Libros de

Popol Vuh

Con la gracia y la sabiduría de las fábulas clásicas, el Popol Vuh es un legado mítico de la antigüedad americana. El traductor, Ermilo Abreu Gómez, busca en esta versión que el lector se encuentre con "un Popol Vuh vivo y no un Popol Vuh ...

Civilizaciones perdidas

las huellas secretas del pasado remoto

La gruta cósmica de Lascaux, el Valle de los Gigantes, Göbekli Tepe, Stonehenge, Laje das Rodas, Puma Punku, Machu Picchu, Cañón Chaco, el mecanismo de Antikithera, los geoglifos de Nazca, las ruinas de las ciudades sumerias, Angkor Wat... Los vestigios y lugares que aparecen en ...

Tragedia y modernidad

«En palabras de Esquilo,‘estamos obligados a padecer la verdad’. La tragedia es someterse a un sufrimiento que puede conducir a la experiencia de una verdad que no es ni contemplativa (o sea, filosófica) ni determinista (es decir, científica), sino que surge de una experiencia ...

El libro de la hospitalidad

La obra del poeta judío Edmond Jabès se articula alrededor del Libro y de la creación de diversos libros, de entre los cuales cabe destacar El libro de las preguntas. De publicación póstuma, El libro de la hospitalidad hace balance de la vida y la ...

The divide

american injustice in the age of the wealth gap

"Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that ...

All the president's bankers

the hidden alliances that drive american power

Who rules America? All the Presidents' Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history. Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an ...

Are EU banks safe?

'Are EU banks safe?' is of interest to those involved in the debate on changing or maintaining the way prudential banking supervision is structured and performed. It builds on the descriptive companion book 'EU Banking Supervision' by the same author, but focuses on what banking ...

Binging controlling shareholders to Court

standard-based strategies and controlling shareholder opportunism

The central issue of this book is how to use standard-based strategies efficiently in the "controlling v. minority shareholder" context. A standard-based strategy has two core elements - a preset standard and ex post adjudication. To reach an optimal efficiency, both elements need to balance between ...

International arbitration and corporate Law

an OHADA practice

This book is an updated edition of Benoit Le Bars' book Pratique du droit des societes en droit de l'OHADA. The OHADA treaty (Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires/ Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa) covers 17 ...

Eu banking supervision

This book provides an introduction to EU banking supervision regulations. It seeks to provide a common basis of knowledge for people working in, or studying, banking supervision in the EU, or those unfamiliar with parts of the broad array of banking supervision requirements and instruments ...

Justice in the modern world

This monograph is devoted to the subject of justice systems in the principal legal families of the world. Principal attention is given to how the courts are organized, court procedure, the judiciary, procedural guarantees, and rights of the individual. The evolution of justice is analyzed ...

La reforma laboral de 2012 en España

evaluación preliminar

El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar los efectos producidos por la reforma laboral de 2012 en España. En particular, el presente informe hace tres aprotaciones. En primer lugar, sitúa las reformas del mercado de trabajo español en el contexto de las reformas llevadas a ...

Fascism

a very short introduction

What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women ...

Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism

You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no ...

Historia y Memoria en Torno a los Conflictos Civiles del Siglo XX

Life time contracts

social long-term contracts in labour, tenancy and consumer credit Law

This book deals with life time contracts, the group of contracts which generally have the most important role to play in people's daily lives and existence. These establish social long-term relations which, with regard to certain periods of the lifetime of individuals, provide essential ...

The independence of judges

This anniversary book, published in honour of the 100th birthday of the Norwegian Association of Judges, focuses on the independence of Judges. The independence of judges encompasses a variety of problematic aspects. A key element is the relationship of the judiciary to the legislative and ...

Liaison officers

essential actors in transnational policing

This book presents rich and illustrative empirical material on the use of liaison offices in police cooperation. The authors, both eminent academics and seasoned practitioners (and in some cases from a dual academic-practitioner background), present their findings from a wide range of geographical and functional ...

Czechoslovak diplomacy and the Gulag

deportation of czechoslovak citizens to the USSR and the negotiation for their repatriation, 1945-1953

After the entry of the Red Army into Czechoslovak territory in 1945, Red Army authorities began to arrest and deport Czechoslovak citizens to labor camps in the Soviet Union. The regions most affected were Eastern and South Slovakia and Prague. The Czechoslovak authorities repeatedly requested ...

Filósofos de la paz y de la guerra

Gallie devela y descifra dimensiones inéditas, o escasamente estudiadas, en las obras de Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engels y Tolstoi, y tiende los puentes que nos permiten transitar de una a otra, a partir del hecho de que, en su momento, cada uno de ellos contribuyó ...