Salomé

The French revolution, 1789-1804

authority, liberty, and the search for stability

Las Cruzadas

Las cruzadas fueron y son en la actualidad un motivo de reflexión para historiadores y políticos del panorama mundial, y en este libro se analizan con detenimiento todas las cruzadas realizadas desde Europa incluidas las peninsulares y destacar que desde hace más de treinta años ...

Las encomiendas gallegas de la Orden Militar de San Juan de Jerusalén: estudio y edición documental

Tomo I: Época medieval

Esta obra, primera entrega de una serie, constituye un estudio de una voluminosa colección de documentos gallegos de la Orden de San Juan o de Malta referidos al período medieval.

Soft Law in european Community Law

This book offers the first systematic investigation of the phenomenon of soft law within the framework of the EC (the first pillar of the EU), and its use by the European Commission and Council of Ministers. It focusses upon how soft law fits into the ...

Dalhuisen on international commercial, financial and trade Law

The second edition of this uniquely wide-ranging work once again grapples with the dynamic and complex fields of law that make up the modern law of international commerce, finance and trade. As a guide for students and practitioners it is unrivalled. The original structure has ...

European Union Law for the Twenty-First Century

rethinking the New legal order.Vol.1: Constitutional and public Law external relations

This book, to be published in two volumes, is based on the contributions made to the W.G. Hart Workshop 2003. It contains more than forty contributions by leading experts seeking to assess the state of development of EU law some fifty years after the ...

Pragmatism, critique, judgment

essays for Richard J. Bernstein

The work of Richard J. Bernstein has achieved a groundbreaking synthesis of the analytical and continental modes of thought. Countering the highly technical metaphysical and epistemological puzzles of analytic philosophy in the early 1960s, Bernstein offered a model of philosophy in a democratic society as ...

The price of smoking

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a ...

Contending visions of the Middle East

the history and politics of orientalism

Tax policy and the economy

Vol. 18

This NBER series presents current academic research in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysis without making specific policy recommendations. Volume 18 continues the series tradition of addressing issues that are relevant to current policy ...

The business of global environmental governance

The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors -- from a range of disciplines including international political economy, management, and political science -- view the evolution of international environmental governance ...

Earth system analysis for sustainability

Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to identify principles for responsible management of the global environment in the future. Perceiving our planet ...

Social capital and information technology

The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only ...

Participatory it design

designing for business and workplace realities

The goal of participatory IT design is to set sensible, general, and workable guidelines for the introduction of new information technology systems into an organization. Reflecting the latest systems-development research, this book encourages a business- oriented and socially sensitive approach that takes into consideration the ...

Thoughtful interaction design

a design perspective on information technology

The authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design go beyond the usual technical concerns of usability and usefulness to consider interaction design from a design perspective. The shaping of digital artifacts is a design process that influences the form and functions of workplaces, schools, communication, and culture ...

Introduction to machine learning

Data mining

next generation challenges and future directions

Data mining, or knowledge discovery, has become an indispensable technology for businesses and researchers in many fields. Drawing on work in such areas as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing, data mining extracts useful information from the large data sets now ...

DNA abd the criminal justice system

the technology of justice

Examines the impact of DNA technology on issues of ethics, civil liberties, privacy, and security.

Stochastic calculus for finance

II. Continuous-time models

"A wonderful display of the use of mathematical probability to derive a large set of results from a small set of assumptions. In summary, this is a well-written text that treats the key classical models of finance through an applied probability approach...It should serve ...