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The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

By: Jorge Balmaceda

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The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

By: Jorge Balmaceda

This book describes how the international sales of goods have generally been ruled by either English Law or Civil Law, which has often posed problems due to different approaches regarding certain principles and institutions. It clarifies how the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 11th April, 1980, tried to harmonise these differences with a codification technique, typical of civil law, giving privilege to rules of civil law most of the time, but also introducing institutions from common law, that are not incompatible with civil law. It explains why the general principles of civil law and of UNIDROIT help with this goal of harmonisation, integrating the loopholes of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) during its interpretation. The work demonstrates why codification prevails over common law in the CISG most of the time, giving certitude and sophistication to this matter, which is vital for global commerce.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527549127

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A Genealogy of Manners

Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

By: Jorge Arditi

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A Genealogy of Manners

Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

By: Jorge Arditi

Remarkable for its scope and erudition, Jorge Arditi's new study offers a fascinating history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, Arditi examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a system of social relations and put it into operation. The result was an infrastructure in which these classes could successfully exert power. He explores how the ecclesiastical authorities of the Middle Ages, the monarchies from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, and the aristocracies during the early stages of modernity all forged their own codes of manners within the confines of another, dominant order. Arditi goes on to describe how each of these different groups, through the sustained deployment of their own forms of relating with one another, gradually moved into a position of dominance.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226025837

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9780226025834

Utopia Unarmed

The Latin American Left After the Cold War

By: Jorge G. Castañeda

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Utopia Unarmed

The Latin American Left After the Cold War

By: Jorge G. Castañeda

Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they merely temporary lulls in an ongoing revolution that may yet transform our hemisphere? This perceptive and richly eventful study by one of Mexico's most distinguished political scientists tells the story behind the failed movements of the past thirty years while suggesting that the left has a continuing relevance in a continent that suffers from destitution and social inequality. Combining insider's accounts of intrigue and armed struggle with a clear-sighted analysis of the mechanisms of day-to-day power, Utopia Unarmed is an indispensable work of scholarship, reportage, and political prognosis.

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513

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Vintage

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0307822990

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9780307822994

Fashioning Spanish Cinema

Costume, Identity, and Stardom

By: Jorge Pérez

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Fashioning Spanish Cinema

Costume, Identity, and Stardom

By: Jorge Pérez

Costume design is a crucial, but frequently overlooked, aspect of film that fosters an appreciation of the diverse ways in which film and fashion enrich each other. These influential industries offer representations of ideas, values, and beliefs that shape and construct cultural identities. In Fashioning Spanish Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyses the use of clothing and fashion as costumes within Spanish cinema, paying particular attention to the significance of those costumes in relation to the visual styles and the narratives of the films. The author examines the links between costume analysis and other fields and theoretical frameworks such as fashion studies, the history of dress, celebrity studies, and gender and feminist studies. Fashioning Spanish Cinema looks at instances in which costumes are essential to shaping the public image of stars, such as Conchita Montenegro, Sara Montiel, Victoria Abril, and Penélope Cruz. Focusing on examples in which costumes have discursive autonomy, it explores how costumes engage with broader issues of identity and, relatedly, how costumes impact everyday practices and fashion trends beyond cinema. Drawing on case studies from multiple periods, films by contemporary directors and genres, and red-carpet events such as the Oscars and Goya Awards, Fashioning Spanish Cinema contributes a pivotal Spanish perspective to expanding interdisciplinary work on the intersections between film and fashion.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487539746

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From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda

Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future

By: Felix Dodds,Jorge Laguna-Celis,Liz Thompson

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From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda

Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future

By: Felix Dodds,Jorge Laguna-Celis,Liz Thompson

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies. Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly in the UN development agenda beyond 2015. The book throws light on the changing nature of multilateralism and questions frequent assumptions on how policy is defined within the UN. It shows that Rio+20 was more than an international meeting; it represented a culminating point of decades of successes and failures and a watershed moment for seminal concepts, ideas and partnerships including the Green Economy, zero tolerance on land degradation, the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals, the creation of national measurements of consumption, production and well-being that are intended to go beyond GDP, the introduction of national green accounting and the commitment of billions of dollars for sustainable development partnerships, including Sustainable Energy for All. The authors conclude by mapping out a new agenda for development in 2015, when the current Millennium Development Goals framework is due to expire. An agenda that will restore faith in the UN and inspire a global response to the demographic, economic and environmental challenges that will define our future in the decades to come.

