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Converting rulers

global patterns, 1450-1850

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and political authority based on a distinction between two kinds ...

Creating partisans

the organizational roots of new parties in Latin America

Why are some new political parties successful at creating mass partisanship and engendering stable electoral support, while most fail to take root in society and disappear quickly? Creating Partisans unveils the secrets behind successful political parties, taking a deep dive into the formation and success ...

Nations before the nation-state

between city-state and empire from antiquity to the present

Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thinkers understood nations as communities defined by common language, culture, and descent, and sharing strong bonds of belonging and solidarity. Even so, they did not assume that nations would also be appropriate units of government. The recovery of this ...

Refining the common good

oil, Islam and politics in Gulf monarchies

How has Islam as a set of beliefs and practices shaped the allocation of oil revenues in Arab Gulf monarchies? In turn, how has oil wealth impacted the role of Islamic doctrine in politics? Refining the Common Good explores the relationship between Islamic norms and ...

The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek epic

Ancient Greek literature begins with the epic verses of Homer. Epic then continued as a fundamental literary form throughout antiquity and the influence of the poems produced extends beyond antiquity and down to the present. This Companion presents a fresh and boundary-breaking account of the ...

El pensamiento europeo de Descartes a Kant

El pensamiento pensante, el pensamiento despensado y el pensamiento pensado, son las partes en que el autor ha dividido su ensayo para analizar las corrientes de Malebranche, Leibiniz, Spinoza, Rousseau, Huet, Hobbes, Regiua y otros que conformaron la filosofía europea clásica.

Los muchos rostros de la Ciencia

Tema recurrente en la actualidad es la brecha que se ha abierto entre ciencia y humanismo. Se discute con frecuencia si la ciencia forma o no parte de la cultura. Antonio Fernández-Rañada afirma en este libro que la ciencia es multidimensional, que tiene muchos rostros ...

Paraíso inhabitado

La esperada nueva novela de Ana María Matute.«Nací cuando mis padres ya no se querían», recuerda Adriana, mucho después de que todo haya sucedido. Por ello, la niña se crea un paraíso propio, poblado por amigos imaginarios y una familia de su elección. «Uno ...

Isla Desolación

Tras cierto tiempo en tierra, durante el cual han sufrido diversas penalidades, el capitán Jack Aubrey y el doctor Stephen Maturin reciben un nuevo encargo: rescatar al gobernador Bligh, tristemente famoso por el motín de La Bounty. Embarcados en el Leopard, navegan rumbo a Australia ...

Financial valuation

applications and models

A comprehensive guide to the theory and application of valuation, along with useful models, tools, and tips for analysts Financial Valuation: Applications and Models provides authoritative reference and practical guidance on the appropriate, defensible way to prepare and present business valuations. With contributions by 30 ...

Liber amicorum del profesor Antonio María Lorca Navarrete

Estudios de derecho procesal España-Caribe-América

Cuando en junio del año 2024 la Universidad Autónoma del Perú, a través de su Facultad de Derecho, organizó el I. CONGRESO IBEROAMERICANO DE DERECHO PROCESAL en homenaje al Prof. Dr. Antonio María Lorca Navarrete, fue la ocasión oportuna para proceder a la publicación de ...

Padua

ciudad materna

El poeta Valeri se sumergió en sus recuerdos para homenajear con estas hermosas memorias de Padua a la ciudad de su infancia y juventud, de juegos y estudios, de primeros amores e ilusiones. ¿Toda Padua? Aquí aparecen las voces de vendedores y vendedoras ambulantes ofreciendo ...

Banking as a service

opportunities, challenges and risks of new banking business models

This book provides a comprehensive look at banking-as-a-service (Baas), equipping readers with an understanding of the origins, evolution, future and applications of BaaS and the key differences across global markets. BaaS is a game changer in the financial services sector, radically transforming both how consumers ...

No democracy lasts forever

how the Constitution threatens the United States

Deeply troubled by the US Constitution's inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that the nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now facing American democracy. Pointing out that just fifteen of the ...

Family law reform now

proposals and critique

This collection provides a snapshot of big ideas in family law reform. The book asks: if you could change one part of family law, what would it be? This deceptively simple question is answered by 10 family law experts and debated within the volume by ...

Offshore

stealth wealth and the new colonialism

This engrossing deep dive exposes how the shadowy global system of offshore finance fuels economic crises and austerity while also undermining democracy and the rule of law. Sociologist Brooke Harrington trained as an offshore wealth manager then spent years immersed in tax havens around the ...

The algorithm

how AI can hijack your career and steal your future

Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world practices, journalist Hilke Schellmann reveals the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, she ...

Floor rules

insider culture in financial markets

A compelling account of how markets really govern themselves, and why they often baffle and outrage outsiders One of the reasons many people believe financial markets are lawless and irrational-and rigged-is that they follow two sets of rules. The official rules, set by law or ...

The national security constitution in the twenty-first century

A deeply researched, fully updated edition of The National Security Constitution that explores the growing imbalance of institutional powers in American foreign affairs and national security policy Since the beginning of the American Republic, a package of norms has evolved in the U.S. Constitution ...

Making democracy count

how mathematics improves voting, electoral maps, and representation

How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least ...