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Developing countries and the multilateral trade regime

the failure and promise of the WTO's development mission

This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonisation. In particular, it investigates the shift from early approaches to development under the GATT to current approaches to development under the WTO. It argues that a focus on ...

The EU competition rules

landmark cases of the European Courts and the European Commission

This book aims at providing the Legal Masters student throughout Europe#s universities with a thorough selection of case law that would be of direct help when studying the subject for the first time. The primary criterion for selection has been whether a particular case ...

Does Britain need a financial regulator?

statutory regulation, private regulation and financial markets

It is difficult to imagine financial markets without a state regulator. But it was not so long ago that financial markets in Britain developed their own regulation, without government intervention. This monograph examines the economic case for a statutory regulator of investment transactions and finds ...

The Almohads

the rise of an Islamic Empire

How did an obscure Islamic visionary found an empire? The Almohad Empire at its zenith in the 12th century was the major power in the Mediterranean and North Africa, ruling a huge region from the Atlas Mountains to Andalusia. Effective administration was backed by military ...

Tastes of Byzantium

the cuisine of a legendary empire

For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first ...

Muslim marriage in Western Courts

lost in transplantation

This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifically in Canada, the United States, France, and Germany, have approached and ...

The truth about Spain!

mobilizing british public opinion 1936-1939

Based on a combination of a wide range of second-hand sources with previously unknown archival material from Spain, Britain, France and the United States, this book explores the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 as a propaganda battle aimed mainly at foreign public opinion. It shows ...

Islam and travel in the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures - touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe - they also ...

The politics of piety

franciscan preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600

In this paperback reissue of The Politics of Piety, author Megan Armstrong situates the Franciscan order at the heart of the religious and political conflicts of the late sixteenth century to show how a medieval charismatic religious tradition became an engine of political change. The ...

La ciudad metropolitana en España

procesos urbanos en los inicios del siglo XXI

Coords. José Mª Feria Toribio, Juan Miguel Albertos Puebla. Probablemente es en los procesos metropolitanos donde de forma más clara y extendida, en lo que respecta a las sociedades modernas, se manifiesta la nueva condición de lo urbano y la auténtica escala y organización de ...

Sociology

the basics

A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, "Sociology: The Basics" examines: the scope, history and purpose of sociology; ways of understanding 'the social'; the state of the world we live in today; suffering and social inequalities; key ...

El exterminador hizo bien su trabajo

juicio contra William Burroughs

A comienzos de 1963 un librero de Boston fue detenido y conducido a comisaría. Su delito: vender una obra considerada como obscena y, por tanto, contraria a la ley. Se trataba de El almuerzo desnudo de William Burroughs. Ante esta situación, la editorial Grove Press ...

Conspirancy theories in the arab world

sources and politics

Conspiracism, while not unique to the Middle East, is a salient feature of the political discourses of the region. This book discounts the common pathological explanation for conspiricism and instead investigates the political structures and dynamics that have created and shaped the phenomenon of conspiricism ...

National security cultures

patterns of global governance

Eds. Emil J. Kirchner, James Sperling. This edited collection examines changes in national security culture in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security. Tracing the links between national security ...

La República de Weimar

manual para destruir una democracia

La República de Weimar se vio sometida, desde sus inicios, a los embates de poderosos enemigos para quienes las exigencias de mayor participación ciudadana, la democratización de la vida pública, los tratados de paz, la protección de los menores, la negociación colectiva, la liberación de ...

Excel 2010

análisis de datos y modelos de negocios

Aunque Microsoft Excel es una de las aplicaciones más conocidas y utilizadas del mercado, la mayoría de sus usuarios no llega a dominar ni siquiera la mitad de sus posibilidades. Excel 2010 permite una visión profunda de los negocios, la toma de decisiones inteligentes y ...

Las situaciones de los extranejros en España

INDICE: Derechos y libertades de los extranjeros en España. Entrada de extranjeros en España. Situación de residencia. Documentación que acredita las diferentes situaciones del extranjero en España. Infracciones y sanciones.

Lenguaje, Derecho y traducción = Language, Law and translation

This volume is the result of the third edition of the Seminar on Legal Translation organised from February 15-19, 2010 by the University of Salamanca and IAMLADP, the International Annual Meeting on Language Arrangements, Documentation and Publications, with the generous support of the Spanish Ministry ...

Cambio climático y lucha contra la pobreza

Eds. Mercedes Pardo, Maribel Rodríguez. Este libro es el resultado de la VI edición de los cursos de verano que la Fundación Carolina organiza anualmente en colaboración con la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo. El cambio climático global representa uno de los mayores retos a los ...

Diccionario filológico de Literatura Española

Siglo XVII. Volumen I

El Diccionario Filológico de Literatura Española del siglo XVII recoge y analiza en una sola obra, de manera comprensiva y panorámica, los textos esenciales de la literatura española de esa época que se han conservado -obras y autores- y su situación actual en pormenorizados estudios ...