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The Well-Laden ship

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

"The Well-Laden Ship "("Fecunda ratis") is an early eleventh-century Latin poem composed of ancient and medieval proverbs, fables, and folktales. Compiled by Egbert of Liege, it""was planned as a first reader for beginning students. This makes it one of the few surviving works from ...

Eterno reposo y otras narraciones

El presente volumen reúne por primera vez en castellano una selección de los cuentos de Vasili Grossman. El autor de Vida y destino escribió cuentos toda su vida, desde los primeros publicados en los años treinta, y que despertaron la admiración de Gorki, hasta los ...

La evaluación de impacto regulatorio = Regulatory impact assessment

La definición de lo que sea de interés general no queda a la libre y caprichosa decisión del legislador y de la Administración. Las decisiones públicas de mayor relevancia han de ir precedidas de la información necesaria, y, en particular, de métodos y conocimientos que ...

En tierra de confluencias, Italia y la Monarquía de España

Siglos XVI-XVIII

Durante las últimas tres décadas ha tenido lugar una constante reinterpretación historiográfica de las relaciones entre Italia y la Monarquía de España a lo largo de la Edad Moderna. La fortaleza de los nexos políticos entre la sociedad política hispana con el Estado de Milán ...

La presencia irlandesa durante las Cortes de Cádiz en España y América, 1812

The Irish presence at the Cortes of Cadiz

The Peninsular War against Napoleon brought about a decisive change for the Irish communities in Spain, as the campaigns against Bonaparte unleashed a wide-ranging debate about the nature of Spanish nationhood and freedom which in turn inevitably led to questions being asked of the allegiance ...

Ritus Infidelium

Miradas interconfesionales sobre las prácticas religiosas en la Edad Media

Si los especialistas de la historia de las ideas y de la historia social se han interesado en la percepción del «otro» religioso, pocos son los estudios que han examinado esta cuestión en la Edad Media. Esta obra ofrece una nueva perspectiva de las relaciones ...

Villas romanas del Duero

historia de un paisaje olvidado

El libro ha visto la luz en dos escenarios privilegiados al estar rodeado de algunas de las importantes piezas arqueológicas que son citadas y estudiadas en el exhaustivo trabajo de Fernando Regueras, que con la paciencia y la intuición de un experto mosaísta ha ido ...

Neuromarketing for dummies

Learn how to use neuromarketing and understand the science behind it Neuromarketing is a controversial new field where researchers study consumers' brain responses to advertising and media. Neuromarketing and the brain sciences behind it provide new ways to look at the age-old question: why do ...

OIC, the UN, and counter-terrorism Law-making

conflicting or cooperative legal orders?

The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorism activities should occur at every level, including that of intergovernmental organizations. This unique, timely, and carefully researched monograph examines one such important yet generally under-researched and ...

Joint ventures and EC competition Law

This book examines the treatment of joint ventures (JVs) in EU Competition Law, and at the same time provides a comparison with US law. It starts with an analysis of the rather elusive concept of JV, encompassing both concentrative JVs (subject to merger control) and ...

An introduction to quantitative finance

The worlds of Wall Street and The City have always held a certain allure, but in recent years have left an indelible mark on the wider public consciousness and there has been a need to become more financially literate. The quantitative nature of complex financial ...

Restoring public debt sustainability

the role of independent fiscal institutions

Restoring Public Debt Sustainability: The Role of Independent Fiscal Institutions represents the first comprehensive survey of a new generation of independent fiscal institutions, established to promote transparency in public finances through real-time monitoring of the soundness of budgetary policymaking. The chapters, authored by heads of ...

Aid on the edge of chaos

rethinking international cooperation in a complex world

It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and ...

American legal history

a very short introduction

Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways ...

The anthropology of Law

Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction. Anthropology of law is presented as a distinctive subject within the broader field of legal ...

Entrepreneurship

a very short introduction

There has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in business, policy, and education. But what do entrepreneurs do? What is entrepreneurship and why is it important? What is distinctive about entrepreneurs? And where do they come from ...

No one's world

the west, the rising rest, and the coming global turn

The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence ...

Regulating the risk of unemployment

national adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in Europe

Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns ...

Law's relations

a relational theory of self, autonomy, and Law

Autonomy is one of the core concepts of legal and political thought, yet also one of the least understood. The prevailing theory of liberal individualism characterizes autonomy as independence, yet from a social perspective, this conception is glaringly inadequate. In this brilliantly innovative work, Jennifer ...

Legal-lay communication

textual travels in the Law

This volume responds to a growing interest in the language of legal settings by situating the study of language and law within contemporary theoretical debates in discourse studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The chapters in the collection explore many of the common occasions when those ...