Investigating murder

detective work and the police response to criminal homicide

Miseria de la prosperidad

la religión del mercado y sus enemigos

Desde la caída del comunismo viene produciéndose un enfrentamiento entre neoliberales y antiglobalizadores cada vez más exaltado. Con cierta perplejidad, el comienzo del siglo XXI asiste a un apasionado debate entre los defensores a ultranza del capitalismo y los representantes de un pensamiento supuestamente radical ...

"Every valley shall be exalted"

the discourse of opposites in Twelfth-Century thought

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers ...

Creating cooperation

how states develop human capital in Europe

In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills, but uncertainty and mutual distrust among companies ...

Managing high-tech services using a CRM strategy

Universal Human Rights in theory and practice

Managing and measuring social enterprise

Managing and Measuring Social Enterprises examines the question of what happens when performance improvement techniques originating in the private sector are applied to public and nonprofit organizations. Rob Paton offers a measured critique of the naive realism and rhetorical excesses of the performance management movement ...

Governing as governance

The concept of 'governance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In Governing and Governance, Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field to map and demonstrate the utility of a sociopolitical perspective to our understanding of contemporary ...

Economy, culture and society

a sociological critique of neo-liberalism

El canal de distribución

disección de las relaciones comerciales

Democratic accountability and the use of force in international law

Megaprojects and risk

an anatomy of ambition

Pension sharing in practice

A World without walls

freedom, development, free trade and global governance

Medicine before science

the rational and learned doctor from the middle ages to the enlightenment

This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. These were the elite, in reputation and rewards, and they were successful. Yet we can form little idea of their clinical effectiveness, and to modern eyes ...

UK international holding companies

Human rights, human wrongs

Controlling market power in telecommunicications

antitrust vs sector-specific regulation

Economic regulation in the telecommunications sector can be performed through economy-wide instruments, such as antitrust law and antitrust authorities, or through sector-specific instruments, such as telecommunications regulation and regulatory authorities. Relying on a comparative analysis of five countries, the present book seeks to shed some ...

Los pícaros borbones

De Felipe V a Alfonso XIII

Su privilegiada posición les aseguró en su tiempo y para la posteridad la más favorable estampa. Pero no iban a ser capaces de ocultar su verdadera naturaleza. En "Los pícaros Borbones. De Felipe V a Alfonso XIII", se refleja el profundo desacuerdo entre la realidad ...

Myth, history and culture in Republican Rome

studies in honour of T.P. Wiseman

In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter Wiseman#s past and present work. They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman historians of this ...