Judicial control of public power ensures a guarantee of the rule of law. This book addresses the scope and limits of judicial control at the national level, i.e. the control of public authorities, and at the supranational level, i.e. the control of States. It explores the risk of judicial review leading to judicial activism that can threaten the principle of the separation of powers or the legitimate exercise of state powers. It analyzes how national and supranational legal systems have embodied certain mechanisms, such as the principles of reasonableness, proportionality, deference and margin of appreciation, as well as the horizontal effects of human rights that help to determine how far a judge can go. Taking a theoretical and comparative view, the book first examines the conceptual bases of the various control systems and then studies the models, structural elements, and functions of the control instruments in selected countries and regions. It uses country and regional reports as the basis for the comparison of the convergences and divergences of the implementation of control in certain countries of Europe, Latin America, and Africa. The book's theoretical reflections and comparative investigations provide answers to important questions, such as whether or not there are nascent universal principles concerning the control of public power, how strong the impact of particular legal traditions is, and to what extent international law concepts have had harmonizing and strengthening effects on internal public-power control.

This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the "chosen species" or merely an evolutionary accident.
Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World Heritage Site and Europe's oldest known burial site---where a new human species, "homo antecessor," was discovered
Discusses various hypotheses of human evolution, drawing conclusions from verifiable facts and well-founded argument
Offers a compelling narrative written for nonspecialists and students of human evolution
Includes over 60 illustrations
Sold over 100,000 copies in the original Spanish-language edition

Judicial control of public power ensures a guarantee of the rule of law. This book addresses the scope and limits of judicial control at the national level, i.e. the control of public authorities, and at the supranational level, i.e. the control of States. It explores the risk of judicial review leading to judicial activism that can threaten the principle of the separation of powers or the legitimate exercise of state powers. It analyzes how national and supranational legal systems have embodied certain mechanisms, such as the principles of reasonableness, proportionality, deference and margin of appreciation, as well as the horizontal effects of human rights that help to determine how far a judge can go. Taking a theoretical and comparative view, the book first examines the conceptual bases of the various control systems and then studies the models, structural elements, and functions of the control instruments in selected countries and regions. It uses country and regional reports as the basis for the comparison of the convergences and divergences of the implementation of control in certain countries of Europe, Latin America, and Africa. The book's theoretical reflections and comparative investigations provide answers to important questions, such as whether or not there are nascent universal principles concerning the control of public power, how strong the impact of particular legal traditions is, and to what extent international law concepts have had harmonizing and strengthening effects on internal public-power control.

"In your country," Ignacio Martin-Baro remarked to a North American colleague, "it's publish or perish. In ours, it's publish "and" perish." In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martin-Baro devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual. This collection of his writings, the first in English translation, clarifies Martin-Baro's importance in Latin American psychology and reveals a major force in the field of social theory.

Gathering essays from an array of professional journals, this volume introduces readers to the questions and concerns that shaped Martin-Baro's thinking over several decades: the psychological dimensions of political repression, the impact of violence and trauma on child development and mental health, the use of psychology for political ends, religion as a tool of ideology, and defining the "real" and the "normal" under conditions of state-sponsored violence and oppression, among others. Though grounded in the harsh realities of civil conflict in Central America, these essays have broad relevance in a world where political and social turmoil determines the conditions of daily life for so many. In them we encounter Martin-Baro's humane, impassioned voice, reaffirming the essential connections among mental health, human rights, and the struggle against injustice. His analysis of contemporary social problems, and of the failure of the social sciences to address those problems, permits us to understand not only thesubstance of his contribution to social thought but also his lifelong commitment to the campesinos of El Salvador.

"To Bury the Dead" is an investigation of a brutal political murder and fascinating literary feud hidden by the dust of the Spanish Civil War. At the end of 1936, five months after Franco and his allies staged their coup against the Republican government of Spain, Jose Robles was arrested by undercover police during the increasingly bitter Civil War. Held under suspicion of treason under false charges, his subsequent detention and eventual execution were kept secret by the government. A close friend of Robles, the writer John Dos Passos, vowed to uncover the truth but was met only with a conspiracy of silence.Ignacio Martinez de Pison picks up the trail where Dos Passos left off, obsessed with discovering the true story. He traces the two men's long friendship, establishes their Republican credentials and tries to discover how and why Robles was killed, an answer that might lead to an explanation of why two of the most famous American writers of the time, John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, both committed anti-fascists, went from being close friends to irreconcilable enemies. A story about real people whose lives were caught up in and shattered by political events, "To Bury the Dead" exposes power struggles, ideological feuds and deadly political rivalries.

This awaited new novel from Ignacio Martinez de Pison. The story of a family from the Civil War until the eighties. Our Story. The Italian Raffaele Cameroni arrives to Spain in 1937 to fight as volunteer for Franco's side, and to soon fall for a beautiful Spaniard nurse that makes him abandon the idea to go back go his country. Throughout the story of three generations of the peculiar Cameroni family, we will be witnesses of how time transforms dear ones, erases promises and unburies secrets. In Baby Teeth "Dientes de Leche," the family saga coexists with a singular chronic of half century of the recent Spaniard History. Sometimes tender and amusing, sometimes hard and vibrant but always moving, it is a novel that is enjoyed with same emotion that house matters are shared.

La nostalgia de las excursiones dominicales, la desolacion por la muerte de un amigo, el trastorno de los sentidos al viajar por primera vez lejos de casa, el vertigo que provoca el riesgo de una travesura, la ebriedad de los primeros dias de vacaciones... Las emocionantes estampas que componen El vaso de plata rescatan de la memoria distintos momentos de la adolescencia de su protagonista, relatos conmovedores sobre la formacion moral, sobre aquel "viaje a la singularidad que constituye toda adolescencia," por decirlo en palabras de Martinez de Pison. La quietud y permanencia que destilan sus paginas, la sensacion de que nos cuentan cosas "que han pasado y que estan destinadas a seguir pasando" son uno de los mayores logros de un libro que ha retratado la adolescencia como pocos en nuestra reciente literatura. Este libro, el primero de narrativa que publico su autor y por el que obtuvo el premio Ciudad de Barcelona y el Critica Serra d'Or de 1992, esta destinado a acompanar nuestro propio aprendizaje del dolor y del amor y a perdurar en la memoria lectora. Un libro que nos ensena, como diria su autor, que "la vida es un pasar de una adolescencia a otra."