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V Congreso Tributario

cuestiones tributarias problemáticas y de actualidad

Dir. Manuel José Baeza Díaz-Portales. (Estudios de Derecho Judicial ; 156-2009). INDICE: El nuevo régimen de operaciones vinculadas/Juan Carlos López- Hermoso Agius.- Principios y garantías de Derecho sancionador tributario: culpabilidad, non bis in idem, prueba ilícitamente obtenida, derecho a no autoincriminarse/Rafael Pérez Nieto.- Garantías ...

Art, piety and destruction in the Christian West

1500-1700

Ed. Virginia Chieffo Raguin. Spanning two centuries and two continents, "Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700" addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture in the early modern world. Beyond famous works of art such as Kraft's "Eucharistic ...

Global energy governance in a multipolar world

Multipolar governance permits a number of important states to have significantly more economic and political clout than others, but among them there is hardly any hierarchy. The new energy challenge, with its intricate socio-economic, ecological and international-political considerations, is a multi-dimensional, multi-level and multi-actor issue ...

Letters from the East

crusades, pilgrims and settlers in the 12th-13th centuries

Translated by Malcolm Barber, Keith Bate.No written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine in the high middle ages come closest to recording the real feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader ...

Maruja Mallo and the spanish Avant-Garde

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avant-garde. Previously sidelined by a culture that treated women as 'insider-outsiders' and by her own mythmaking, Mallo no longer ...

Multinational military intervention

NATO policy, strategy and burden sharing

War, as Clausewitz reminds, is the most uncertain of human political and social activities. It also imposes burdens. In an alliance among states for the promotion of collective defense or security, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), burdens have to be shared. This ...

Effective blogging for libraries

Renowned library blogger, speaker, and educator Connie Crosby shares her experience and expertise in this step-by-step guide to successful library blogging. This is the go-to resource for any librarian in search of practical, easy-to-implement instruction for creating and managing a winning library blog. This comprehensive ...

Information policies and strategies

All librarians and libraries have information policies, and so do most people. The big issues, like censorship or intellectual property ownership and use, crowd our minds but the process of decision making is the same at every level and in every context, whether we are ...

Mobile technology and libraries

Mobile technology is fast becoming the preferred method for connecting to the Internet, especially for people on the go. Librarians must keep pace with this trend and integrate themselves into the mobile realm if they wish to deliver enhanced user services. This is a practical ...

Wikis for libraries

Wikis have emerged as powerful platforms for facilitating and improving communication and collaboration between library staff, users, and professional peers. This book gives you the practical tools and easy-to- follow guidance you need to establish an effective wiki in your own library. Author Lauren Pressley ...

THe agony of spanish liberalism

from Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913-23

Eds. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó, Angel Smith. It was during the period 1913-1923 that the seeds of political polarization and social violence that culminated in the Spanish Civil War were sown. This specially commissioned collection of essays explores the causes of the growing schism within ...

Flaubert and Don Quijote

the influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary

This book tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel "Madame Bovary". It thus fills a major ...

European Union history

themes and debates

Eds. Wolfram Kaiser, Antonio Varsori. European integration has had, and is continuing to have, an enormous impact on the state of Europe: through transforming the nation-state; creating new supranational institutions and joint policy-making; integrating markets and liberalizing trade; fiscal redistribution; and through fostering the formation ...

Spain transformed

the late Franco dictatorship, 1959-75

Ed. Nigel Townson. Spain Transformed addresses a major gap in the historiography of modern Spain: the late Franco dictatorship. Although Spain took the leap from an agricultural to an industrial economy and underwent a social and cultural revolution in the 1960s and early 1970s, this ...

Biography and history

Biography is the oldest way of writing about historical events, and the most popular. Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, "Biography and History" provides an original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly important area ...

The scientific revolution

a brief history with documents

This volume by Margaret C. Jacob explores the Scientific Revolution from its origins in the early sixteenth century to its widespread acceptance in Western societies in the late eighteenth century. Jacob's introduction outlines the trajectory of the Scientific Revolution and argues that the revival ...

European Union and NATO expansion

central and eastern Europe

The book argues that the EU and NATO eastern enlargements represent a settlement of historical-psychological accounts for countries affected by the "black trinity": the Munich Agreement, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and the Yalta-Potsdam Conferences.

Piedralén

historia de un campesino. De Cuba a la Guerra Civil

Prol. Josep Fontana.Contiene 61 ilustracines en blanco y negro. ¿Qué huella deja la vida de un hombre corriente? ¿Qué rastro queda en los archivos de la existencia de un campesino anónimo? Un suceso extraordinario, un sumario militar por deserción en la guerra de Cuba ...

Rational theory of international politics

the logic of competition and cooperation

Within the realist school of international relations, a prevailing view holds that the anarchic structure of the international system invariably forces the great powers to seek security at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to an unrelenting struggle for power and dominance. "Rational ...

Why the Constitution matters

In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and ...