Libros de

Estadística descriptiva

Este manual está especialmente concebido para todos aquellos estudiantes que deben seguir un curso de estadística básica en la modalidad de enseñanza a distancia. El temario está dividido en diez Unidades didácticas, cada una de las cuales engloba todos los contenidos teóricos necesarios para la ...

Sex and punishment

4000 years of judging desire

Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human ...

A concise history of the arabs

The key to understanding the Arab world today - and in the future - is unlocking its past. John McHugo takes the reader on a journey through the political, social and intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. He ...

The challenge of originalism

theories of constitutional interpretation

Originalism is a force to be reckoned with in constitutional interpretation. At one time a monolithic theory of constitutional interpretation, contemporary originalism has developed into a sophisticated family of theories about how to interpret and reason with a constitution. Contemporary originalists harness the resources of ...

Auroras de medianoche

viaje a las cuatro Laponias

Cuenta la leyenda que en el cielo negro de Laponia un zorro agitó su cola contra la nieve y las chispas que salieron despedidas tiñeron de colores la noche ártica. Desde entonces los «fuegos de zorro» es como se conocen las auroras boreales en Laponia ...

Turnaround challenge

business and the city of the future

Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning ...

Ocho ensayos sobre William Blake

El poeta y grabador William Blake es considerado una de las mentes poéticas más imaginativas y profundas de la cultura europea; sin embargo, son muy pocos los que han comprendido el significado de su obra. Los ocho ensayos de este libro, culminación de más de ...

The internet police

how crime went online and the cops followed

Australian police uncover a laptop filled with child pornography; Belgian investigators trace the videos to a Ukrainian "studio" where they were filmed; the studio owner reveals the e-mail addresses of 20,000 American clients - and the FBI uncovers the largest child porn ring in US ...

Constitutional courts as positive legislators

a comparative law study

During the past decade the role of constitutional courts has dramatically changed. Today, constitutional courts condition their decisions with the presumption of constitutionality of statutes, opting to interpret them according to or in harmony with the Constitution in order to preserve them, instead of deciding ...

Concepts of property in intellectual property Law

Intellectual property law faces the challenge of balancing the interests of right holders and users in the face of technological change and inequalities in information access. Concepts of Property in Intellectual Property Law offers a collection of essays which reflect on the interaction between intellectual ...

Making capitalism fit for society

Housing and the financial crisis

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no different from any other asset ...

The oil curse

how petroleum wealth shapes the development of nations

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped ...

Amanece, que no es poco

Parece lo de siempre y es lo nunca visto: un joven ingeniero español, profesor de la Universidad de Oklahoma, vuelve a España para disfrutar de su año sabático. Su padre le ha comprado una moto con sidecar para realizar viajes de placer los dos juntos ...

What is a fair international society

international Law between development and recognition

Today's world is post-colonial and post-Cold War. These twin characteristics explain why international society is also riddled with the two major forms of injustice which Nancy Fraser identified as afflicting national societies. First, the economic and social disparities between states caused outcry in the ...

Años treinta

teatro de la crueldad, lugar de encuentro

Tomando como referencia esencial a la tensión entre el microrrelato y la macrohistoria en la base de la nueva concepción de la colección, nace una guía de recorridos transversales que propone nuevas claves para acercarnos al período de los años treinta en el contexto español ...

Obras

Parece oportuno que junto a la gran biografía del santo de Loyola, obra del P. García-Villoslada, exista esta publicación de sus Obras (esta vez en la colección BAC Maior), acreditada por la aceptación con que fue recibida en su anterior formato en la BAC Normal ...

Chinese civil Law

China is a major civil law jurisdiction. Since the end of the 1990s great efforts have been made in China to codify the entire civil law. With the major statutes governing contracts, property, torts and conflict of laws promulgated in 1999, 2007, 2009 and 2010 ...

Un tiempo de guerra

una historia alternativa de Europa, 1450-1700

La versión establecida de la historia dela Europa moderna nos habla de las guerras que se sucedieron entre 1450 y 1700 desde el punto de vista de unas causas políticas con las que los gobernantes las justificaban, en nombre del bien común o de la ...

El trabajo de las sociedades

«Durante mucho tiempo creí que vivía en una sociedad», dice François Dubet, pero la representación tradicional de la sociedad se agota bajo los golpes de la mundialización y de la modernidad misma. Así, la sociedad ya no se concibe como el progreso de la integración ...