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Psychological criminology

an integrative approach

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality. Rather than present various psychological perspectives as a series of discrete and rival explanations, the aim of the book is to emphasise the connections among approaches, and to show how, taken together ...

Virtual water

tackling the threat to our planet's most precious resource

The groundbreaking new concept that reveals the true and hazardous extent of our everyday water consumption. How much water does it take to make a cup of coffee? The answer may shock you: 140 litres! That's the true amount of water used in growing ...

El impuesto sobre sociedades inteligible

Este libro tiene como pretensión principal la de resultar una obra didáctica, orientada a familiarizar al lector con uno de los impuestos más importantes de las Haciendas occidentales, y el preferido por muchos tributaristas por su notable incidencia en las cuentas de resultados de las ...

La textura histórica de las formas políticas

El Derecho público actual descansa sobre la idea de Estado, y la Constitución lo tiene asimismo por referencia inexcusable. Ello explica que se tienda a verlo como una categoría firme, en lo fundamental ajena a los vaivenes de la Historia. Pero lo cierto es que ...

Una defensa del modelo europeo de control de constitucionalidad

La gran mayoría de países europeos han instaurado tribunales constitucionales para controlar la validez de las leyes emanadas del parlamento democrático, en lugar de encomendar tal función a los tribunales ordinarios. ¿Cuál es la razón de ser de esta preferencia por un modelo «concentrado» de ...

Derecho administrativo

Parte General

El presente libro del Profesor Maurer, sigue siendo, transcurridos treinta años desde su primera edición (de 1980), la mejor puerta de entrada al Derecho administrativo alemán. Por su claridad, concisión, precisión, constante, profunda y rigurosa actualización, exposición de las diversas posiciones existentes, abundantes ejemplos prácticos ...

Cases and materials on EU private international Law

Since the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997 empowered the EC to adopt rules in the field of conflicts of laws, legal instruments have been adopted that provide common rules on issues that touch upon the day-to-day life of European citizens. There are now instruments covering jurisdiction ...

Innovating in a global crisis

riding the whirlwind of recovery

As recession grips the business world leaders in every industry and in every part of the world are viewing innovation as the primary route to recovery. Innovation has regained its central place in corporate life. Innovating in a global crisis was the first practical book ...

The crisis of American foreign policy

wilsonianism in the twenty-first century

Auts. G. John Ikenberry...[et.al]. Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? And was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished ...

L´Atlas de l´environment

VV.AA. Réchauffement et dérèglements climatiques, montée des océans, désertification et déforestation, catastrophes écologiques, maladies environnementales : nul n'ignore plus que ces périls menacent l'avenir de l'Humanité. Mais quelles en sont les causes ? Et y a-t-il des solutions ? Reprenant le principe qui a ...

Arab media

globalization and emerging media industries

Auts. Noha Mellor...[et al]. This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema and new media. Through detailed discussions of the regulation and ...

Islamic art and visual culture

an anthology of sources

Islamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primary sources in translation accompanied by clear and concise introductory essays that provide unique insights into the aesthetic and cultural history of one of the world's major religions. * Collects essential translations from sources as diverse ...

GeoHumanities

art, history, text at the edge of place

Eds. Michael Dear...[et al]. In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography's engagement with the humanities, and the humanities' integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain ...

Dictionnaire de géopolitique et de géoéconomie

Dir. Pascal Gauchon ; Coords. Sylvia Delannoy, Jean-Marc Huissoud. # Près de 600 entrées, chacune comportant une définition claire, puis un exposé des faits, une problématisation et éventuellement une courte bibliographie. # Plus de 70 cartes en deux couleurs. # Les notions d#« Aide » à « Zone grise » en passant ...

Racial Hygiene

medicine under the nazis

Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. "Racial Hygiene" focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that ...

Islamophobia

the challenge of pluralism in the 21st century

Eds. John L. Esposito, ibrahim Kalin. Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns. The 2006 Danish cartoon crisis and the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg speech ...

The Suez Canal

letters and documents descriptive of its rise and progress in 1854-1856

In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense benefits such a canal would bring, reducing by 3000 miles the distance by sea between ...

Oil wealth and the poverty of politics

Algeria compared

How can we make sense of Algeria's post-colonial experience - the tragedy of unfulfilled expectations, the descent into violence, the resurgence of the state? Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics explains why Algeria's domestic political economy unravelled from the mid-1980s, and how the ...

Expaña

libro blanco sobre le esperpento español

Un análisis agudísimo y documentado de la situación actual de España. Una visión pormenrizada de los grandes problemas que nos acucian en los inicios del siglo XXI. Este #Libro Blanco del Esperpento Español# reúne una apretada síntesis de la documentación acumulada por el autor, más ...

Terrorism

a critical introduction

Auts. Richard Jackson...[et al]. Terrorism has a long history but the devastating attacks of 9/11 transformed what had been seen as a relatively minor security issue into one of major global significance. This incisive new text provides an accessible and balanced assessment of ...