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Nihilismo y emancipación

ética, política, derecho

Company Law in practice

European Community competition Law in practice

Contando la geometría

La democracia real

hacia el final del estado totalizador de lo público

La raza de los malditos

la homosexualidad, el amor a la madre y el placer que vive en los sueños

Sin los salones lujosos, sin la homosexualidad masculina, sin el lesbianismo, sin las muchachas en flor amadas en la lejanía, en el recuerdo, en su intangibilidad, sin la omnipresencia de la madre, sin el esnobismo y los bailes de la nobleza, no hubiera existido Marcel ...

Governing through markets

forest certification and the emergence of non-state authority

In recent years a startling policy innovation has emerged within global and domestic environmental governance: certification systems that promote socially responsible business practices by turning to the market, rather than the state, for rule-making authority. This book documents five cases in which the Forest Stewardship ...

The quiet revolution

central banking goes modern

Although little noticed, the face of central banking has changed significantly over the past ten to fifteen years, says the author of this enlightening book. Alan S. Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System and member of President Clinton#s Council of ...

Sale of goods and consumer credit in practice

Criminología

Esta obra de Maurice Parmelee es fruto de varios años de experiencias del autor con delincuentes en los Tribunales y prisiones de Estados Unidos y de investigaciones criminológicas en Europa; y plantea el estudio de los dos mayores males sociales: pobreza y delito.

Digitizing the news

innovation in online newspapers

In this study of how daily newspapers in America have developed electronic publishing ventures, Pablo Boczkowski shows that new media emerge not just in a burst of revolutionary technological change but by merging the structures and practices of existing media with newly available technical capabilities ...

Shaping the network society

the new role of civil society in cyberspace

Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are ...

Caso resuelto

Las más espectaculares y fascinantes investigaciones criminales

A semantic web primer

The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its use. A Semantic Web Primer provides an introduction and guide to this emerging field, describing its key ideas, languages, and technologies. Suitable for use as ...

Earthly politics

local and global in environmental governance

Globalization today is as much a problem for international harmony as it is a necessary condition of living together on our planet. Increasing interconnectedness in ecology, economy, technology, and politics has brought nations and societies into ever closer contact, creating acute demands for cooperation. Earthly ...

Models of a man

essays in memory of Herbert A.Simon

colleagues. Long Description Herbert Simon (1916-2001), in the course of a long and distinguished career in the social and behavioural sciences, made lasting contributions to many disciplines, including economics, psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics ...

Green giants

environmrntal policies of the United States and the European Union

The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability ...

The green state

rethinking democracy and sovereignty

What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state--seeking, she ...

The second century

reconnecting customer and value chain through build-to-order : moving beyond mass and lean production in the auto industry

As the auto industry moves into its second century, it suffers from low margins and a sclerotic value chain that cannot evolve with customer desires. Inventories of many weeks pile up on dealer lots and at distribution centers around the world while executives applaud marginal ...

Life under pressure

mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia,1700-1900

This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 ...