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War crimes and international armed conflicts

Does international law make individuals responsible for perpetrating war crimes during internal armed conflicts? Eve La Haye explores the content of international criminal law applicable in such conflicts and questions the 1995 finding of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former ...

Libertad de conciencia, neutralidad del Estado y principio de laicidad

(un estudio constitucional comparado)

INDICE: La libertad de conciencia: sustrato ontológico de las libertades ideológica y religiosa. La doble dimensión de la libertad de conciencia. La libertad de conciencia individual como fundamento de una "conciencia colectiva libre". El principio de laicidad y la libertad de conciencia religiosa: un binomio ...

La limitación de responsabilidad por créditos marítimos

INDICE:I. Introducción a la limitación de la responsabilidad civil derivada de reclamaciones de derecho marítimo. II. La unificación internacional en materia de limitación global de responsabilidad. III. El régimen de la limitación global de la responsabilidad en el LLMC/76/96. IV. La actuación ...

Mis páginas preferidas

temas literarios/temas lingüísticos e históricos

He aquí recogidos algunos de los mejores y más apasionantes estudios de don Ramón Menéndez Pidal tal y como el los distribuyó en dos volúmenes (Temas literarios y Temas lingüísticos e históricos). Presentes están, cómo no, sus grandes predilecciones: épica, crónicas, romancero (tres joyas de ...

Poesía española

ensayo de métodos y límites estilísticos

Dámaso Alonso define las obras literarias como producciones que nacieron de una intuición determinada y que son capaces de suscitar en el lector otra intuición semejante a la que originó la obra, no teniendo que coincidir necesariamente, pues importa tanto lo que un escritor quiso ...

Amor y Ley en Cervantes

La consolidación de la ley y el desarrollo del discurso legal durante el Siglo de Oro español no sólo hicieron que España se convirtiera en el primer Estado moderno, sino que también influyó en su literatura. En este fascinante libro, Roberto González Echevarría estudia las ...

The Magna Carta Manifesto

liberties and commons for all

This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are being abridged. In providing a ...

Experimenting with dynamic macromodels

growth and cycles

This book presents a macroeconomic dynamic model A la Solow-Swan, including the market for labour, in a discrete time structure. Labour supply is modelled as a reversed S curve (derived in the appendix). The models is expanded to include expenditure on R&D (thus endogenous ...

Cuentos completos

Cartelera teatral madrileña del siglo XVIII (1708-1808)

Inevitable aging?

contributions to evolutionary-demographic theory

Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely to us that other forms of life could escape aging. Escaping aging is not escaping death. Death is an inherent part of life, and ...

Pricing interest-rate derivatives

a fourier-transform based approach

This book provides a modular pricing framework which allows the valuation of interestrate derivatives in a general jump-diffusion setup. Starting with a comparison of three Fourier-style pricing methodologies, the book covers the derivation of Fourier-transform based solutions for different interest-rate derivatives by using contour integration ...

Mathematical and statistical methods in insurance and finance

The interaction between mathematicians and statisticians reveals to be an effective approach to the analysis of insurance and financial problems, in particular in an operative perspective. The Maf2006 conference, held at the University of Salerno in 2006, had precisely this purpose and the collection here ...

Bond Portfolio optimization

The book analyzes how modern portfolio theory and dynamic term structure models can be applied to government bond portfolio optimization problems. The author studies the necessary adjustments, examines the models with regard to the plausibility of their results and compares the outcomes to portfolio selection ...

Evolution of non-expected utility preferences

The theory on the evolution of preferences deals with the endogenous formation of preference relations in strategic situations. It is related to the field of evolutionary game theory. Models are based on the 'indirect evolutionary approach' according to which preferences determine choice behavior which in ...

La simiente enterrada

un viaje a China

Rescatar las lecciones sabias del pasado, superar las sacudidas terribles de las ideologías, dar con la simiente enterrada, es el verdadero viaje de este libro que busca el renacimiento del hombre en un mundo extremadamente materialista y deshumanizado que parece perseguir su agotamiento. En La ...

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así escribió James Boswell Vida de Samuel Johnson

Adam Sisman nos propone una crónica innovadora e íntima del modo en que se confeccionó ese libro, siendo a la sazón una biografía de la biografía de Johnson que escribió Boswell. Revela los métodos literarios de Boswell, sus flaquezas personales y la amplia y variada ...

Sobre Vida y destino

Reúne escritos de Tzvetan Todorov, Efim Etkind y del propio Vasili Grossman que contribuyen a desvelar la historia de la novela cuya calidad humana y literaria ha cautivado a miles de lectores y nos acercan a la aciaga biografía de su autor.

Economics and the environment

In its fifth edition, "Economics and the Environment" provides a rigorous and comprehensive presentation of the "standard analysis," including the property-rights basis of environmental problems, efficient pollution control, benefit-estimation procedures, and incentive based procedures. Broader topics such as the ethical foundations of environmental economics, an ...

What's wrong with the European Union and how to fix it

The European Union seems incapable of undertaking economic reforms and defining its place in the world. Public apathy towards the EU is also increasing, as citizens feel isolated from the institutions in Brussels and see no way to influence European level decisions. Taking a diagnosis ...