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Las Austrias

matrimonio y razón de Estado en la monarquía española

Matrimonio y razón de Estado en la monarquía española Los Habsburgos, originarios del actual cantón suizo de Argovia, casa reinante en España durante casi dos siglos (1517-1700), otorgaron siempre mucha importancia al matrimonio de las mujeres de su familia, lasAustrias, como forma de extensión o ...

Narración de Arthur Gordon Pym

Vinculada a la sensibilidad moderna por una secreta corriente de afinidad, la inquietante "Narración de Arthur Gordon Pym" es uno de los relatos gestados por la singular imaginación de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) que mayor atracción ejercen sobre el lector actual. En efecto, lo que ...

Prometeus shackled

Goldsmith banks and england's financial revolution after 1700

After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for the government, made possible by better property-rights protection, lead to a rapid expansion of private credit, and see the Industrial Revolution ...

Charting the divide between common and civil Law

What does it mean when civil lawyers and common lawyers think differently? In Charting the Divide between Common and Civil Law, Thomas Lundmark provides a comprehensive introduction to the uses, purposes, and approaches to studying civil and common law in a comparative legal framework. Superbly ...

Aspectos léxicos en los Becerros de Valpuesta

El problema de Spinoza

El 10 de mayo de 1940, las tropas nazis de Hitler invaden los Países Bajos. Desde febrero de 1941, a cargo del cuerpo de la expedición encargado del expolio, el Reichsleiter Rosenberg se apresura en llegar a Ámsterdam para confiscar la biblioteca de Spinoza. ¿Qué ...

Financial markets and exchanges Law

This work is essential for banking and investment business legal practitioners and provides an invaluable reference source on current on and off-exchange market trading and regulatory issues, in the banking, investment and derivatives fields. The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis on the regulation ...

End this depression now!

The Great Recession is more than four years old - and counting. Yet, as Nobel Prize winning author Paul Krugman argues in this powerful new book, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge - all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all ...

Strategic intelligence for the 21st century

the Mosaic method

Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider's assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies. The birth of the internet, the advent of 24 hour news and ...

La intervención de las comunidades autónomas y de las regiones italianas en la transposición de las Directivas Europeas

el caso de la Certificación Energética de los Edificios

En las últimas décadas, el ahorro energético ha constituido uno de los desafíos fundamentales a nivel global. En años más recientes, las instituciones europeas han regulado con detalle la eficiencia energética de los edificios, en consideración de la relevancia del sector de la vivienda y ...

Lecciones de responsabilidad civil

Estas «Lecciones de Responsabilidad Civil» están pensadas fundamentalmente para los estudiantes de «Derecho de Daños», tanto si constituye una materia específica de una titulación de Grado o de Posgrado (especialmente en el caso de los Másteres en Abogacía, en asesoramiento jurídico y los específicos en ...

El leasing mobiliario como garantía en operaciones financieras

Las situaciones de crisis económica y la necesidad de financiación han hecho resurgir figuras jurídicas como el leasing, que permite la compra financiada de bienes en situaciones de falta de recursos y necesidad de renovar equipos o el inicio de actividades empresariales sin grandes desembolsos ...

La exhibición de documentos y soportes informáticos en el proceso civil

El objetivo de la presente monografía es el análisis del instituto de la exhibición de documentos (de índole probatoria y soportes informáticos) en el proceso civil español. Se trata de afrontar un problema trascendental de la práctica de la prueba documental: el acceso al documento ...

Social media and the Law

a guidebook for communication students and professionals

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and Flickr allow users to connect with one another and share information with the click of a mouse or a tap on a touchscreen-and have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields ...

Organised crime and the Law

a comparative analysis

Organised Crime and the Law presents an overview of the laws and policies adopted to address the phenomenon of organised crime in the United Kingdom and Ireland, assessing the changes to these justice systems, in terms of the prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of such ...

teenage citizens

the political theories of the young

Most teenagers are too young to vote and are off the radar of political scientists. Teenage Citizens looks beyond the electoral game to consider the question of how this overlooked segment of our citizenry understands political topics. Bridging psychology and political science, Constance Flanagan argues ...

Pluralism and european private Law

European private law has hitherto tended to be conceptualised firmly around ideas of unity and harmony. Yet the discourse within other areas of European law, notably constitutional law scholarship, visibly adoptsapluralist perspectives. This book seeks to bridge the gap between 'public' and 'private' law by ...

The concept of Mens Rea in international criminal Law

the case for a unified approach

The purpose of this book is to find a unified approach to the doctrine of mens rea in the sphere of international criminal law, based on an in-depth comparative analysis of different legal systems and the jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals since Nuremberg. Part I ...

Criminal justice forecasts of risk

a machine learning approach

Machine learning and nonparametric function estimation procedures can be effectively used in forecasting. One important and current application is for making forecasts of "future dangerousness" to inform criminal justice decision. Examples include the decision to release an individual on parole, determination of the parole conditions ...

Humanity's Law

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts ...