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A dictionary of 20th-Century Communism

Eds. Silvio Pons, Robert Service. The first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former ...

Hispanic New York

a sourcebook

Ed. Caludio Iván Remeseira. Over the past few decades, a huge wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within ...

América en las Cortes de Cádiz

La invasión napoleónica en 1808 provocó una crisis de los fundamentos del poder de la monarquía hispana. Uno y otro bando se propusieron redefinir el Estado, y contaron con la opinión de quienes vivían al otro lado del Atlántico. Napoleón convocó a representantes americanos a ...

Responsabilidad civil

cuestiones generales y su efecto reparador

Dentro de las distintas obras que sobre la responsabilidad civil tema tan actual, conflictivo y generador de innumerables procesos# se están publicando en esta colección Códigos Magíster, aparece ahora el que abarca los conceptos generales aplicables a todo supuesto de este amplio tema. Esta obra ...

Securing the State

Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism and proliferation, and of natural hazards such as pandemics ...

Païens et Chréteiens dans un âge d'angoisse

aspects de l'expérience religieuse de Marc Aurèle à Constantin

Le thème abordé par E R Dodds dans cet ouvrage - la transition du paganisme au christianisme de Marc Aurèle à Constantin - est de ceux auxquels on revient indéfiniment, car il reste, malgré tout, le grand mystère :pourquoi et comment des païens cultivés de ce temps ...

La participación de los sindicatos en las funciones normativas de los poderes públicos

INDICE: El Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho: implicaciones participativas. De la participación a la participación institucional. El ejercicio de la participación institucional en España y otros mecanismos de intervención: el diálogo social tripartito

What about Darwin?

all species of opinion from scientistis, sages, friends, and enemies who met, read, and discissed the naturalist who changed the world

Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P. T. Barnum, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma ...

The limits of U.S. military capability

lessons from Vietnam and Iraq

Political scientist James H. Lebovic establishes that the size, strength, flexibility, and adaptability of the U.S. military cannot ensure victory in asymmetrical conflicts. In "The Limits of U.S. Military Capability", Lebovic shows how political and psychological factors trumped U.S. military superiority in ...

Another freedom

the alternative history of an idea

From political debates about global free markets to local free lunches, today the word 'freedom' is in danger of becoming a distorted and tired cliche. In "Another Freedom", Svetlana Boym explores the rich history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece ...

Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945

foreign authors report from Germany

Ed. Oliver Lubrich. 'Even now', wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Diary of 1933, 'I can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened'. Three years later, W. E. B. DuBois described Germany as 'silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers'. In contrast ...

Why Europe?

the medieval origins of its special path

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe's unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, "Why Europe?" tackles these classic questions with ...

Walter Benjamin

an introduction to his work and thought

Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intriguing theorist. Acknowledged only by a small circle of intellectuals during ...

Eastern christians in anthropological perspective

Sociocultural anthropologists have taken increasing interest in the global communities established by Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, but the many streams of Eastern Christianity have so far been neglected. "Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective" fills this gap in the literature. The essays in this pioneering ...

Los conflictos armados de Centroamérica

Presentación.- Centroamérica.- La configuración de un espacio para la paz.- Parte I. La conflictividad en Centroamérica: evolución histórica.- Parte II. Centroamérica en la década de 1980: guerra y negociación.- Bibliografía.- Anexo imprimir

The origins of grammar

an anthropological perspective

The book examines the origins of language and grammar and also looks at the nature of being human. As a species, we have a long history of trying to find aspects of ourselves that are exclusively human. Some of the features of humanity thought to ...

Measuring damages in the Law of obligations

the search for harmonised principles

This book challenges certain differences between contract, tort and equity in relation to the measure (in a broad sense) of damages. Damages are defined as the monetary award made by a court in consequence of a breach of contract, a tort or an equitable wrong ...

Previous convictions at sentencing

theoretical and applied perspectives

Eds. Julian V. Roberts, Andrew von Hirsch. This latest volume in the "Penal Theory and Penal Ethics" series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence? This question provokes ...

El Gran Valido

el Duque de Lerma, la Corte y el gobierno de Felipe III, 1598-1621

Europe's 21st century challenge

delivering liberty

Eds. Didier Bigo...[et al]. This volume provides a critical assessment of the liberties of citizens and others in the European Union (EU) and the different ways in which they are affected by the proliferation of discourses, practices and norms of insecurity enacted in the ...