Creatividad e inteligencia emocional

dimensiones básicas del mundo empresarial

Foreign direct investment and the regional economy

The 'boom' in foreign direct investment (FDI) since the mid-1980s, continues to be paramount in policy interest. This book reviews the literature on the nature of FDI and reports the recent results on the performance of FDI plants in order to show the implications for ...

The economics of global turbulence

the advanced capitalist economies from long boom to long downturn, 1945- 2005

For years, the discipline of economics has been moving steadily away from the real world towards formalized axioms and mathematical models with only a precarious bearing on actuality. Commentators seek to fill the gap as best they can, but in the absence of real background ...

The three Yugoslavias

state-building and legitimation, 1918-2005

Yugoslavia exploded onto the front pages of world newspapers in the early 1990s. The War of Yugoslav Succession of 1991-1995 convinced many that interethnic violence was endemic to politics in Yugoslavia and that the Yugoslav meltdown had occurred because of ancient hatreds. In this thematic ...

Kant

the three critiques

CONTENTS: Preface. Abbreviations and conventions. Acknowledgments. Part I: Critique of pure reason. Part II: Critique of practical reason. Part III: Critique of judgment. Bibliography. Index.

Contemporary maya spirituality

the ancient ways are not lost

Since the mid-1980s, when Guatemala returned to civilian rule and achieved relative peace and stability, the Maya have begun openly expressing their spiritual beliefs and practices. Jean Molesky-Poz draws on in-depth dialogues with Maya Ajq'ijab' (keepers of the ritual calendar), her own participant observation ...

The memory of Bones

body, being and experience among the classic Maya

All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But, is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body ...

Heidegger´s religious origins

destruction and authenticity

In Heidegger's Religious Origins, Benjamin D. Crowe explores the meaning and relevance of Heidegger's early theological development, especially his intellectual ties with Martin Luther. Devoting particular attention to Heidegger's philosophy of religion in the turbulent aftermath of World War I, Crowe shows ...

Les banques entre Droit et Économie

Le droit et l'économie jouent de nouvelle manière sur les banques. Plus ordinaires, celles-ci sont aussi plus spécifiques, tentées par des règles souples conçues par des pays attirants, tout en étant tenues plus fermement par les régulateurs. Richesses et risques jouent différemment. S'y ...

La célérité de la procédure en Droit processuel

La célérité de la procédure juridictionnelle est un objectif poursuivi depuis très longtemps compte tenu des critiques historiquement récurrentes envers la lenteur de la justice. De nombreuses réformes ont ainsi été entreprises par les législateurs anciens et modernes avec cet objectif. Pourtant, la célérité n ...

La coopération décentralisée

Portée par le mouvement de décentralisation, la coopération décentralisée, qui désigne l'ensemble des actions de coopération internationale engagées par les collectivités territoriales françaises avec leurs homologues étrangères, est en pleine expansion. La loi du 6 février 1992 a donné à ces actions un cadre ...

L´exclusivité

Les mots " exclusif " et " exclusivité " sont souvent négativement connotés. Ils sont assimilés aux privilèges de l'Ancien Régime, aux monopoles associés à l'abus des puissants, au sectarisme source d'exclusion. Toutefois, en droit privé, la notion d'exclusivité trouve à s'épanouir. Si ce ...

La lésion

La place réservée à la lésion en droit positif recèle un paradoxe. Rejetée expressément par les textes, elle inspire pourtant un contentieux abondant. Ce décalage entre la persistance du phénomène des contrats lésionnaires et l'insuffisance de leur traitement actuel justifie que le problème de ...

Self-defence in criminal Law

This book combines a careful philosophical discussion of the rationale justifying self-defence with a detailed discussion of the range of statutory self-defence requirements, as well as discussions of numerous other relevant issues (i.e. putative self-defense, excessive self- defense, earlier guilt and battered women). The ...

Music distribution and the internet

a legal guide for the music business

There is hardly an aspect of internet music promotion, sale and distribution which does not have a legal dimension. Since the stakeholders in the process includes artists, their managers, music publishers, record companies, distribution companies and the consumer, the law relating to internet music distribution ...

Aristocracy and the modern world

This is the first comprehensive study of the traditional European ruling class during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Distilling the wealth of recent research for students and general readers, Wasson analyzes the role of aristocracy, focusing on the tensions that exist between modern egalitarian values ...

The French Revolution and the people

The French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. For the first time a major nation fell prey to political and then social revolution, with civil war and the Reign of Terror following the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793. Although ...

Napoleon's men

the soldiers of therRevolution and empire

Napoleon's soldiers marched across Europe from Lisbon to Moscow, and from Germany to Dalmatia. Many of the men, mostly conscripted by ballot, had never before been beyond their native village. What did they make of their extraordinary experiences, fighting battles thousands of miles form ...

Sensible objects

colonialism, museums and material culture

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the ...

Handbook of patristic exegesis

the Bible in Ancient Christianity

Through this Handbook of Patristic Exegesis, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five ...