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Los principios jurídicos

Prol. Eduardo García de Enterría. Los principios generales del Derecho constituyen una pieza clave del ordenamiento jurídico, pues, además de expresar su propio fundamento, son una de las fuentes del Derecho. Asumiendo esta premisa, el libro aborda, en primer lugar, la compleja delimitación de su ...

Derecho penal informático

El libro coordinado por los Catedráticos de Derecho Penal José Luis de la Cuesta y Norberto J. de la Mata aborda de modo global el tratamiento de los delitos informáticos desde una perspectiva penal, criminológica y procesal ¿Qué es en realidad un delito informático? ¿Qué ...

Global terrorism and new media

the post-Al Qaeda generation

"Global Terrorism and New Media" carefully examines the content of terrorist websites and extremist television programming to provide a comprehensive look at how terrorist groups use new media today. Based partly on a content analysis of discussion boards and forums, the authors share their findings ...

Citizen and soldier

a sourcebook on military service and national defense from colonial America to the present

Eds. Henry C. Dethloff, Gerlad E. Shenk. Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the citizenship of ...

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

a sourcebook

Eds. Francis D. Cogliano, Kirsten E. Phimister. "Revolutionary America, 1763--1815: A Sourcebook" is a collection of dynamic primary sources intended to accompany the second edition of "Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History". While the structure of the collection parallels the textbook, either can be used ...

Impuesto sobre el Valor Añadido

Coord. César García Novoa. (Pertenece a la obra Fiscalidad Práctica dirigida por Pablo Chico de la Cámara, Javier Galán Ruiz y José A. Rodríguez Ondarza). Ofrece esta obra, a través de una visión práctica, un estudio riguroso que encierra nuestro sistema tributario. De una forma ...

La movilidad geográfica internacional de trabajadores

régimen jurídico-laboral

Prol. Francisco Javier Prados de Reyes. La creciente expansión de las actividades económicas por efecto de la globalización afecta de forma muy diversa a la configuración de los mercados laborales. La flexibilización de las organizaciones productivas, la localización de las empresas en el exterior y ...

Contesting archives

finding women in the sources

The contributors of "Contesting Archives" challenge the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a place where decisions are made about whose documents - and therefore whose history - is important. Finding that women ...

Sugarlandia revisited

sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940

Eds. Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, G. Roger Knight. Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and ...

Apart

alienated and engaged muslims in the west

Muslim minorities comprise an ever-increasing proportion of Europe's population, but are official strategies to thwart home-grown terrorism forcing Muslims further to the fringe of our societies? For every terror suspect we see handcuffed in a televised trial, thousands of young Muslims outside the courtroom ...

Small boats weak states dirty money

piracy and maritime terrorism in the Modern World

It has been alleged that pirates and maritime terrorists present a largely common threat to international maritime security. This book drives to the heart of this proposal by reviewing in detail each phenomenon before asking how and under what circumstances pirates and maritime terrorists might ...

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 ...

China's rise in historical perspective

Ed. Brantly Womack. "China and the United States are bound to have issues and confrontation. We will also have synergies, collaboration, and cooperation. In China's Rise, Brantly Womack has compiled the most useful set of perspectives in the last decade on how to think ...

On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other old english poems

Ed. John M. Hill. What makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry?While there is an apparent ...

Medieval medicine

a reader

Ed. Faith Wallis. Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to ...

Latin American politics

an introduction

Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger ...

The viking age

a reader

Eds. Angus A. Somerville, R. Andrew McDonald. The diversity of the Viking world is illuminated in more than 100 readings contained in this primary source reader. The Norse translations, many of them new, are straightforward and easily accessible for students. The introductions contextualize the readings ...

European foreign and security policy

States, power, institutions, and american hegemony

The European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) stipulates that all member states must unanimously ratify policy proposals through their representatives on the EU Council. Intergovernmentalism, or the need for equal agreement from all member nations, is used by many political scientists ...

Thinking historically

educating students for the Twenty-First Century

Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically, Stephane Levesque examines these questions, focusing on what it means to think ...

Subject stages

marriage, theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain

In early modern Spain, the strict definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman of Catholic faith for the sole purpose of procreation became a key strategy in the production of Spain's version of empire, the Universal Catholic Monarchy. Maria ...