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Sobre el olvidado siglo XX

Tony Judt afirma que hemos entrado en una «época de olvido». Hoy, el mundo es tan radicalmente distinto del de hace tan sólo veinte años, que hemos dejado de lado nuestro pasado inmediato incluso antes de haber podido entenderlo. No sabemos, literalmente, de dónde venimos ...

Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII

estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co.

A lo largo del siglo XVII, la ciudad de Alicante se convirtió en el principal enclave mercantil del Levante español. Este libro recoge la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co., una de las compañías inglesas más destacadas de la región. Dicha correspondencia constituye un documento ...

Dioses, héroes y orígenes del mundo

lecturas de mitología

Se reúnen en este libro veinticuatro lecturas sobre mitos que tratan del origen del mundo, de las relaciones entred ioses y hombres, del nacimiento o los avatares de un dios o de grandes héroes. Las lecturas se plantean desde diversos puntos de vista, unas veces ...

The world of Athens

an introduction to Classical Athenian Culture

Classical Athens boasted some of the most original and influential achievements in literature, art, philosophy, medicine and politics. This best-selling book, now issued in a second edition, provides a comprehensive and highly illustrated introduction to its history, society, culture and values aimed at the student ...

El retablo cerámico

devociones populares de Sevilla

Sevilla ha sido un importante centro artístico a lo largo del tiempo. Las labores cerámicas son constantes a la ciudad, tanto en su vertiente culta como en la popular. Y si bien los coleccionistas son incontables, el número de publicaciones sobre este tema sigue siendo ...

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

the dire warning: Churchill´s first speech as Prime Minister

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Europe was in crisis: Three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low Countries. Facing only feeble resistance, Hitler#s armies were rapidly sweeping ...

Empire lost

Britain, the dominions and the Second World War

In September 1939, four of the five dominions took the decision to support Neville Chamberlain's London-based government and declare war on Nazi Germany. This was to be the last great outpouring of British imperial unity. Entering the fray as 'self-autonomous' they finished it as ...

Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers

The United States and her allies have found themselves plunged into #a war over [humanity#s] future social and political organization# with criminal challengers to the nation-state form. These new wars are currently being fought globally with Al Qaeda, in Iraq with shifting coalitions of ...

Kingmakers

the invention of the modern middle east

Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten ...

Jewish property claims against arab countries

In the twenty years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, 800,000 Jews left their homes in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, and several other Arab countries. Although the causes of this exodus varied, restrictive governmental measures and an outburst of anti-Semitic feeling ...

Israël et l´Occident

obscurités et clartés

L'histoire des relations entre Juifs et Chrétiens, entre Israël et l'Occident, a longtemps été envenimée par un "enseignement du mépris" des Juifs. Ce contentieux est maintenant apuré, et un "enseignement de l'estime" se met peu à peu en place. Mais le conflit ...

La participación política como derecho fundamental en la Constitución de España y de Europa

La participación política como derecho fundamental del ciudadano español sustentada en la Constitución de España y en el Tratado por el cual se integra una Constitución para Europa es la contribución al estudio de los derechos políticos que aporta esta obra. Lo que se propone ...

La causalidad como elemento de los tipos penales

INDICE: La causalidad como presupuesto de la responsabilidad. La teoría de la condición. La teoría de la condición y las otras teorías causales. La teoría de la adecuación. Causalidad y participación.

A handbook on accession to WTO

The Handbook provides the first detailed explanation and analysis of the process whereby governments become Members of the WTO. The WTO Agreement, which came into force on 1 January, 1995, provides few details on how this process is to take place. Consequently, the steps in ...

Fundamentos político-criminales del Derecho penal

ÍNDICE: Sentido y límites de la pena estatal. Transformaciones de la teoría de los fines de la pena. ¿Es la protección de bienes jurídicos una finalidad del Derecho penal? La determinación de la pena a la luz de la teoría de los fines de la ...

Building the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity's worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It faces huge obstacles. It has no police force; it pursues investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict ...

Reward governance for senior executives

In areas such as dispute resolution, visibility and investor interest, the relationship between a senior executive employee and his or her employer differs materially from the relationship that most employees have with their employer. Executives are tools which help create shareholder value. A company's ...

GATS and the Regulation of International Trade in services

World Trade Forum

This collection of essays takes stock of the key challenges that have arisen since the entry into force of the General Agreement on Trade in Services in the mid-1990s and situates them in the context of the WTO's Doha Development Agenda and the proliferation ...

Expounding the Constitution

essays in constitutional theory

Ed. Grant Huscroft. What does it mean to interpret the constitution? Does constitutional interpretation involve moral reasoning, or is legal reasoning something different? What does it mean to say that a limit on a right is justified? How does judicial review fit into a democratic ...

Imputación y Teoría del delito

la doctrina kantiana de la imputación y su recepción en el pensamiento jurídico-penal contemporáneo