Libros de

Ética

Presentación y traducción de Javier Palacios. La Ética de Nicolai Hartmann (1926) es una de las obras capitales, junto con la de Max Schler (1913) y la de Dietrich von Hildebrand (1953), de la ética axiológica, caracterizada como el esfuerzo por fundamentar los preceptos morales ...

Restricciones a la libertad de disposición mortis causa: las legítimas y las reservas hereditarias

Genocide and the europeans

Genocide is one of the most heinous abuses of human rights imaginable, yet reaction to it by European governments in the post-Cold War world has been criticised for not matching the severity of the crime. European governments rarely agree on whether to call a situation ...

De ciudadanos a señores feudales

historial social del pensamietno político desde la Antigüedad a la Edad Media

Una obra innovadora en la que Ellen Meiksins Wood analiza las ideas de los principales pensadores políticos de la tradición occidental, no solo en el contexto del lenguaje político sino como respuestas creativas que estos personajes, apasionadamente comprometidos, dieron a las relaciones sociales y a ...

La era de la revolución, 1789-1848

La era de la revolución inicia el panorama de la historia contemporánea del mundo que Eric Hobsbawm comenzó con este libro y que ha concluido recientemente con su Historia del siglo XX. El gran historiador británico nos ofrece en esta obra, reconocida como un clásico ...

Eros divino

estudios sobre la poesía religiosa iberoamericana delsiglo XVII

Ed. Julián Olivares. Eros divino. Estudios sobre la poesía religiosa iberoamericana del siglo XVII indaga, problematiza y enriquece nuestro conocimiento de la lírica y épica religiosas tanto del Barroco español como del período colonial hispanoamericano. Examina la poesía de sujetos centrales del reino y también ...

A Straightforward guide to Intellectual Property and the Law

Inclusión digital

perspectivas y experiencias

Este volumen es el resultado de la Segunda Edición de las Jornadas Derecho y Tecnología, así como del Noveno Encuentro Ibero- Latinoamericano de Gobierno Electrónico e Inclusión Digital, desarrollados en Valladolid los días 28 y 29 de junio de 2010. El elevado nivel científico que ...

Probation practice and the new penology

practitioner reflections

The criminal justice system is in a state of flux and there are growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that ...

Law and outsiders

norm, processes and 'othering' in the 21st Century

Eds. Cian C. Murphy, Penny Green. "Law and Outsiders" is a collection of 13 essays from leading young scholars covering five important areas of legal scholarship: adjudication, European law and politics, migration, vulnerable minorities and legal values. The recurring theme in the volume is the ...

Macroeconomics as a second language

The key to understanding macroeconomics for business professionals is to view it as a second language. Olney takes this innovative approach as he zeroes in on the concepts, assumptions, and models they'll need to learn. Each chapter begins with the equations and graphs that ...

Confronting climate change

In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change, "Constance Lever-Tracy" provides an authoritative guide to one of the most controversial issues facing the future of our planet. Discussing how the social and natural sciences must work together more effectively in ...

Tort Law and social morality

This book develops a theory of tort law that integrates deontic and consequential approaches by applying justificational analysis to identify the factors, circumstances, and values that shape tort law. Drawing on Kantian and Rawlsian philosophy, and on the insights of game theorist Ken Binmore, this ...

A behavioral theory of elections

Auts. Jonathan Bendor...[et al]. Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies - most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of ...

The minimum wage and labor market outcomes

In The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes, Christopher Flinn argues that in assessing the effects of the minimum wage (in the United States and elsewhere), a behavioral framework is invaluable for guiding empirical work and the interpretation of results. Flinn develops a job search ...

Destination brands

managing place reputation

Eds. Nigel Morgan, Annette Pritchard, Roger Pride. This is the long awaited new edition of this pioneering marketing textbook. When the first edition was published in 2001, destination branding became a marginal, niche topic. Thanks in part to this book, and the ongoing research of ...

Beyond mechanical markets

asset price swings, risk, and the role of the State

In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of ...

The political economy of Latin America

reflections on neoliberalism and development

Neoliberalism has been at the centre of enormous controversy since its first appearance in Latin America in the early 1970s. Even neoliberalism's strongest supporters concede that it has not lived up to its promises and that growth, poverty, and inequality all have performed considerably ...

Commonwealth caribbean property Law

As a result of its immovable and indestructible nature, land law is subject to a wider variety of rights, obligations and interests than most other areas of law and can often prove daunting to those studying the subject for the first time. "Commonwealth Caribbean Property ...

Criminal Law, procedure, and evidence

Constitutional principles are the foundation upon which substantive criminal law, criminal procedure law, and evidence laws rely. The concepts of due process, legality, specificity, notice, equality, and fairness are intrinsic to these three disciplines, and a firm understanding of their implications is necessary for a ...