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El contrato fijo discontinuo tras la reforma laboral

El contrato de trabajo fijo discontinuo es la medida estrella de la Reforma de 2021 para reducir la tasa de temporalidad y se ha conseguido en términos estadísticos. Con tal fin, se amplía su ámbito pues al tradicional trabajo de temporada con una discontinuidad real ...

La marca personal del abogado

potencia tu carrera profesional

En este libro se analiza la marca personal del abogado. Una atractiva propuesta de la que ya hay algunos trabajos a nivel general, pero ninguno ha abordado esta práctica en el mundo de la abogacía. En un momento como el que vivimos, de globalización y ...

La lluita per l'autonomia universitària a Catalunya i a l'Estat espanyol: la primera Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1933-1939)

La manifestació d’una política universitària diferenciada basada en la independència orgànica

Aquesta obra presenta un estudi descriptiu, de les diferents etapes, fases, reptes i contradiccions que va travessar la Universitat Autònoma per assolir la seva tan lluitada i anhelada autonomia, amb l’esperança de convertir-se en una Universitat autònoma, catalana i social. S’hi relacionen les ...

Centennials

the 12 habits of great, enduring organisations

Start-ups rarely survive their second birthday. Even established firms in the UK and the US average a life of only fifteen years. So how can your company build and sustain success for decades to come? Professor Alex Hill has conducted thirteen years of groundbreaking research ...

Possible

ways to net zero

'As Chris Goodall explains, removing fossil fuels from our energy system is technologically feasible ... and we should take heart that these steps to fight climate change will also lead to large and immediate gains in our day-to-day health' Tim Harford A carbon neutral future is ...

Tory nation

the dark legacy of the world's most successful political party

Why do British politics so often play out on the Tories' terms? What does this say about our democracy? In his revelatory book, Samuel Earle explores the roots of the current crisis and the real reasons for the Conservatives' unsettling success, from their ruling-class origins ...

Win every argument

the art of debating, persuading, and public speaking

Arguments are everywhere - and especially given the fierce debates we're all embroiled in today, everyone wants to win. Strong arguments, made in good faith, also have intrinsic value as they help us solve problems, uncover new ideas . . . and can also simply be fun. In ...

Cuckooland

where the rich own the truth

Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The power to choose what you want reality to be and impose that reality on the world. For three years, Tom Burgis followed a lead that took ...

Trust the plan

the rise of QAnon and the conspiracy that unhinged America

For the followers of QAnon, the idea that Donald Trump was anointed by God to stop a depraved deep state government that sexually abuses, kills and eats children is an unquestionable fact. But how did a conspiracy theory from the dark side of the internet ...

The shortest history of economics

The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation, tracing how capitalism and the market system emerged. From the emergence of agriculture to the war in Ukraine, Andrew Leigh weaves a fascinating narrative punctuated by expert insights into ...

Warmonger

Vladimir Putin's imperial wars

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was a war long in the making and is the latest in a series of military interventions that have showcased Vladimir Putin's deadly imperial ambitions and the ruthless and bloody strategies that serve his vision of a ...

Labour regimes and global production

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of production and ...

Macroeconomic policy since the financial crisis

Economic policymakers use various macroeconomic models, but how reliable are they in real-world conditions? Starting from the premise that all models are wrong, but some are useful, Matteo Iannizzotto introduces and explains the workings of the key economic models available for policymaking. He shows that ...

Feminist political economy

a global perspective

Feminist political economy is essential to understanding the power relations and hierarchies that shape and sustain contemporary capitalism. Motivated by the rejection of gender-blind approaches in economics feminist political economy provides compelling insights into the relations between the economic, the social and the political in ...

Deterring Armageddon

a biography of NATO

The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded ...

Infectious generosity

the ultimate idea worth spreading

Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way back? Chris Anderson, the head of TED, believes that we can turn outrage back into optimism. It ...

Money and promises

seven deals that changed the world

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of a looming financial crisis, the city's rulers and its ...

Adventures in democracy

the turbulent world of people power

Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from her childhood in post-war Japan, where democracy was imposed on a defeated country, to working in post-communist Poland, with its ...

Giustizia e politica

Crisi e rifondazione del garantismo penale

Negli ultimi trent'anni la criminalità in Italia ha subito un crollo significativo: gli omicidi, che nel 1991 ammontavano a 1938, sono oggi poco più di 300, e anche gli altri reati sono notevolmente diminuiti. Come è possibile quindi che il numero di detenuti sia ...

Autobiografia

In questa "Autobiografia" Norberto Bobbio ripensa e racconta la propria vita, cominciata quasi agli inizi del secolo scorso. Dagli anni dell'adolescenza alla stagione più matura, dalle prime voraci letture agli interrogativi cruciali della vecchiaia, il filosofo del dubbio rilegge la propria esistenza e cerca ...