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The publishing business

a guide to starting out and getting on

The Publishing Business, is an invaluable guide to understanding what book publishing is and what it might become. Using popular and current examples, this second edition demonstrates that, to succeed, publishers must prove their commitment to producing accurate, attractive and well edited content, their ability ...

Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin

What is Vladimir Putin thinking? Does he deserve his reputation as a modern Machiavelli? And where does he get his ideas? The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky ...

Inside the min of Marine Le Pen

What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing audience ...

The language of Brexit

how britain talked its way out of the European Union

Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts. Drawing parallels with effective political discourse used worldwide, this book highlights the linguistic features of an increasingly popular ...

Rethinking children's rights

attitudes in contemporary society

Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of ...

Precarious work

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life. In the past ...

The moral conflict of Law and Neuroscience

Law relies on a conception of human agency, the idea that humans are capable of making their own choices and are morally responsible for the consequences. But what if that is not the case? Over the past half century, the story of the law has ...

Can we solve the migration crisis?

Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority. But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this ...

Weconomy

you can find meaning, make a living, and change the world

Your guide to Business with Benefits'... for All! Purpose and profit are powerful human motivators. Combined, this power can change the world. WEconomy is your guidebook to the greatest evolution in business since the assembly line. Discover the secret to achieving purpose with profit in ...

Israel and the world economy

the power of globalization

A rigorous analysis of the role played by globalization in key episodes in the development of the Israeli economy, from hyperinflation crisis to high-tech surge. Anti-globalization sentiments are rising, especially in Europe and the United States, with the increasingly integrated global economy blamed for domestic ...

When things don't fall apart

global financial governance and developmental finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis. In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis ...

Comparative economics in a transforming world economy

An approach to comparative economic systems that avoids simple dichotomies to examine a wide variety of institutional and systemic arrangements, with updated country case studies. Comparative economics, with its traditional dichotomies of socialism versus capitalism, private versus state, and planning versus market, is changing. This ...

Public procurement fundamentals

lessons from and for the field

During the last two decades, public procurement evolved in most of the world but is often carried out by government officials with little or no experience with procurement policies and procedures. As a result, substantial amounts of public funds are lost due to wrong selection ...

El discurso del terrorismo

Sre?ko Horvat realiza una labor detectivesca con respecto al concepto de terrorismo, y una labor forense con respecto al discurso hegemónico del mismo. Como buen destripador, analiza cómo se representa al terrorismo, pero también cómo se espectraliza, cómo se mistifica, cómo se estetiza y ...

De la especulación al derecho a la vivienda

más allá de las contradicciones del modelo inmobiliario español

Hasta 2007 el crecimiento económico español estuvo basado en una compleja combinación de turismo, finanzas y expansión inmobiliaria. Desde ese año, el estallido de la burbuja inmobiliario-financiera dio paso a un paisaje social marcado por la deuda, los desahucios y la penuria de una ...

Tradición romanísta y Derecho privado comparado

La presente obra tiene como denominador común el rol que tuvo y tiene todavía el Derecho Romano o, en otras palabras, la tradición plurisecular de la experiencia jurídica de los Romanos. La continuidad es, sin duda, un fenómeno característico del Derecho o de la vida ...

La desamortización de Mendizábal en la provincia de Zaragoza

(1835-1851)

Las investigaciones de Pascual Marteles y Encarna Moreno sobre las desamortizaciones de Mendizábal y Madoz en la provincia de Zaragoza, respectivamente, realizadas en la década de 1970 con técnicas informáticas pioneras sobre la magnífica documentación de la delegación de Hacienda, que años después fue lamentablemente ...

Old Ballads, new approaches

studies on the Romancero Viejo

Curacionismo

cómo la curaduría de apoderó del mundo del arte (y de todo lo demás)

Las carreras universitarias ligadas al curacionismo están en pleno crecimiento y el mundo empresarial encontró en él una forma de agregar valor al contenido. Pareciera que todos son curadores. Pero ¿qué es exactamente un curador y qué dice la explosión del curacionismo acerca de nuestra ...

La educación errónea

niños preescolares en peligro

Uno de los propósitos fundamentales de este libro es advertir sobre la importancia de respetar el ritmo de evolución de los pequeños que asisten a la educación preescolar y al primer ciclo de la educación básica. En La educación errónea se analizan las distintas personalidades ...