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La articulación entre el Derecho comunitario y los Derechos nacionales

algunas zonas de fricción

ÍNDICE (RESUMEN).: Las colisiones en el plano normativo. La primacía del derecho comunitario (Jean-Pierre Puissochet, Rafael Mendizábal Allende y Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona). El efecto directo de las directivas: ¿Hacia un reconocimiento del efecto directo horizontal? (Timothy Millett). Un ejemplo de desencuentro: la fiscalidad directa (¿un ...

Sociedad multicultural y Derechos Fundamentales

ÍNDICE (RESUMEN).: Doctrina jurisprudencial sobre las distintas confesiones religiosas y la problemática de la convivencia entre ellas (Andrés Ollero). Counter-terrorist measures, human rights and multiculturalism in the United-Kingdom (Anthony Lester). Medidas antiterroristas, derechos humanos y multiculturalismo en el Reino Unido(Anthony Lester). Multiculturalismo y ciudadanía ...

Symbolic and structural archaeology

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A variety of procedures, ranging from ethnoarchaeological studies and computing techniques to formal studies ...

The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought

This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of political thought from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History covers the rise of the welfare state ...

Statius and Virgil

the Thebaid and the reinterpretation of the Aeneid

At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic 'not to compete with the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and always revere its footprints'. The nature of the Thebaid's interaction with the Aeneid is, however, a matter of debate ...

The wealth of ideas

a history of economic thought

Maimonides on the origin of the world

Although Maimonides' discussion of creation is one of his greatest contributions - he himself claims that belief in creation is second in importance only to belief in God - there is still considerable debate on what that contribution was. Kenneth Seeskin takes a close look at the ...

The Cambridge history of Christianity

eastern christianity

This volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most ...

Moral repair

reconstructing moral relations after wrongdoing

Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic examples of both personal betrayal and political violence ...

European sexualities, 1400-1800

This is a major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Within a frame that includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, it weaves together statistical findings, discussions of changing sexual ideology, and evidence ...

Statius' Thebaid and the poetics of Civil War

This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions ...

Roman manliness

virtus and the Roman Republic

Recent studies of ancient Roman masculinities have concentrated on the private aspects of the subject, particularly sexuality, and have drawn conclusions from a narrow field of reference, usually rhetorical practice. In contrast, this book examines the public and the most important aspect of Roman masculinity ...

An introduction to the theory of knowled

Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is one of the cornerstones of analytic philosophy, and this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the subject. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism, and virtue epistemology. Other topics include ...

Reading Ovid

stories from the Metamorphoses

Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and King Midas. The book is designed for those who ...

Ciudadanos, asociaciones y participación en España

INDICE: Ciudadanos, asociaciones y activistas. Ciudadanos y participación política. Asociaciones y participación. Referencias bibliográficas. Anexos.

Wangari Maathai

la madre de los arboles

Wangari Maathai, ¡premio Nobel de la Paz del continente africano! Esta concesión es más que una manifestación a favor del medio ambiente y de la paz. Es una decisión que da alas al movimiento feminista en África y que honra a esas extraordinarias mujeres que ...

Sobrevivir al desarrollo

de la descolonización del imaginario económico a la construcción de una sociedad alternativa

Social, humano, local, sostenible... Recientemente, el desarrollo se ha revestido de 'trajes nuevos' que satisfacen los criterios de organizaciones internacionales como el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional. Pero la lógica económica sigue siendo la misma, y el modelo de desarrollo sigue conforme a ...

Mao Zedong

a political and intellectual portrait

Revolutionary and ruler, Marxist and nationalist, liberator and despot, Mao Zedong takes a place among the iconic leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Maurice Meisner offers a balanced portrait of the man who defined modern China. From his role as leader of a ...

El buscador de colillas

memorias rescatadas de un niño de la guerra

En estas memorias rescatadas de Césaar de la Lama se recoge la azarosa y apasionante vida de un niño de la guerra que tuvo que buscar colillas en el puerto de santander para sobrevivir durante la Guerra Civil española. Se trata de un documento excepcional ...

Blacks, indians, and spaniards in the Eastern Andes

reclaiming the forgotten in colonial mizque, 1550-1782

Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes examines the little known province of Mizque and its colonial populations from 1550 to 1782. Mizque's sub-puna valleys, lowland plains, and tropical forests boasted multiple desirable ecological zones. It was inhabited by diverse Andean ethnic groups ...