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“…El trabajo se presenta con la pretensión de fundar una teoría general que esté por encima de las diferencias propias de los sistemas jurídicos de civil y common law."--Contracubierta…”

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“…"How did the postwar political order in the Middle East and North Africa come to be defined? While it is commonly argued that this order came about due to British and French forces imposing a series of artificial boundaries they negotiated in wartime and postwar agreements, Wyrtzen adds that it was also a result of complex and violent struggles among various colonial and local forces reimagining what the political space in the post-Ottoman, post-WWI MENA region should look like. …”

“…From ultraconservative Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of disdain for America. …”

“…Tu mirada ilumina el mundo es un libro sabio y conmovedor en el que los recuerdos de esta relación inolvidable, truncada por la enfermedad, se entrelazan con los de infancia y juventud para componer un canto a la vida y a la aceptación personal. …”

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“…En Quipus del Tahuantinsuyo, Chirinos propone el inicio de una nueva fase en el estudio y en las aplicaciones prácticas del quipu y su instrumento de cálculo, la yupana. Este texto se compone de tres partes. La Parte I es una mirada a la historia de los quipocamayos y al papel de los quipus en el siglo XVI, brindando por parte de cronistas indígenas, mestizos y españoles; evidencia la sorprendente precisión matemática en los repartos proporcionales realizados en Chucuito, Jauja y Huánuco (Perú); además se destaca el valor jurídico que los quipus ostentaron en Charcas (Bolivia). …”

“…Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. …”