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The Cambridge economic history of the greco-roman world

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic ...

The Sources of Social Power

Vol. 2: The rise of classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain ...

The sources of social power

Vol. 3: Global empires and revolution, 1890-1945

Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century ...

Hobbes today

insights for the 21st Century

Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth-century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we ...

Gnostic religion in Antiquity

Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it. Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the ...

Documentary culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages

Many more documents survive from the early Middle Ages than from the Roman Empire. Although ecclesiastical archives may account for the dramatic increase in the number of surviving documents, this new investigation reveals the scale and spread of documentary culture beyond the Church. The contributors ...

Sociedades anónimas

INDICE: 1. Concepto y notas caracterizadoras de la Sociedad Anónima. María Enciso Alonso-Muñumer y Ramón Hermosilla Gimeno. 2. Constitución de la Sociedad Anónima. José Luis Pérez Serrabona. 3. Las aportaciones sociales. Carlos Vargas Vasserot. 4. Acciones. Juan Ignacio Peinado Gracia, Isabel Contreras y Patricia Márquez ...

Slaves to Rome

paradigms of Empire in roman culture

This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how ...

The politics of authoritarian rule

What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using ...

La responsabilidad civil por vicios de la construcción en España y Puerto Rico

La presente monografía contiene un estudio comparado sobre la legislación, interpretación y aplicación de las normas referidas al proceso edificatorio en España y Puerto Rico. Dichas normas partes de un tronco común, el Código civil español, parcialmente vigente en Puerto Rico, pero interpretado y aplicado ...

Black Morocco

a history of slavery, race, and Islam

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as ...

Tratado práctico de Derecho de la Seguridad Social

Esta nueva edición del Tratado Práctico de Derecho de la Seguridad Social incorpora las sucesivas reformas legales aprobadas en esta materia desde la edición anterior, y contiene una exposición completa, clara y actualizada del sistema español de seguridad social. Dividida en siete grandes apartados, la ...

Descartes

a biography

Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a ...

La reducción del precio en la compraventa

En la compraventa de un bien que resulta defectuoso -si se asume que el comprador puede todavía hacer uso de este bien- el comprador puede ejercer la acción de reducción del precio, es decir, mantenerlo y pagar menos por él. El lector tiene el primer ...

India

Todo el mundo tiene una imagen de la India. Pero pocos, en realidad, saben exactamente cómo es ese país que, en la actualidad, es una de las economías más pujantes del planeta. El prestigioso y premiado periodista Patrick French disecciona en este libro sus casi ...

Los personajes de tu mente

Un libro que descubre los distintos personajes interiores que actúan en nuestra conciencia La clave de la sociedad actual está en establecer una buena comunicación con los demás, pero sobre todo en ser capaz de construir un diálogo maduro y comprometido con uno mismo. El ...

Comentarios a la Ley Básica de Régimen Local

Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, reguladora de las bases del Régimen Local

El vigor legislativo estatal, con directa incidencia en el régimen local, que justificó la segunda edición de esta obra, lejos de haber cesado, se ha venido incrementando tratando de hacer frente al reto de la sociedad española y de sus instituciones ante la actual situación ...

Ancient philosophical poetics

What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave ...

Panorama de la educación 2012

indicadores de la OCDE

La OCDE (Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico) presenta todos los años una extensa recopilación de estadísticas e indicadores del sistema educativo "Panorama de la Educación: Indicadores de la OCDE" (Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators) que permite analizar la evolución de los ...

The sources of social power

Vol. 1: A history of power from the Beginning to AD 1760

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical ...