Las diligencias preliminares

Las diligencias preliminares permiten a quien pretende iniciar un proceso civil conseguir una información que, siendo necesaria para la correcta formulación de su demanda, no puede obtener por sus propios medios. De ahí que resulte imprescindible que cualquier Abogado conozca los casos y presupuestos que ...

El contrato de transacción

Setting global standards

guidelines for creating codes of conduct in multinational corporations

PART ONE: THE ROLE OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF INCREASING GLOBALIZATION AND FREE TRADE. Chapter 1. The Blessings and Perils of Globalization: A Tale of Two Peoples. Chapter 2. Sweatshops and Human Rights Abuses: Evidence from the Field. PART TWO: MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS' RESPONSES ...

Life-cycle costing

using activity-based costing and Monte Carlo methods to manage future costs and risks

1. Introduction. What Does It Cost? .The Role of Life-Cycle Costing. Why Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing? Notes. 2. Basics of Life-Cycle Costing. What Is a Life Cycle? What Is a Cost? Four Ways of LCC. Notes. 3. Uncertainty Analysis and Risk Management.What are Risk and ...

Due diligence

the critical stage in acquisitions and mergers

How can you be sure you are buying the company you think you are? Are you sure it is as good as the seller says? How can you be certain unexpected costs and obligations will not suddenly appear once you are the owner and responsible ...

The Mongols

a history

The Mongols were the superpower of their day, erupting out of Central Asia in 1206 to conquer an empire stretching from Poland to Korea. Their arrival in the Middle East upset the very tenuous balance between Christendom and Islam, sparking a long-simmering rivalry that has ...

On becoming a leader

Warren Bennis's formative years, in the 1930s and '40s, were characterized by severe economic hardship and a world war that showcased the extreme depths and heights to which leaders could drive their followers. Today's environment is similarly chaotic, turbulent and uncertain. This text ...

The diversity advantage

multicultural identity in the new world economy

Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago, stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What are the qualities that will ensure the continued dominance of US culture, society and business? In this text G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the ...

Gender and the welfare state

care, work and welfare in Europe and the USA

"Gender and the Welfare State" offers a comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations. It explores how care, work and welfare are constituted in eight countries (France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA). The book examines the impact ...

The medieval church

in manuscripts

The Church was the largest and most powerful institution in western Europe during the Middle Ages. Its influence upon the religious and spiritual existence of the people was enormous, but it also affected cultural and economic circumstances to a surprising extent, providing th e very ...

Defining drugs

hor government bacame the arbietr of pharmaceutical fact

Jurisdicción militar y Estado de Derecho

garantías constitucionales y organización judicial

The Federalist

the essential essays

Considered the United States' greatest contribution to the "canon" of western political theory, The Federalist is a series of 85 essays first published between the early fall of 1787 and the spring of 1788 supporting the ratification of the Constitution. In a new edition of ...

July 1914, soldiers, statesmen, and the coming of the Great War

a brief documentary history

Historians have long sought to explain how the world descended into war in the wake of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914. Focusing on the interactions between two key leaders # one civilian and one military # in each of ...

Globalization in the twenty-first century

convergence or divergence?

"Globalization in the Twenty-First Century" explores the degrees of convergence and/or divergence attributed to the process of globalization. Theoretical contributions to the globalization debate within international political economy are empirically evaluated, covering different geographical parts of the world (Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America ...

The expansion of Elizabethan England

Elizabethan society is arguably the most successful in English history. The adventurers and merchants (as well as the poets and playwrights) of that age are legendary. The subject of this classic study by A.L. Rowse is that society's 'expansion'. Elizabethan society expanded both ...

Diez años de autonomía universitaria y de libertad académica

En esta obra se recogen, a lo largo de diez años, los contenidos de las lecciones inaugurales, de las "laudatios" o de los discursos de estos años de Libertad y de Autonomía en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Las aperturas de Curso y los ...

El perfil criminológico del juez prevaricador

Esta obra es un trabajo científico de Criminología, en la que se relatan sentencias aparecidas en los periódicos de mayor circulación, calificadas de machistas, discriminatorias de las mujeres etc., en delitos tan importantes como la violación y el maltrato de la mujer, cuyos jueces nunca ...

Theory and reform in the European Union

Asset pricing

Vol. 1-Frontiers of real estate finance

Real estate finance is a fast-developing area where top quality research is in great demand. In the US, the real estate market is worth about US$4 trillion, and the REITs market about US$200 billion; tens of thousands of real estate professionals are working ...