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El regreso del idiota

Nuestro libro trata de mucha gente, de varios países y de numerosos gobiernos, pero detrás de todos esos elementos siempre hay personas. En esta crónica hemos identificado sólo a siete para abrirle el apetito al lector. No son todos los que están, pero todos ellos ...

Viajeras intrépidas y aventureras

Mujeres intrépidas y aventureras han existido desde los tiempos más remotos, aunque la inmensa mayoría han sido silenciadas y olvidadas por una historia escrita por los hombres. Cuando miramos hacia atrás resulta difícil encontrar testimonios de mujeres viajeras anteriores a los siglos XVII y XIX ...

Merger control Worldwide

Merger Control Worldwide is a comprehensive, multi-contributor collection which sets out the details of every jurisdiction where a mechanism for merger control is in place. A concise, practical account is given of the relevant law in each jurisdiction, presented with the aid of flowcharts and ...

International organisations and peace enforcement

the politics of international legitimacy

What distinguishes a peace enforcement operation from an invasion? This question has been asked with particular vehemence since the US intervention in Iraq, but it faces all military operations seeking to impose peace in countries torn by civil war. This book highlights the critical role ...

Legislative leviathan

party government in the House

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post- World War II era. Re-evaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins view parties in the ...

Democratic politics in the European Parliament

With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures, languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the Parliament to be highly- fragmented and unpredictable. By studying more than 12,000 recorded votes between 1979 and 2004 this book establishes ...

A Common Law theory of judicial review

the living tree

In this study, W. J. Waluchow argues that debates between defenders and critics of constitutional bills of rights presuppose that constitutions are more or less rigid entities. Within such a conception, constitutions aspire to establish stable, fixed points of agreement and pre- commitment, which defenders ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., legal tjeory, and judicial restraint

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered by many to be the most influential American jurist. The voluminous literature devoted to his writings and legal thought, however, is diverse and inconsistent. In this study, Frederic R. Kellogg follows Holmes's intellectual path from his early writings ...

War crimes and just war

War crimes are international crimes committed during armed conflict. Larry May argues that the best way to understand war crimes is as crimes against humaneness rather than as violations of justice. He shows that in a deeply pluralistic world, we need to understand the rules ...

The Vietnam war

One of the most popular titles in the "Seminar Studies" series, "The Vietnam War" examines the conflict from its origins through to 1975 and North Vietnam's victory. This new edition brings the book up to date with current academic debates and includes new source ...

Revisitando las culturas del Siglo de Oro

mentalidades, tradiciones culturales, creaciones paraliterarias y literarias

Before the deluge

public debt, inequality, and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the ...

El fantástico reino del Preste Juan

el secreto de las tres cartas

A partir del año 1165 tres importantes líderes de Occidente reciben sendas cartas procedentes de un reino lejano firmadas por un tal Preste Juan de las Indias. Manuel Comneno, emperador de Bizancio; Federico I Barbarroja, monarca del Sacro Imperio Germánico, y el papa Alejandro III ...

Rulers, guns, and money

the global arms trade in the age of imperialism

The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the 19th century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialised nations subsist by supplying their ...

Democratic accountability

why choice in politics is both possible and necessary

It is common for political leaders to claim they have no control over bad outcomes. Indeed, they often cite the arguments of political theorists and public intellectuals as to why: history rushes onward oblivious of human will; force and violence overcome political aims; globalization undermines ...

Islands of agreement

managing enduring armed rivalries

We are culturally conditioned to think of war and peace in binary terms of strict opposition. Correspondingly, we tend to focus our attention on conflict prevention or conflict resolution. But as "Islands of Agreement" demonstrates, peace and war are seldom polar totalities but increasingly can ...

The age of independence

interracial unions, same-sex unions, and the changing american family

Michael Rosenfeld offers a new theory of family dynamics to account for the interesting and startling changes in marriage and family composition in the United States in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960. This stage is experienced ...

An archaelogical evolution

Stanley South has been a leading figure not only in historical archaeology but also in anthropological archaeology. His work (both past and present) has put him in the forefront of monumental changes in American archaeology in the last 40 years. His personal perseverance in field ...

Multinational federations

This is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism. Multinational federations are federal states intended to provide a framework that can accommodate, manage and resolve some of the most intractable political conflicts of our time ...

Subrogation

Law and practice

Subrogation: Law and Practice provides a clear and accessible account of subrogation, explaining when claimants are entitled to the remedy, how they should formulate their claims, and what practical difficulties they might encounter when attempting to enforce their subrogation rights. Although subrogation is a remedy ...