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El Derecho a la autodeterminación informativa

Don Jerónimo González

En este libro el Profesor Díez-Picazo se acerca a la figura ilustre de don Jerónimo González, justamente considerado como el más importante de todos nuestros hipotecaristas, y lo hace en los diferentes espacios y ámbitos que pudo a lo largo de su vida, frecuentar, como ...

Derecho civil

estudios, comentarios y notas

En esta encomiable labor de recopilación y publicación de la obra de los más importantes maestros contemporáneos del Derecho Civil Español, que el CNRPME viene desarrollando en las últimas décadas, necesariamente había de repararse en la fecunda, variada, penetrante y decisiva producción de quien, como ...

The Madrid codex

new approaches to understanding an ancient Maya manuscript

Edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni. Offers fresh calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. This book includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced ...

North Africa

a history from antiquity to the present

North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically under- estimated. In a book that may lead scholars to re-imagine the concept of Western civilization, incorporating ...

The Afghanistan wars

Maley offers a valuable insight into Afghanistan's wars and the domestic, regional, and international politics that have exposed the population of what was once one of the most stable states in Asia to enormous damage. Biography: William Maley is Associate Professor of Politics at ...

The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650

the structure of power

This highly-praised and authoritative account surveys the history of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins in the fourteenth century, through its rise to world-power status in the sixteenth century, to the troubled times of the seventeenth century. Going beyond a simple narrative of Ottoman ...

A political history of early christianity

Brent focuses on the reformation of republican religion and the exercise of political authority in Augustan society. Augustus' revolution involved a reformation also of republican religion that provided legitimation for the exercise of political authority. The iconography of the Ara Pacis, for example, shows that ...

Darwin and catholicism

the past and present dynamics of a cultural encounter

This book features an exploration of the interaction between Darwinian ideas and Catholic doctrine. This coherent collection of original papers marks the 150 year anniversary since the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859). Although the area of evolution-related publications is vast, the ...

101 Great philosophers

makers of modern thought

101 Great Philosophers is a concise and accessible guide to 101 of the greatest minds that contributed to the legacy of western philosophy. From the ancient Greeks to present-day thinkers, Madsen Pirie employs concise entries, each on a single page, to give a snapshot of ...

Organizational ethnography

studying complexities of everyday life

Edited by Sierk Ybema...[et al.] Includes contributions that reveal an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. This title explores the particular problems faced by organizational ethnographers, including: questions of gaining access to research sites within organizations; the many styles of writing organizational ethnography ...

Civilizations in world politics

plural and pluralist perspectives

Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein. A highly original and readily accessible examination of the cultural dimension of international politics, this book provides a sophisticated and nuanced account of the relevance of cultural categories for the analysis of world politics. The book#s analytical focus is ...

The origins and development of European Union 1945-2008

a history of european integration

The new edition of this accessible introduction to the history of the European Union (EU) has been fully revised and updated to reflect the significant changes within the EU over the past decade. The book is ideal introductory reading for those new to the study ...

The costume history = Die kostümgeschichte = Le costume historique

Publicado originalmente en Francia entre 1876 y 1888, Le Costume historique de Auguste Racinet fue el estudio de la ropa más amplio e inteligente jamás publicado. Esta gran obra presentaba la historia mundial del vestuario, la ropa y el estilo desde la antigüedad hasta finales ...

Ópera

compositores, obras, intérpretes

La ópera tiene tantas caras y es tan compleja como el alma humana, lo que la convierte en una de las formas artísticas más fascinantes y vivas de nuestro tiempo, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que pone a prueba los cinco sentidos y que sobrepasa ...

La Biblia en imágenes

ilustraciones del Taller de Lucas Cranach (1534)

Introducción histórico-cultural por Stephan Füssel; Dirigido y producido por Benedikt Taschen. Shocking, terrifying and utterly scandalous: 117 color illustrations from Luther's Bible of 1534, complete with explanatory texts detailing their profound impact on the history of Christianity.

Buddhism

the basics

Buddhism: The Basics examines the historical development of Buddhism and its presence today, from its key religious texts to practices and beliefs. With helpful features including a detailed map of the Buddhist world, glossary of terms and tips for further study, this is an ideal ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict

an introduction and documentary reader

This textbook focuses on the foreign policy of the Arab-Israeli peace process and the progress made. Examining seventy key documents related to the conflict and placing them in their historical context, the book gives an overview of the situation, looking at both Israeli and Palestinian ...

Common sense and nuclear warfare

Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell#s staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in this ...

The Persian Empire

a corpus of sources from the Achaemenid period

Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it in order to gain an understanding ...