Si Aristóteles dirigiera General Motors

las enseñanzas clásicas para sobrevivir en un mundo competitivo

¿Qué puede ofrecer la filosofía clásica al mundo de la empresa actual? A lo largo de los siglos, filósofos y pensadores nos han legado un inmenso patrimonio de sabiduría. En Si Aristóteles dirigiera General Motors, Tom Morris comparte el conocimiento obtenido a través de una ...

Dictionary of jewish biography

God's warriors

Crusaders, saracens and the battle for Jerusalem

Pythagoras

his life, teaching and influence

Emperor of Japan

Meiji and his world , 1852-1912

Thinking medieval

an introduction to the study of the Middle Ages

This book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes. It examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the ...

Small customers, big market

commercial banks in microfinance

Almería andalusí y su territorio

textos geográficos

The fall of soviet communism

1985-91

The american revolution

Colin Bonwick expands and updates the well-received first edition, and incorporates fresh material drawn from recent scholarship. The structure and argument of the book remain as before, but in particular Bonwick pays greater attention to Native Americans, African Americans, and white women. Though the book ...

The final energy crisis

This book explores the crisis in fossil fuels. Oil, gas and coal are precious resources that define modern life. Without them, mass-produced food and clothing, and international travel and cars, become rare or impossible. Yet our reliance on fossil fuels is responsible for massive environmental ...

Feminism and motherhood in western Europe 1890-1970

the maternal dilemma

According to Allen, motherhood and citizenship are terms that are closely linked and have been redefined over the past century due to changes in women's status, feminist movements, and political developments. Mother-child relationships were greatly affected by political decisions during the early 1900s, and ...

Genocide and Human Rights

a philosophical guide

Genocide is evil or nothing could be. It raises a host of questions about humanity, rights, justice, and reality, which are key areas of concern for philosophy. Strangely, however, philosophers have tended to ignore genocide. Even more problematic, philosophy and philosophers bear more responsibility for ...

El diseño emocional

por qué nos gustan (o no) los objetos cotidianos

¿No se ha preguntado alguna vez por qué el vino tiene mejor sabor cuando se sirve en elegantes copas de diseño? ¿O por qué el coche, una vez lavado y abrillantado, parece que se conduce con más facilidad? Investigaciones recientes han demostrado cómo los objetos ...

Culture, institutions and economic development

a study of eight European regions

Regions are increasingly recognised as a key aspect of economic change in Europe, not merely as geographic spaces but also as social systems. Their history, culture, institutions and patterns of leadership mould the way in which they adapt to European and global competitive challenges. This ...

Innovation management in the ICT sector

how frontrunners stay ahead

Edward Huizenga explores how knowledge and service intensive companies can thrive on innovation and entrepreneurship in the ICT sector. He applies new theoretical insights from strategy and organisation theory, and includes case studies of 30 European service companies. These case studies address the key innovation ...

Risk and asset alloction

This encyclopedic, detailed exposition spans all the steps of one- period allocation from the foundations to the most advanced developments. Multivariate estimation methods are analyzed in depth, including non- parametric, maximum-likelihood under non-normal hypotheses, shrinkage, robust, and very general Bayesian techniques. Evaluation methods such as ...

The European Central Bank

credibility, transparency, and centralization

The adoption of the euro in 1999 by 11 member states of the European Union created a single currency area second in economic size only to the United States. The euro zone's monetary policy is now set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and ...

Monedas hispánicas de la Bibliothéque Nationale de France

Economic and fiancial decisions under risk

An understanding of risk and how to deal with it is an essential part of modern economics. Whether liability litigation for pharmaceutical firms or an individual's having insufficient wealth to retire, risk is something that can be recognized, quantified, analyzed, treated--and incorporated into our ...