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Modern land Law

Modern Land Law offers fresh and contemporary coverage of a traditionally difficult subject. Mark Thompson moves away from the typically dense, black-letter approach adopted by many textbooks to take a more engaging look at the social context within which land law operates. The book is ...

Zombie capitalism

global crisis and the relevance of Marx

We've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September–October ...

How much is enough?

the love of money, and the case for the good life

In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger at 'greedy' bankers and their 'obscene' bonuses has given way ...

The politics of identity in Visigothic Spain

religion and power in the histories of Isidore of Seville

revious scholarship has interpreted Bishop Isidore of Seville (d. 636) retrospectively as the architect of the medieval Spanish church, as the father of Spanish identity, and as a key figure in the transmission of Classical and Patristic learning to the Middle Ages. Drawing on recent ...

Guía práctica concursal

La presente obra aborda un estudio completo, sintético y sistemático de la Ley Concursal, que cuenta con una importante aportaciónn de jurisprudencia debidamente actualizada tanto de los distintos juzgados de lo mercantil, como de las audiencias Provinciales y del tribunal supremo, surgida tras más de ...

Istituzioni di Diritto civile

Trattasi di un aggiornamento puntuale e competente del notissimo Manuale: ogni argomento viene seguito da un esperto che cura l'inserimento di tutte le novità. L'Opera si conferma completa e autorevolissima mentre ogni edizione viene sempre più affinata e migliorata. E' il più noto ...

Legislación sobre Arbitraje = Legislation on Arbitration

Manuel d'intelligence économique

Les tensions géopolitiques de l’après guerre froide, l’impact de la société de l’information et les crises industrielles amplifiées par les secousses financières modifient les grilles de lecture de l’économie de marché. Cette mutation a un impact direct sur leur mode de ...

Las Indias Occidentales

procesos de incorporación territorial a las Monarquías Ibéricas (siglos XVI a XVIII)

Las Indias Occidentales de antaño son nuestra actual Hispanoamérica. Como es sabido, entre finales del siglo XV y principios del XIX formaron parte de la Monarquía española, entidad compuesta de posesiones o dominios que se extendieron por casi todos los continentes. ¿Mediante qué procesos particulares ...

The Goal

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, 'The Goal' contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints developed by the author.

Juvenile Justice

An Introduction

Juvenile Justice: An Introduction is a student-friendly analysis of all aspects of the juvenile justice system. The book covers the history and development of the juvenile justice system and the unique issues related to juveniles, including police interaction, court processes, due process, movements toward diversion ...

El trabajo no remunerado en la economía global

«Trabajo no es sinónimo de empleo.» Con esta afirmación se inicia la obra de María Ángeles Durán El trabajo no remunerado en la economía global, en la que muestra convincentemente que la mayor parte del tiempo de trabajo producido en el mundo no es trabajo ...

People of substance

an ethnography of morality in the Colombian Amazon

People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves 'People of the Center. ' Carlos David Londono Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating to selfhood, social organization, livelihood, and symbolism ...

Photographing the Mexican Revolution

commitments, testimonies, icons

The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 is among the world's most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes--commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of ...

Historia de la conquista y población de la provincia de Venezuela

Le passé indigène

histoire pré-coloniale du Mexique

Ouvrage de réflexion, de critique et d'orientation, Le Passé indigène fait le point sur l'héritage culturel et socio- économique des sociétés "mésoaméricaines". Les férus d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art ne seront pas déçus : le livre offre un panorama complet des ...

The fall of the US Empire

global fault-lines and the shifting imperial order

Whither the US empire? Despite Washington's military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war - accelerated by the great recession and credit-rating downgrade - and its global authority dented by the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this accessible, punchy text, Vassilis ...

Criminología, civilización y nuevo orden mundial

Criminología, civilización y nuevo orden mundial examina la relación entre una presentación moderna de la criminología, y la verdad y la modernidad globalmente concebidas. Su historia y composición - el discurso y su ordenamiento - son críticamente revisadas a la luz de dos circunstancias: el 11 de ...

Herder's political thought

a study of language, culture, and community

Johann Gottfried Herder was a philosopher and important intellectual presence in eighteenth-century Germany. Herder's Political Thought examines the work of this significant figure in the context of both historical and contemporary developments in political philosophy.Vicki A. Spencer reveals Herder as one of the ...

La doctrina socialista

(respuesta á la crítica de Ed. Bernstein)