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Form and substance in the Law of Obligations

This volume explores the relationship between form and substance in the law of obligations. It builds on the rich tradition of legal thought that deploys the concepts of form and substance to inform our understanding of the common law. The essays in this collection offer ...

The Investment Trusts Handbook 2020

The Investment Trusts Handbook 2020 is the latest edition of the popular annual handbook for investors of all kinds interested in investment trusts - often referred to as the City's best-kept secret. With fascinating articles by more than a dozen different authors, including analysts, fund ...

Trading systems

a new approach to system development and portfolio optimisation

Completely revised and updated second edition, with new AmiBroker codes and new complete portfolio tests Every day, there are traders who make a fortune. It may seem that it seldom happens, but it does - as William Eckhardt, Ed Seykota, Jim Simons, and many others remind ...

The deals of Warren Buffett

Vol.2: The making of a billionaire

In this second volume of The Deals of Warren Buffett, the story continues as we trace Warren Buffett's journey to his first $1bn. When we left Buffett at the end of Volume 1, he had reached a fortune of $100m. In this enthralling next ...

Only the best will do

the compelling case for investing in quality growth businesses

What if there was a uniquely safe place to put your money that also earned the best long-term returns? In Only the Best Will Do, master investor Peter Seilern reveals everything you need to know to practise the art of quality growth investing: finding the ...

Leveraged trading

a professional approach to trading FX, stocks on margin, CFDs, spread bets and futures for all traders

With the right broker, and just a few hundred dollars or pounds, anyone can become a leveraged trader. The products and tools needed are accessible to all: FX, a margin account, CFDs, spread-bets and futures. But this level playing field comes with great risks. Trading ...

Women vs. Capitalism

why we can't have it all in a free market economy

An urgent call to reform capitalism so that it stops failing women. Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky Pryce urgently calls for feminists to ...

Human trafficking

an organised crime?

'Human trafficking' brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat of violence. However, human trafficking is not limited to the sex trade, and this picture is inadequate. It occurs in many different industries---domestic ...

Co-creating brands

brand management froma co-creative perspective

Brand management and development has traditionally been regarded as the responsibility of the organization - they design, produce and sell the brand, before delivering it to customers. Yet this approach can be needlessly restrictive, as the connective power of the internet and the desire of consumers ...

Press Start

using gamification to power-up your marketing

Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards Do you know someone obsessed with a mobile game like Candy Crush? Have you ever felt a rush when you completed a task… and perhaps another when you crossed it off your to-do list? Or maybe you have ...

Align

a leadership blueprint for aligning enterprise purpose, strategy and organisation

Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards Why do some businesses thrive, while many more struggle and fail? A key reason - and the focus of this book - is strategic alignment. This is the careful arrangement of the various elements of an enterprise - from its business ...

International Law and Cannabis

(SET)

This study takes an innovative approach to this issue and approaches the possibility for regulation of cannabis for recreational use from the perspective of positive human rights obligations.

Law of Remedies

a european perspective

With the increasing importance of the concept of remedies in European private law, this book focuses on remedies as a distinctive and novel field of European legal research and considers the common law tradition as well as the civil law viewpoint.

The impactassets handbook for investors

generating social and environmental value through capital investing

"The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors" offers an introductory overview for investors interested in generating financial returns with the creation of social and environmental impact. In addition to discussions of portfolio structure and strategy, the handbook offers an overview of due diligence necessary to assess potential ...

The stock market boom and crash of 1929 was not a bubble

a book of readings

In the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929, Yale University Economics Professor Irving Fisher remained steadfast in his view that the boom in prices had been warranted, pointing to the myriad innovations of the 1920s, including the introduction of the electric unit drive ...

Regulatory delivery

This ground-breaking book addresses the challenge of regulatory delivery, defined as the way that regulatory agencies operate in practice to achieve the intended outcomes of regulation. Regulatory reform is moving beyond the design of regulation to address what good regulatory delivery looks like. The challenge ...

Marketing financiero

En este manual se reconoce que el sector financiero presenta una serie de características específicas que producen una aplicación diferenciada de los principios y estrategias de marketing. Con este preámbulo se aborda el complejo entorno en el que las entidades desempeñan su actividad, con especial ...

Cambios tecnológicos, trabajo y actividad empresarial

el impacto socioeconómico de la economía digital

Este proyecto de investigación propone realizar un balance de los impactos sociales y económicos derivados de la progresiva implantación de la economía digital en España, tanto en lo que se refiere a sus actividades más características –como la producción de servicios basados en plataformas digitales- ...

Comentarios prácticos al Reglamento (UE) 2019/1111

Competencia, reconocimiento y ejecución de resoluciones en materia matrimonial, responsabilidad parental y sustracción internacional de menores

Esta monografía tiene por objeto facilitar al profesional del Derecho el estudio del nuevo Reglamento (UE) 2019/1111, relativo a la Competencia, el Reconocimiento y la Ejecución de Resoluciones en materia Matrimonial y de Responsabilidad Parental, y sobre la Sustracción Internacional de Menores , publicado en ...

Derecho Penal: Parte Especial

Volumen II: Delitos económicos

DERECHO PENAL. PARTE ESPECIAL, Volumen II. Delitos contra las relaciones familiares, contra el patrimonio y el orden socioeconómico El volumen II del Derecho Penal Parte Especial, cuyos autores son profesores en distintas universidades españolas y, algunos de ellos, profesionales en el ejercicio del derecho, comprende ...