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Lecciones de Derecho privado

T.I. Vol.3: Relación jurídica. Derecho subjetivo. Representación. Negocio jurídico

Lecciones de Derecho Privado constituye un manual universitario. Nace por y para la Universidad bajo la dirección de los catedráticos de Derecho Civil de la Universidad de Sevilla, Manuel Rivera Fernández y Manuel Espejo Lerdo de Tejada, quienes han contado en su elaboración con la ...

Introduction to industrial organization

The study of industrial organization (IO) -- the analysis of the way firms compete with one another -- has become a key component of economics and of such related disciplines as finance, strategy, and marketing. This book provides an issue-driven introduction to industrial organization. Although formal in ...

Atatürk

an intellectual biography

When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the ...

Information and society

We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing ...

Rational investing

the subtleties of asset management

Many investors believe that success in investing is either luck or clairvoyance. In Rational Investing, finance professor Hugues Langlois and asset manager Jacques Lussier present the current state of asset management and clarify the conundrum of luck versus skill. The core of Rational Investing is ...

Republic

divided democracy in the age of social media

As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions ...

Bank Failure

lessons from Lehman Brothers

This new book analyses the legal and practical issues experienced during the Lehman Brothers litigation, the largest and most complex bankruptcy proceedings in history. By examining the issues the work provides a useful reference source for future large scale and cross-border bankruptcy proceedings of multinational ...

The crisis

a british defense of american rights, 1775-1776

The Crisis was a London weekly published between January 1775 and October 1776. It was the longest-running weekly pamphlet series printed in the British Atlantic world during those years, and it used unusually bold, pithy language. Neither the longevity of the effort nor the colorful ...

Three stones make a wall

the story of Archaeology

In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the ...

The economic function of deferred taxes

Deferred tax is an accounting category that forms part of tax expense and affects the reported amounts of profit after tax for businesses. This book explores the issue of deferred taxes at both the theoretical and practical levels, and investigates the financial aspects of such ...

Trouble on the far Right

contemporary right-Wwng strategies and practices in Europe

In Europe, the far right is gaining momentum on the streets and in parliaments. By taking a close look at contemporary practices and strategies of far-right actors, the present volume explores this right-ward shift of European publics and politics. It assembles analyses of changing mobilisation ...

Dirty gold

how activism transformed the jewelry industry

Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has funded wars. And consumers buy wedding ...

Cofrades camino del cielo, vistos a través de sus imágenes

desde los orígenes hasta el Concilio de Trento

Desde fines del siglo XIII, dos célebres órdenes, los franciscanos y los dominicos, consiguieron que los antiguos flagelantes se organizasen en forma de cofradías y que sustituyeran paulatinamente la sangre de sus flagelaciones por el ejercicio continuado de saber reconocer en el prójimo necesitado el ...

The classical liberal constitution

the uncertain quest for limited government

American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard A. Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates ...

The index revolution

why investors should join it now

The evidence-based approach to a more worthwhile portfolio The Index Revolution argues that active investing is a loser's game, and that a passive approach is more profitable in today's market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently ...

La ciudad mentirosa

fraude y miseria del "Modelo Barcelona"

Lejos de convertirlas en amables arcadias de civilidad y civismo, da la espalda a los problemas más acuciantes de sus habitantes y niega la perspectiva de elevar los niveles de justicia y libertad.'Este libro es una larga carta de amor; desaforada, impaciente, exagerada '¿cómo ...

Historical and philosophical foundations of european legal culture

This ambitious book examines the historical, theoretical, and axiological foundations of European legal culture, and explores their practical impacts on current European law and legal ways of thinking in Europe. Including considerations about the history of law as well contemporary legal issues, the book consists ...

La osteoporosis

la epidemia silenciosa del siglo XXI

La osteoporosis es un trastorno sistémico del esqueleto, que produce alteraciones en la estructura ósea del individuo, desde el punto de vista de la cantidad de masa ósea y de su calidad. Su evolución clínica cursa con pocas manifestaciones, porque, en la mayoría de los ...

Los emperadores de Roma

historia de la Roma Imperial desde Julio César hasta el último emperador

«Uno reveló ser un matricida. Otro se dedicó a luchar como gladiador. Dos ejercieron de filósofos. E incluso hay uno al que la Iglesia Ortodoxa tiene por santo y rinde veneración. Tan diversas personalidades comparten una circunstancia: la de ser emperadores romanos. David Potter desgrana ...

The politics of transindividuality

The Politics of Transindividuality reexamines social relations and subjectivity through the concept of transindividuality. Transindividuality is understood as the mutual constitution of individuality and collectivity, and as such it intersects with politics and economics, philosophical speculation and political practice. While the term transindividuality is drawn ...