Libros de

Derecho penal del Estado social y democrático de Derecho

libro homenaje a Santiago Mir Puig

Dir. Diego-Manuel Luzón Peña. Este libro-homenaje plasma los principales actos producidos en junio de 2008 en la Universidad de Alcalá con motivo de la investidura del Prof. Mir Puig como Doctor honoris causa. Por una parte, contiene los discursos de laudatio del Prof. Luzón Peña ...

De la revolución a la sociedad de consumo

ocho intelectuales en el tardofranquismo y la democracia

En el tardo franquismo, la resistencia a la dictadura y el ambiente cultural del 68 daban alas a atrevidos proyectos revolucionarios de signos diversos y a planteamientos críticos que comportaban una descalificación global del sistema establecido. La aprobación de la Constitución de 1978 y la ...

A short history of the British Industrial Revolution

Why was the British industrial revolution such a pivotal event in world history? This succinct introduction explains what the Industrial Revolution was, when exactly it occurred and why it happened in Britain first. Providing a clear and compelling synthesis of the latest research on industrialization ...

Judaism

an introduction

The story of Judaism is a story of paradox. It is the story of how a small cluster of desert tribes gave birth to a monotheistic doctrine that profoundly shaped the history of human civilization. It is the story of how that initially obscure desert ...

The Iran-Iraq war

The Iran-Iraq War was personified by the determination and ambition of the key leaders, Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini, and characterised by mass casualties, the repression of the civilian populations and chemical warfare. Fought with lucrative oil money, it left the belligerents with crippling debts ...

Principios de Derecho europeo de la energía

El título del libro «Principios de Derecho Europeo de la Energía» indica ya la que es su principal característica: sintetizar y sistematizar, por vez primera, los principios y reglas estructurales de la normativa europea de la energía, hasta ahora dispersas o manejadas sin una perspectiva ...

Código penal

(adaptado a la Ley Orgánica 5/2010, de 22 de julio). Comentarios y jurisprudencia

La Ciencia penal española vive actualmente una época de esplendor por el elevado número de juristas especializados en esta rama del Derecho y, especialmente, por la reconocida categoría intelectual de un buen número de ellos, cuyas publicaciones han enriquecido notablemente nuestro patrimonio cultural, permitiendo a ...

A mission under duress

the Nanjing massacre and post-massacre social conditions documented by American Diplomats

Editedwith an introduction by Suping Lu. Immediately after capturing the Chinese capital, Nanjing, on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers committed atrocities such as mass executions, rampant rapes, arson, and looting in and around the city. The carnage went on for weeks. On January 6, 1938 ...

The persistence of presence

emblem and ritual in baroque Spain

The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period. As representations of ideas and ideals, emblems are allegories produced in a particular place and time, and their study can shed ...

Peacemaking in the Middle Ages

principles and practice

Drawing upon a range of different contemporary sources, *Peacemaking in the Middle Ages* explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. From dealing with owing allegiance ...

Light and darkness in Ancient Greek myth and religion

Eds. Menelaos Christipoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk. Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual ...

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending ...

Enduring Empire

ancient lessons for global politics

Eds. David Edward Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski. An exploration of the ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations, Enduring Empire engages in a serious discussion of empire as it relates to American foreign policy and global politics. The ...

The politics of combined and uneven development

the theory of permanent revolution

Löwys book is the first attempt to analyze, in a systematic way, how the theories of uneven and combined development, and of the permanent revolution inseparably linked emerged in the writings of thinkers such as Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky. Such radical reflections permit us ...

Terrorism, Civil War, and revolution

revolution and international politics

This text explores the nature and possibility of revolution and civil strife in the context of international politics. "Terrorism, Civil War, and Revolution" analyzes the role of revolution and civil strife in the present day world. Expanding on the 2nd edition of Calvert's "Revolution ...

A chronology of the Roman Empire

Ed. Timothy Venning ; Introduction by John F. Drinkwater. This work provides, for the first time, a chronological reference for the entire Roman state and its neighbours. Events of each year are covered in detail listing the elected consuls, major battles as well as political and ...

Imagining arab womanhood

the cultural mythology of veils, harems, and belly dancers in the U.S.

Imagining Arab Womanhood examines orientalist images of Arab womanhood in the United States since the turn of the twentieth century, exploring, in particular, representations of belly dancers, harem girls, and veiled women. Through semiotic analysis, Jarmakani maps them onto dominant American narratives of power and ...

Trials of europeanization

turkish political culture and the European Union

This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish political culture. It also comprises a succinct overview of Turkey's most reaching reform process since Ataturk.

On sunspots

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun. Galileo ...

The Constitution of Germany

a contextual analysis

The German Basic Law, enacted in 1949 after total defeat and the experience of totalitarian barbarism, has become a model for constitutions around the world and a prominent example of modern constitutionalism. It features five fundamental principles - democracy, rule of law/Rechtsstaat, the social state ...