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Derecho y constitución en la Edad Media

INDICE: A modo de introducción: Fritz Kern. Historiador universal, historiador del Derecho. Derecho y Constitución en la Edad Media.

Publicidad y salud

Recoge nueve capítulos en formato “case study” sobre campañas publicitarias en el ámbito sanitario, todas ellas de gran éxito, elaboradas por diferentes Agencias miembros de la AEAPS. Cada capítulo hace un breve recorrido sobre la agencia de publicidad especializada en salud creadora de la campaña ...

The history of the Renaissance world

from the rediscovery of Aristotle to the conquest of Constantinople

Beginning in the days just after the First Crusade, this volume - the third in the series - chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to preach crusade but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end on the walls of ...

A short history of the Twentieth Century

The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century--its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise ...

Viaje a la libertad económica

por qué el gasto esclaviza y la austeridad libera

El prestigioso economista Daniel Lacalle nos propone en este ensayo un apasionante viaje alrededor de las principales ideologías que en materia económica y social pergeñan el mundo en el que vivimos. En dicho periplo no sólo conoceremos el propio recorrido ideológico del autor -en el ...

Chivalry and the ideals of Knighthood in France

during the Hundred Years War

Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities ...

La República de Platón

diálogo en un prólogo, dieciséis capítulos y un epílogo

"Podemos, debemos escribir para nuestros contemporáneos obras como La república o El banquete", declaraba Badiou en Condiciones (1992), después de haber afirmado, al menos desde los años ochenta y a contracorriente de su época, su filiación platónica. A ese imperativo responde su República de Platón ...

Red nations

the nationalities experience in and after the USSR

Red Nations offers an illuminating and informative overview of how the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union experienced communist rule. It surveys the series of historical events that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union and evaluates their continuing resonance across post-soviet states today ...

Nietzsche's philosophy of history

Nietzsche, the so-called herald of the 'philosophy of the future', nevertheless dealt with the past on nearly every page of his writing. Not only was he concerned with how past values, cultural practices and institutions influence the present - he was plainly aware that any attempt ...

Distant strangers

ethics, psychology, and global poverty

What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the ...

Pottery in Archaeology

This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering a ...

How

por qué cómo hacemos las cosas significa tanto

Si quieres prosperar en un mundo cambiante, hiperconectado e hipertransparente, abre este libro y descubre CÓMO La abundancia de información, la transparencia y la creciente interconectividad nos hacen cada vez más dependientes del entorno global y están transformando drásticamente el mundo. Vivimos en la Era ...

El Derecho a la propia discapacidad

el régimen de la discapacidad de obrar

El propósito de este estudio está centrado en el derecho que tienen las personas con discapacidad intelectual a ejercer por sí los propios derechos. El autor no se limita a poner de manifiesto los peligros o los que considera inaceptables prejuicios, sino que propone soluciones ...

Leon Trotsky

a revolutionary's life

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meagre foundation ...

Schumpeterian analysis of economic catch-up

knowledge, path-creation, and the middle-income trap?

One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others revolves around the so-called 'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has grown strongly gets stuck at a certain level. In this book, Keun Lee explores the reasons why ...

The Constitution and the future of criminal justice in America

The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America brings together leading scholars from law, psychology and criminology to address timely and important topics in US criminal justice. The book tackles cutting-edge issues related to terrorism, immigration and transnational crime, and to the increasingly ...

Human Rights and public finance

budgets and the promotion of economic and social rights

This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate ...

The Cambridge history of the Romance Languages

Vol.II: Contexts

What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions ...

A political history of spanish

the making of a language

Spanish is spoken as a first language by almost 400 million people in approximately 60 countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the thirteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings ...

A Straightforward guide to intellectual property and the Law

the comprehensive guide to protection of intellectual property

A Straightforward Guide to Intellectual Property and the Law is a comprehensive and clear guide to the legal framework governing intellectual property. The book is concise and covers all areas connected to copyrights, patents, franchises, etc.