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Ensayo sobre el loco de las setas

una historia en sí misma

En la serie de cinco "ensayos" que ha venido publicando desde 1989, Peter Handke (1942) ha explorado y desarrollado nuevos caminos en el campo de la creación literaria, en unos peculiarísimos textos que combinan el recuerdo, la autobiografía y la reflexión, al tiempo que alumbran ...

Ensayo sobre el día logrado

sueño de un día de invierno

En la serie de cinco "ensayos" que ha venido publicando desde 1989, Peter Handke (1942) ha explorado y desarrollado nuevos caminos en el campo de la creación literaria, en unos peculiarísimos textos que combinan el recuerdo, la autobiografía y la reflexión, al tiempo que alumbran ...

Lago negro de tus ojos

Tras El Incidente, unas extrañas lagunas aparecieron por todo el mundo. La periodista Carla Babiloni regresa a El Clot, donde está la más grande de todas ellas, para investigar la desaparición de una actriz. Pero el regreso es un ajuste de cuentas con el pasado ...

Las reformas laborales y de Seguridad Social para 2019

estudio sistemático del RD-Ley 28/2018, de 28 de diciembre, para la revalorización de las pensiones y otras medidas urgentes en materia social, laboral y de empleo; y normas concordantes

The diversity bonus

how great teams pay off in the knowledge economy

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity ...

Mathematical finance

a very short introduction

In recent years the finance industry has mushroomed to become an important part of modern economies, and many science and engineering graduates have joined the industry as quantitative analysts, with mathematical and computational skills that are needed to solve complex problems of asset valuation and ...

El socialismo

análisis económico y sociológico

“El socialismo” –escribe Friedrich A. Hayek- constituye la aportación más decisiva de Ludwig von Mises. Cuando apareció por primera vez en 1922, “su impacto fue muy profundo. Alteró gradual, pero fundamentalmente, la perspectiva de toda una generación y desafió el pensamiento de muchos jóvenes idealistas ...

1931

debt, crisis, and the rise of Hitler

Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The German crisis also contributed ...

Great catastrophe

armenians and turks inthe shadow of genocide

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most ...

Fundamentos históricos y jurídicos de la libertad de testar

El presente estudio contiene una revisión en profundidad de la tesis doctoral elaborada por la autora, bajo la dirección de la profesora Margarita Fuenteseca, Catedrática de Derecho romano. Tiene como objetivo principal situar en su contexto histórico la figura de los herederos forzosos, esto es ...

The sex factor

how women made the west rich

In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender - 'the sex factor' - at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on ...

White shoe

how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the american century

Around 1890, a new type of lawyer was born, one who understood business as well as the law, employing his expertise to guide corporations, find loopholes and foresee legal roadblocks in the way of profits. The result was the unprecedented rise of the power of ...

Doing justice

a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of Law

By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching ...

Industrial organization

theory and practice

Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice blends a rigorous theoretical introduction to industrial organization with empirical data, real-world applications and case studies. The book also supports students with a range of problems and exercises, and definitions of key terms and concepts. This balanced approach, which enables ...

Using Excel for business and financial modelling

a practical guide

Stay the course

the story of vanguard and the index revolution

'Stay the Course' is the story the Vanguard Group as told by its founder, legendary investor John C. Bogle. This engrossing book traces the history of Vanguard - the largest mutual fund organisation on earth. Offering the world's first index mutual fund in 1976, John ...

Rethinking democracy

Data visualization

a practical introduction

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from data This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data ...

Open

the progressive case for free trade, inmigration, and global capital

With the winds of trade war blowing as they have not done in decades, and Left and Right flirting with protectionism, a leading economist forcefully shows how a free and open economy is still the best way to advance the interests of working Americans. Globalization ...

The next billion users

digital life beyond the West

A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East-home to most of the world's internet users-and discovers that what they are doing is not what we imagine. New-media pundits obsess over online privacy ...