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A World without walls

freedom, development, free trade and global governance

Pension sharing in practice

Megaprojects and risk

an anatomy of ambition

El canal de distribución

disección de las relaciones comerciales

Democratic accountability and the use of force in international law

Governing as governance

The concept of 'governance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In Governing and Governance, Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field to map and demonstrate the utility of a sociopolitical perspective to our understanding of contemporary ...

Economy, culture and society

a sociological critique of neo-liberalism

Managing and measuring social enterprise

Managing and Measuring Social Enterprises examines the question of what happens when performance improvement techniques originating in the private sector are applied to public and nonprofit organizations. Rob Paton offers a measured critique of the naive realism and rhetorical excesses of the performance management movement ...

Universal Human Rights in theory and practice

Managing high-tech services using a CRM strategy

Creating cooperation

how states develop human capital in Europe

In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills, but uncertainty and mutual distrust among companies ...

"Every valley shall be exalted"

the discourse of opposites in Twelfth-Century thought

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers ...

Miseria de la prosperidad

la religión del mercado y sus enemigos

Desde la caída del comunismo viene produciéndose un enfrentamiento entre neoliberales y antiglobalizadores cada vez más exaltado. Con cierta perplejidad, el comienzo del siglo XXI asiste a un apasionado debate entre los defensores a ultranza del capitalismo y los representantes de un pensamiento supuestamente radical ...

Investigating murder

detective work and the police response to criminal homicide

Liderazgo sin límites

manual de supervivencia para mánagers

Cada día, en cada faceta de nuestras vidas, se nos presentan oportunidades de liderazgo. Nos atrae la posibilidad de destacar en el trabajo y en el hogar, en nuestro entorno inmediato y en la aldea global. Pero a menudo dudamos. Liderar es una tarea arriesgada ...

The black death transformed

disease and culture in early renaissance Europe

The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the ...

Enseñanza y sociedad

El conocimiento sociológico de la educación

The new capital market revolution

the winners, the losers, and the future of finance

The capital markets can be defined as any organized market – or indeed private exchanges – where capital funds (debt and equity/shares) are traded in order to raise capital – cash – for the issuer or holder of the shares or debt. This also includes the multi trillion ...

Russian Regions and regionalism

strength through weakness

Los Recursos Humanos

en las organizaciones orientadas a la eficacia y al aprendizaje

El trabajo es la materialización en acciones de energías físicas, emocionales y mentales por parte del ser humano. Las acciones se llevan a cabo a través de un conjunto de fuerzas que habitan en el hombre y que pueden ser estudiadas de forma separada o ...