Never bet the farm

how entrepreneurs take risks, make decisions-and how you can, too

Two leading entrepreneurs destroy common myths and misconceptions about business start-ups. In "Never Bet the Farm", Anthony Iaquinto and Stephen Spinelli turn much of the so-called expert advice for entrepreneurs on its head. The authors both highly successful entrepreneurs refute the idea that there is ...

Agent-based computational modelling

applications in demography social, economic and environmental sciences

Table of Contents: F.C. Billari et al.: Agent-based Computational Modelling: An Introduction * A. Pyka, T. Grebel: Agent-based Modelling - A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes * M. Franke et al.: On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets * M ...

The european labour market

regional dimensions

This book brings together up-to-date findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. It provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European ...

Labor mobility and the world economy

The recent landings of illegal immigrants on the Italian and Spanish coasts, the immigrant riots in France, and the migratory pressure faced by many countries are an indication that migration will remain high on the agenda of international public policy for some time. In order ...

A theory of argument

A Theory of Argument is an advanced textbook intended for students in philosophy, communications studies and linguistics who have completed at least one course in argumentation theory, information logic, critical thinking or formal logic. Containing nearly 400 exercises, Mark Vorobej develops a novel approach to ...

Policing gangs in America

Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of the book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment in which they work. A discussion ...

Microeconomics for MBAs

the economic way of thinking for managers

This is the first textbook in microeconomics written exclusively for MBA students. McKenzie/Lee minimizes attention to mathematics and maximizes attention to intuitive economic thinking. The text is structured clearly and accessibly: Part I of each chapter outlines the basic theory and Part II applies ...

International Human Rights and humanitarian Law

treaties, cases and analysis

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases, and Analysis introduces the reader to the international legal instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law, including economic, social, and cultural rights. The book also discusses the ...

Arbitration Law in America

a critical assessment

Arbitration Law in America: A Critical Assessment is a source of arguments and practical suggestions for changing the American arbitration process. The book argues that the 80 year-old Federal Arbitration Act badly needs major changes. The authors, who have previously written major articles on arbitration ...

Economics and finance of risk and of the future

Table of Contents: 1 Risks in a public project : the Millau Viaduct 2 Individual valuations and economic rationality 3 Aggregation of individual choices 4 Individual and collective risk management instruments 5 Insurable and uninsurable risks 6 Risk economics 7 Marketed risks 8 Management instruments for ...

Political speeches

'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient ...

Cicero the advocate

This work is a collection of contributions by prominent Ciceronian scholars on Cicero's forensic speeches as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, setting the speeches in the context of the Roman court system and of ancient rhetoric, discussing the nature of advocacy ...

La crisis de la monarquía de Felipe IV

Geoffrey Parker, una de las grandes figuras del hispanismo británico, replantea aquí, a la luz de las últimas aportaciones, el tema de los orígenes de la decadencia española, situándolo en el contexto de la crisis mundial del siglo XVII: una sucesión de desastres climáticos y ...

Democratizing innovation

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratised. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users - both individuals and firms - often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons ...

Justice in Robes

How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? Lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, politicians and judges all have answers to that question: these range from 'nothing' to 'everything'. In his new book Ronald Dworkin argues that the question is ...

Minding Justice

laws that deprive people with mental disability of life and liberty

"Minding Justice" offers a comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention and protection of people with mental disabilities. Using famous cases such as those of John Hinckley, Andrea Yates and Theodore Kaczynski, the book analyses the insanity defence and related doctrines, the role ...

Saving persuasion

a defense of rhetoric and judgment

This title is the winner of the 2005 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press. In today's increasingly polarised political landscape, it seems that fewer and fewer citizens hold out hope of persuading one another. Even among those who have not given up ...

Les ponts au Moyen Age

Au Moyen Âge, l#aventure commence avec la construction du pont, avec la première pierre que l#on place au fond de la rivière ou du fleuve. L#entreprise se poursuit avec une imposante mobilisation des ressources humaines, financières et le concours de toutes les ...

Yo acuso

defensa de la emancipación de las mujeres musulmanas

La parlamentaria holandesa de origen somalí Ayaan Hirsi Ali es consciente de que sobre ella pende la pena de muerte. Lo sabe porque su nombre aparecía citado en la misiva que el asesino de Theo van Gogh dejó sobre el cuerpo inerte del cineasta. El ...

Problemas sociales de género en el mundo global

ÍNDICE: TEMA 1: Tendencias sociales de género en las sociedades actuales. 1) Estudios de género: una nueva rama del saber. 2) Avances de las mujeres en la sociedad desarrollada y sus problemas. 3) Las ciudades: espacios para el cambio de las mujeres. 4)El tráfico ...