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The implosion of capitalism

In The Implosion of Capitalism world-renowned political economist Samir Amin connects the key events of our times - financial crisis, Eurozone implosion, the emerging BRIC nations and the rise of political Islam - identifying them as symptoms of a profound systemic crisis. In light of these major ...

Looking for information

a survey of research on information seeking, needs and behavior

"Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior" reviews more than 50 years of research on information seeking and related topics, and contains over 1,300 citations to relevant works. Now in its third edition, this book is the most ...

Landgrabbing

journeys in the new colonialism

To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land grabbing." In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of ...

The Complete works of Rosa Luxemburg

Vol.1: Economic writings, 1

This first volume of Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings I, will contain some of Luxemburg's most important writings on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism and pre-capitalist economic formations, most of which have never before appeared in English. In addition ...

The Oxford handbook of crime and criminal justice

Although criminal justice systems in developed Western countries are much alike in form, structure, and function, the American system is unique. While it is structurally similar to those of other Western countries, the punishments it imposes are often vastly harsher. No other Western country retains ...

Las más bellas reflexiones sobre la vida

André Comte-Sponville, uno de los grandes nombres de la filosofía popular, ha captado para los lectores la quintaesencia del pensamiento de los grandes autores y filósofos, de la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días: Aristóteles, Descartes, Spinoza, Alain, Schopenhauer, Camus… En esta obra se habla de temas ...

Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010

the engine room of the Constitution

Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, but this legal history has only recently begun to be subjected to scholarly inquiry. As Roberto Gargarella contends, contemporary constitutional and political theory has a great deal to learn from this history, as Latin American constitutionalism has ...

The Law of the Constitution

The Law of the Constitution has been the main doctrinal influence upon English constitutional thought since the late-nineteenth century. It acquired and long retained extraordinary legal authority, despite fierce criticism and many changes in law and government. By many, it was treated as a canonical ...

Comparative constitutionalism

The Oxford Edition of Dicey provides sources with which to reassess the extraordinary authority and lasting influence of Dicey's canonical text. Volume Two, Comparative Constitutionalism, provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution. These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lectures were written ...

Trade in goods

This new edition of Trade in Goods is an authoritative work on international trade by one of the most influential scholars in the field. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of every WTO agreement dealing with trade in goods. The focus of the book ...

Economics of good and evil

the quest for economic meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing ...

Naturaleza incompleta

cómo la mente emergió de la materia

A medida que la física elabora una teoría cada vez más completa del universo y que la química molecular desentraña los secretos de la vida, más patente resulta, en esta «teoría de todo», una gran ausencia: nosotros y nuestra mente. En efecto, la relación entre ...

The Oxford handbook of comparative Constitutional Law

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government ...

The Oxford edition of Dicey

The Oxford Edition of Dicey provides sources with which to reassess the extraordinary authority and lasting influence of Dicey's canonical text Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. The first volume consists of Dicey's rare first edition in its ...

Authorities

conflicts, co-operation, and transnational legal theory

Interactions between state, international, transnational and intra-state law involve overlapping, and sometimes conflicting, claims to legitimate authority. These have led scholars to new theoretical explanations of sovereignty, constitutionalism, and legality, but there has been no close attention to authority itself. This book asks whether, and ...

The jurists

a critical history

The book is an intellectual history of the work of Western jurists from ancient Rome to the present. It discusses the Roman jurists, the medieval civilians and canon lawyers, the late scholastics, the natural law schools of the 17th and 18th centuries, the positivism and ...

Class, mass and collective arbitration in national and international Law

Class arbitration first developed in the United States in the 1980s as a means of providing large numbers of individuals with the opportunity to assert their claims at the same time and in the same proceeding. Large-scale arbitration has since spread beyond U.S. borders ...

Legado en los huesos

El juicio contra el padrastro de la joven Johana Márquez está a punto de comenzar. A él asiste una embarazada Amaia Salazar, la inspectora de la Policía Foral que un año atrás había resuelto los crímenes del llamado basajaun, que sembraron de terror el valle ...

Reconstructing american legal realism & rethinking private Law theory

In the myriad choices of interpretation judges face when confronted with rules and cases, legal realists are concerned with how these doctrinal materials carry over into judicial outcomes. What can explain past judicial behavior and predict its future course? How can law constrain judgments made ...

La modificación e inaplicación de las condiciones de trabajo

En el presente libro se estudian las diferencias entre la mo­dificación del contrato de trabajo y la modificación de las condiciones de trabajo contractuales. Y, dentro de esta última, los tres procedimientos posibles - el mutuo acuerdo, la voluntad unilateral del empresario y la voluntad ...