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Procedimientos administrativos y judiciales de la Unión Europea

La entrada en vigor del Tratado de Lisboa y la modificación del Estatuto del Tribunal de Justicia han reconfigurado el marco jurídico procesal de la Unión Europea. Esta obra ofrece un tratamiento exhaustivo de los procedimientos administrativos y judiciales creados para garantizar una aplicación eficaz ...

Administrative Law of the European Union its member states and the United States

a comparative analysis

This volume offers a comparative introduction to the most important aspects of administrative law in various EU Member States (France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK), at the level of the European Union, and in the United States. It contributes to the 'transboundary' understanding of different ...

Cities and climate change

Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world's cities. Now home to over half the world's population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are ...

Islamic societies to the nineteenth century

a global history

First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus' A History of Islamic Societies has become a classic in the field, enlightening students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book, based on fully revised and updated parts ...

The praetorian guard

a history of rome's elite special forces

From the Immortals, the personal bodyguard of the Persian Achaemenid kings; the death-or-glory Companions, Alexander the Great's glorious cavalry corps; to Napoleon's Imperial Guards, flower of the French army, select martial cohorts are perennially fascinating. And perhaps no special force commands the romance ...

Stalin's secret agents

the subversion of Roosvelt's government

Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world’s superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public. Through a meticulous examination of primary sources ...

Luxor and its temples

This work, while aimed at a general audience, is by no means a dreary introductory textbook. Blackman perceptively answers the reader's most pressing questions about life in ancient Thebes, providing not only an informative text but also an engaging story. Topics covered include life ...

Consensus, concordia and the formation of Roman Imperial ideology

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to 'legitimate' and 'traditional' forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these notions ...

Macedonian armies after Alexander 323-168 BC

The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no capable heir, and no clear successor among the senior figures in Alexander's circle. Initial attempts to preserve the unity of Alexander's conquests gave way to a ...

Expedition to disaster

the athenian mission to Sicily 415 BC

The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give Athens ...

The roman navy

ships, men and warfare 350 BC-AD 475

The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period ...

Un episodio de la historia del paganismo en el siglo II d.C.

Alejandro de Abonuteico

INDICE: 1. Un episodio de la historia del paganismo en el siglo II d.C.: Alejandro de Abonuteico. 2. Alejandro de Abonuteico y el neopitágorismo. 3. Alejandro de Abonuteico y Franz Cumont en perspectiva. 4. Los dos Alejandros de F. Cumont. 5. Tematización bibliográfica actualizada ...

Israel in the world

legitimacy and exceptionalism

Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox, needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world. This volume reflects upon Israel's troubled attempts to balance its desire to be different from a world that it ...

Vanished kingdoms

the rise and fall of states and nations

While Germany, Italy, France, and England dominate our conceptions of Europe, these modern states are relatively recent constructs. In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction, Norman Davies brings back to life the long-forgotten empire of Aragon, which once controlled the Western Mediterranean; the Grand Duchy ...

When America first met China

an exotic history of tea, drugs, and money during the Age of Sail

Eric Jay Dolin traces America's fraught relationship with China back to the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that continues to shed light on America's ...

Security in 21st century Europe

Europe's traditional problem of war between states is being displaced by a new and equally daunting set of security challenges. While major war within Europe remains unlikely, the 2008 Georgia war and the 2011 Libya war were reminders that violent conflicts are still prevalent ...

Mercenaries in the Classical World

to the death of Alexander

Mercenaries were a significant factor in many of the wars of the Classical world, being employed in large numbers by many states. By far the most famous were Xenophon's 'Ten Thousand', who had to cut their way out of the Persian Empire after the ...

Greek and roman dress from A to Z

Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar's wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga? If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then ...

The factory

de la factory al mundo. Fotografía y la comunidad de Warhol

Un recorrido por la obra fotográfica de la gran comunidad artística que rodeo la figura de Andy Warholl y su mítica factoria de ideas de Nueva York.

Textos escogidos

Karl Polanyi

Hoy es evidente lo que Karl Polanyi anticipaba en contraposición al liberalismo económico: globalizar la economía como una economía de mercado es una utopía e intentar hacerlo es autodestructivo. En los escritos seleccionados en este volumen, por primera vez disponibles en castellano, Polanyi aborda, además ...