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Encyclopedia of human geography

Human geography in the last decade has undergone a conceptual and methodological renaissance that transformed it into one of the most dynamic and innovative of the social sciences. Long a borrower of ideas from other disciplines, geography has become a contributor in its own right ...

Environment

Human geography in the last decade has undergone a conceptual and methodological renaissance that transformed it into one of the most dynamic and innovative of the social sciences. Long a borrower of ideas from other disciplines, geography has become a contributor in its own right ...

Diccionario

vida y obra de José Lezama Lima (2ª parte)

Evolution of markets and institutions

a study of an emerging economy

The new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century. Taking its roots in the transaction cost theory of the firm as an economic organization rather than purely a production function, it has been ...

Cosmopolitan vision

In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration ...

Understanding accounts

An introduction to the repo markets

The Repo markets have grown dramatically in the past few years because of the need to hedge short positions in the capital and derivatives markets. Virtually all major currency markets in the world now have an established repo market, the facility is also increasingly being ...

The handbook of logistics contracts

a practical guide to a growing field

The third-party logistics industry is a growing field. Relationships between third-party logistics providers and customer firms demand the creation of logistics contract, where the necessary business and legal agreements are stipulated. Until now, the creation and negotiation of these agreements have been based on custom ...

The Lore of Ireland

an encyclopaedia of myth, legend and romance

Ireland has one of the finest cultural heritages and a standard reference book combining the related subjects of folklore, myth, legend and romance is long overdue. There are 350 substantial entries, in alphabetical order from Aban, a 6th-century saint, to Weather, all with full references ...

A dictionary of Northern mythology

For two-and-a-half thousand years, from 1500BC to 1000AD, a culture as significant as the classical civilization of the Mediterranean world settled an immense area in northern Europe that stretched from Iceland to the Black Sea. But whereas the stuff of classical mythology has been fully ...

Handbook on the economics of discrimination

Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers ...

Labour market adjustments in Europe

It is now widely accepted that expansionary fiscal or monetary policies alone are unlikely to help Europe's ailing economies. Solving Europe's economic problems requires reform of the economic institutions that influence economic activity and the way the economy responds to macroeconomic shocks. This ...

The economics of international integration

The splintering of the multilateral trading system into a number of trading blocs and arrangements has been one of the most important issues in international economics, particularly after the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 and especially after the launch of the Doha ...

Spectacular power in the greek and roman city

This study of the visible representation of power and prestige, in both Greek and Roman polities of the ancient world, demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance. The spectacular rhetorics of a ...

La ciudad

una historia global

Desde tiempos muy remotos, las ciudades han sido testigos de excepción del progreso humano, han visto caer imperios y han renacido de sus propias cenizas. Antiguas ciudades-estado o modernas metrópolis contemporáneas como Shangai, son el material de investigación que el autor emplea para presentarnos una ...

A corporate solution to global poverty

how multinationals can help the poor and invigorate their own legitimacy

World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet, it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist ...

Sufficient reason

volitional pragmatism and the meaning of economic institutions

In the standard analysis of economic institutions - which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations) - economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley challenges these theories, arguing instead ...

The wizard and the warrior

leading with passion and power

Why a book about wizards and warriors as models for leadership? Because, as Peter Drucker once said, everything you learned is wrong - at best, it is misleading and insufficient. You typically learn in school, workshops, and seminars that if you can manage the work and ...

European Union Law

text and materials

How can the law of the European Union be most effectively taught in the face of the EU's current upheavals? With this new book a team of specialists provide a comprehensive survey of EU law, placing it in its social, political and economic contexts ...

Des nullités de l'instruction et de jugement

Une théorie générale des nullités ? Est-il exact d#énoncer qu#il n#existe pas de théorie générale des nullités en droit de la procédure pénale ? Dans l#affirmative, faut-il en adopter une qui se rapprocherait, par exemple, du système prévu par le Code judiciaire ? L ...