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America by the numbers

quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics

When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers, Emmanuel ...

The AI book

the artificial intelligence handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and finTech visionaries

Written by prominent thought leaders in the global fintech space, The AI Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume and explains what artifical intelligence really means and how it can be used across financial services today. Key industry developments are explained in detail ...

The discourse of police interviews

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest with an established research presence. The Discourse of Police Interviews aims to further the discussion by analyzing how police interviews are constructed and used to investigate ...

El arsenal de Clío

el problema de la escritura de la historia en la cultura occidental, 1880-1990

¿Cómo debe escribirse la historia? Esta cuestión ha sido debatida desde los comienzos de la historiografía griega, que con la advocación de la musa Clío, subrayó su preocupación literaria. A partir del siglo XIX, la cientifización de los estudios históricos puso de relieve, más allá ...

The European Free Trade Asocciation

an intergovernmental platform for trade relations

This book shall be an introduction into the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as an international organization and, inter alia, as a platform for its member states’ relations with the EU and for jointly negotiated Free Trade Agreements. EFTA – originally set up by the UK ...

Countering violent extremism and terrorism

assessing domestic and international strategies

Since 9/11, counterterrorism has become a national and international priority. Research on violent extremism and terrorism, from homegrown threats to foreign fighters, has adapted accordingly but has not always translated into policymaking. Extremism can be traced to no single cause, and yet governments and ...

Las matemáticas en España durante el siglo XVIII a través de los libros y sus autores

Este trabajo analiza los libros utilizados para la enseñanza de las matemáticas en el siglo XVIII en España, para ello se identifican y categorizan los libros de texto matemáticos publicados en este siglo según su contenido: aritmética, álgebra, geometría y análisis (cálculo). Así mismo, se ...

Gendering the European Parliament

structures, policies, and practices

While the European Commission as agenda-setter of EU policies has been scrutinized in detail, the European Parliament still requires a comprehensive investigation that addresses the European Parliament as a gendered institution and its gendered impacts on EU policies. This book provides a multi-faceted innovative analysis ...

No substitute for competence

on the origins and consequences of issue ownership

Issue ownership theory is a tale of two actors. On the one hand, it theorizes how parties compete with each other in their struggle for votes. On the other hand, issue ownership is about the citizen. It claims that voters are more likely to support ...

From parchment to practice

implementing new constitutions

From Parchment to Practice explores the set of problems that arise when a new constitution has been adopted. All new constitutions must manage a balance or tension between two forces: aspirations for social and political transformation on the one hand and demands for preservation of ...

Bad data

why we measure the wrong things and often miss the metrics that matter

Highlights the pitfalls of data analysis and emphasizes the importance of using the appropriate metrics before making key decisions. Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important ...

The spatial contract

a new politics of provision for an urbanized planet

Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care. These are the core systems which make human life possible in the 21st century. Few of us are truly self-sufficient - we rely on the systems built into our cities and towns of all shapes and sizes in ...

European labour movements in crisis

from indecision to indifference

In this book, Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. It bases its hypothesis on analysis of four countries - Germany, Spain, France and Poland - and two processes: the collective bargaining practices of trade ...

Sons of the waves

the common seaman in the heroic age of sail

British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present ...

Max Aub / Buñuel

Todas las conversaciones

La aparición en 1985 de las conversaciones que Max Aub mantuvo con Luis Buñuel y sus allegados supuso un punto de inflexión en la historiografía sobre el cineasta. Sin embargo, esa edición no solo no incluía todo el material recopilado por Aub para su proyecto ...

Interrogatorio del perito en juicio

manual de superviviencia para abogados ( y peritos)

¿En cuántas ocasiones los abogados hemos afrontado el interrogatorio del perito propuesto de adverso a sabiendas de la enorme dificultad del mismo? ¿Cuántas veces hemos salido frustrados del juzgado ante la imposibilidad de alcanzar los objetivos propuestos durante el interrogatorio del perito?... Estas preguntas encierran ...

La ejecución de sentencias contencioso-administrativas firmes en materia tributaria

aspectos conflictivos

La obra consta de dos partes diferenciadas: En la primera parte analiza el régimen jurídico de la ejecución de sentencias contencioso-administrativas firmes, prestando singular atención a aquellos aspectos del mismo con mayor incidencia en las recaídas en materia tributaria. En la segunda parte examina las ...

El hombre más rico de Babilonia

cómo alcanzar el éxito y solucionar tus problemas financieros

Cómo alcanzar el éxito y solucionar tus problemas financieros El éxito que alcanzó con su empresa de impresión de mapas permitió a George S. Clason amasar una gran fortuna. El método en el que cimentó su gestión del dinero y que plasmó en este libro ...

Así están las cosas

¿Qué ha sucedido durante 2019 y principios de 2020 y cómo afrontan su futuro legal los políticos catalanes exiliados? Gonzalo Boyé es el cerebro jurídico que ha llevado el caso de los políticos catalanes que se exiliaron cuando se supo que la juez Lamela iba ...

Aplicación de la norma tributaria

conflictos de calificación

Esta monografía trata de la aplicación de la norma tributaria e intenta reivindicar la interpretación estricta de la ley fiscal precisamente porque es una norma de orden público en el sentido de una norma imperativa dirigida a la Administración Tributaria, que no le permite separarse ...