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La Comedia humana: escenas de la vida de provincia

Volumen VIII: Las ilusiones perdidas

El 18 de marzo llega una nueva entrega de La Comedia humana. Este volumen contiene las tres novelas que conforman Las ilusiones perdidas, perteneciente a las Escenas de la vida de provincia. Los dos poetas, Un gran hombre de provincias en París y Ève y ...

El mundo actual

de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a la globalización

Hoy en día, prácticamente nadie pone en duda que el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial señala el comienzo de una nueva época histórica –la época actual–, que cubre la parte central del siglo xx hasta nuestros días. Época en que la situación mundial experimenta ...

Dictators without borders

power and money in Central Asia

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant ...

The metric society

on the quantification of the social

The number emphasis of new forms of social life - from likes and retweets to star ratings and scores at work - is considered in terms of its pernicious impact in this suitable book for students and scholars.

Why should we obey the Law?

Whether we should obey the law is a question that affects everyone's day-to-day life, from traffic laws to taxes. Most people obey out of habit, but the question remains: why are we morally required to do so? If we fail to obey, the state ...

Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat paradoxically famous for his insights into democracy and equality, is one of history's greatest analysts of American society and politics. His contributions to political theory and sociology are of enduring significance. This book, from one of the world ...

Politics

why It Matters

"Politics frames everything we do. Right now humanity is in a race against itself, adjusting to new technologies that are destabilizing democracy and creating massive inequalities. By thinking and acting politically, Gamble argues, we can harness the imagination and enthusiasm of people everywhere to tackle ...

Bloomberg by Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg's company is a major provider of financial information and news through on-line services, a wire service, national radio networks, a monthly financial magazine and Bloomberg Business News on PBS. This is his story.

Accounting for goodwill and other intangible assets

Concepts, methods, and issues in calculating the fair value of intangibles Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets is a guide to one of the most challenging aspects of business valuation. Not only must executives and valuation professionals understand the complicated set of rules and ...

Smart cities, smart future

showcasing tomorrow

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and services designed ...

Broken business

seven steps to reform good companies gone bad

How to prevent corporate scandals and fix good companies that do wrong The news media is replete with stories of corporate scandal, corruption and misdeeds. The need for effective crisis management and corporate governance strategies has never been greater. Broken Business explains why corporate scandals ...

#MakeoverMonday

improving how we visualize and analyze data, one chart at a time

Explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations #MakeoverMonday offers inspiration and a giant dose of perspective for those who communicate data. Originally a small project in the data visualization community, #MakeoverMonday features a weekly chart or graph and a dataset that community ...

Beyond debt

islamic experiments in global finance

Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change-yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a transnational economy free of debt. Based ...

Lying for money

how legendary frauds reveal the workings of the world

Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some ...

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

This is a new edition of the best-selling economics book that won't put you to sleep. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favourite of students and general readers includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade and income inequality. Ten years after ...

Confronting inequality

how societies can choose inclusive growth

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this ...

Trusting nudges

toward a bill of rights for nudging

Many "nudges" aim to make life simpler, safer, or easier for people to navigate, but what do members of the public really think about these policies? Drawing on surveys from numerous nations around the world, Sunstein and Reisch explore whether citizens approve of nudge policies ...

The rise of precarious employment in Europe

theoretical perspectives, Reforms and Employment trends in the era of economic crisis

The deterioration of employment conditions for an increasing number of employees in late capitalism has prompted researchers to find ways to conceptualise, as well as measure, these observed new tendencies. This book examines precarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis, drawing on two main ...

Why nationalism

Why nationalism is a permanent political force-and how it can be harnessed once again for liberal ends Around the world today, nationalism is back-and it's often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic, racist, and xenophobic purposes, reinforcing the view that it ...

Fighting financial crises

learning from the past

If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank ...