“…Taking this expansion of roles and expectations into account, and acknowledging the respective increase in exposure to civil, criminal and reputational liabilities, Patrick J. …”

“…Mulford explores the impact of Franklin's family history - especially their difficult times during the English Civil War - on Franklin's intellectual life and his personal and political goals. -- from dust jacket…”

“…The book takes in the various crises of mid- and late- Elizabeth politics, the accession of James VI, the Gunpowder plot, religious toleration and the start of the Thirty Years War and finally the rise of Laudianism, leading up to the civil war. It challenges current historical notions of Catholicism as fundamentally sectarian and demonstrates the extent to which sections of the Catholic community had come to an understanding with both the local and national State by the later 1620s and 1630s…”
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“…He considers the impact of events like the Spanish Civil War and regimes like that of the Restoration on the Spanish sense of national identity before contemplating the future for Spain as a nation-state. …”

“…Este relato, en el que el protagonismo recae sobre un universo humano, no habiendo por tanto un protagonista único, pretende ser una descripción de la vida de hombres y mujeres de muchos pueblos pequeños en la España de la postguerra civil. Por aquí desfilan personajes de colores muy variados y, bajo la falsa apariencia de que, en tantos pueblos de la epoca, como Soto del Arroyo, no pasaba nada, late un sinfín de sentimientos, amores y desamores, sufrimientos, injusticias, frustraciones, pasiones reprimidas, odios irreconciliables, pero tambien mujeres y hombres de buen corazón, acciones nobles, pequeñas ventanas abiertas a la esperanza -- Contracubierta…”

“…Theoretical insights are offered into the problems of uniform laws, the CISG's role in bridging the gap between the common and civil legal traditions, and the debate over good faith in CISG jurisprudence. …”

“…The Idea of the State seeks to reaffirm the importance of systematic philosophical inquiry into the foundations of political life, and to show how such an approach can cast a new and highly instructive light on a variety of controversial, seemingly intractable problems of tolerance, civil disobedience, democracy and consent. The author considers the problem of the state in light of recent developments in philosophy and social thought, and seeks to provide an account of what the state really is. …”
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“…This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society. …”

“…But there are other possibilities as well, such as the liberal state, effective, yet small or lean; or the dreamt-up state of the conservatives, based on the principle of subsidiarity, acting only as a complement to civil society. The fundamenta Many contemporary states, even the European ones, resemble a giant with feet of clay. …”

“…Many of Karabel"s findings are astonishing: the admission of blacks into the Ivy League wasn"t an idealistic response to the civil rights movement but a fearful reaction to inner-city riots; Yale and Princeton decided to accept women only after realizing that they were losing men to colleges (such as Harvard and Stanford) that had begun accepting "the second sex"; Harvard had a systematic quota on "intellectuals" until quite recently; and discrimination against Asian Americans in the 1980s mirrored the treatment of Jews earlier in the century. …”
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“…Biography:Stefania Bariatti is professor of Private International Law in the Department of Public Law, Civil Procedure, International and EU Law at the Universita degli Studi di Milano. …”

“…Roman families were infinitely diverse, but the basis of Roman civil law was the familia, a strictly-defined group consisting of a head, paterfamilias, and his descendants in the male line. …”

“…Un inmenso fresco histórico que tiene lugar en plena guerra civil española, tratada tanto en su aspecto humano como en el sociológico y el militar, y que abarca a los dos bandos en pugna…”