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Mujeres espías

intrigas y sabotajes tras las líneas enemigas

Las historias más apasionantes de mujeres que arriesgaron sus vidas por una causa que creyeron justa. Una interesantísima obra que desmitifica el halo romántico que la literatura y el cine han conferido siempre a las espías femeninas, mucho más numerosas de lo que en principio ...

Breve tratado de la pasión

Uno de los diarios de amor más curiosos, originales y entrañables de todos los tiempos. El gran escritor argentino ha compuesto un peculiar tratado sobre el amor partiendo de materiales dispersos #cartas, frases o fragmentos de la más variada procedencia# que aluden a la pasión ...

The Law of multi-bank financing

This new work provides analysis of the legal and regulatory facets of syndicated loans, secondary loan market practice and other related financial practices. Acknowledging the dynamic growth in the secondary loan market Mugasha covers loan trading, credit derivatives, collateralised debt obligations, loan trading, mezzanine and ...

Legislative, executive and judicial governance in federal countries

Comparative studies examine the constitutional design and actual operation of governments in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. Contributors analyze the structures and workings of legislative, executive, and judicial institutions in each sphere of government. They ...

Diabolism in colonial Peru, 1560-1750

Redden uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the transcultural phenomenon of the devil in early modern Peru. He demonstrates that the interaction between the Christian and the Andean worlds was far more complex than any interpretation that posits a clear dichotomy between conversion and resistance ...

The decolonization of international Law

state succession and the Law of treaties

The issue of state succession continues to be a vital and complex focal point for public international lawyers, yet it has remained strangely resistant to effective articulation. The formative period in this respect was that of decolonization which marked for many the time when international ...

Thinking about property

from antiquity to the Age of Revolution

Explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's vision of an ideal polity in the Republic, Jesus' teachings on renunciation and poverty, and Golden Age ...

Cost accounting

a managerial emphasis

For undergraduate and MBA students taking a Cost or Management Accounting course. Emphasizing the "different costs for different purposes," this text focuses on strategy and the decision making process. With a tradition of being the market leading text and professional standard, the new edition has ...

The Law of rescission

This new work offers a comprehensive treatment of the law of rescission in England, with reference to the law of Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The authors set out the grounds permitting rescission, such as fraud, misrepresentation, or undue influence, covering the ways that rescission ...

What's wrong with democracy?

from athenian practice to american worship

Fifth-century Athens is praised as the cradle of democracy and sometimes treated as a potential model for modern political theory or practice. In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the United States today, Loren J. Samons provides ample justification for ...

Estatuto del trabajo autónomo

Le ragioni del fisco

etica e giustizia nella tassazione

Nonostante la globalizzazione e la crisi dell'imposta personale, il tributo rappresenta ancora uno dei più importanti strumenti di redistribuzione della ricchezza che gli stati hanno a disposizione. Questo libro si pone in netta contrapposizione con quelle correnti di pensiero liberal-liberiste, molto in voga, secondo ...

Dictionnaire de l'Union européenne

Les questions européennes imprègnent chaque jour davantage l'actualité politique. Pourtant, tenter d'en comprendre les enjeux, c'est bien souvent se heurter à la complexité du fonctionnement institutionnel de l'Union européenne, ainsi qu'à une prolifération de termes techniques et d'acronymes. Le ...

El Derecho a la intimidad genética

Con esta obra, la autora pretende acercar al lector al impacto que puede tener el imparable conocimiento de la información contenida en el ADN de los seres humanos en los derechos fundamentales que tradicionalmente se han venido reconociendo en las Constituciones de los Estados democráticos ...

I Diritti in azione

universalità e pluralismo dei Diritti Fondamentali nelle Corti Europee

Nell'epoca contemporanea nuove esigenze di tutela dei diritti della persona vengono sempre più frequentemente sollevate dai cittadini nelle aule giudiziarie. Tali esigenze nascono essenzialmente da due grandi fenomeni: il multiculturalismo e lo sviluppo scientifico e tecnologico. Le Corti europee, al pari dei giudici nazionali ...

Legal dictionnary

english-spanish/spanish-english

This Dictionary provides over 100,000 entries and over 135,000 equivalents covering all areas of law, plus relevant terms in related spheres of expertise. This is the Dictionary that lawyers, translators, and those working in English and Spanish in law and associated fields have ...

Las redes del imperio

élites sociales en la articulación de la Monarquía Hispánica, 1492-1714

Dir., Bartolomé Yun Casalilla. -- El concepto de élite tiene siempre un sentido de localidad: una élite lo es en relación con un espacio más o menos cerrado que definimos como su área de dominio e influencia. Al mismo tiempo, el concepto de monarquías compuestas enfatiza ...

Choosing between possible lives

Law and ethics of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis

"Legal and Ethical Issues in Prenatal Screening and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis" is the first book to examine in detail the ethical and legal issues about 'choosing' babies.The author is a widely respected scholar. The book will appeal to lawyers and philosophers.Modern advances in ...

Y si habla mal de España...es español

Fernando Sánchez Dragó arremete contra todo y contra todos en este libro, que escribe desde el enfado más monumental. Al autor le ha pasado algo con lo que muchos españoles van a identificarse: está harto de España. Está harto de vivir en un país de ...

Confianza y temor en la ciudad

vivir con extranjeros