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Powerfull different equal

overcoming the misconceptions and differences between China and the US

From Trump's aggressive rhetoric against China, to the escalating trade war with tit for tat responses, and China's 2025 initiative that threatens the US global leadership in advanced technologies, tensions between the US and China (the two dominant forces of today's world ...

Capital is dead

It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism-what if it's something worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not ...

Inequality and the 1%

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone ...

The Case for the Green New Deal

What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it? To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy-we have to change everything. One of the seminal thinkers of the program that helped ignite ...

F**k business

the business of Brexit

When a senior Cabinet minister, dismissed corporate fears over a hard Brexit with a curt 'F**k business', it seemed emblematic of a growing distance between the country's politicians and its wealth creators. Featuring exclusive and candid interviews with those at the heart of ...

The secret art of lobbying

If what happens in politics is obscure, the art of lobbying is firmly hidden in the shadows. 'The Secret Art of Lobbying' raises the veil on the world of lobbying for the businesses of today, showing exactly how you can go out and win in ...

The Cambridge Companion to comparative Constitutional Law

What is the purpose of comparative constitutional law? Comparing constitutions allows us to consider the similarities and differences in forms of government, and the normative philosophies behind constitutional choices. Constitutional comparisons offer 'hermeneutic' help: they enable us to see 'our' own constitution with different eyes ...

Property Law in a globalizing world

Property Law in a Globalizing World identifies the paramount challenges that contemporary processes of globalization pose for the study and practice of property law. It offers a straightforward analysis of legal scenarios implicating cross-border property rights, covering a broad range of resources, from land, goods ...

Derivatives in a day

everything you need to master the mathematics powering derivatives

The derivatives market is enormous - standing at over $500 trillion globally. Warren Buffett called them "financial weapons of mass destruction". They nearly brought about the collapse of the Western financial system in 2008. They are opaque and often misunderstood. They are also immensely powerful and ...

The naked trader

How Anyone Can Make Money Trading Shares

Ever thought about investing in shares but got frustrated by all the gobbledygook? Bored by all the jargon? Then The Naked Trader is for you! This is the book on stock market investing that you can actually enjoy, written in plain English, packed with real-life ...

Chinese Civil Code

The General Part

In modern times, the codification of the entire civil law has become a rare phenomenon. Nevertheless, Chinese lawmakers have decided to create the first Civil Code in the history of PRC and set out an ambitious timeline to achieve this goal. In the process of ...

Impediments of National Procedural Law to the Free Movement of Judgments

Luxembourg Report on European Procedural Law Volume I

This volume presents a comparative examination and empirical evaluation of national procedural rules and practices, and further assesses the key procedural problems that impact mutual trust and the free movement of judgments in light of national and European Court of Justice case law. It provides ...

Cartas Familiares

(selección)

Fray Miguel de Santander, llamado en el siglo Joaquín Matías Suárez Victorica (Santander, 1744-Santa Cruz de Iguña, 1831), predicador y experto en cánones y literatura patrística, fue, como señala Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos en la introducción, un "hombre con gran cultura y sensatez, de opiniones jansenistas ...

Pensamiento musical

En el pensamiento musical confluyen distintos campos de conocimiento como la Filosofía, la Estética, la Historia, la Sociología, la Antropología, etc. Todas estas disciplinas nos ayudan a entender qué funciones tenía la música en diferentes épocas, cómo era considerada por la sociedad del momento y ...

Hacer naciones

Europa del Sur y América Latina en el siglo XIX

La historia de la nación es un campo de estudio con amplias resonancias contemporáneas dado el actual florecimiento por todas partes del nacionalismo. Siendo preciso conocer bien tan importante fenómeno, para ese fin puede sacarse mucho en limpio del análisis de la trayectoria histórica como ...

El comercio internacional castellano a través del puerto de Laredo en la época de Felipe II

Este libro es fruto del estudio de la correspondencia que el mercader medinense Simón Ruiz mantuvo con sus agentes en Laredo, complementado con otras fuentes documentales de distinta procedencia. Todo ello nos ha permitido tomar contacto con la realidad de una pequeña villa cantábrica cuyo ...

Guía didáctica para la igualdad de género

Educar en la igualdad de género es una necesidad en la que todas y todos somos corresponsables. Para ello se requiere un conocimiento ordenado sobre conceptos, así como desarrollar la sensibilidad para detectar conductas y lenguajes negativos que están normalizados para, luego, corregir y sustituir ...

El hombre máquina

Julien Offray de La Mettrie, un auténtico espíritu libre trazó, con su obra, una original parábola sobre el hombre y su condición. Con un fundamento materialista, La Metrrie considera lo físico como lo único real y de donde emanan el resto de efectos y percepciones ...

Modern German Non-Positivism

from Radbruch to Alexy

The relation between law and morality has been at the heart of legal philosophy for millennia. This book is devoted to the two most influential German natural law approaches, Gustav Radbruch's neo-Kantian non-positivism from the 1930s and 1940s and Robert Alexy's contemporary analytical ...

El mundo perdido del Kalahari

en busca de los bosquimanos

Desde los tiempos de su infancia en Sudáfrica, Laurens van der Post soñaba con emprender la búsqueda de los supervivientes puros del único pueblo primigenio de su tierra natal: los bosquimanos del Kalahari. El sueño se vio cumplido cuando tuvo la oportunidad de organizar una ...