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Pathfinders

a global history of exploration

Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again. Searching tells the epic story of how the route-finders did it: who they ...

The Oxford companion to food

"The Oxford Companion to Food" by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was ...

Open source database driven web development

a guide for information professionals

The Author: Isaac Hunter Dunlap is an experienced web developer who has created numerous database driven applications with Open Source technology. He is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Information Systems at Western Illinois University Libraries. Summary: Almost every organization seeks a simple means of managing ...

Nuovo diritto delle procedure concorsuali

Dalla legge 12 maggio, n. 80 al d.lgs. 9 gennaio 2006, n. 5

Il presente testo nasce dalla convinzione che, invero, molte delle questioni che frequentemente si pongono allo studioso possono essere esposte, nei loro termini essenziali, ricorrendo ad argomentazioni semplici, sì da consentire allo studente di confrontarsi con le varie tematiche, esercitando liberamente la riflessione, anche se ...

La sonrisa de Pitágoras

matemáticas para diletantes

Ante el recelo que tradicionalmente suscitan las matemáticas y la habitual acusación de que no sirven de mucho en la vida cotidiana, el autor ofrece una explicación muy amena y rigurosa del mundo de los números, su historia y sus innumerables aplicaciones prácticas. Tal como ...

La revolución de la riqueza

Este atractivo ensayo contiene un gran número de novedosas ideas, explicadas con gran claridad, que aspiran a iluminarnos sobre el futuro económico y social que se avecina. Los autores plantean lúcidas reflexiones sobre la tecnología, las comunicaciones o el comercio entre distintos países y sobre ...

Costes, precios y rendimiento de los servicios públicos locales

(especial consideración de los servicios sociales)

Los servicios públicos que los gobiernos locales ofrecen a sus ciudadanos suponen, en una parte importante, la garantía del bienestar y de la cohesión social de la comunidad. Las dificultades financieras que dichos gobiernos tienen para atender las crecientes necesidades, en particular en el ámbito ...

Open innovation

researching a new paradigm

"Open Innovation" describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this research and development can take place in a non-proprietary manner. Henry Chesbrough and ...

The Oxford handbook of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship has always been a key factor in economic growth, innovation, and the development of firms and businesses. More recently, new technologies, the waning of the 'old economy', globalization, changing cultures and popular attitudes, and new policy stances have further highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship ...

Restructuring retirement risks

This book posits that retirement security is the central policy concern of our time. A generation of 'Baby Boomers' is on the verge of retirement, yet pension systems confront crushing challenges, and governments often appear confused about which direction they should move in. Contributors to ...

Samuelsonian economics and the twenty-first century

This volume illuminates and critically assesses Paul A. Samuelson's voluminous and groundbreaking contributions to the field of economics. The volume includes contributions from eminent scholars, including 6 Nobel Laureates, covering the extraordinary depth and breadth of Samuelson's contributions. Samuelson, the first American economist ...

Global and national macroeconometric modelling

a long-run structural approach

This book provides a comprehensive description of the state-of-the-art in modelling global and national economies. It introduces the long-run structural approach to modelling that can be readily adopted for use in understanding how economies work, and in generating forecasts for decision- and policy-makers. The book ...

Modelling methods for health economic evaluation

In financially constrained health systems across the world, increasing emphasis is being placed on the ability to demonstrate that health care interventions are not only effective, but also cost-effective. This book deals with decision modelling techniques that can be used to estimate the value for ...

Funds of hedge funds

performance, assessment, diversification and statistical properties

With about $450 billion in assets, funds of hedge funds are the most recent darling of investors. While hedge funds carry high risk for the promise of high returns they are designed for the very rich and for large institutional investors such as pension funds ...

Allgemeines verwaltungsrecht

In der nunmehr bereits dritten Auflage sind die zentralen Themenbereiche des Allgemeinen Verwaltungsrechts einschließlich ihrer Bezüge zum Gemeinschaftsrecht wieder umfassend aktualisiert und auf den neuesten Stand gebracht worden. Eine wesentliche Erweiterung bildet die Aufnahme je eines Kapitels über die neuen Regulierungsbehörden und über das Personal ...

Diritto europeo dei contratti

Il libro di Hein Kötz, Europaïsches Vertragsrecht, Mohr, Tübingen, 1996, offre una interessante esposizione, destinata agli studenti (e ai giuristi) del vecchio continente, costruita in modo da mettere in luce le caratteristiche dell'antico strumento di regolamentazione dei rapporti economici presenti in tutti gli ordinamenti ...

Rappresentazioni e garanzie nei conferimenti d'azienda in società per azioni

Elogio de la amistad

una historia de la amistad desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días

Estamos ante un libro de Historia y de historias, un viaje por la historia del ámbito más privado pero a la vez más universal. Un libro que repasa, con amenidad y rigor, las relaciones en la caverna prehistórica y el compañerismo filosófico de los antiguos ...

Designing economic mechanisms

A mechanism is a mathematical structure that models institutions through which economic activity is guided and coordinated. There are many such institutions; markets are the most familiar ones. Lawmakers, administrators and officers of private companies create institutions in order to achieve desired goals. They seek ...

Joe Wilson and the creation of Xerox

Joe Wilson is the unsung leader of the technological innovations that swept U.S. business in the mid 20th century and that continue to be such a central part of the U.S. economy. Without Joe Wilson, Chet Carlson's invention of the copy machine ...