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Muslims

their religious beliefs and practices

Andrew Rippin's Muslims is essential reading for students and scholars alike. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and for the first time features a companion website with extensive links to additional reading and resources to help deepen students' understanding of the subject. Muslims ...

Lost Legion rediscovered

the mystery of the Theban Legion

In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a mass grave. Eucherius identified the bodies as those of legionaries recruited to the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in ...

Moroccan monarchy and the islamist challenge

maintaining Makhzen power

Despite the much debated global crisis of authoritarianism, in which authoritarian regimes came under attack from pro-democracy groups and movements, the traditional systems in the Middle East still stand. This book examines the factors behind the survival and persistence of monarchical authoritarianism in Morocco and ...

Egipto

Imágenes de gran calidad y detalle al servicio de textos cortos, amenos y rigurosos. Esta nueva colección muestra, mediante dibujos de gran calidad, las informaciones más relevantes de cada uno de los temas escogidos, con un doble tratamiento: una amplia introducción al tema abordado y ...

Ciudadanas militantes feministas

mujer y compromiso político en el siglo XX

El convulso siglo pasado no sólo presenció la caída de los zares, el triunfo de la revolución bolchevique, la ascensión del fascismo, las dos grandes guerras mundiales, el terrible holocausto o la caída del comunismo. El siglo XX fue, indudablemente, también el siglo de las ...

Solo la verdad

antología fundamental

Hasta su asesinato en octubre de 2011, Anna Politkovskaya escribía para el periódico ruso Novaya Gazeta. Logró fama internacional por su cobertura de la guerra de Chechenia y de la corrupción estatal en Rusia. Esta es la selección definitiva de sus mejores textos publicados entre ...

Los principios generales del Derecho

su aplicación efectiva como normas jurídicas

Estamos ante una obra eminentemente práctica, en tanto que aborda, a partir de multitud de sentencias y casos reales, el intrincado significado y la funcionalidad de los Principios Generales del Derecho. La aplicación efectiva de los Principios Generales del Derecho, en tanto que normas jurídicas ...

Aspectos procesales de los delitos contra la seguridad vial

La "delincuencia vial" (arts. 379 a 385 ter. del Código Penal) constituye uno de los ámbitos en los que se advierte con mayor nitidez la llamada "expansión del Derecho penal". El presente estudio monográfico examina, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar, los delitos contra la seguridad vial ...

Contratación local práctica

formularios comentados y concordados de contratación

La presente obra, con sus más de 200 formularios y de 50 cuadros sinópticos que guiarán en todo momento al lector, constituye un catálogo completo, sistemático y plenamente actualizado, de los formularios que demanda la actividad contractual de las diferentes Entidades Locales dentro de los ...

Moral responsability in collective contexts

Genocide, global warming, organizational negligence, and oppressive social practices are four examples of moral contexts in which the interplay between individuals and collectives complicate how we are to understand moral responsibility. Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts is a philosophical investigation of the complex moral landscape ...

A theory of contract Law

empirical insghts and moral psychology

In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Understandings and Moral Psychology, Professor Peter A. Alces ...

Nuclear energy

what everyone needs to know

Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United ...

The Cyprus problem

what everyone needs to know

For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the ...

The idea of human Rights

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination ...

Walker and Walker's english legal system

With a pedigree extending over eleven editions, students can be sure that Walker and Walker's English Legal System provides an excellent grounding in the English legal system. The book covers all areas commonly taught on undergraduate courses, with a focus on judicial and legislative ...

International child abduction

the inadequacies of the Law

International child abduction occurs when one parent wrongfully (i.e. in breach of the parental responsibility of the other parent) takes a child to a country other than that of the child's habitual residence, or wrongfully keeps a child in such country. The author ...

Forex revolution

an insider's guide to the real world of foreign exchange trading

For many investors, an intense, 24-hour-a-day, $1.5 trillion roller-coaster of a market spells "danger"; for readers of Forex Revolution, the word is "opportunity." --Michael J. Panzner, vice president, Rabo Securities USA, Inc., and author of The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle "The ...

101 management models

Management models: many students will come across them in their studies, yet it is only when actually working with them that the function and benefit of management models are revealed. 101 Management Models gives a comprehensive overview of traditional models as well as innovations in ...

Enforcement of the EU public procurement rules

This publication is the third book in the "European Procurement Law Series". The publications in the Series consider the current state of law in the EU and looks into the interpretation, implementation and practice in a range of Member States. An important part of the ...

Civismo

El civismo es una obligación y una responsabilidad compartida, que no admite la separación entre la clase política y la sociedad civil. Unos tienen más obligaciones que otros porque ocupan cargos de mayor responsabilidad. Pero todos están igualmente llamados a sostener y mejorar el mundo ...