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Kierkegaard´s ethic of love

divine commands and moral obligations

C. Stephen Evans explains and defends Kierkegaard's account of moral obligations as rooted in God's commands, the fundamental command being `You shall love your neighbour as yourself'. The work will be of interest not only to those interested in Kierkegaard, but also to ...

Battlefield

decisive conflicts in history

Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, Gettysburg, Isandlwana, the Somme, Stalingrad -Battlefield tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Second Gulf ...

Honeyball and Bowers' textbook on labour Law

"Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Labour Law" covers all the essential areas of employment and labour law. The text explores both the practical aspects of labour law and the theoretical issues, as well as considering future developments in this fast moving area of law. The ...

The civil sphere

How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, "The Civil Sphere", addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others - the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self- interest ...

Gendarmerie nationale

les soldats de la loi

Le citoyen attend du gendarme une présence pour l'accueillir, le protéger ou le secourir. Cette présence permanente s'appuie sur l'engagement quotidien et résolu d'hommes et de femmes, répartis sur l'ensemble du territoire national et à l'étranger. Leur action d ...

The new inquisitions

heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism

The only book of its kind, "The New Inquisitions" is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Arthur Versluis unveils the connections between heretic hunting in the early and medieval Christianity, and the emergence of totalitarianism in the twentieth century. He shows how ...

The Oxford handbook of public policy

"The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science" is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...

The global debate over constitutional property

lessons for american takings jurisprudence

Countries around the world are heatedly debating whether property should be a constitutional right. But American lawyers have largely ignored this debate, which is divided into two clear camps: those who believe making property a constitutional right undermines democracy by fostering inequality, and those who ...

Tributación de los beneficios empresariales

Los mejores expertos aclaran todas sus dudas ante la complejidad del Impuesto sobre Sociedades en sus situaciones más controvertidas: precios de transferencia, entidades cooperativas, sociedades patrimoniales, política contable de la UE,... Recoge una variada selección de las más recientes Monografías Carta Tributaria, actualizadas en sus ...

The international Law of responsability for economic crimes

holding state officials individually liable for acts fraudulent enrichment

Focusing on the problem of indigenous spoliation in developing countries, this work explores the controversial issue of spoliation by national officials of the wealth of the states of which they are custodians. Due to constraints of the state system and the lack of appropriate substantive ...

European plant intellectual property

This authoritative new work analyses European plant intellectual property rights. Whilst the focus of the work is on Europe, and in particular the European Patent Convention, the Council Regulation on Community Plant Variety Rights and the EU Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions ...

La protección penal de la marca en el Derecho español

INDICE: Abreviaturas. Prólogo. Nota preliminar. Agradecimientos. Introducción. I. Estudio del fenómeno criminal. En especial, el impacto social y económico del delito de falsificación de marcas. II. Marco económico y jurídico del Derecho de marcas. III. Protección penal de la marca en el Código Penal de ...

Liberalismo y estatismo en el Siglo de Oro español

un estudio comparado del pensamiento económico de Juan de Mariana y Sancho de Moncada

Esta obra realiza un estudio de las obras de Juan de Mariana y de Sancho de Moncada con objeto de ver en qué medida sus trabajos pueden proporcionar argumentos que pudieran explicar la ruptura que se va a producir en el pensamiento económico castellano a ...

Raíces intelectuales del pensamiento económico moderno

Una sorprendente peculiaridad de la teoría económica a lo largo del tiempo es la confrontación permanente de tres grandes escuelas de pensamiento: la neoclásica, la keynesiana y la austriaca. Sin embargo, la historia del pensamiento económico no ha proporcionado aún una metodología que permita analizar ...

Preservation management

for libraries, archives and museums

Memory institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries and museums all share pressing concerns about preserving heritage, whether in the form of material and documentary cultural artefacts in collections, or in the form of new digitally born material. Recent incidents of natural disaster and cultural genocide ...

Genetically modified food

a short guide for the confused

This is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to know more about GM crops - what they are, how many countries already use them, and why they're a problem. Written by a leading campaigner for GM Watch, one of the world's leading anti-GM ...

Blundering to glory

Napoleon's military campaigns

Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now, in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its portrayal of one of the world's great generals as a ...

The Jesuits.T.II: Cultures, sciences and the arts, 1540-1773

Recent years have seen scholars re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a major international conference was convened to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773. This meeting led to the creation of the first volume in this series ...

El papel de la negociación colectiva en la regulación de la contratación temporal

Este estudio, que tiene como objetivo analizar el papel de la negociación colectiva en la regulación de la contratación temporal, centra su investigación en el análisis de los contenidos de una amplia muestra de convenios colectivos de sectores y empresas con elevados niveles de empleo ...

Lope pintado por sí mismo

mito e imagen del autor en la poesís de Lope de Vega Carpio

La obra poética de Lope de Vega se diferencia del resto de la producción del Siglo de Oro por una insistente singularidad: escenas y figuras de la vida del autor aparecen frecuentemente en sus poemas. La crítica y el público general ha respondido a esta ...