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La sostenibilidad aplicada a la gestión del patrimonio inmobiliario

Hoy la sostenibilidad se ha convertido en un ámbito de gran relevancia para el sector inmobiliario. Muchos profesionales e investigadores ligados al sector coinciden en que los aspectos sostenibles pueden crear valor y ventaja competitiva a largo plazo y rentabilidad a corto plazo. Sin embargo ...

El Economista: más de 160 años de la economía de España

de Isabel II a Felipe VI

Nacido en abril de 1854, elEconomista de España ha sido desde entonces un testigo de excepción de la historia de España. El trabajo del catedrático Javier Morillas, fruto de un minucioso análisis de las fuentes documentales, arroja nueva luz sobre la vida económica de la ...

Cross-border evidence gathering

equality of arms eithin the EU?

This book is part of the so-called Pompe series, which contains publications by staff members of the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht, and by authors closely aligned to the school of thought for which the Institute is known.

The Rome we have lost

For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on ...

Public administration as a study of the public sphere

a normative wiew

In order to make Public Administration more practically relevant, this book argues to broaden its locus and focus. Public Administration is more than the study of government. It can be considered as the study of public reasoning. That reasoning takes place in politics as well ...

Keeping trouble at a safe distance

unravelling the significance of 'the fear of crime'

The fear of crime is generally recognized as a social problem around the world. Yet, research has so far lacked to establish a dependable picture of this phenomenon. The present study examines the highly complex allocation of interacting perceptions, for which it provides suitable explanations ...

El laberinto mágico

Toda la experiencia vivida por Max Aub en los años centrales de su vida, los de la Guerra Civil española, los trasladó al inmenso corpus narrativo al que llamó El Laberinto Mágico. Lo componen seis novelas, "Campo cerrado", "Campo de sangre", "Campo abierto", "Campo del ...

Count down

the past, present and uncertain future of the Big Four accounting firms

The second edition of "Count Down" is revised to include and discuss developments affecting the Big Four and their business model since the December 2015 release of the first edition. Brought into this updated narrative, for example, are: The Big Four's growth to collective ...

Fragmento(s) subjetivo(s)

un viaje hacia las islas encantadas nietzscheanas

He aquí un libro-viaje, al pie de la letra, viaje en busca de alumbrar fragmento(s) subjetivo(s) del agua y de la tierra, las estelas de otros viajes, sus islas encantadas. Viaje con carta de navegación, pero sin plan prefijado, que acepta que todo ...

The world that trade created

society, culture and the world economy, 1400 to the present

The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of ...

Fanny Hill

memorias de una mujer elegante

Fanny Hill (1748-1749) es considerada uno de los clásicos de la literatura erótica universal. A los pocos meses de su publicación esta novela fue prohibida por inmoral, su autor, John Cleland, y su editor condenados, siendo protagonista del primer juicio de un libro por obscenidad ...

Evidence for hope

making human rights work in the 21st century

A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of ...

Violencia y fenomenología

Derrida, entre Husserl y Levinas

Violencia y fenomenología, aborda la filosofía de Derrida, entre Husserl y Levinas, a partir de una preocupación ética y política que tiene que ver, ante todo, con una inquietud respecto de las condiciones de la experiencia en general: sobre cómo se produce y se despliega ...

Platform revolution

how networked markets are transforming the economy

This publication delivers the first comprehensive analysis of how platforms use technology to match producers and consumers in a multisided marketplace, unlocking hidden resources and creating new forms of value. It explores the what, how and why of this revolution and provides the first 'owner ...

Tiran al maricón

los fantasmas queer de la democracia (1970-1988)

Que España se haya convertido en una democracia sexual adelantada a escala planetaria no es nada evidente: las victorias de los sujetos LGBT+ de derecho bien podrían servir de lavado rosa a la crisis global que afecta a España desde el 2008. El libro propone ...

The economic decoding of religion dogmas

ranking world religions in terms of economic

This book proves that each religious dogma, in any of their components, contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega-objectives, implicitly, a specific preference for absolute wealth or, in a more common parlance, for the objective of economic performance. In turn ...

Mad María

Mad María es la historia de un desafío y también de su fracaso: la construcción de una línea de ferrocarril entre Madeira y Mamoré, a través de la selva amazónica brasileña, para transportar la producción de caucho de Bolivia y Brasil hacia el puerto de ...

Cameralism in Practice

State administration and economy in Early Modern Europe

This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - a form of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic ...

The East India Company

1600-1858, a short history with documents

In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's nineteenth-century addiction. In ...

El Grand Tour

guía para viajeros ilustrados

Un día serás parlamentario o un influyente hombre de negocios y tendrás centenares de personas y acres a tu cargo, por lo que es necesario que adquieras de una vez por todas conocimientos, cultura y un poquito de responsabilidad. Te sugiero que hagas el equipaje ...