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The virtual weapon and international order

The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political interaction, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers non-state actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises. Despite significant ...

Rival power

Russia's influence in Southeast Europe

Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes." With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies and objectives, Dimitar Bechev provides ...

Children and the Law in the Netherlands

a comparative introduction

This book gives a very brief introduction to the extensive field of Dutch juvenile law. It offers a concise account of some of the most relevant and common points in various legal fields, including aspects of child protection and juvenile justice, as well as features ...

Analysing corruption

Repeated corruption scandals and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists and political scientists to confront corruption as a subject for serious academic research. This textbook introduces students to the field of corruption analysis and ...

Punish, seduce or persuade

an empirical assessment of anti-piracy interventions

Many kinds of interventions have been designed and implemented to combat digital copyright infringement, a type of cyber-deviance that is also known as 'digital piracy'. However, it is not clear whether such measures are indeed effective in reducing this type of deviance. This research sets ...

The history of Economics

a course for students and teachers

As a broad introduction to the history of economic thought - based on courses the authors have taught for many years - this book provides a magisterial overview for students and teachers who have not had the opportunity to cover the development of the field of economics ...

The Electronic CISG

7th MAA Schlechtriem CISG Conference

In this book the authors engage with the interface between the rise of electronic communications and the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). The contributors consider the opportunities, challenges and problems in adapting the CISG to deal with issues arising from ...

New bank insolvency Law for China and Europe

Volume 2: European Union

Volume II of the three volumes series provides a comprehensive analysis of the current EU bank insolvency framework, discusses future developments in the field of EU bank insolvency law, and investigates relevant Dutch, German, and English rules and practice. This research has been made possible ...

Law for a circular economy

Currently humanity uses, on average, the equivalent of 1.6 earths to provide the resources we use and to absorb our waste. A pathway to sustainable resource use is also known as the 'circular economy.' This concept aims at optimising the value of the resources ...

Currency kings

how billionaire traders made their fortune trading forex and how you can too

Build your own Forex fiefdom using the methods of the original currency kings-Soros, Henry, Simons, and others Currency Kings provides a proven four-part formula to help you navigate and profit in today's Forex market. Ben Robson provides the knowledge and techniques you need to ...

Conscious business

how to build value throgh values

Consciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business, explains Fred Kofman, means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business seeks to promote the intelligent pursuit of happiness in all its stakeholders. It produces sustainable, exceptional performance ...

Arithmetic

Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems-Western and non-Western-and ...

Equilibrium models in economics

purposes and critical limitations

The concept of equilibrium is fundamental to economic theory, according to which, it exists when supply and demand are balanced. Equilibrium Models in Economics critically examines the major problematic assumptions employed to build equilibrium models. It gives particular attention to the assumptions used to characterize ...

Políticas del pasado en la España franquista (1939-1964)

historia, nacionalismo y dictadura

El presente libro analiza las políticas del pasado desplegadas por la dictadura y la configuración de una determinada identidad histórica nacional bajo el franquismo. Tras el hundimiento de 1939, los historiadores del Nuevo Estado se aprestaron a una (re)construcción del pasado de la nación ...

The federal judiciary

strengths and weaknesses

No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. He exposes the failures of the institution designed by the founders to check congressional and presidential power and resist ...

Capital in the twenty-first century

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find ...

Obra poética

2 vols

La presente edición de la obra del zaragozano Juan Pedro de Moncayo y Gurrea, marqués de San Felices (1614-1657), reúnes los dos libros poéticos editados durante su vida, Rimas (1652) y El poema trágico de Atalanta e Hipomenes (1656), junto a otros poemas y cartas ...

El orden cuestionado

lecturas de antropología jurídica

La importancia de la experiencia y la observación en el terreno son los elementos clave que atraviesan los capítulos de esta obra; obra que pone en diálogo dos disciplinas, en principio, disímiles: la antropología y el derecho. Si bien ya en tiempos victorianos los antropólogos ...

La hija del general Beigbeder

vida cotidiana durante la Guerra Civil y el régimen nacional católico

Juan Luis Beigbeder Atienza fue un militar español que, con su graduación de coronel y durante un corto periodo de tiempo, desempeñó el cargo de ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del segundo Gobierno de Franco. Estuvo casado con María Fedriani de la que tuvo a su ...

Invisible influence

the hidden forces that shape behavior

Jonah Berger, the bestselling author of Contagious, explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make--from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat--in his latest New York Times bestseller that is a "rare business book that's both ...