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Aftermath

seven secrets of welath preservation in the coming chaos

In his most practical book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artificially inflated and what smart investors can do to protect their assets. What goes up must come down. As any student of ...

Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law

Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law provides readers with a clear introduction to UK intellectual property law, whilst carefully placing the law in its global context and acknowledging the influence of EU and other international jurisdictions over its development. The book examines the methods and ...

Lectures in Macroeconomics

a capitalist economy without unemployment

Lectures in Macroeconomics: A Capitalist Economy Without Unemployment provides a systematic account of the principle of aggregate demand based on the work of Polish economist Michal Kalecki, best known as one of the originators of the Keynesian Revolution in macroeconomics.The lectures demonstrate the importance ...

Crime and punishment in Islamic Law

a fresh interpretation

In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah. He examines what the Qur'an ...

The book business

what everyone needs to know

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go back to favorite books year after year, give or lend books to loved ones and friends to share the ...

El progreso de los pueblos y el desarrollo humano integral

Flat tax

parti uguali tra disuguali?

Per alcuni porterebbe alla semplificazione del sistema tributario e a una pressione fiscale meno opprimente per chi lavora, favorendo la crescita economica e contrastando l’evasione. Per altri, che la identificano con una bassa pressione fiscale, la flat tax sarebbe una riforma a vantaggio dei ...

Mai più senza maestri

“Mai più senza maestri”: è questo il motto lanciato da Gustavo Zagrebelsky, che ribalta lo slogan degli striscioni sbandierati durante il Sessantotto parigino. I giovani sessantottini, d'altra parte, ignoravano che il loro sogno antiautoritario di una società libera, creativa e priva di padri poteva ...

Partito e democrazia

l'incerto percorso della legittimazione dei partiti

È sotto gli occhi di tutti come i partiti siano ormai poco apprezzati dall’opinione pubblica in quasi tutte le democrazie consolidate. Integrando analisi filosofiche, storiche e politologiche, il libro risale alle radici profonde della debole legittimazione dei partiti nella nostra società e individua i ...

Dalla testimonianza alla sentenza

il giudizio tra mente e cervello

L’analisi dell’architettura del cervello consente di identificare svariate scorciatoie o trappole mentali che svolgono un ruolo determinante nei processi di tipo valutativo. Tali scorciatoie, innestandosi nelle stime giudiziarie, soprattutto quando svolte in condizioni d’incertezza o incompletezza delle informazioni o di scarsità di ...

Les fondements de la théorie de l'État moderne

Dans la période contemporaine, l'Etat se trouve à nouveau au centre des débats, ainsi qu'en témoignent les travaux récents réalisés sous l'égide du Conseil d'Etat (Où va l'Etat ? , de 2015 et, dernièrement, son étude annuelle sur la citoyenneté, de 2018 ...

Les sources constitutionnelles du Droit Administratif

introduction au Droit Public

Droit constitutionnel et droit administratif sont traditionnellement étudiés comme deux disciplines distinctes. Les liens qui unissent ces deux branches du droit public sont pourtant très étroits. La mise en oeuvre de la question prioritaire de constitutionnalité les a encore renforcés. Des impératifs constitutionnels imposent des ...

How to lose a country

the seven steps from democracy to dictatorship

Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote. She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump's election was soundtracked by chants of 'Build that wall.' She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as ...

Calculus reordered

a history of the Big Ideas

Calculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and how its current ...

Creativity and copyright

legal essentials for screenwriters and creative artists

Inspired by Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals. Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to protect ...

The architecture of banking in Renaissance Italy

constructing the spaces of money

Over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, European society confronted rapid monetization, a process that has been examined in depth by economic historians. Less well understood is the development of architecture to meet the needs of a burgeoning mercantile economy in the Late ...

A user's guide to Patents

A User's Guide to Patents, Fifth Edition provides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice. This new edition sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced and addresses wider public ...

Actividad económica en el mercado e interés general

sobre el Derecho de fundaciones de nuestro tiempo

La fundación, como figura jurídica singular, viene experimentando desde hace tiempo una considerable evolución que la ha llevado de ser un ente limitado a gestionar el patrimonio conferido por el fundador a jugar un relevante papel al servicio de fines de interés general. En ese ...

Manual de introducción al Derecho penal

En este libro los autores, profesores de Derecho Penal de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, han apostado por la brevedad y la síntesis, una senda que solo le está permitido transitar a quienes, como es el caso, poseen un dominio absoluto de la materia a ...

El sistema penitenciario español en la encrucijada

una lectura penitenciaria de las últimas reformas penales

La herencia normativa y el momento de optimismo histórico en el que se redacta la LO 1/1079, General Penitenciaria, hacen que nuestro sistema penitenciario vaya más lejos que sus antecesores. Primero, porque su diseño de cumplimiento trata de adaptarse a las necesidades de cada ...