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Routledge

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1134751478

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Parties, Elections, and Political Participation in Latin America

By: Jorge I Dominguez

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Parties, Elections, and Political Participation in Latin America

By: Jorge I Dominguez

First Published in 1994. This is Volume five of seven of a collection of essays that gathers together scholarly debates from the 1950s to the 1990s on Mexico, Central and South America. This text looks at topics such as government parties in Latin America, the Mexican elections of 1958, political campaigning, the scope of the Chilean Party systems, the case of Peronism and electoral change amongst others.

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1135564345

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Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum

Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties

By: Nat Rutter,Andrea Coronato,Karin Helmens,Jorge Rabassa,Marcelo Zárate

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Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum

Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties

By: Nat Rutter,Andrea Coronato,Karin Helmens,Jorge Rabassa,Marcelo Zárate

Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing mechanisms, and to compare glaciations with cold periods of the Marine Oxygen Isotope stages and the loess/paleosol records of China. Stratigraphic sections containing a variety of glacial deposits, some with interbedded volcanics, as well as loess deposits, were used in reconstructing the glacial history. The Late Pleistocene (Brunhes Chron) Last Glacial Maximum is recognized in mountain and continental areas of North America but only in the mountains of South America. Commonly our comparisons indicate roughly synchronous glaciations on the two continents, whereas other glaciations are more elusive and difficult to compare. Although our comparisons are at low resolutions, the results suggest that Milankovitch forcing is most likely the dominant trigger for hemispheric glaciation modified by local factors.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400743998

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9789400743991

The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

By: Jorge Balmaceda

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Seven Nights

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Seven Nights

By: Jorge Luis Borges

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811218384

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9780811218382

Dreamtigers

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Dreamtigers

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer

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University of Texas Press

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0292715498

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9780292715493

A Personal Anthology

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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A Personal Anthology

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist” (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat). After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition. “An important work, by far the best yet available to the reader . . . who seeks a representative sampling of the great Argentine writer . . . the standard introduction to Borges in England and the United States.” —Saturday Review

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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080219074X

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9780802190741

Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811200124

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9780811200127

Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Labyrinths

Selected Stories & Other Writings

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Readers are invited to take a new look at "Labyrinths," the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the 20th century--a true literary sensation--with a new introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811216993

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9780811216999

Everything and Nothing

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Everything and Nothing

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."--The New Yorker

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126

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New Directions Publishing

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0811214001

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9780811214001

The Book of Sand

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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The Book of Sand

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Includes the stories The Congress, Undr, The Mirror and the Mask, August 25, 1983, Blue Tigers, The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare's Memory.

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0140180257

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The Book of Sand

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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The Book of Sand

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Thirteen stories by the celebrated writer, including two that he considered among his greatest achievements, artfully blend elements from many literary genres

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Isis Large Print Books

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1852900229

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Book's by Jorge Balmaceda

The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

A Genealogy of Manners

A Genealogy of Manners

Utopia Unarmed

Utopia Unarmed

Fashioning Spanish Cinema

Fashioning Spanish Cinema

From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda

From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda

Parties, Elections, and Political Participation in Latin America

Parties, Elections, and Political Participation in Latin America

Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum

Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum

The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

Seven Nights

Seven Nights

Dreamtigers

Dreamtigers

A Personal Anthology

A Personal Anthology

Labyrinths

Labyrinths

Labyrinths

Labyrinths

Everything and Nothing

Everything and Nothing

The Book of Sand

The Book of Sand

The Book of Sand

The Book of Sand

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