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Compensation of private losses

the evolution of torts in european business Law

Tort law is one of the core areas of European private law, in particular in the field of business law. However, European tort law often receives less attention than the well-known and widely published developments in the field of European contract law. In order to ...

Ellinger's modern banking Law

Ellinger's Modern Banking Law sets banking law against the background of general legal doctrines and banking regulation, discussing its operation in the context of its wider economic function. It makes use of American, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian examples and takes account of the ...

The modern State

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics ...

The European Union

explained

This brief and accessible introduction to the European Union is ideal for scholars and professionals in government, business, the media, or the non-profit sector who need a concise overview of the structure, history, and policies of the EU. This new edition also provides useful background ...

Liberal loyalty

freedom, obligation and the State

Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone. Cosmopolitans claim that loyalty to a particular state is incompatible with universal liberal principles, which hold that we have equal duties of justice to persons everywhere, while nationalist theorists justify civic ...

Forgotten genocides

oblivion, denial, and memory

Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis ...

Democratic legitimacy

impartiality, reflexivity, proximity

It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in "Democratic Legitimacy", Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He ...

Terrorism studies

a reader

In an age when there is more written about terrorism than anyone can possibly read in a lifetime, it has become increasingly difficult for students and scholars to navigate the literature. At the same time, courses and modules on terrorism studies are developing at a ...

Cambiar el mundo sin tomar el poder

el significado de la revolución hoy

"La intención de este libro es la de estimular un debate, no definir una nueva línea correcta. En esto el texto ha tenido un éxito que nunca esperaba. Se ha publicado en doce idiomas y ha encontrado reacciones fuertes por todos lados [...] pero para mí ...

A brief history of Britain 1851-2010

a nation transformed

From the Great Exhibition to the Credit Crunch - the transformation of Britain from the world's greatest nation to the present day. In 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, it was the high water mark of English achievement - the nation at ...

Hitler and America

In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the ...

Kursk 1943

la mayor batalla de carros de la historia

Los sueños en la cultura iberoamericana

(siglos XVI-XVIII)

El fenómeno del sueño fue un elemento central de las sociedades medievales y del Antiguo Regimen, que creían que las experiencias oníricas poseían relevancia dentro de la colectividad. Si bien la interpretación individual de los signos e imágenes experimentados mientras dormimos existía, el mundo de ...

María Zambrano

Razón póética: nuevos senderos de convivencia

María Zambrano, en primer término, y Benito Pérez Galdós, como autores que dedicaron su obra a pensar en un mundo mejor, a crear nuevos senderos de convivencia, constituyen el eje de este libro, que recoge las ponencias impartidas en el curso interdisciplinar homónimo celebrado en ...

Fragments of Old comedy. Volume II: Diopeithes to Pherecrates

(Loeb Classical Library; 514)

The era of Old Comedy (c. 485 -- c. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes, but there were many other poets whose comedies survive only in fragments. This new Loeb edition, the most extensive ...

Fragments of Old comedy. Volume I: Alcaeus to Diocles

(Loeb Classical Library; 513)

The era of Old Comedy (c. 485 -- c. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes, but there were many other poets whose comedies survive only in fragments. This new Loeb edition, the most extensive ...

Celestina and the ends of desire

One of the most widely-read and translated Spanish works in sixteenth-century Europe was Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, a 1499 novel in dialogue about a couple that faces heartbreak and tragedy after being united by the titular brothel madam. In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire ...

El mosaico en piel

técnicas tradicionales y contemporáneas

La técnica del mosaico en piel se ha vuelto hoy en día imprescindible dada la dimensión artística que ha tomado la encuadernación en España. Rara es la encuadernación actual que no recurre a ella. Este que presentamos es un manual paso a paso, eminentemente práctico ...

Women, family and society in Byzantium

Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. "Women, Family and Society in Byzantium", the first of three volumes to be published posthumously in the "Variorum ...

En defensa de lo suyo

propiedad forestal y conflictividad social durante el franquismo: los montes vecinales de Cerceda (A Coruña)

El Patrimonio Forestal del Estado desde su creación en 1935 hasta 1971, época en la que fue sustituido por el Instituto de Conservación de la Naturaleza, llevó a cabo, en Galicia, una intensa actividad repobladora en colaboración con Ayuntamientos y Diputaciones. Dicha actividad fue desarrollada ...