Libros de

Cálculo II

Curso práctico de integración en varias variables y ecuaciones diferenciales

Este libro está concebido como una guía imprescindible para la asignatura Cálculo en varias variables (Cálculo II) para los cursos de grado en Ingeniería Civil y Territorial de la UPM. No obstante, también puede ser utilizado por cualquier lector que esté buscando ejercicios resueltos sobre ...

Viendo lo que se avecina

cómo detectar los puntos de inflexión en los negocios antes de que sucedan

Los cambios paradigmáticos en el panorama de los negocios, que se conocen con el nombre de 'puntos de inflexión', pueden generar nuevas oportunidades empresariales (como, por ejemplo, Amazon y Netflix) o dar lugar a consecuencias devastadoras (como en el caso de Blockbuster y Toys R ...

Delitos contra la seguridad vial

tras la labor nomofiláctica y unificadora de la Sala Segunda del Tribunal Supremo

La voluntad del recurso de casación históricamente ha sido llevar a cabo una función nomofiláctica y unificadora de la interpretación de los tipos penales, garantizándose la seguridad jurídica y la igualdad en la aplicación del Derecho. Pese a esa voluntad, el modelo anterior a la ...

Aspectos legales, jurisprudenciales y policiales de la entrada y registro en lugar cerrado

En esta obra los autores han querido abordar, de una forma sistemática y completa, todos los aspectos teóricos, prácticos, con diligencias policiales y numerosa jurisprudencia, sobre las más relevantes cuestiones que se suscitan respecto a la realización de la diligencia de investigación del proceso penal ...

Anarcafeminismo

El verbo empoderarse es el peor que las feministas liberales podrían haber elegido y el que mejor las describe. La tarea del feminismo actual no es alcanzar el poder sino subvertirlo. Siguiendo a Federici y otras teóricas marxistas, este trabajo da cuenta de cómo el ...

Contra la violencia de género

cómo responder a los estereotipos, combatir los abusos y construir una nueva igualdad

¿Por qué publicar un libro sobre la violencia de género? ¿No se habla ya suficiente del tema? ¿No se han escrito miles de páginas al respecto? La respuesta es no. El conjunto de modelos tóxicos que posibilita y normaliza los abusos contra las mujeres está ...

La admisión del recurso de casación civil

situación actual y reforma

Esta obra tiene por objeto realizar un examen crítico de la vigente regulación de la fase de admisión del recurso de casación civil, a la luz de la última jurisprudencia y de los numerosos trabajos doctrinales existentes sobre la materia. Además, se analiza la reforma ...

Ley y Reglamento de Auditoría de Cuentas

estudio y análisis práctico, jurisprudencia y resoluciones y consultas del ICAC

La presente obra tiene por objeto la exposición detallada de los distintos aspectos que regulan la Ley 22/2015, de 20 de julio, de Auditoría de Cuentas y el Reglamento que la desarrolla, aprobado por Real Decreto 2/2021, de 12 de enero. Dicha regulación ...

Re-imagining international relations

world orders in the thought and practice of indian, chinese, and islamic civilizations

Buzan and Acharya challenge the discipline of International Relations to reimagine itself in the light of the thinking about, and practice of, international relations and world order from premodern India, China and the Islamic world. This prequel to their 2019 book, The Making of Global ...

We Need to Talk

how cross-party dialogue reduces affective polarization

Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their democracy. This Element tests one strategy for ameliorating such animus: having ordinary Democrats and Republicans come together for ...

Can blockchain solve the hold-up problem in contracts?

A vexing problem in contract law is modification. Two parties sign a contract but before they fully perform, they modify the contract. Should courts enforce the modified agreement? A private remedy is for the parties to write a contract that is robust to hold-up or ...

Lawful by design

measuring procedural justice in global governance

In recent years, the procedural rules of global governance institutions have come under scrutiny from scholars worldwide and have been conceptualized as akin to domestic administrative law. However, one question has so far not been addressed: who shapes this procedure and why? In the present ...

Market investigations

a new competition tool for Europe?

In many economic sectors - the digital industries being first and foremost - the market power of dominant firms has been steadily increasing and is rarely challenged by competitors. Existing competition laws and regulations have been unable to make markets more contestable. The book argues that a ...

Citizenship in hard times

how ordinary people respond to democratic threat

What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? This book examines the mass politics of civic obligation in the US, UK, and Germany. Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections and polarization, Sara Wallace Goodman shows that citizens respond to threats to democracy ...

Rethinking Liberty before liberalism

Opens up new histories of freedom and republicanism by building on Quentin Skinner's ground-breaking Liberty before Liberalism nearly twenty five years after its initial publication. Leading historians and philosophers reveal the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical hermeneutic ...

Checks in the balance

legislative capacity and the dynamics of executive power

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches The specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination. Are checks and balances enough to constrain ambitious executives? Checks in the Balance presents ...

How growth really happens

the making of economic miracles through production, governance, and skills

A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century Achieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to understand how successful growth happens we need an economic framework ...

Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin

freedom, politics and humanity

For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for political theory and philosophy Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah ...

The Israeli economy

a story of success and costs

An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the present In 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries ...

The (un)written constitution

Illuminates the unwritten ideas that underlie our deepest debates about the written Constitution. The late Justice Scalia relished pointing to departures from the written text of the Constitution as a departure from Constitutional law itself, but in fact his own jurisprudence relied on unwritten ideas ...