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Diccionario de seudónimos periodísticos españoles del siglo XX

Existen varios diccionario de seudónimos literarios, pero ninguno de seudónimos periodísticos: agencias, diarios, semanarios, revistas, radio, televisión, cine informativo,...solamente del siglo XX. Incluye más de 5000 seudónimos y unos 3500 periodistas y colaboradores.

Diccionario de periódicos diarios españoles del siglo XX

A lo largo del siglo XX nacieron en España 1066 diarios. Alguno de ellos permanecieron más de cien años, otros un año y uno un día. Cada diario que aparece en esta obra va acompañado por la relación de sus directores y a veces con ...

The Battle from Christendom

the council of constance, 1415, and the struggle to unite against Islam

At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Islam invaded Europe from the East and it seemed that Christendom itself was under threat. In an attempt to save Christian world the Emperor Sigismund called the many nations of Europe together for a conference at Constance, beside ...

Prédication et liturgie au Moyen Âge

La justificación penal

balance y perspectivas

La diferenciación entre las causas de justificación y el resto de supuestos de exención de la responsabilidad penal continúa siendo una cuestión de importancia capital. Pese al evidente auge del cuestionamiento del papel de la dogmática y, por consiguiente, de las categorías tradicionales, se sigue ...

The complete anti-federalist

"The Complete Anti-Federalist", first published in 1981, contains an unprecedented collection of all the significant pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters, essays, and speeches that were written in opposition to the Constitution during the ratification debate. Herbert J. Storing's work includes introductions to each entry ...

Spanish politics

Since the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1977 Spain has emerged as one of the worlds most successful new democracies. But what accounts for the remarkable process of democratization in Spain, a country infamous for its long history of civil wars, military coups and ...

Children and their parents

a comparative study of the legal position of children with regard to their international and biological parents in english and dutch Law

This is a book about children and their parents. There are many different kinds of children and at least about as many different kinds of parents. In addition to the many different disciplines that study children and their parents, such as sociology, psychology, child studies ...

The Law and economics of takeovers

an acquirer's perspective

This book studies takeovers from the acquirer's perspective. More precisely, "The Book" focuses on the legal and regulatory treatment of the risks faced by the acquiring company shareholders in takeovers. The identified risks are categorised into two main groups: first, risks generated by managerial ...

Prision state

the challenge of mass incarceration

Since the late 1970s, the prison population in America has shot upward to reach a staggering 1.5 million by the end of 2005. This book takes a broad, critical look at incarceration, the huge social experiment of American society. The authors investigate the causes ...

Constitutionalizing economic globalization

investment rules and democracy's promise

Are foreign investors the privileged citizens of a new constitutional order that guarantees rates of return on investment interests? Schneiderman explores the linkages between a new investment rules regime and state constitutions - between a constitution-like regime for the protection of foreign investment and the constitutional ...

Exploring Law's empire

the jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

Exploring Law's Empire is a collection of essays examining the work of Ronald Dworkin in the philosophy of law and constitutionalism. A group of leading legal theorists develop, defend and critique the major areas of Dworkin's work, including his criticism of legal positivism ...

How judges think

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. When conventional legal materials enable judges to ascertain the true facts of a ...

Understanding privacy

Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually ...

A government ill executed

the decline of the federal service and how to reverse it

The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called "the true test" of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the federal government. Employing ...

Impact assessment in EU lawmaking

Recent constitutional thinking has directed its attention to the profound impact of soft norms on the way legislation is made. This book identifies the European Union's impact assessment regime as a source of these norms. In 2002, the European Commission, later followed by the ...

The political mind or "how to think differently"

What does it mean to 'think differently'? What are the conditions under which original thought can take place and what are the obstacles to it? The ability to create thoughts is what lies at the base of philosophy and political theory and practice. One cannot ...

Article 234 and competition Law

an analysis

It is a truism that almost all the major principles established by the ECJ have been decided in the context of a reference to that court for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 (ex 177) EC. Article 234 facilitates a dialogue between the national courts ...

Public broadcasting and european Law

a comparative examination of public service obligations in six member states

Although EU Member States share a tradition of regulating public broadcasting for the public interest, such regulation has been in decline in recent years. It has been challenged by the emergence of commercial television sworn to the market logic, as well as by satellite services ...

Geographical indications for food products

international legal and regulatory perspectives

Geographical indications (GIs) for food and other names that connote a characteristic or process together with origin fit in with notions of quality, tradition, and support for local producers that are important for the producers, for an increasing number of consumers, and for local development ...