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Detención policial y habeas corpus

Dir. Gregorio Álvarez Álvarez. (Manuales de Formación Continuada ; 48-2008). ÍNDICE: Introducción.- La detención preprocesal preventiva: previsiones constitucionales y legales/Joan J. Queralt Jiménez.- Detención y 'habeas corpus': supuestos no penales/Antonio Narváez Rodríguez.- Identificaciones y cacheos, no preprocesales, como privaciones de libertad. 'habeas corpus'/Gregorio ...

V Congreso Tributario

cuestiones tributarias problemáticas y de actualidad

Dir. Manuel José Baeza Díaz-Portales. (Estudios de Derecho Judicial ; 156-2009). INDICE: El nuevo régimen de operaciones vinculadas/Juan Carlos López- Hermoso Agius.- Principios y garantías de Derecho sancionador tributario: culpabilidad, non bis in idem, prueba ilícitamente obtenida, derecho a no autoincriminarse/Rafael Pérez Nieto.- Garantías ...

Art, piety and destruction in the Christian West

1500-1700

Ed. Virginia Chieffo Raguin. Spanning two centuries and two continents, "Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700" addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture in the early modern world. Beyond famous works of art such as Kraft's "Eucharistic ...

Global energy governance in a multipolar world

Multipolar governance permits a number of important states to have significantly more economic and political clout than others, but among them there is hardly any hierarchy. The new energy challenge, with its intricate socio-economic, ecological and international-political considerations, is a multi-dimensional, multi-level and multi-actor issue ...

Letters from the East

crusades, pilgrims and settlers in the 12th-13th centuries

Translated by Malcolm Barber, Keith Bate.No written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine in the high middle ages come closest to recording the real feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader ...

Maruja Mallo and the spanish Avant-Garde

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avant-garde. Previously sidelined by a culture that treated women as 'insider-outsiders' and by her own mythmaking, Mallo no longer ...

Spain transformed

the late Franco dictatorship, 1959-75

Ed. Nigel Townson. Spain Transformed addresses a major gap in the historiography of modern Spain: the late Franco dictatorship. Although Spain took the leap from an agricultural to an industrial economy and underwent a social and cultural revolution in the 1960s and early 1970s, this ...

Biography and history

Biography is the oldest way of writing about historical events, and the most popular. Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, "Biography and History" provides an original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly important area ...

The scientific revolution

a brief history with documents

This volume by Margaret C. Jacob explores the Scientific Revolution from its origins in the early sixteenth century to its widespread acceptance in Western societies in the late eighteenth century. Jacob's introduction outlines the trajectory of the Scientific Revolution and argues that the revival ...

European Union and NATO expansion

central and eastern Europe

The book argues that the EU and NATO eastern enlargements represent a settlement of historical-psychological accounts for countries affected by the "black trinity": the Munich Agreement, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and the Yalta-Potsdam Conferences.

Piedralén

historia de un campesino. De Cuba a la Guerra Civil

Prol. Josep Fontana.Contiene 61 ilustracines en blanco y negro. ¿Qué huella deja la vida de un hombre corriente? ¿Qué rastro queda en los archivos de la existencia de un campesino anónimo? Un suceso extraordinario, un sumario militar por deserción en la guerra de Cuba ...

Rational theory of international politics

the logic of competition and cooperation

Within the realist school of international relations, a prevailing view holds that the anarchic structure of the international system invariably forces the great powers to seek security at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to an unrelenting struggle for power and dominance. "Rational ...

Why the Constitution matters

In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and ...

Regulating from nowhere

environmental Law and the search for objectivity

Drawing insight from cross-disciplinary sources, Douglas Kysar exposes a critical flaw in the dominant environmental law and policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. To compensate for the shortcomings he identifies, Kysar offers a novel defence of the precautionary principle and concludes by advocating ...

Law's environment

how the Law shapes the places we live

In this insightful book, John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Adak Island far off the coast of western Alaska; the Susquehanna River running through New York ...

Legal Theory

Legal Theory discusses a wide range of answers to the most basic legal questions of all. Why do some rules have the status of law while others do not? Is law simply a matter of rules anyway? What is justice? Should the law concern itself ...

Venezuela's chavismo and populism in comparative perspective

Populism is best understood as a Manichaean world view linked to a characteristic language or discourse. Chavismo, the movement that sustains Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, is a paradigmatic instance of populism. Using a novel, cross-country dataset on populist discourse, combined with extensive data from within ...

Unveiling the Council of European Union

games governments play in Brussels

Eds. Daniel Naurin, Helen Wallace. For a long time our textbook knowledge of what is happening in the Council of the European Union -- the major decision forum of the EU -- was to a large extent based on limited interview-based evidence. One reason for that was ...

The european neighbourhood policy in perspective

context, implementation and impact

Eds. Richard G. Whitman, Stefan Wolff. In implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union offers a deeper political and economic relationship to its neighbours - but without a promise of EU membership. The ENP is intended to be a strategic approach to the post-enlargement ...

Governance theory and practice

a cross-disciplinary approach

Confusion about governance abounds. We lack appreciation of how different traditions of thought in the social sciences contribute to our understanding. Governance Theory and Practice tackles these issues head on, using a cross-disciplinary approach from political science, public administration, international relations, development studies, sociology and ...