazos? ¿Cómo debe alegarse la prescripción y con qué efectos? ¿Hasta cuándo es posible reclamar el daño contractual o extracontractual? ¿Qué significa yen qué casos opera la ...

La Vigilia Pascual en la Baja Edad Media

uso y significado litúrgico del tricerio

Este trabajo nace de la necesidad de conocer mejor el desarrollo de la celebración de la fiesta más importante del calendario litúrgico cristiano, la Vigilia Pascual, en la Baja Edad Media. El acercamiento a esta se suele hacer a través de libros litúrgicos tales como ...

Repsol

claves para convertir una petrolera sin petróleo en la décima del mundo

Desde entonces, en un país sin petróleo y con escaso tejido industrial, ha ido avanzando en un terreno altamente competitivo, donde operan las empresas más poderosas del mundo. Marcado por las necesidades intensivas de capital, la inseguridad política y el riesgo tecnológico, Repsol se ha ...

La franquicia

tratado práctico y jurídico

En esta nueva edición corregida y actualizada se expone la teoría que ya ha sido aplicada en la creación de empresas franquiciadoras, se desarrollan las prácticas que se han diseñado con el análisis de los aciertos y los fracasos, y en el contenido jurídico se ...

The next economic disaster

why it's coming and how to avoid it

Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic ...

When the party's over

the politics of fiscal squeeze in perspective

The politics of cutting public spending or raising taxes (or both) has dominated politics in many democracies in recent years. A new era of conflict has developed, with old political alignments being tested and new battles emerging over whose expectations are to be disappointed and ...

Economic and financial crisis and collective labour Law in Europe

The current economic and financial crisis erupted several years ago. Its effects impacted deeply upon society, in which legal rules and social patterns have developed to enable the establishment of civilisation, justice and peace. Over time it has become more and more obvious that policy ...

Marx's Capital illustrated

Imagine Karl Marx as a cartoonist, ready to set the record straight about his much maligned classic, Das Kapital. Impossibly difficult? Not in the least. Hopelessly outdated? Far from it. Though first published in 1867, Capital remains keenly relevant. Society continues to run on investment ...

The concrete Euro

implementing monetary policy in the Euro area

The euro area's framework for monetary policy implementation was introduced in 1999. Eleven years on, this volume examines the theoretical and historical underpinnings of the framework, how it has fared in practice, and what challenges it is likely to face in the future. The ...

Politics in China

an introduction

On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous six decades it had been. During that time, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China was transformed from ...

The Constitution of Canada

an introduction to its development and Law

In his excellent introduction to this new edition of W.P.M. Kennedy's The Constitution of Canada: An Introduction to its Development and Law, Martin Friedland - like Kennedy a past Dean of the University of Toronto Law School - notes that after much research, he ...

Outlaws of the Atlantic

sailors, pirates, and motley crews in the Age of Sail

Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and other builders of empire, but rather from the point-of-view of common people whose labors made that world possible - sailors, slaves, indentured ...