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The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster

describing the world in the Reformation

Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia" was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. First published in 1544, it went through thirty-five editions and was published ...

The Euro and the dollar in a globalized economy

The dollar has been the dominant currency of the world economy for almost a century; since 2002, the euro has gained widespread international acceptance resulting in important institutional, economic and financial changes both for the euro zone, the United States and the world economies, affecting ...

Political finance and corruption in Eastern Europe

the transition period

This volume is a thorough and well structured study of political finance, election campaign and party funding issues in Central and Eastern Europe. These democracies are all in transition and the absence of the stability of accountability and transparency in practices of political party financing ...

Global perspectives on E-commerce taxation Law

In its most advanced form, e-commerce allows unidentified purchasers to pay obscure vendors in "electronic cash" for products that are often goods, services and licenses all rolled into one. This book considers the implications for the domestic and international tax systems of the growth of ...

The Cambridge companion to Hobbes's Leviathan

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and ...

The early mediterranean village

agency, material culture, and social change in neolithic Italy

What was daily life like in Italy between 6000 and 3500 BC? In this book, John Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy and surrounding regions (Sicily and Malta). Exploring how the routines of daily ...

La duda razonable en la prueba penal

(con especial referencia a Puerto Rico)

La presunción de inocencia constituye uno de los pilares de nuestro sistema procesal penal. Como en principio, su efecto en el procesamiento criminal sería insconsecuente en ausencia de una norma sobre suficincia probatoria que dirija al juzgador de hechos en la toma de decisiones sobre ...

Nulidad y disolución del matrimonio

(actas de la I y II Jornadas de Derecho matrimonial conónico de la Universidad de Huelva)

Flora

the Erbario Miniato and other drawings

Treatments for a serpent bite, cracks between fingers and a fall from a height are among the hundreds of natural remedies found in this remarkable collection of early botanical drawings. The Erbario Miniato, an early 17th-century herbal, and the drawings from a companion volume (now ...

Averroes et les averroïsmes juif et latin

actes du Colloque International (Paris, 16-18 juin 2005)

Autant que sa légende, qui traverse, hante ou fascine plusieurs histoires, l'oeuvre d'Abu al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Rusd (1126-1198) est d'une singulière richesse.

Comedias

Tomo II

Los autores del Siglo de Oro escribían para ser representados y cobrar por ello, pero también velaban por su fama cuando se decidían a publicar sus comedias. Aunque en estos años Calderón ya es un autor reconocido, era el momento de asentarse definitivamente en la ...

Borrador PGC

recorrido guiado por expertos

El libro persigue relacionar internamente cuanto en el propio Borrador del Plan se establece, de manera que en una determinada cuenta o en un específico epígrafe de la memoria, sea normal o abreviada, se encuentre el texto o referencia que afecta a la misma en ...

Formularios de sucesiones, capacidad y filiación

Completísima recopilación de escritos procesales y sustantivos sobre sucesiones, capacidad y filiación,, presentada en un doble soporte, papel y CD-Rom. Junto a los modelos se recogen, perfectamente ordenadas y sistematizadas, las notas sobre el empleo práctico de los formularios, los extractos jurisprudenciales que les sirven ...

The early modern ottomans

remapping the Empire

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of the middle years of the Ottoman Empire, from the conquest of Byzantium in 1453 to the establishment of the Tanzimat in 1839. This period saw the evolution of the Empire from the height of its powers to- as the traditional view ...

Formularios de separación, nulidad y divorcio

Completísima recopilación de escritos procesales y sustantivos relacionados con la disolución del vínculo matrimonial, separación, nulidad y divorcio, presentada en un doble soporte, papel y CD-Rom. Junto a los modelos se recogen, perfectamente ordenadas y sistematizadas, las notas sobre el empleo práctico de los formularios ...

La morosidad en el pago de las comunidades de propietarios

una investigación jurisprudencial, doctrinal y atinente a la resulución por árbitros de la demora en las obligaciones de pago contraídas con las comunidades de propietarios

From movements to parties in Latin America

the evolution of ethnic politics

Provides a detailed treatment of an important topic that has received no scholarly attention: the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples' movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and their failure to succeed in two others ...

Seguros y riesgos ambientales

un análisis comparativo del papel de los seguros en la gestión de los riesgos relacionados con el medio ambiente

Desde la creciente incidencia de la contaminación ambiental y la contaminación del suelo hasta las catástrofes naturales, los riesgos producidos por la constante interacción entre las actividades humanas y el medio ambiente son diversos, numerosos y, a menudo con consecuencias catastróficas. Por lo tanto, la ...

The byzantine economy

A concise study of the economy of the Byzantine Empire, a state that lasted from the fourth century AD until 1453. Organised chronologically, the authors address key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the ...

Multiculturalism and political theory

Political philosophy's engagement with issues of cultural diversity has become increasingly central to the field in the past twenty years. It has also been the subject of fierce debate. This volume offers a state of the art overview of the current debates and a ...