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La catedral de Oviedo y su entorno urbanístico

consistorio y casco antiguo

La plaza de Alfonso II, a los pies de San Salvador, fue el corazón urbano de Oviedo durante una gran parte de su historia. Lo que era un espacio trepidante de vida se convirtió en un marco vacío que acogió lo que hoy son solo ...

Public policy analysis

an integrated approach

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology to conduct policy analysis and bridge theory and practice. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems ...

Fractured continent

Europe's crises and the fate of the West

In 'Fractured Continent', William Drozdiak persuasively argues that these events have dramatic consequences for Americans as well as Europeans, changing the nature of our relationships with longtime allies and even threatening global security. By speaking with world leaders from Brussels to Berlin, Rome to Riga ...

Multimodal transport Law

An accessible introduction to multimodal contracts of carriage, 'Multimodal Transport Law' works from general principles toward specific, technical problems. Adopting an international approach, it addresses such key topics as: contracts of carriage transport documents; the parties to a contract of carriage; international conventions on the ...

The making of Martin Luther

A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's career The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century. Richard Rex traces how, in ...

Creditworthy

a history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America

The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life—yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are ...

The demand for health

a theoretical and empirical investigation

A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential ...

Against the grain

a deep history of the earliest States

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today ...

Multimethod research, casual mechanisms, and case studies

an integrated approach

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law, or business. This authoritative and accessible book offers the ...

Investment

a history

Investing—the commitment of resources to achieve a return—affects individuals, families, companies, and nations, and has done so throughout history. Yet until the sixteenth century, investing was a privilege of only the elite classes. The story behind the democratization of investing is bound up ...

Money changes everything

how finance made civilization possible

"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys ...

Unfinished business

the unexplored causes of the financial crisis and the lessons yet to be learnt

A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis-with a prescription for preventing another meltdown There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a U.S. or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi ...

Energy tax and regulatory policy in Europe

reform priorities

The European Union (EU) faces critical challenges in energy policy making, the most pressing of which are how to achieve the deep greenhouse gas reductions promised at the December 2015 UN Conference of the Parties in Paris, and how this effort can be coordinated with ...

1917

la Revolución Rusa

Rex A. Wade presenta en estas páginas una nueva crónica de uno de los acontecimientos cardinales de la Historia Moderna, donde combina su largo estudio de la Revolución con los trabajos de los mejores expertos contemporáneos. En el marco de una narración general que brinda ...

Derecho penal romano

El Derecho penal romano de Contardo Ferrini constituye un libro clásico e ineludible para el conocimiento del Derecho penal en la época romana, el cual por supuesto no aparece solo o únicamente en el Digesto, sino que se desarrolla a través de doce siglos en ...

El administrador persona jurídica en las sociedades de capital

Organización, estatuto y responsabilidad

Las personas jurídicas, y no solo las personas naturales, pueden ocupar el cargo de administrador en las sociedades de capital. En España, esta posibilidad se contempla en el artículo 212.1 de la Ley de Sociedades de Capital donde, por influencia del modelo francés, se ...

Estudios históricos-jurídicos

ÍNDICE Nota preliminar Laudatio de Alejandrino Fernández Barreiro, por Javier Paricio Mir ada retrospectiva, por Alejandrino Fernández Barreiro Alejandrino Fernández Barreiro: recuerdo personal, por Javier Paricio ESTUDIOS HISTÓRICO-JURÍDICOS 1. Autorización pretoria para la «in ius vocatio» 2. El «vindex» en la «in ius vocatio» 3 ...

Revista Española de Derecho Internacional, Vol. LXIX, Nº 2, Año 2017

Los juristas catalanes y el Estado español

Este volumen estudia la aportación de los juristas catalanes a la conformación de la Monarquía Hispánica durante el Antiguo Régimen, así como a la formación del Estado español ya en época contemporánea. Nuestro libro pretende ser, por tanto, un estudio que resalte las aportaciones y ...

Actas de Derecho Industrial y Derecho de Autor

Volumen 37: (2016-2017)

Índice I. DOCTRINA Acciones de daños por infracción del Derecho de la competencia: responsabilidad conjunta y prescripción Obstáculos al mercado único digital y restricciones a la competencia en el comercio online de bienes La responsabilidad en la indemnización por daños derivados de un ilícito antitrust ...