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Seguridad privada

Dir. A. Nicolás Marchal Escalona; Prol. Antonio Camacho Vizcaíno. Acompaña CD-ROM. En una sociedad que reclama cada vez más seguridad, la Seguridad Privada se ha convertido de hecho y, por exigencia de nuestros ciudadanos, en pieza imprescindible. No se concibe la seguridad general en nuestras ...

The measure of woman

Law and female identity in the Crown of Aragon

By the end of the Middle Ages, the ius commune-the combination of canon and Roman law-had formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along with its patriarchal system of categorizing women. Throughout medieval Europe, women regularly found themselves in court, suing or being ...

Human Rights Law and business

corporate responsibility for fundamental Human Rights

Over recent decades, globalisation has stirred up a number of positive and negative developments in national and international environments. An important feature of globalisation is the rise of the economic, social, cultural and political power of corporations. While corporate activities may positively contribute to the ...

Cross-cultural scientific exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560- 1660

Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies - in which he explores how a single obscure object or text moved in ...

Tecnology and the American Way of war since 1945

No nation in recent history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. In World War II the wholesale mobilization of American science and technology culminated in the detonation of the atomic bomb. Competition with ...

Lost girls

sex and death in Renaissance Florence

In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 walked out alive. Struck by the ...

Spanish Civil War Tanks

the proving ground for Blitzkrieg

Il. Tony Bryan. The tanks used during the Spanish Civil War are not often examined in any great detail, and are often labeled as little more than test vehicles in a convenient proving ground before World War II. But, with groundbreaking research, armor expert Steven ...

Conquer or die!

Wellington's veterans and the liberation of the New World

In the aftermath of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her oppressors in Madrid. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start, one ship sank shortly after leaving Portsmouth ...

Afrikakorps soldier 1941-43

This book explores the experiences of the German Afrika Korps soldier during the North Africa campaign, from the Korps' arrival in-theatre in February 1941 to its eventual surrender in Tunisia in May 1943, with a particular focus on the intense period of warfare in the ...

Messines 1917

the zenith of siege warfare

At 0310 hours on 7 June 1917, the pre-dawn gloom on the Western Front was shattered by the 'pillars of fire' - the rapid detonation of 19 huge mines, secreted in tunnels under the German lines and containing 450 tonnes of explosives. Admitted by the Germans ...

Spain's "Second Transition"?

the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Ed. Bonnie N. Field. This book systematically analyzes the patterns of continuity and change under Zapatero's Socialist government, and provides a nuanced, critical evaluation of the concept of a 'second transition'. This book was published as a special issue of "South European Society & Politics".

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 ...