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El Derecho de familia marroquí

la mudawana 2004 desde el Derecho español

La entrada en vigor de la Mudawana 2004 ha supuesto para el ordenamiento marroquí un paso adelante en la regulación de las relaciones familiares desde una perspectiva más acorde con los principios de igualdad y libertad propios de las sociedades democráticas. Se han vertido muchas ...

La insolvencia

una cuestión de terminología jurídica

ÍNDICE Prólogo 11 Introducción 15 I. La insolvencia en el derecho romano 1. Nociones previas sobre la delimitación conceptual de la insolvencia 19 2. Algunos intentos en la definición de la insolvencia según Nocera 23 3. La expresión más utilizada para referir la insolvencia: solvendo ...

Escritos morales y políticos

Prols. Mª Teresa Álvarez García, Víctor García de la Concha. "No se vive en balde en puestos claves a lo largo de medio siglo de la reciente historia de España. Quien ha tenido ese privilegio y es, además, 'amigo de mirar' en el sentido que ...

The Subversive Stitch

Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

Rozsika Parker's now classic re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's ...

Terrible Exile

the Last Days of Napoleon on St Helena

At its height, the Napoleonic Empire spanned much of mainland Europe. Fêted and feared by millions of citizens, Napoleon was the most powerful and famous man of his age. But following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo the future of the one-time Emperor of ...

The Unseen Terror

the French Revolution in the Provinces

From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the ...

The Point Is To Change It

Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis

Eds. Noel Castree...[et al.] Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change ...

What Happened at Vatican II

During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near-weekly basis. By virtually any assessment, it was the most important religious event of the twentieth century, with ...

The Essential Dürer

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), perhaps the most famous of all German artists, embodies the modern ideal of the Renaissance man-he was a remarkable painter, printmaker, draftsman, designer, theoretician, and even a poet. More is known about his thoughts and his life than about any other Northern ...

Old Worlds, New Mirrors

On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought

There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one set ...

International Ethics

a critical introduction

Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human beings or merely Humanitarian duties of aid and assistance? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world politics and ...

Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula

Iconographic and literary sources reveal the widespread use of two different types of handheld frame drums on the medieval Iberian Peninsula: a round frame drum with parchment stretched only on one side of its shell, and a frame drum of square shape with parchment covering ...

Novísima Suma de arrendamientos urbanos

apéndice

Cuando en Septiembre 2007 salió a la luz la última edición de nuestra "Novísima Suma de Arrendamientos Urbanos", nos comprometimos a irla actualizando periódicamente, poniendo de manifiesto las novedades que en el ámbito legal, doctrinal y jurisprudencial pudieran producirse. La promulgación de la Ley 19 ...

Régimen jurídico del arbitraje deportivo

los jueces y árbitros deportivos en la normativa estatal, autonómica y federativa

El estatuto de los jueces y árbitros y la regulación del arbitraje deportivo son aspectos olvidados por los legisladores y las Administraciones estatal y autonómicas, constituyendo un limbo jurídico caracterizado por la discrecionalidad, interesadamente definido por las normas federativas, admitido por los Poderes Públicos y ...

Derecho penal del deporte

Las astronómicas cifras e intereses económicos que rodean al deporte profesional junto a una salvaje e indeseada violencia en torno a los acontecimientos deportivos se han convertido en las dos principales causas de la pérdida de valores que el deporte promueve: hábitos saludables, integración social ...

Autobiografía apócrifa de José Ortega y Gasset

Este libro nos presenta un 'Ortega desde dentro', es decir, no como él había observado a Goethe, con catalejo, sino reconstruido a base de sus testimonios personales esparcidos en artículos, libros, cartas, clases y conferencias, a los que habría que sumar los que sobre él ...

Buffett beyond value

why Warren Buffett looks to growth and management when investing

This title offers a detailed look at how Warren Buffett really invests. In this engaging new book, author Prem Jain extracts Warren Buffett's wisdom from his writings, Berkshire Hathaway financial statements, and his letters to shareholders and partners in his partnership firms - thousands of ...

The blank swan

the end of probability

October 19th 1987 was a day of huge change for the global finance industry. On this day the options market crashed, the Nobel Prize winning Black-Scholes formula failed and volatility smiles were born, and on this day Elie Ayache began his career, on the trading ...

The responsibility revolution

how the next generation of businesses will win

How to create a company that not only sustains, but surpasses - that moves beyond the imperative to be 'less bad' and embrace an ethos to be 'all good'. From the Inspired Protagonist and Chairman of Seventh Generation, the country's leading brand of household products ...

The little book of bulletproof investing

do's and don'ts to protect your financial life

This title offers investing do's and don'ts from some of the most recognizable voices in personal finance. It's been a tough year for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what ...