What to ask the person in the mirror

critical questions for becoming a more effective leader and reaching your potential

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization ...

Pocket world in figures

2012 Edition

New edition of this annual bestseller of fascinating facts and figures about the world we live in. The 2012 edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features. Full of facts and figures about the world today - on ...

Ruido de fondo

El profesor universitario Jack Gladney, vive en una pequeña ciudad americana con su esposa y sus hijos. Marcados por el consumismo y el miedo a la muerte, los Gladney tratan de llevar una vida familiar tranquila hasta que un accidente industrial pone en peligro la ...

Slavoj Zizek

filosofía y crítica de la ideología

En medio de la crisis del capitalismo, en algunos flancos de Occidente se redescubre al comunismo. La estrella de este redescubrimiento es el filósofo esloveno Slavoj Žižek, quien mezcla marxismo con cultura popular y psicoanálisis. Su papel es, hasta cierto punto, el de un sátiro ...

El materialismo de Marx

discurso crítico y revolución

Para Bolívar Echeverría, en las Tesis sobre Feuerbach se define el carácter y el tipo esenciales del discurso teórico comunista y, por tanto, la especificidad de la teoría marxista. A través de esa intervención de Marx, el discurso teórico comunista adviene a su autorreconocimiento y ...

Historia económica mundial

de los orígenes a la actualidad

Esta Historia económica mundial utiliza una perspectiva de muy largo plazo (milenios) para entender las grandes transformaciones en la organización económica de las sociedades humanas y estudia la evolución de la humanidad desde las crisis alimentarias de la prehistoria hasta las nuevas crisis de recursos ...

The economic theory of eminent domain

private property, public use

Surveys the contributions that economic theory has made to the often contentious debate over the government's use of its power of eminent domain, as prescribed by the Fifth Amendment. It addresses such questions as: when should the government be allowed to take private property ...

Friedrich Engels and marxian political economy

This book rejects the commonly encountered perception of Friedrich Engels as perpetuator of a 'tragic deception' of Marx, and the equally persistent body of opinion treating him as 'his master's voice'. Engels' claim to recognition is reinforced by an exceptional contribution in the 1840s ...

Promises and contract Law

comparative perspectives

Promises and Contract Law is the first modern work to explore the significance of promise to contract law from a comparative legal perspective. Part I explores the component elements of promise, its role in Greek thought and Roman law, the importance of the moral duty ...

Albion's fatal tree

crime and society in Eighteenth-Century England

In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a ...

Ganar jugando a no perder

estrategias imperecederas para inversiones exitosas

Escrita con una sinceridad estimulante, un estilo directo próximo al lector y grandes dosis de buen humor, la nueva edición actualizada y ampliada de Ganar jugando a no perder ayuda a los inversores a tener éxito con sus inversiones y a controlar sus futuros financieros ...

OLAF at the crossroads

action against EU fraud

The authors offer many insights into the regulatory, operational and institutional opportunities and challenges for OLAF, the European Commission's Anti-Fraud Office. Since OLAF was set up in 1999, significant changes in its functional environment have taken place including in EU criminal law and especially ...

The foundations of european private Law

There remains an urgent need for a deeper discussion of the theoretical, political and federal dimensions of the European codification project. While much valuable work has already been undertaken, the chapters in this volume take as their starting point the proposition that further reflection and ...

Insurance Law

doctrines and principles

The third edition of Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles follows the widely acclaimed first and second editions. It provides a detailed examination of the developing law of insurance, combining exposition of the law with critical analysis. The book is designed with the needs of undergraduate ...

Fiduciary loyalty

protecting the due performance of non-fiduciary duties

Fiduciary Loyalty presents a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of fiduciary duties, arguing that they provide a distinctive form of protection for non-fiduciary duties, by seeking to avoid influences or temptations which might distract the fiduciary from proper performance of those non-fiduciary duties ...

The Inquisition of climate science

Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science ...

Financial exchanges

a comparative approach

The recent global economic crisis has drawn a spotlight on the world of finance. Financial exchanges are changing, and this insightful, new book examines the manner and reasons for these changes. Financial Exchanges: A Comparative Approach offers an in-depth analysis of this sector. Surveying thirty ...

Código Civil

The Euro Area and the financial crisis

The financial crisis of 2007-2010 has presented a number of key policy challenges for those concerned with the long-term stability of the euro area. It has shown that price stability as provided by the European Central Bank is not enough to guarantee financial stability, and ...

Competition policy and patent Law under uncertainty

regulating innovation

The regulation of innovation and the optimal design of legal institutions in an environment of uncertainty are two of the most important policy challenges of the twenty-first century. Innovation is critical to economic growth. Regulatory design decisions and, in particular, competition policy and intellectual property ...