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El análisis de la justicia y la política alemanas de los años 20 y primeros 30 del pasado siglo sirven en este ensayo para comparar el proyecto liberal conservador y el republicano como las dos formas que marcaron el enfrentamiento ideológico europeo antes del ascenso de los totalitarismos. En una carta enviada al dictador Francisco Franco en septiembre de 1945, Ramón Serrano Suñer sostenía que, antes del final de la Segunda Guerra, 'las tres formas políticas genéricas de nuestro tiempo eran: democracia liberal, fascismo o comunismo'; y que ante aquella disyuntiva, la decantación totalitaria española fue la más conveniente. Desde aquel entonces, el momento político de la primera posguerra ha solido encajonarse en el citado trilátero. La presente monografía plantea un ángulo de observación alternativo, tomando el caso alemán como categoría europea. El espíritu político de los años 1920 y primeros 1930 resulta más eficazmente captado a través de la contraposición entre dos proyectos liberales nacionales: el conservador y el republicano. Sus implicaciones políticas saltan bien a la vista desde el observatorio que proporciona el derecho constitucional y la teoría del Estado. Sobre estos postulados, se examinan la opinión conservadora y el parecer demócrata sobre la figura constitucional republicana, la democracia pluralista, el Estado de partidos, el gobierno parlamentario, la supremacía de la ley, la vinculación constitucional y legal de los jueces, los derechos fundamentales, el papel de la alta burocracia, el estatuto de los cuerpos intermedios o el alcance de los poderes de excepción. Se han redactado estas líneas con el afán de reconstruir un intervalo jurídico fundacional, mas ya cancelado, aunque con la impresión creciente de estar escribiendo sobre desafíos y peligros que vuelven a emerger entre nosotros.

Over her thirty-year career, celebrated designer Jo Thompson has become recognised for her timeless planting, well-proportioned, English-style gardens rendered modern by a staunch commitment to biodiversity to the eye this translates as a looser formality than English gardens of the past, though every bit as romantic.

A mix of high plant/horticultural knowledge and a love of artistically repurposed everyday materials creating unique features will strike a chord with all those who dream of perking up their own gardens. Doreen sought out the most original gardens to feature those that use cleverly repurposed industrial and found materials: handmade archways of gnarled branches or hand-welded fences, mixed with unique sculptures and structures. Text and deep captions full of plant IDs highlight unusual or remarkable collections of flora and foliage that will inspire readers to re-create or come up with their own planting designs and combinations.

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How do you make your home come alive with personality, charm, and memory? In the introduction to Sean Scherer’s first book, Kabinett & Kammer: Creating Authentic Interiors, Anderson Cooper writes, “Scherer has a unique ability to place otherwise ordinary objects in a completely unexpected context or grouping and in so doing change the way you see them.” In Sean Scherer’s Vignettes, Scherer focuses in on the art of combining common objects into aesthetically pleasing groupings, or vignettes. Contending that a vignette can set the whole mood and tone of a room, he shows you how to use any surface in your home, from a tabletop to a bookshelf to a wall, to create lively displays of your favorite items. Beautifully illustrated with Scherer’s own photographs, the book demonstrates how to balance color, texture, and shape, and provides lessons on how to create both symmetrical and asymmetrical vignettes.

Melissa Penfold, Australia’s foremost authority on style and design, has distilled her three decades of expertise into a single volume, identifying the basic decorating principles—including light and space, composition and balance, and pattern and texture—and offering hundreds of invaluable tips on how to apply them to turn your house into a home that is comfortable, intimate, beautiful, and the most authentic expression of your personal aesthetic. Illustrated with images of her own home and inspirational homes around the world, Living Well by Design is an indispensable resource for everyone eager to create interiors in which decorating fundamentals are integrally interwoven with individual style.