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A reader in contemporary philosophical theology

Edited and with an introduction by Oliver D. Crisp. Since the early 1980s there has been a philosophical turn to the analysis of Christian doctrines. This has been stimulated by the renewal of the Philosophy of Religion in the 1960s and 1970s by figures like ...

Byzantine cavalryman

c.900-1204

Illustrated by Giuseppe Rava. Regarded as the elite arm of the military during the Middle Byzantine period, the cavalry executed high speed reconnaissance, agile arrow barrages and crippling blows to enemy formations. Its ranks were filled primarily through direct recruitment or hereditary service by holders ...

The French Revolution

a beginner´s guides

Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Davies explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking ideals; where the streets of Paris ran red with blood, and the numbers requiring execution precipitated the invention of the guillotine. Davies brings the subject up to date by ...

The rule of women in early Modern Europe

Edited by Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki. Table of contents: Acknowledgments VII Introduction Anne J. Cruz Mihoko Suzuki 1 Part 1 The Rule of Women: Theories and Constructions 1 Notions of Late Medieval Queenship: Christine de Pizan's Isabeau of Bavaria Tracy Adams 13 ...

The political economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder

decline of the german model?

CONTENTS: List of Tables and Figures Introduction 1 1982: Crisis and Transition 2 The Fall of Helmut Schmidt and the Formation of the Wende Administration 3 The Kohl Era: CDU Supply-sidism in Practice 4 Liberalisation and Monetary Accumulation 5 German Unification and the Unraveling of ...

The trend of economic thinking

essays on political economists and econommic history

Eds. W.W. Bartley III, Stephen Kresge. In this book, Hayek presents many of the figures that influenced the development of his economic thought. The articles range from well-known economists such as Mandeville, Hume, Smith, and Bastiat, to lesser-known figures such as Dupuit and Gossen ...

The Thirty Years War

a dacumentary history

Edited and translated, with an introduction by Tryntje Helfferich. Through a wide variety of key documents#most of which appear in English for the first time here#this sourcebook reveals the origins, significance, and consequences of the Thirty Years War (1618#1648), the first great ...

Daily life in the Mongol Empire

"[W]ell-written, accurate, and engagingly informative." #Canadian Journal of History #[A] general history book that uses primary source material throughout. It introduces students to the importance of primary sources and stresses how these early texts provide the evidence and foundations for all the words, ideas ...

Responsabilidad civil en el Derecho de familia

especial referencia al ámbito de las relaciones paterno-filiales

Esta monografía estudia si en la actualidad es posible aplicar, con carácter general, la normativa reguladora de la responsabilidad civil extracontractual en el ámbito de la familia, tanto en el caso de reclamaciones por daños entre cónyuges como entre progenitores e hijos. Y en el ...

An environmental history of the world

humankind´s changing role in the community of life

This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history ...

Poliedro de la vivienda

estudio de la vivienda protegida de acuerdo al Plan Estatal 2009-2012

Libro que se enfrenta a la compleja realidad jurídica, estatal y autonómica, que presenta la vivienda, su relación con el urbanismo, los principios que rigen sus planes y sus incertidumbres ante la situación de crisis actual del mercado inmobiliario nacional. La obra analiza, compara y ...

El IVA

optimación ante la crisis económica

Coord. José Manuel de Bunes Ibarra. Conozca las importantes novedades que van a introducirse en la normativa del IVA y que habrán de ser aplicadas desde comienzos del próximo año; y reduzca su carga tributaria. LA OBRA SE ESTRUCTURA EN DOS GRANDES PARTES 1. Directamente ...

Ley General de Seguridad Social

La obra constituye un comentario detenido y pormenorizado de los sucesivos preceptos de la Ley General de Seguridad Social, con alusión, en su caso, a las normas legales y reglamentarias que la completan o desarrollan, con aportación de la jurisprudencia básica en la materia y ...

Derechos Humanos y pluralismo cultural

Esta obra, galardonada con el Premio Luis Portero de Derechos Humanos 2008, otorgado por la Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación de Granada, analiza el modelo jurídico intercultural español. Se enriquece esta discusión con datos sobre la realidad jurídica, social y jurisprudencial de varios países ...

Análisis económico y revolución liberal en España

economistas académicos en las Cortes Liberales, 1834-1874

Éste es un libro de historia del análisis y de las ideas económicas en España en el periodo 1834-1874, en el que tuvo lugar la llamada revolución liberal, con la consagración definitiva de los derechos individuales fundamentales, en la forma que los definió Tomás y ...

Sociedades profesionales de capital

La Ley de Socieda­des Profesionales ha venido a colmar una laguna legal existente en nuestro ordenamiento jurídico al otorgar carta de naturaleza a la sociedad profesional, a la que regula como una categoría especial de compañía con flexibilidad organizativa, con lo que se da ...

Republics and kingdoms compared

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 40)

Aurelio Lippo Brandolini's Republics and Kingdoms Compared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts a debate between the king himself ...

Latin poetry

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 38)

Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Academia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having written, in Italian, the ...

Christiad

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 39)

Marco Girolamo Vida (1485-1566), humanist and bishop, came to prominence as a Latin poet in the Rome of Leo X and Clement VII. It was Leo who commissioned his famous epic, the Christiad , a retelling of the life of Christ in the style of Vergil ...

A history of charisma

Charisma is a widely used term in contemporary western culture, referring to a special innate quality of certain individuals. Yet 'charisma' has meant different things since the word was first used in the first century. This book traces the history of charisma - and the various ...