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The enigma of capital

and the crises of capitalism

Taking a long view of the current economic crisis, eminent academic David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and why it resulted in the current financial crisis. For three centuries, the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned ...

Rousseau, Law and the sovereignty of the people

Together with Plato's Republic, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract is regarded as one of the most original examples of utopian political engineering in the history of ideas. Similar to the Republic, Rousseau's masterwork is better known today for its author's idiosyncratic view ...

Comparative studies in the developmentof the Law of Torts in Europe

Content: Vol.I: The development of product liability/Ed. Simon Whittaker.- Vol.II: The development of liability between neighbours/Ed. James Gordley.- Vol.III: The development of medical liability/Ed. Ewoud Hondius.- Vol.IV: The development of liability in relation to technological change/Ed. Miquel ...

Personality rights in European Tort Law

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of civil liability for invasion of personality interests in Europe. It is the final product of the collaboration of twenty-seven scholars and includes case studies of fourteen European jurisdictions, as well as an introductory chapter written from a US ...

The Law of armed conflict

international humanitarian Law in war

The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law applies to particular armed conflicts? Does that law apply to terrorists as ...

Commentario al Codigo Civile

artt. 2511 - 2554

A cura di Paolo Cendon. Nel volume sono evidenziate le novità legislative, giurisprudenziali e dottrinarie più rilevanti e recenti in materia di società cooperative (disposizioni generali, costituzione, quote e azioni, organi sociali, modificazioni dell'atto costitutivo, controlli), mutue assicuratrici e associazione in partecipazione. Il testo ...

The age of instability

the global financial crisis and what comes next

The near-collapse of the global banking system was not supposed to happen. In an era of financial globalisation and sophisticated modelling of risk, the manias, panics and crashes of the past had apparently become historical curiosities. Financial derivatives were based on the idea that parcelling ...

Guía para la supervisión de sistemas de control interno

control interno. Marco integrado

VV.AA. INDICE: Orientación. Aplicación. Ejemplos

The Oxford Handbook of continental philosophy

Eds. Brian Leiter, Michael Rosen. The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations ...

Una estrategia singular

claves del éxito del Grupo Alimentario Guissona

El estudio de los factores de éxito de un grupo empresarial casi siempre resulta sugestivo. Pone de relieve que para alcanzarlo debieron seguirse caminos innovadores, de forma flexible y perseverante, frecuentemente con la osadía de ir a contracorriente de modas y tendencias dominantes. Este es ...

Obliquity

why our goals are best achieved indirectly

This is an original, widely-applicable concept from one of the world's foremost economists. Obliquity will be The Tipping Point for the new decade. If you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in another. This is the concept of ...

The argument from injustice

a reply to legal positivism

At the heart of this book is the age-old question of how law and morality are related. The legal positivist, insisting on the separation of the two, explicates the concept of law independently of morality. The author challenges this view, arguing that there are, first ...

A theory of legal argumentation

the theory of rational discourse as theory of legal justification

What is to be understood by 'rational legal argument'? To what extent can legal reasoning be rational? Is the demand for rationality in legal affairs justified? And what are the criteria of rationality in legal reasoning? The answer to these questions is not only of ...

A theory of constitutional rights

In any country where there is a Bill of Rights, constitutional rights reasoning is an important part of the legal process. As more and more countries adopt Human Rights legislation and accede to international human rights agreements, and as the European Union introduces its own ...

Crónicas de Cortes del Diario de la Tarde en el periodo constituyente

(24 de agosto de 1811 a 31 de marzo de 1812)

Ed. Miguel Ángel Díaz Dota. Este es el segundo volumen de la serie 'Biblioteca de las Cortes de Cádiz', que pretende recoger la memoria parlamentaria a través de uno de los medios publicísticos más importantes del Cádiz de las Cortes: la prensa.

Pompeya

vida, muerte y resurrección de la ciudad sepultada por el Vesubio

El 24 de agosto del año 79 de nuestra era, Pompeya quedó sepultada bajo la lava del Vesubio y el mundo perdió su memoria. Dieciocho siglos después, fue descubierta de manera fortuita y comenzaron las excavaciones arqueológicas que la han devuelto a la vida y ...

Militares italianos en la Guerra Civil española

Italia, el fascismo y los voluntarios en el conflicto español

Si analizamos la internacionalización del conflicto español de 1936- 1939 desde una perspectiva militar, la participación en el mismo de las Fuerzas Armadas y de los camisas negras de la Italia fascista ha sido, quizás, uno de los temas menos tratados por los historiadores en ...

Embajador en el infierno

memorias del capitán Palacios

Torcuato Luca de Tena Brunet, III marqués de Luca de Tena, escritor y periodista español.

Poética de Aristóteles

La inclusión de la presente edición de la Poética de Aristóteles en la Nueva Biblioteca Románica Hispánica hace innecesarios el esfuerzo y la aventura de purificar así el texto de Aristóteles. A los lectores atraídos por los temas habitualmente estudiados en esta Biblioteca les interesa ...

El periodismo es noticia

tendencias sobre comunicación en el siglo XXI

El formato trepidante de las noticias aleja de nosotros cualquier intento de un análisis amplio en el que incorporar unos mínimos valores y principios éticos. La mayoría de los asuntos que se abordan en este libro han podido afectar a la gran mayoría de los ...