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How to prepare a business plan

your guide to creating an excellent strategy, forecasting your finances and producing a persuasive plan

An excellent business plan impresses financial backers, provides a clear blueprint for the future of your company and functions as a benchmark against which to measure future growth. How to Prepare a Business Plan explains the process of creating an excellent business plan in an ...

Starting a successful business

your guide to setting up your dream start-up, controlling its finances and mananging its operations

The first 18 months of your business is crucial. This is when the majority of new businesses fail and where a lack of proper preparation and forward planning can be your downfall. This eighth edition of Starting a Successful Business is your definitive guide to ...

Economic thought

a brief history

In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such ...

Independent diplomat

despatches from an unaccountable elite

Carne Ross was a diplomat on the front line of today's most pressing issues, from Israel/Palestine to Afghanistan and Iraq?, ?over which he resigned from the British Foreign Office. He? was trained to see the world through a prism of states and interests ...

Thomas Pikkety's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

an introduction

US Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as "perhaps the most important book of the last decade." It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm-as well as intense criticism-in a way ...

Family reunification in the EU

the movement and residence rights of third country national family members of EU citizens

This monograph examines the intricate legislative and jurisprudential scenario of family reunification between EU citizens and third country nationals that has developed in the European Union over the last 50 years. Focusing on family residence rights granted to third country national family members of EU ...

EU liability and international economic Law

The book provides both a legal and economic assessment of an increasingly important issue for the EU: the question of whether individuals can hold the European Union liable for damages they suffer due to its infringement of international economic law. However, liability regimes vary depending ...

Chasing criminal money

challenges and perspectives on asset recovery in the EU

The fight against dirty money is not a new topic, nor a recent problem. It has existed within international and national agendas since the 1980s. Nonetheless, the evolving complexity of criminal skills and networks; the increasingly global dimension of crime; the financial crisis; and the ...

Principled reasoning in human rights adjudication

Implied constitutional principles form part of the landscape of the development of fundamental rights in common law jurisdictions, affecting issues ranging from the remuneration of judges to the appropriation of property by the state. Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication offers thematic analysis of the ...

Masats

Buñuel en Viridiana

El libro Masats / Buñuel en Viridiana reúne las imágenes que el fotógrafo realizó durante el rodaje de Viridiana de Luis Buñuel en 1961. Se trata de imágenes que ven la luz por primera vez y muestran cómo Masats acompaña al director de cine documentando los ...

A Macat analysis of C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's The Core Competence of the Corporation

C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's 1990 The Core Competence of the Corporation helped redefine traditional ideas of management strategy. It did so by focusing companies on one of the key critical thinking skills: evaluation. In critical thinking, evaluation is all about judging the ...

Criminal sentencing

as practical wisdom

How do judges sentence? In particular, how important is judicial discretion in sentencing? Sentencing guidelines are often said to promote consistency, but is consistency in sentencing achievable or even desirable? Whilst the passing of a sentence is arguably the most public stage of the criminal ...

Legalizing drugs

the key to ending the war

The question is no longer if we should end the war on drugs but how do we do it. This NoNonsense counts the human and financial cost of 50 years drug war - and proceeds to outline a better way, looking at where drug law reform ...

Mooting

the definitive guide

Mooting offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in a fun, interactive and challenging way. Participation in mooting can lead to improved academic performance, enhancing your knowledge and your ability to handle legal materials as well as the improving the power of your persuasive ...

Constitutional courts, gay rights and sexual orientation equality

In the last fifteen years constitutional issues regarding the rights of gays, lesbians and same-sex couples have emerged on a global scale. The pace of recognition of their fundamental rights, both at judicial and legislative level, has dramatically increased across different jurisdictions, reflecting a growing ...

Reverse discrimination in the Europena Union

a recurring balancing Act

The issue of 'reverse discrimination' is a topical subject, particularly in the field of family reunification. Reverse discrimination occurs when a European Union (EU) citizen in a 'purely internal situation' is treated less favourably than an EU citizen of another nationality whose situation is largely ...

An Macat analysis of Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise

What makes a good manager? Though we can probably all point to someone we think of as a good manager, what precisely makes them so good at their job is a complex question - and one central to good business organization. Management scholar Douglas McGregor's ...

The despot's guide to wealth management

on the international campaign against grand corruption

An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries?such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu ...

EU Succession Regulation No 650/2012

a commentary

The European Union Succession Regulation No 650/2012 entered into force on 17 August 2015 covering all successions in European Union Members States (with the exception of Denmark, the United Kingdom and Ireland). The Regulation comprehensively covers the substantive succession law as well as the ...

Insider trading

how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts

Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to provide hundreds of products for the millions of medical treatments performed each year. Cadaver skin can be used in ...