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Manual de disciplina urbanística de la Comunidad de Castilla y León

El manual analiza las licencias urbanísticas mediante las cuales los Ayuntamientos realizan un control preventivo sobre los actos de uso del suelo para verificar su conformidad con la normativa urbanística. Será preciso analizar los actos sujetos a licencia urbanística, así como los no sujetos a ...

Aspectos victimológicos e investigación de los delitos de odio cometidos a través de internet

La comisión de los delitos de odio a través de Internet ha logrado tener su propio espacio en esta sociedad cada vez más globalizada lo que conduce al planteamiento de un auténtico desafío para los operadores jurídicos. Desde una perspectiva victimológica, es crucial comprender el ...

Unión Europea, o La materia, forma y poder de una organización internacional

La Unión Europea demuestra en su evolución la capacidad de trascender desde postulados ex­clusivamente intemacionalistas a, otros, de naturaleza constitucional, lo que tradicionalmente ha motivado su estudio academicista sectorizado a través de una, u otra, disciplina. Este trabajo proyecta una visión jurídica de la ...

Veteranos en EE.UU.

legislación e integración en la década de 1940

Este libro presenta material inédito que ha permitido analizar las principales medidas legislativas aprobadas en el Congreso de los Estados Unidos para favorecer la integración de los veteranos de guerra estadounidenses a partir de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. ¿Qué actitud debía adoptar el gobierno de ...

El idiota

Ensayo sobre cualquiera y, a ratos, sobre arte

El idiota lo estropea todo. Su sola presencia da cuenta de una existencia hereje. El idiota, siendo un cualquiera impersonal, se conserva ajeno a aquellas formas simbólicas que pretendían acotar el modo de ser en el mundo. El idiota, entregado a su estar-ahí, es ante ...

Un mundo como ejemplo

¿Qué similitudes comparten la tortura, el juego y el amor? Que después de experimentarlos, ya no se puede volver atrás. Valiéndose de la analogía como hilo conductor en este ensayo se vinculan estas y otras experiencias como son la relación del sexo y lo sagrado ...

El Titanic

Joseph Conrad fue marino antes que escritor. El mar recorrió su obra y le imprimió carácter. Cuando el 15 de abril de 1912 el Titanic se hundió en poco más de dos horas, el hombre de mar y gran moralista que fue Conrad no pudo ...

Archimedes

fulcrum of science

A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist. Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse-an engineer who single-handedly defied the world's most powerful army and a mathematician who knew more in 212 BCE than ...

The Assyrians

lost civilizations

An accessible guide to the history of the Assyrian empire from the perspective of its powerful elites. At the height of its power near 660 BC, the Assyrian empire, centered in northern Iraq, wielded dominance from Egypt to Iran. This vast region was ruled by ...

The Medieval Scriptorium

Making Books in the Middle Ages

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insight into both the early history of the book and life in the Middle Ages. This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each ...

The Phoenicians

Lost Civilizations

Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians. The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage, and the scope of their ...

Merpeople

A Human History

A wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and mermen from the classics to cosplay. People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer's Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and the film Splash, myths ...

Plunder?

How Museums Got Their Treasures

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums' treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. The account reexamines ...

The Art of Medieval Falconry

A beautifully illustrated tour of the visual culture of medieval falconry in Europe and beyond. Medieval falconry was not just about hunting; the practice also signified sovereignty, power, and diplomacy. In The Art of Medieval Falconry, Yannis Hadjinicolaou describes the visual culture that sprang up ...

The Troubadours

An engaging and accessible introduction to the music, poetry, and lives of the medieval singer-songwriters. Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from powerful nobles to penniless minstrels. This book delves into the everyday worlds ...

A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves. To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artifacts over the course of many millennia-and also one that ...

Marco Polo and his world

A lavishly illustrated tour of the famed adventurer's globetrotting travels, written by a celebrated translator of Polo's writings. At the age of seventeen, Marco Polo left his Venetian home on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter century. Imprisoned in Genoa ...

Plato

a civic life

A new reading of Plato's philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens. Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Born during ...

'A seditious and sinister tribe'

the Crimean Tatars and their khanate

With implications for the war in Ukraine, a surprising history of the Crimean Tatars from the fifteenth century to the present day. The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until ...

En el centenario del profesor Manuel Alonso Olea

El 19 de junio de 2024 se cumplen 100 años del nacimiento del maestro Alonso Olea en Melilla. La Junta Directiva de la Asociación Española de Derecho del Trabajo y su presidenta, la profesora María Emilia Casas Baamonde, han querido rendir homenaje, con los recuerdos ...