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The absent-minded imperialists

empire, society, and culture in Britain

The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for example, on ...

Next economic growth

new factors and new perspectives

Considering the new possibilities offered by endogenous growth models and the improvement of data information, new variables have been introduced in the analysis of economic growth. But in spite of this important effort to develop a wider and more complete perspective of economic growth process ...

The Oxford handbook of pensions and retirement income

"The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income" is the only comprehensive review available of the latest research, policy-related tools, analytical methods and techniques, and major theoretical frameworks and principles of pension and retirement income. Featuring over forty contributions from leading academic and professional experts ...

Changing property of properties

As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations ...

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Aviation Law

cases, laws and related sources

In our post-9/11 world, the laws of aviation are under intense scrutiny. From torts law and victim compensation to passenger screening, pilots with guns, and international aviation agreements, the practice of aviation law is burgeoning The book, AVIATION LAWS: Cases, Laws, and Related Sources ...

Régimen disciplinario de los funcionarios

jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo

Partiendo de un estudio minucioso de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo, se ponen de manifiesto las conductas, tanto de los funcionarios del Estado como de las CCAA., constitutivas de faltas muy graves, graves y leves. Se determinan las sanciones aplicables a las distintas faltas así ...

The rise of the Amsterdam market and information exchange

merchants, commercial expansion and change in the spatial economy of the low countries, c. 1550-1630

Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and ...

Domestic violence

Law and practice

Domestic Violence: Law and Practice is a comprehensive practitioner's guide to dealing with cases involving personal protection, harassment and domestic violence. This new edition has been thoroughly revised. It takes account of recent caselaw and provides analysis of all the important developments.

The chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the crusading period from al-Kamil fi'l-ta'rikh

Part.1: The years 491-541/1097-1146. The coming of the Franks and the muslim response

The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160 - 1233AD), entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources ...

Libraries without walls 6

evaluating the distributed delivery of library services

This edited collection is drawn from the sixth Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2005. From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries Without Walls conferences have mapped a major change in the practice of librarianship. While library services are still concerned to provide users with ...

The protection of diplomatic personnel

The recent emergence of many new states and the creation of a large number of international institutions have resulted in considerable growth in the number of persons having diplomatic status. However, an unfortunate side-effect of this growth has been a corresponding increase in the number ...

Archiving websites

a practical guide for information management professionals

The world wide web is arguably the most important, and certainly the largest and most ubiquitous, cultural and commercial information resource in existence. The requirements to actively preserve selected parts of it, and the attendant problems of archiving such a vast and ephemeral entity, are ...

Environmental taxation in practice

Since the 1980's, market-based instruments for environmental policy have become increasingly important. Focusing on environmental taxation in practice, this volume collects key contributions on a wide range of topics, including comparisons of environmental taxation schemes in different countries, political economy issues and key aspects ...

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Héroes, científicos, heterosexuales y gays

los varones en perspectiva de género

La masculinidad es como una cebolla: no hay nada debajo y hace llorar. Pese a que ejercer de macho mata, la masculinidad es frágil porque implica un estatus adquirido que puede perderse con facilidad. Por eso los hombres arriesgan tanto para probar todo el tiempo ...

El islamismo en tiempos de al-Qaida

La llamada «guerra global» contra el terrorismo tiene un objetivo (ideológico y político) esencial: el islamismo. Tomando la parte por el todo, se considera a este movimiento #complejo, multiforme, lleno de tendencias a veces muy enfrentadas entre ellas# el enemigo principal de Occidente, en cuanto ...

Mito y política en la historiografía del Próximo Oriente antiguo

En este libro se reúne una selección de ensayos que a lo largo de los años setenta y ochenta dedicó el autor a la historiografía del Próximo Oriente antiguo. La mayoría de ellos son reconstrucciones históricas basadas en antiguos mitos y leyendas. Todos son investigaciones ...

El principio de conservación de la empresa en la Ley concursal

La finalidad del nuevo procedimiento concursal es la satisfacción de los acreedores, pero sin que por ello la Ley Concursal sea ajena a las ventajas que tanto para los acreedores como para el resto de intereses afectados por la crisis pueden derivarse de la conservación ...

Acción ejecutiva de consumidores y usuarios

el art. 519 LECiv

Una de las novedades más significativas introducidas por el legislador ene l proceso civil con la Ley 1/200, de 7 de enero, de Enjuiciamiento Civil, es el mecanismo creado para proteger los derechos e intereses de los consumidores y usuarios, como respuesta a las ...