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Intrepid sailors

the legacy of Preble's boys and the Tripoli campaign

ntrepid Sailors tells one of the greatest sea stories in the history of the U.S. Navy. Under Commodore Edward Preble, the Navy came of age fighting the scourge of the time, the infamous Barbary Pirates. Intrepid Sailors tells the story of the Navy's ...

Conservation of cultural heritage

key principles and approaches

Conservation of Cultural Heritage covers the methods and practices needed for future museum professionals who will be working in various capacities with museum collections and artifacts. It also assists current professionals in understanding the complex decision making processes that faces conservators on a daily basis ...

Diccionario del cine iberoamericano

España, Portugal y América

El Diccionario del Cine Iberoamericano es una extensa recopilación de los protagonistas que han forjado la historia del cine en España, Portugal y los países iberoamericanos. En esta obra de consulta se analiza en profundidad tolo lo referente a la cinematografía española, portuguesa e iberoamericana ...

Mens rea and defences in european criminal Law

In the past decades, the process of European integration has influenced all fields of law, including criminal law. Whereas the creation and enforcement of criminal liability used to be purely a national matter, European legislation now requires Member States to criminalize all sorts of harmful ...

Democratic transition in the Middle East

unmaking power

Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case ...

Fisty key thinkers on globalization

Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of fifty of the most important theorists of globalization ...

Thomas More's Utopia

in early Modern Europe

Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe provides the first complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of Utopia in ...

Niños en la Antigüedad

estudios sobre la infancia en el Mediterráneo antiguo

El volumen aborda varias cuestiones relacionadas con la infancia en diferentes culturas del Mediterráneo antiguo. Se propone una reflexión sobre el papel que los menores tuvieron en sus respectivas sociedades, siendo incluso contemplados como verdaderos objetos activos dentro de su ámbito vital. Varios especialistas españoles ...

Approaches to healing in roman Egypt

The purpose of this study is to examine the healing strategies employed by the inhabitants of Egypt during the Roman period, from the late first century BC to the fourth century AD, in order to explore how Egyptian, Greek and Roman customs and traditions interacted ...

The great trade routes

a history of cargoes and commerce over land and sea

The ancient world saw the expansion of Western Asian, Mediterranean and Polynesian civilizations as transport networks for trade were established. Later, imperial expansion reached far flung corners of the world. The Great Trade Routes examines the principal trade networks throughout history, encompassing coastal and trans-oceanic ...

European Employment Law

a systematic exposition

European employment law is becoming increasingly important. Its impact upon domestic law of the Member States is growing in fields such as fixed-term employment contracts, collective redundancies, and industrial action. This book therefore covers the complete scope of European employment law: its foundations in EU ...

Constitutional conversations in Europe

actors, topics and procedures

The relationship between national constitutional courts and the European Court of Justice (CJEU) is increasingly cast in terms of communication, understood as having a constructive connotation, and as an alternative to the prior and more destructive language of guerre des juges, conflict and revolt. This ...

Ancient perspectives

maps and their place in mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

"Ancient Perspectives" encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society ...

Idea man

a memoir by the cofounder of Microsoft

Paul Allen, best known as the cofounder of Microsoft, has left his mark on numerous fields, from aviation and science to rock ‘n’ roll, professional sports, and philanthropy. His passions and curiosity have transformed the way we live. In 2007 and again in 2008, Time ...

Market integration through "network governance"

the role of european agencies and networks of regulators

This book assesses the role of EU agencies and networks of regulators from a legal perspective, thus linking the role of law to the debates on network governance. Two case studies form the core of the research: EU energy and electronic communications regulation. The institutional ...

Ulysses S. Grant

leadership. Strategy. Conflict

Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal would have resulted ...

La Constitución de Cádiz: historia de una utopía

Lección inaugural del Aula de la Experiencia de la Universidad de Sevilla. Curso académico 2012-2013

El autor de esta Lección Inaugural, Manuel Moreno Alonso, es catedrático de Historia Contemporánea en la Universidad de Sevilla. Historiador de la Guerra de la Independencia y del mundo napoleónico, se ha interesado particularmente por la obra de las Cortes de Cádiz y los orígenes ...

Estudios sobre Derecho de la empresa en el Código civil de Cataluña

El Derecho civil de Cataluña, con la sucesiva regulación de diferentes instituciones de Derecho privado, afecta a la actuación de las empresas, a su organización y al ejercicio de su actividad en el tráfico económico. El propósito de estos Estudios sobre el Derecho de la ...

El arte de la era romántica

Abierto al público en 1819, el Museo del Prado no es sólo en sí un producto romántico, sino que el esplendor de la Escuela Española, cobijada en dicha institución y, antes de fundación de ésta, apenas conocida y valorada allende nuestras fronteras, fue asimismo un ...

Delitos cualificados por el resultado en el Derecho penal español

Con el título DELITOS CUALIFICADOS POR EL RESULTADO EN EL DERECHO PENAL ESPAÑOL, se presenta al panorama de la literatura científica, una obra de contenido teórico-práctico que aborda la problemática del "resultado" en la moderna dogmática juridícopenal. Partiendo de la legislación penal alemana, se analiza ...