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La solidaridad con el juez Garzón

Coord. Carlos Jiménez Villarejo. Estamos ante una obra colectiva excepcional, que demuestra el apoyo nacional e internacional recibido por el Juez Garzón, ante la persecución penal a la que está sometido por el Tribunal Supremo de España. Una obra que reúne escritos, comunicados, acuerdos, artículos ...

El político en la red social

Vivimos en un mundo de constante movimiento del cual podemos distinguir dos realidades sociales, la de los políticos y la de sus votantes. Este libro pretende ser una ventana al análisis del distanciamiento que existe entre ambos y ayudar en la posibilidad de hacer servir ...

Tratado jurídico-político sobre presas de mar, y calidades que deben concurrir para hacerse legitimemente el corso

Reprod. Facs. de la edicióne n Cádiz de 1746.

Orígenes del justicia de Aragón

Prol. Francisco Codera. Reprod. Facs. de la edición en Zaragoza de 1897.

Claves actuales de la fiscalidad del futuro

(Revista Papeles de economía Española, Nº125/126, año 2010)

Rebel rank and file

labor militancy and revolt from below during the long 1970s

Eds. Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner, Cal Winslow. Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt. Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s.

The constitution of Australia

a contextual analysis

Consistently with the aims of the series, the book canvasses the Australian constitutional system in a way that explains its form and operation, provides a critical evaluation of it and conveys a sense of the contemporary national debate. The chapters deal respectively with the foundations ...

The Law of restitution

Andrew Burrows continues to provide an authoritative account of the law of restitution in the third edition of this highly-praised textbook. Fully revised and updated, this edition includes a wealth of new cases and academic thinking in addition to thorough examination of the subject as ...

Introduction to fixed income analytics

relative value analysis, risk measures, and valuation

A comprehensive introduction to the key concepts of fixed income analytics The First Edition of Introduction to Fixed Income Analytics skillfully covered the fundamentals of this discipline and was the first book to feature Bloomberg screens in examples and illustrations. Since publication over eight years ...

Mesolithis Europe

Ed. Geoff Bailey, Penny Spikins. This book focuses on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe in the millennia between the Last Ice Age and the spread of agriculture, between ten thousand and five thousand years ago. Traditionally viewed as a period of ...

Gold standard at the turn of the Twentieth Century

rising powers, global money, and the Age of Empire

By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti- English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World ...

The animal rights debate

abolition or regulation?

Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals ...

Order and chivalry

knighthood and citizenship in late medieval castile

Knighthood and chivalry are commonly associated with courtly aristocracy and military prowess. Instead of focusing on the relationship between chivalry and nobility, Jesus D. Rodriguez-Velasco asks different questions. Does chivalry have anything to do with the emergence of an urban bourgeoisie? If so, how? And ...

Witchcraft and magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able-and who in some instances thought themselves able-to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these ...

Mercenaires, pirates, bandits, and empires

private violence in historical context

Eds. Alejandro Colás, Bryan Mabee. In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of private violence in the past and ...

The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial hispanic literary culture

The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary cultureocities, festivals and wonderofrom the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats ...

The transforming fire

the rise of the Israel-Islamist conflict

"The Transforming Fire" sets out to explain how the rise of Islamism is changing the nature of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours. For a time, the Arab-Israeli conflict seemed a fight over real-estate and recognition, but in recent years it has transformed ...

Britain and Europe 1500-1780

In 'Britain and Europe, 1500-1780', Houlbrooke explores the history of Britain, emphasizing its political relations and important connections between its three kingdoms and the continental powers. He also calls into question what makes British history unique, or indeed if there is such a thing as ...

Discurso sobre el modo de escribir y mejorar la historia de España

Considerado como una de las creaciones más importantes de la Ilustración española, el Discurso sobre el modo de escribir y mejorar la historia de España constituye la base sobre la que, ya en el siglo XIX, se cimentaría la construcción de la historiografía española. Dotado ...

El lector ante una obra hipertextual

Coords. Antonio Mendoza Fillola, Celia Romea.