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Irene de Grecia

la princesa rebelde

Este nuevo libro ha estado gestándose más de tres años, sin duda es un cambio de registro, pero no mi primera biografía, ya que la primera fue precisamente la escrita a su hermana la Reina con motivo de su cincuenta cumpleaños y se editó en ...

Nosotras que contamos

mujeres periodistas en España

La historia de las mujeres periodistas en España, contada por ellas mismas. Inés García-Albi, colaboradora habitual en El País, entrevistó a más de 50 profesionales para la elaboración de esta obra. Se trata del libro más completo y riguroso sobre el mundo del periodismo femenino ...

Napoleon's wars

an international history, 1803-1815

No other soldier has provoked as much anger or as much fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military adventure - or was he a social and political visionary, brought down by petty reactionaries clinging to their ...

La reforma de la Seguridad Social

(el acuerdo de 13 de julio de 2006 y su ulterior desarrollo normativo)

INDICE: Considereaciones sobre las medidas de reforma de la Seguridad Social del acuerdo de 13 de julio de 2006. Reformas en la estructura del Sistema de la Seguridad Social. Cotización por contingencias profesionales. EL nuevo régminen de la protección por nacimiento de hijo, adopción y ...

Las prestaciones familiares de la Seguridad Social

En la presente monografía se analizan las consideradas por el legislador como "prestaciones familiares", tanto en su modalidad contributiva-considereación como tiempo cotozado de determinados períodos de excedencia por cuidado de hijos y otros familiares-como no contributiva, a través de asignaciones económicas directas que acogen tres ...

El Derecho penal frente a la inseguridad global

INDICE: Globalización y justicia penal universal: paralelismos. El principio de justicia universal y los conflictos positivos de concurrencia de jurisdicciones nacionales y supranacionales. El paradigma de la seguridad en la globalización: guerra, enemigos y orden penal. El #derecho penal del enemigo# darf nicht sein! Sobre ...

Local politics

a resource for democracy in western Europe: local autonomy, local integrative, capacity, and citizens' attitudes toward politics

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe examines the relationship between local institutional design and citizens' attitudes toward democracy. Translated by Angelika Vetter, this book is a unique contribution to traditional political culture research, which has focused primarily on national politics. As the ...

The vital partnership

power and order: America and Europe beyond Iraq

"The Vital Partnership" is a political, historical, and intellectual assessment of the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Europe that is, according to Simon Serfaty, clearly at a crossroads. Serfaty calls on the Bush administration to work with the Europeans to craft a new ...

Historiography

an introduction

This book appeals to a growing market for texts on this increasingly popular subject. It discusses the very nature of Historiography and its relationship to wider social and political developments. It provides a useful companion to the texts on the list that address specific areas ...

The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe

festschrift for Anthony Luttrell

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday in October 2007, twenty-three colleagues from ten different countries have ...

Hedge fund risk fundamentals

solving the risk management and transparency challenge

In the constantly evolving hedge fund marketplace, nothing is more central?but in many ways, more amorphous and elusive?than risk. Yet there remains no standard for analyzing and measuring risk within this highly secretive, largely unregulated field, leaving the thousands of hedge funds?and ...

The dynamics of israeli-palestinian relations

theory, history, and cases

This book looks at Israeli-Palestinian relations through three different conceptual lenses, corresponding to three levels of analysis such as: the individual decision-maker, domestic politics, and the international system. It examines key choices made by Israelis and Palestinians regarding three central issues such as: the 1947 ...

Balística

manual. Peritajes balísticos. Metodologías

INDICE: Peritajes balisticos. Metodologias. Metodologia del trabajo. Balistica exterior. Balistica de efectos. El funcionamiento de las armas y su aptitud para el disparo. Idoneidad de la municion. Determinacion del calibre. Identificacion balistica. Huellas de efraccion. Armas blancas. Poligonos de tiro. Peritaciones sobre sonido. Componentes del ...

Los economistas de la "Escuela de Madrid"

Los Economistas de la Escuela de Madrid analiza el nacimiento de ese importante grupo de economistas, sus instrumentos de análisis, sus publicaciones y, sobre todo, su papel en las grandes operaciones de cambio de la realidad económica española. Y es que dicha escuela participó en ...

Crusader warfare. Vol. II.

Muslims, monglos and the struggle against the Crusades, 1050- 1300 AD

This second volume of "Crusader Warfare" focuses on those non-Christian cultures which were most directly involved in the Crusades. Centering on the Islamic world, the Mongol "World Empire", its fragmented successor states and certain other non-Christian cultures David Nicolle presents many fascinating aspects of warfare ...

Tolerance and the ethical life

In a fresh and exciting way, this new book shows how tolerance connects with the practice of philosophy. Andrew Fiala examines the virtue of tolerance as it appears in several historical contexts: Socratic philosophy, Stoic philosophy, Pragmatism, and Existentialism. The lesson derived is that tolerance ...

The legacy of John Rawls

John Rawls was unquestionably the most important moral and political philosopher of the last one hundred years. His "A Theory of Justice" published in 1971 is already a classic text, and his political philosophy is more widely studied than that of any other theorist. Interest ...

Kinship in Europe

approaches to long-term development (1300-1900)

Since the publication of Philippe Aries' book, "Centuries of Childhood", in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions ...

The modern State

theories and ideologies

This broad ranging book covers the liberal democratic state and other, non-democratic state formations and offers chapters on each of the core theories of the modern state. Each chapter is structured in the same way to allow for ease of cross-referencing and for comparisons to ...

The new economic diplomacy

decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations

"The New Economic Diplomacy" explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically; how they negotiate internationally; and how these processes interact. It documents the transformation of economic diplomacy in the 1990s and early 2000s in response ...