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Baños árabes de Granada y su provincia

materiales para la arqueología y cultura material

Los baños tuvieron una gran importancia en la vida religiosa y civil de los musulmanes. Eran necesarios para realizar las abluciones mayores antes del rezo en las mezquitas pero además se utilizaron para lograr efectos terapéuticos, higiénicos y medicinales. Abundaron en todas las poblaciones y ...

Ciudadano sujeto

Volumen 2: Ensayos de antropología filosófica

Este volumen es claramente un lúcido intento de poner en tensión las tesis vertidas en los textos modernos y contemporáneos escogidos por el autor con aquellos nudos y dilemas que nuestra civilización contemporánea ha heredado de la tradición filosófica de la modernidad, y que de ...

Hegel

una propedéutica

Hegel, el pensador maestro del idealismo alemán, es el último gran sistemático de la filosofía europea. En este libro, todos los temas de la filosofía hegeliana pensar y naturaleza, historia y espíritu, derecho, religión y ciencia son desarrollados abarcadoramente y explicados al lector de hoy ...

Tortura, incesto y drogas

reflexiones sobre los límites del Derecho penal

Las reglas detrás de la excepción. ¿Tiene futuro la teoría del bien jurídico? Tenencia de drogas, privacidad, autonomía.

Locura, fe y transformación

los Seminarios de Eigen en Seúl, 2007 y 2009

Locura, fe y transformación (Las conferencias de Eigen en Seul) reúne en un solo volumen, cuidadosamente traducido, dos de sus obras más directas: Eigen in Seoul: Vol.1-Madness and Murder (2010). Vol.2 ?Faith and Transformation (2011) donde el autor dialoga libremente sobre su perspectiva ...

Shaping the single european market in the field of foreign direct investment

The Treaty of Lisbon (2009) has brought foreign direct investment (FDI) within the scope of the European Union's common commercial policy (CCP). In light of this development, this book analyses the internal and external dimension of EU law and policy in the field of ...

Managing organizational change

a practical toolkit for leaders

A critical area of competitive advantage is the ability of organizations to lead rather than follow changes in the market. This means having the ability to roll out the right changes quickly and reliably in a way that delivers a return on investment. Managing Organizational ...

Introduction to Transfer Pricing

Transfer pricing is an area of tax law that has significantly expanded over the last decades. With the globalisation of business activities, the threat of international double taxation, and the need for States to monitor transfer prices to avoid the illegitimate erosion of their tax ...

Is the EU Doomed?

The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future. In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that although the EU will only survive in modest form - deprived ...

Trading economics

a guide to economic statistics for practitioners and students

A practical guide to understanding how key economic and market statistics drive financial market trends The recent global financial crisis stressed the need for economists who understand how key economic and market statistics drive financial market trends and how to mitigate the risks for businesses ...

A Straightforward guide to public Law

This latest publication in the Straightforward Guides Series - A Guide to Public Law - is a comprehensive introduction to Public Law and all that it entails, as well as constitutional law and the rule of law covering the workings of government, Parliament, constitutional monarchy, the legislative ...

A Straightforward guide to business Law

This latest publication in the Straightforward Guides Series - A Guide to Business Law - is a comprehensive introduction to the law as it affects the business environment. The areas that affect business specifically are the English Legal system generally, contract law, employment law and company law.

Digital wars

Apple, Google, Microsoft and the battle for the internet

The first time that Apple, Google and Microsoft found themselves sharing the same digital space was 1998. They were radically different companies and they would subsequently fight a series of pitched battles for control of different parts of the digital landscape. They could not know ...

Greek and Roman political ideas

a Pelican introduction

Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? How should we exercise power? Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of ...

Reinventing state capitalism

Leviathan in business, Brazil and beyond

The wave of liberalization that swept world markets in the 1980s and 90s altered the ways that governments manage their economies. Reinventing State Capitalism "analyzes the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact with private investors either as majority or minority ...

The moral background

an inquiry into the history of business ethics

In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics ...

Good-bye hegemony!

power and influence in the global system

Many policymakers, journalists, and scholars insist that U.S. hegemony is essential for warding off global chaos. Good-Bye Hegemony! argues that hegemony is a fiction propagated to support a large defense establishment, justify American claims to world leadership, and buttress the self-esteem of voters. It ...

Systemic risk

the myth of rational finance and the crisis of democracy

In the five years since the outbreak of one of the worst global financial crises, systemic risk has become a buzzword and developed into an acute threat. But what exactly is this concept, and ought it to be considered an economic or a political phenomenon ...

Femen

'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings flaunted on their skin ...

Instintos laborales

El poder limitado de los que quieren abarcar todo, las críticas a los compañeros, el acoso, la envidia, el compromiso, el caciquismo o la inseguridad son situaciones cotidianas con las que todos nos encontramos en nuestro día a día y que, aunque puedan parecer estrictamente ...