Libros de

Kamikazes

los pilotos suicidas japoneses en la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Los autores de este fascinante libro se adentran en el corazón y la mentalidad de los pilotos suicidas, analizando tanto el contexto histórico de la guerra como la cultura y las tradiciones japonesas, en cuyo seno surgieron. Con entrevistas a algunos kamikazes supervivientes, memorias no ...

International economics

The sixth edition of "International Economics" improves and builds upon the popular features of previous editions, with added sections on topics including: developments in international trade agreements and international trade talks; and international financial crises. INDICE Part 1: International Trade and Trade Policy 2. Patterns ...

Health information management

integrating information technology in health care work

Featuring case studies and practitioner perspectives, this is an accessible textbook that combines theoretical backgrounds and starting points with practice-oriented guidelines and advice on the best methods for bringing these ideas to the challenges of everyday health care management. The topics covered include: patient care ...

Theories of corporate governance

the philosophical foundations of corporate governance

Managing change/changing managers

The topic of change management presents students with many challenges. One of the most difficult is making sense of the plethora of guru and hero-manager literature. Managing Change/Changing Managers is an innovative textbook that encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory, presenting a ...

International movement of children

law practice and procedure

La cooperación necesaria

análisis dogmático y jurisprudencial

La figura del cooperador necesario, prevista en el artículo 28 del Código penal, es una de las más controvertidas formas de intervención en el delito. El presente libro constituye un estudio en profundidad de la cooperación en el delito, abordando principalmente su difícil delimitación respecto ...

The e-learning fieldbook

implementation lessons and case studies from companies that are making e-learning work

The E-Learning Fieldbook teaches the expensive lessons learned by leading companies as they have implemented E-learning. Based on 25 case studies of best practices in e-Learning implementation from: Home Depot, Deloitte, JP Morgan, McDonalds, Unilever, Wachovia, BMW, INSEAD, and more, this indispensable guide helps readers ...

Secrets of the undergroundtrader

advanced methods for short-term and swing trading any market

Short-term and swing trading has become the strategy of choice for active, aggressive traders and investors. Secrets of the Undergroundtrader details the advanced methods todays most successful traders live by, from stochastics and candlesticks to 3-price breaks, volatility signals, and more. Each of these methods ...

The strategic partnering handbook

the practitioner's guide to partnerships and alliances

With the global economy now a reality, the objectives of becoming internationally competitive and world class are imperatives for all successful businesses entering the new millennium. Critical to this success and to the development of sustainable competitive advantage will be the quality of relationships developed ...

Electronic democracy

mobilisation, organisation and participation via new ICTs

Politics and the European Commission

actors, interdependence, legitimacy

The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research ...

Knowledge and competitive advantage

the coevolution of firms, technology and national institutions

The European Union and e-Voting

addressing the European Parliament's internet voting challenge

The European Union and E- Voting investigates one of the latest potential changes in the 'technology of democracy' - electronic voting. It explores how it may impact on traditional mechanisms of democratic participation, raising issues that go to the very core of contemporary governance. Among the ...

Divergent dynamics of economic growth

studies in adaptative economizing, technology change and economic developement

This book explains how changing technology and economizing behavior induce vast changes in productivity, resource allocation, labor utilization, and patterns of living. Economic growth is seen as a process by which businesses, regimes, countries, and the whole world pass through distinct epochs, each one emerging ...

City of gold

an apology for global capitalism in a time of discontent

INDICE Part One: Desire's Constitution 1. Conception 2. Money as Communication 3. Finance and the War Against Time 4. Urban Renewal 5. Governance Part Two: Constitutional Critique 6. Alienation 7. Inauthenticity 8. Identity, Tense Part Three: Exhausted Philosophies 9. The Reformation of Economics 10 ...

Trade politics

Trade has always been an intensely political activity. Its conduct determines the well-being of entire national communities, and expansion of trade since the Second World War has been one of the major engines of world economic growth. In this new, fully updated edition, leading experts ...

Making history

agency, structure, and change in social theory

Making History is about the question - central to social theory - of how human agents draw their powers from the social structures they are involved in. Drawing on classical Marxism, analytical philosophy, and a wide range of historical writing, Alex Callinicos seeks to avoid two unacceptable ...

Love, war, and the grail

templars, hospitallers, and teutonic knights in medieval epic and romance 1150-1500

Originally published by Brill in 2001 as part of the series History of Warfare . Scholars of the crusades, medieval history, and medieval literature will welcome the paperback reprinting of this interdisciplinary study. Nicholson (Cardiff U., Wales), who has published extensively on the history of the ...

Jewish book art between islam and christianity

the decoration of hebrew bibles in Medieval Spain