Micro-econometrics for policy, program, and treatment effects

Corporate insolvency Law

theory and application

This volume analyses corporate insolvency law as a coherent whole, stemming from common fundamental principles and amenable to being justified or criticised on that basis. The author explains why consistency of principle must be sought and how it might be found in the relevant statutory ...

International crimes and the ad hoc tribunals

Liability for products

english law, french Law and european harmonisation

This comparative study considers the French and English laws governing all those who may be liable for products: their producers, their suppliers, their users and their regulators. To do so, it examines in each system the private law of tort and contract and aspects of ...

Desisting from crime

continuity and change in long-term crime patterns of serious chronic offenders

This groundbreaking study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. The authors address questions that have been the focus of criminological debate over the last two decades. Are there are multiple groups of offenders in the population with distinct age-crime patterns? Are between-person differences ...

Copyright and free speech

comparative and international analyses

Written by a team of leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of copyright and free speech, this work analyses the potential for interaction and conflict between the two rights. Free speech is the lifeblood of any democracy. As John Stuart Mill stated, "In government ...

El informe Masterman

reflexiones de un extraterrestre sobre el funcionamiento de una empresa

En un lejano planeta llamado Astralio, donde imperan los valores de la honestidad, la sinceridad y la tolerancia, se declara una crisis de hambre. Entonces deciden enviar a la Tierra a Masterman para que estudie un máster de Administración de Empresas y salve su planeta ...

Transnational Television Worldwide

towards a new media order

This volume brings together papers accepted for the 2004 conference in the series on Subsea Control and Data Acquisition. The event, at the Total Conference Centre, Pau, France on 10 and 11 June, was organized by the Institute of Measurement and Control, based in London ...

The Cambridge Companion to arabic philosophy

The new imperialism

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on ...

El registro de bienes muebles

los bienes muebles y la preferencia registral de los derechos inscritos

En este estudio, la primera monografía sobre el tema, se analiza la situación actual en Derecho positivo español sólo después de un examen del estado de la cuestión en la ciencia jurídica y en Derecho comparado. Una parte central del mismo se dedica a tres ...

El inútil de la familia

Cuando Jorge Edwards comenzó a escribir, en plena adolescencia, en un mundo que estaba muy lejos de destinarlo a la literatura, se encontró con un pariente cercano que nadie nombraba, un fantasma, un marginal, un maldito de su época, Joaquín Edwards Bello. Joaquín había obtenido ...

Sueño y razón de América Latina

política, cultura y sociedad civil en la gran transición

Muslims and the state in Britain, France and Germany

La constitución de los atenienses

Ed. Gerardo Ramírez Vidal. '#el autor de esta obra, hoy desconocido, muestra que las acciones de gobierno de aquel sistema no eran equivocados, como pretendían los críticos tradicionalistas con razonamientos ingenuos y superficiales, sino que, en realidad, eran justas y adecuadas desde la óptica del ...

Une déstalinisation manquée Tchácoslovaquie 1956

Auschwitz

a history

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse ...

Drake

the lige and legend of an Elizabethan hero

Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in his bearing, heroic if sometimes foolhardy in his enterprise, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is the archetypal Elizabethan sea-dog, and Stephen Coote's brilliant new book rescues him ...

North american archaeology

Feminist theory

a philosophical anthology

Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology addresses seven philosophically significant questions regarding feminism, its central concepts of sex and gender, and the project of centering women's experience. The volume's well-chosen essays contemplate the nature of sexist oppression, the sex/gender distinction, how gender-based norms ...