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Rules of the game

detention, deportation, disappearance

In the aftermath of the suicide bombings on London's transport infrastructure in July 2005, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair said that 'the rules of the game have changed'. He referred to how his government planned to respond to the attacks, but few people ...

Labour Law and worker protection in developing countries

This important new study shifts the focus of scholarly and policy debates around the role of labour law in an era of globalisation away from the countries and labour law systems of the North to those of the global South. Placing its analysis within the ...

Prisions of poverty

An international best seller dissects the globalization of penal policies #made in U.S.A.# as part of the spread of neoliberalism In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous #squeegee ...

Unjustified enrichment

Rethinking exclusionary abuses in EU competition Law

This book offers an original interpretation of the case law on exclusionary abuses under Article 82 EC (now Article 102 TFEU, according to the numbering introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon), and it identifies the various factors that have shaped the application of this provision ...

The past and future of EU Law

the classics of EU Law revisited on the 50 th anniversary of the Rome Treaty

Eds. Miguel Poiares Maduro, Loïc Azoulai. This book revisits, in a new light, some of the classic cases which constitute the foundations of the EU legal order and is timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty establishing a European Economic Community. Its ...

United Nations justice

legal and judicial reform in governance operations

For the past decade the United Nations has attempted to administer justice in territories placed under its executive authority - an undertaking for which there was no established precedent or doctrine. Examining the UN's legal and judicial reform efforts in Kosovo and East Timor, this ...

Taming the gods

religion and democracy on three contients

For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy ...

Recopilación de las ordenanzas del Concejo de Xerez de la Frontera siglos XV-XVI

estudio y edición

El estudio y edición de ordenanzas municipales constituye una fuente fundamental para el conocimiento de la vida y funcionamiento de los municipios castellanos del Antiguo Régimen. La publicación y estudio de las Ordenanzas Municipales de Jerez de la Frontera, texto, por otra parte, bien conocido ...

Blogging the political

politics and participation in a networked society

In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access to the media by common citizens is limited, blogs have the power to change the political landscape. This book catalogs the individuals engaged in political blogging, explains why they started blogging, and examines what they hope ...

Terrorism and anti-terror legislation

the terrorised legislator?. A comparison of couter-terrorism legislation and its implication on Human Rights in the legal systems of the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and France

The present volume deals with terrorism, both the legislative reactions to it and its impact on human rights. It is argued that the preservation of human rights is vital for the prevention of terrorism, encompassing state and non-state terrorism alike. Further, the study shows that ...

Pequeña historia de la pintura

Ilustrado por Antonio Mingote, que recrea las grandes obras de la historia de la pintura, el libro recorre los principales movimientos pictóricos, con un afán de «enseñar deleitando» tanto a un público joven como a cualquier lector que quiera repasar las aportaciones de los grandes ...

Símbolos perdidos

en busca de los misterios más célebres del mundo

En los rincones sombríos de la historia se encuentran multitud de símbolos y tesoros aún por descubrir. Engullidos por las arenas y los mares del tiempo, han quedado atrás mitos y leyendas que han tentado a cientos de arqueólogos y expertos durante años. Joel Levy ...

Obra Completa

Al cumplirse el centenario de su nacimiento, Espasa Calpe, la editorial en la que trabajó y que ofreció la primera edición de posguerra de una obra de Miguel Hernández, quiere de nuevo tributarle un fecundo homenaje: la edición de su Obra Completa: Poesía, Teatro, Prosas ...

Castillos medievales de España

Libro dedicado a los castillos españoles desde la Edad Media hasta el Renacimiento atendiendo a su tipología (góticos, mudéjares, de órdenes militares, alcázares,#) y a su ubicación a lo largo de toda la geografía española. Ordenado por comunidades, incluye un mapa de situación, una ficha ...

Tratado del Papa

Ed. Isabel Colón Calderón. Compuesto en un estilo que a Menéndez Pelayo le desagradaba por su 'gracia desvergonzada y plebeya', hasta calificarlo de 'volteriano en profecía', y que atraerá a cualquier lector de hoy por el cuidado equilibrio entre laconismo y riqueza expresiva, creación verbal ...

New systems theories of world politics

Eds. Mathias Albert, Lars-Erik Cederman, Alexander Wendt. New Systems Theories of World Politics offers a fresh look at contemporary world politics. It uses a number of systems theoretical approaches in order to analyze the structure and dynamics of the international system. While a rich tradition ...

The cosmopolitan imagination

the renewal of critical social theory

Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which offers a solution to one of the weaknesses in the critical theory ...

Biografía de la Gran Vía

los primeros cien años de una calle universal

Toda gran ciudad tiene una calle emblemática cuyas aceras recogen su historia: Londres tiene Oxford Street, Nueva York tiene la Quinta Avenida y Madrid tiene la Gran Vía, que ahora cumple cien años. Su historia no es sólo la de la capital de España, sino ...

Church, State, and original intent

This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases. Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which the justices have portrayed the framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should ...