Documents in European Community environmental Law

This is the companion volume to the second edition of Philippe Sands' Principles of International Environmental Law and Sands and Galizzi's Documents in International Environmental Law. It comprises extracts from essential EC Treaties, Regulations, Directives, Decisions and other Acts of EC institutions. EC environmental ...

Stamp duty land tax

Stamp Duty Land Tax ('SDLT') raises some GBP6 billion per annum - more revenue than inheritance tax and capital gains tax put together. Providing a much-needed, incisive and comprehensive commentary on every aspect of SDLT, this book will appeal to property lawyers, tax specialists, and anyone ...

Historical statistics of the United States

earliest times to the present

Long the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history, a new edition of Historical Statistics of the United States is something that reference librarians, historians, and social scientists have long awaited. Not since the Bicentennial Edition was published in 1975 has new data and ...

Fearless consulting

temptations, risks and limits of the profession

The history of consulting dates back to the original #intervention# of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and today's consultants have just as dubious a reputation. They are tempted by flattery and over-assessment of their abilities, and run the risks of uncertainty, responsibility ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the ...

International financial economics

corporate decisions in global markets

Completely updated and revised, the second edition of "International Financial Economics: Corporate Decisions in Global Markets" applies the principles of financial economics to explain how international corporate finance decisions are made in the real world. Written from a practical, financial perspective versus one of pure ...

Gas prices in the UK

markets and insecurity of supply

Set in the context of the dramatic increases in the price of gas, which UK gas consumers have had to endure since 2003, this book explores how it is that UK gas industry liberalisation, which once promised ever lower prices, is now being undercut by ...

Diccionario técnico = Technical dictionary

inglés-español/español-inglés = english-spanish/spanish-english

Más de 100.000 entradas. Glosario de siglas y abreviaturas. Actualización a 2006. El vocabulario técnico de dos mundos en sus manos. Ante la excelente acogida que ha obtenido la primera edición del Diccionario Técnico bilingüe del ingeniero y lexicógrafo Federico Beigbeder, presentamos esta segunda ...

Displacement, asylum, migration

The Oxford amnesty lectures 2004

There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and ...

Law without justice

why criminal Law doesn't give people what they deserve

If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So why, for some cases, does the criminal ...

How Law works

the machinery and impact of civil justice

This book is a collection of essays exploring aspects of the machinery of the civil justice system and its impact on society. It complements the author's previous book "Law, Government and Public Policy" (Melbourne, OUP, 1987), which looked mainly at the formulation and operation ...

Law and the brain

The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology, with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range of human activities - many historically the province of those in the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion, consciousness, music. Applying this new knowledge ...

The boundaries of EC competition Law

The scope of article 81

This monograph addresses two problems surrounding the interpretation and application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty - what is competition and how does Article 81 ensure that competition is protected. After over 40 years of application and a period of modernisation, decentralisation, and reflection, it ...

Money, exchange rates, and output

Guillermo Calvo, who foresaw the financial crisis that followed the devaluation of Mexico's peso, has spent much of his career thinking beyond the conventional wisdom. Calvo has made seminal contributions to several major research areas in macroeconomics, particularly monetary policy, exchange rates, public debt ...

Stochastic dynamic macroeconomics

theory and empirical evidence

This is a book on stochastic dynamic macroeconomics from a Keynesian perpective. It shows that including Keynesian features in intertemporal models considerably contributes to resolve major puzzles arising in the context of the Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) model. It also demonstrates that including microeconomic intertemporal ...

Il governo delle differenze

il principio di equivalenza nell'ordinamento europeo

Il processo di integrazione europea sta portando alla creazione di un ordinamento giuridico nuovo e originale, che ha di fronte un problema fondamentale: come assicurare l'unità senza cancellare le diversità nazionali, che costituiscono parte integrante del patrimonio giuridico europeo. Un'Europa "unita nella diversità ...

Las Brigadas Internacionales

imágenes para la historia

Las Brigadas Internacionales. Imágenes para la historia, obra centrada en la divulgación del fondo fotográfico del CEDOBI. El Fondo Archivístico de Fotografías Antiguas del CEDOBI posee actualmente cerca de un millar de imágenes catalogadas y accesibles al público. Tal colección, ha sido creada merced a ...

De la esencia y valor de la democracia

La presente es la primera edición española de la versión íntegra de Vom Wesen und Wert der Demokratie, una espléndida defensa del parlamentarismo escrita en un tiempo de crisis profunda de la democracia parlamentaria y, por ello, un libro también hoy muy necesario. En sus ...

La guarda de hecho y la protección de las personas con discapacidad

El autor de este libro trata de concretar jurídicamente la figura del guardador de hecho, tanto en lo que se refiere a sus funciones, casos que puedan encuadrarse dentro de ella, así como a las esferas del discapacitado a las que se extiende su posible ...

Presentaciones efectivas en público

ideas, proyectos, informes, planes, objetivos, ponencias, comunicaciones

El autor nos entrega en este libro más de 37 años de estudio y experiencia divulgando técnicas y recursos para concretar con éxito toda clase de presentaciones en público. Aquí encontrará el lector ayudas y los soportes necesarios para desenvolverse con aplomo y seguridad. Servise ...