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The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society

The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-three original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions, covering topics such as the various legal systems favored ...

The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

Com votem i per què

El agente inmobiliario en casa

Jóvenes 2000 y religión

El ahorro energético

estudios de viabilidad económica

Esta obra no pretende efectuar un estudio completo de los diferentes y muy numerosos procesos en los que puede darse un ahorro energético, sino ilustrar con los ejemplos más emblemáticos las bases de una metodología de trabajo que es bastante similar en todos los casos ...

Rechtfertigung und Opferverhalten

In seiner hier veröffentlichten Tübinger Habilitationsschrift unternimmt der Autor den Versuch, Erklärungsansätze für das dogmatische Erscheinungsbild der Rechtfertigungsgründe im Strafrecht durch eine opfergerichtete Betrachtung zu entwickeln. Inspiriert wurde dieses Unterfangen durch die in den 80er Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts in der Strafrechtswissenschaft aufgeblühte, aber niemals ...

Universalising International Law

The Laws of armed conflicts

a collection of conventions, resolutions and other documents

Camino de Santiago, geografía del espíritu

El Camino de Santiago es un conjunto de envolturas progresivas #Vía Láctea, el propio Camino, Compostela, Catedral y tumba Apostólica#, que conducen a preparar al peregrino para su muerte y resurrección en la meta de sus pasos. Compostela no sólo es el «centro» en el ...

From subsistence to exchange

and other essays

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings ...

Creative destruction

A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his 54th birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it ...

The reemergence of self-employment

a comparative study of self-employment dynamics and social inequality

This book presents results of a cross-national research project on self-employment in eleven advanced economies and demonstrates how and why the practice is reemerging in modern societies. While traditional forms of self-employment, such as skilled crafts work and shop keeping, are in decline, they are ...

The new economic sociology

a reader

Economic sociology is a rapidly expanding field, applying sociology's core insight--that individuals behave according to scripts that are tied to social roles--to economic behavior. It places homo economicus (that tried-and-true fictive actor who is completely rational, acts only out of self-interest, and has perfect ...

Unsolved problems in mathematical systems and control theory

This book provides clear presentations of more than sixty important unsolved problems in mathematical systems and control theory. Each of the problems included here is proposed by a leading expert and set forth in an accessible manner. Covering a wide range of areas, the book ...

Privileging industry

the comparative politics of trade and industrial policy

An important contribution to our understanding of how political institutions and political geography shape political outcomes. Fiona McGillivray argues that differences in political institutions or in industrial structures do not have the straightforward effects on political outcomes that are normally attributed to them. Instead, she ...

¿Vives para trabajar o trabajas para vivir?

encuentra el equilibrio que te hará feliz a ti y a los tuyos

El grupo de discusión

manual de aplicación a la investigación social, comercial y comunicativa

Este es un libro que ofrece una visión completa del proceso de realización de una investigación mediante grupos de discusión. Con una terminología clara y concisa, introduce al lector en los aspectos clave para la planificación, realización y análisis de los resultados de un estudio ...

Empowered participation

Reinventing Urban Democracy.

Self-policing in politics

The Political Economy of Reputational Controls on Politicians

Contrary to what news reports might suggest, the majority of politicians behave ethically and are never subject to investigations. Is this because of the elaborate system of rules Congress has constructed to regulate the conduct of its members as well as the fear of electoral ...