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Questions of anthropology

Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. "Questions of Anthropology" brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns. Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science ...

Building european spatial data infrastructures

This book explores existing European SDIs and the efforts of the European Union to create a framework for a multinational infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) in order to exploit the many opportunities being created by modern geographic information technologies.

Collective enforcement of consumer Law

securing compliance in Europe through private group action and public authority intervention

In the 1970s and 1980s, the consumer rights movement in Europe primarily focussed on improving consumer rights by way of changing the substantive law. Moreover, from the second half of the 1980s onwards, consumer law increasingly became of interest to the European Union. In the ...

The transformation of peace

This book examines the transformation of the discourse and praxis of peace, from its early beginnings in the literature on war and power, to the development of intellectual and theoretical discourses of peace. This is contrasted with the development of practical approaches to peace, including ...

Making spaniards

Primo de Rivera and the nationalization of the masses, 1923-30

The regime of Primo de Rivera in Spain was one of the major dictatorships of the interwar period. "Making Spaniards" examines how the military regime created nationalist doctrine, rituals and symbols and how these were transmitted throughout Spanish society in an attempt to 'make' new ...

Spain transformed

the late Franco dictatorship, 1959-75

"Spain Transformed" addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. Essential to explaining the dictatorship's extraordinary longevity, the strikingly successful transition to democracy following Franco's death in 1975 and the peace and prosperity enjoyed by Spain since then ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 1

Normative perspectives

There is no contesting the ubiquity of the term governance in contemporary social science and public discourse. From a rather innocuous start as a term to describe ways in which corporate firms should be managed, it has come to challenge some of the dominant forms ...

Ourspace

resisting the corporate control of culture

In OurSpace, Christine Harold examines the deployment and limitations of "culture jamming" by activists. These technologies defy repressive culture through parodies, hoaxes, and pranks. Among the examples of sabotage she analyzes are the spoofs of familiar ads in the magazine Adbusters and The Yes Men ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 2

Exploring policy issues

This volume focuses on the role of organised civil society in European public policies. The contributions discuss the role of public-pressure groups and their relations with organised business and institutional actors. They consider the role of interest groups towards providing the EU policy process with ...

New features in contract Law

Economic change, globalisation and harmonisation of European Law have brought new challenges to contract law. The contributions in this Volume by prominent legal scholars deal with current trends and perspectives in European and International Contract Law and their impact on the various domestic legal systems ...

Cinco años de mi vida

Son muchos los historiadores e investigadores que han realizado estudios exhaustivos acerca del famoso affaire Dreyfus y de las repercusiones que este caso ocasionó en toda Europa y en Francia en particular. Con esto quiero decir que sería erróneo contemplar este trabajo como una reiteración ...

Homenaje al profesor Don Fermín Capitán

investigación actual de la Escuela Analítica de Granada

En este libro dedicado al profesor Fermín Capitán le recuerdan y rinden homenaje familia, amigos, alumnos y compañeros de la Facultad; miembros de la comunidad académica y científica, personal de la Universidad de Granada, que tanto se benefició de este aragonés recio y sereno, inteligente ...

Citizenship

discourse, theory, and transnational prospects

A significant addition to the growing body of literature in the field, this wide-ranging overview explores the important role of citizenship in the world 's liberal democracies and how it is evolving. Long a neglected topic in the social sciences, citizenship is now at the ...

La cadera de Eva

el protagonismo de la mujer en la evolución de la especie humana

Los más modernos descubrimientos científicos sobre el origen y la evolución de la especie humana coinciden con el relato bíblico al señalar que fue un hueso el que tuvo la mayor responsabilidad a la hora de convertirnos en lo que hoy somos. Pero la ciencia ...

Las montañas de los faraones

la verdadera historia de los constructores de pirámides

La grandes pirámides han intrigado a la humanidad durante miles de años. ¿Cómo se construyeron? ¿Por qué? Estas preguntas ya se planteaban durante el período medio de la antigua civilización egipcia, pero sólo las más recientes investigaciones han logrado responderlas. En este libro, Hawass, guardián ...

The Declaration of Independence

In 1776 Thomas Jefferson, a future president authored the most explosive document in the history of America: "The Declaration of Independence", formally severing the link between America and the British state. Michael Hardt, co-author of the groundbreaking "Empire and Multitude", examines this and other texts ...

Reading Freud

psychoanalysis as cultural theory

Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to that Freud and brings together for the first time: an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader to ...

Politics and practice in economic geography

How do geographers do economic geography? This is the first sustained discussion of methodological issues in economic geography in the last twenty years. It comprises: an extended discussion of qualitative and ethnographic methods; an assessment of quantitative and numerical methods; an examination of post-structuralist and ...

Law, rights and discourse

the legal philosophy of Robert Alexy

A philosophical system is not what one would expect to find in the work of a contemporary legal thinker. Robert Alexy's work counts as a striking exception. Over the past 28 years, Alexy has been developing, with remarkable clarity and consistency, a systematic philosophy ...

Our knowledge of the Law

objectivity and practice in legal theory

In the long-standing debate between positivism and non-positivism, legal validity has always been a subject of controversy. While positivists deny that moral values play any role in the determination of legal validity, non-positivists affirm the opposite thesis. In departing from this narrow point of view ...