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Rethink Property Investing

become financially free with commercial property investing

Rethink Property Investing offers practical advice for both new and established investors looking to move beyond traditional residential real estate and enter the profitable world of commercial properties. Scott and Mina O’Neill, Australia’s leading commercial property investors and founders of Rethink Investing, show ...

New pandemics, old politics

two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed – repeatedly. Europe first declared ‘war’ on cholera in the 19th century. It didn’t defeat the disease but it served purposes ...

The myth of private equity

an inside look at Wall Street's transformative investments

Once an obscure niche of the investment world, private equity has grown into a juggernaut, with consequences for a wide range of industries as well as the financial markets. Private equity funds control companies that represent trillions of dollars in assets, millions of employees, and ...

Postliberal politics

the coming era of renewal

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues that ...

How social movements (sometimes) matter

This incisive book explains how groups of ordinary individuals can affect the world, what makes it possible when it works, and why it sometimes doesn't go to plan. Digging into previous scholarship on social movements, David S. Meyer looks at the origins of social ...

The dignity of labour

Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues ...

Warren Buffett

inside the ultimate money mind

In Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind, Hagstrom breaks new ground with a deep analysis of Buffett’s essential wisdom, an intricate mosaic of wide-ranging ideas and insights that Buffett calls a Money Mind. What exactly is a Money Mind? At one level, it ...

Commodity derivatives

markets and applications

Commodity Derivatives In the newly revised Second Edition of Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications, expert trading educator and author Neil Schofield delivers a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of commodities and derivatives. Beginning with discussions of commodity markets generally before moving on to derivative ...

Inclusión constitucional de los pueblos originarios en Chile

el desafío de la plurinacionalidad

La deuda histórica del estado chileno para con los pueblos indígenas, o primeros pueblos, es una historia conocida y padecida por todos ellos. Es una historia de abusos, usurpación, violencia, engaño, desconfianza, de promesas no cumplidas, de criminalización de sus justas luchas. La falta de ...

La ley de mi segunda oportunidad

cómo conseguí superar una crisis financiera y volver a empezar

La Ley de Mi Segunda Oportunidad es un testimonio valiente, y al mismo tiempo difícil, de la experiencia en carne propia de la crisis económica y social de la pandemia de la Covid 19. Aunque los problemas económicos del autor ya venían de atrás, las ...

Lecciones sobre retórica

Adam Smith impartió lecciones sobre retórica entre 1748 y 1763, primero en Edimburgo y a partir de 1751 en la Universidad de Glasgow. Al final de su vida ordenó quemar sus manuscritos, entre ellos el de estas lecciones, por lo que el papel de la ...

Free speech

Freedom of speech is never very far away from political controversy. In recent years, the rise of populism, the 'cancel culture' phenomenon, and online hate attacks are among the developments that have kept it at the forefront of both public and academic discussion. In this ...

Strafrecht Besonderer Teil I

Straftaten Gegen Die Person Und Die Allgemeinheit

Die Darstellung ist systematisch aufgebaut und stellt die Grundstrukturen des jeweiligen Deliktes in den Vordergrund. Zu jedem Straftatbestand findet sich ein detailliertes Aufbauschema, an dem sich die nachfolgende Darstellung orientiert. Neben Bezugen zum Allgemeinen Teil werden gemeinsame Verbindungslinien zwischen den einzelnen Delikten hervorgehoben. Die Darstellung ...

El patrimonio cultural sumergido en Canarias

entre la normativa y la realidad ciudadana

La historia de Canarias está ligada al mar, llegó por mar. Este devenir ha generado un abundante y desconocido patrimonio histórico arqueológico terrestre y subacuático, así como una tradición de fuentes orales de la historia marítima de Canarias, principalmente marinos, pescadores y buceadores, que han ...

Las poetisas canarias

(siglos XVIII, XIX y XX)

La trascendencia que en la historia literaria canaria poseen los textos sobre las mujeres poetas insulares de Padrón Acosta nos ha animado no solo a acercarlos a los interesados, sino a producir un concienzudo trabajo de investigación focalizado en este asunto que actualiza en gran ...

Ópera y zarzuela en Gran Canaria a partir del siglo XIX

una aproximación al género lírico insular

El lector curioso se sorprenderá con alguno de los datos -muy bien documentados- que Henoc Acosta ha sabido recoger con exquisito criterio. Obviamente, cuando uno piensa en Gran Canaria y en la música escénica -ópera o zarzuela-, el primer nombre que viene a la cabeza ...

Embattled Europe

a progressive alternative

Is the European Union in decline? Recent history, from the debt and migration crises to Brexit, has led many observers to argue that the EU’s best days are behind it. Over the past decade, right-wing populists have come to power in Poland, Hungary, and ...

Engine of inequality

the Fed and the future of wealth in America

The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy placed much ...

Olvidado Temor de Dios

Volumen I

“En medio de una noche tempestuosa, el viejo caballero Diego Pérez de Muñatones llega junto a varios de sus escuderos a la villa vizcaína de Balmaseda. Las aciagas noticias de las que es portador, cambiarán para siempre la vida de la heredera al señorío de ...

Macroeconomics

a European perspective

Macroeconomics: A European Perspective, 4th edition, by Blanchard, Amighini & Giavazzi is based on the best-selling US text by Olivier Blanchard and presents an integrated, global view of macroeconomics, showing the connections between goods markets, financial markets, and labour markets worldwide. This is a book rooted ...