Libros de

The First Amendment and LGBT equality

a contentious history

Conservative opponents of LGBT equality in the United States often couch their opposition in claims of free speech, free association, and religious liberty. It is no surprise, then, that many LGBT supporters equate First Amendment arguments with resistance to their cause. The First Amendment and ...

Martin Luther

renegade and prophet

On October 31, 1517, so the story goes, a shy monk named Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the door of the Castle Church in the university town of Wittenberg. The ideas contained in these Ninety-five Theses, which boldly challenged the Catholic Church ...

Introducción a la contabilidad financiera

Ante la puesta en funcionamiento de los Grados que aparecen en las titulaciones universitarias con la entrada en vigor de los nuevos planes de estudio de Bolonia, y en especial el de Administración y Dirección de Empresas, se ha preparado este libro que reúne un ...

Semblanza de grandes laboralistas

Eugenio Pérez Botija

La lectura de las siguientes páginas permitirá hacerse una perfecta idea de la relevancia que la investigación y la pedagogía de Pérez Botija ha tenido en el espectacular desarrollo del laborismo español y, en la configuración de los actuales ordenamientos jurídicos laboral y de la ...

Gobernando la empresa familiar

con visión transformadora y liderazgo positivo

Tener éxito con una empresa depende de muchos factores. Disponer de un magnífico producto o servicio. Contar con clientes muy satisfechos. Saber comprar y vender. En suma, identificar una oportunidad de mercado y explotarla a satisfacción. Tener una empresa familiar que trascienda generaciones demanda, además ...

Alcañiz, María y Belchite 1809

el inútil intento de liberar Zaragoza

Pocos podían suponer que tras la caída de Zaragoza el ejército español pudiera, no solo reponerse, sino encabezar una ofensiva en toda regla para reconquistarla. Lástima que hubiera que sufrir la decisión de una Junta Central alejada de toda realidad militar que ofreció el mando ...

ISO 9001:2015 para la pequeña empresa

recomendaciones del ISO/TC 176

Más del 95% de los negocios mundiales son pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes), y muchos países confían en ellas para impulsar el crecimiento económico y el empleo. Este libro, escrito por un grupo de trabajo de expertos técnicos del Comité Técnico ISO/TC 176, incluye ...

Choice Architecture in Democracies

exploring the legitimacy of nudging

Choice architecture is everywhere. Nudging has become fashionable. The EU and some Member states, including Germany, explore the possibilities of informing their regulatory policies with behavioural insights. This book provides a cutting-edge overview of a rapidly evolving field, reflecting on constitutional challenges, contested case and ...

Another economy is possible

culture and economy in a time of crisis

Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability ...

American foreign policy and its thinkers

Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests at work in the unfolding of American foreign ...

Trade and institutions in the medieval mediterranean

the Geniza merchants and their business World

The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean - sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' - are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants, maps the shifting ...

Too much stuff

capitalism in crisis

Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why do conventional policy solutions produce only wider income disparity and inequality? We now live in a new world in which we enjoy the highest living standard in history, acquiring ever more goods and services as necessary luxuries. Yet current ...

Creative destruction

how to start an economic renaissance

Western economies have become stuck in a protracted depression that began long before the 2008 crash. Low productivity, which started in the 1970s, has prevented durable rises in living standards. Phil Mullan shows that the only way to ensure a better future is to create ...

How did we get into this mess?

politics, equality, nature

Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it " Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be ...

The complexity of self government

politics from the bottom up

The Complexity of Self Government represents a revolutionary approach to political science. Bottom-up theory turns political and social analysis upside down by focusing analytic attention not on vacuous abstractions but on the individual men and women who either consciously or inadvertently create the institutions within ...

Byzantine legal culture and the roman legal tradition, 867-1056

This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, including ...

An economic history of Portugal, 1143-2010

This book offers a fascinating exploration of the evolution of the Portuguese economy over the course of eight centuries, from the foundation of the kingdom in 1143, when political boundaries began to take shape in the midst of the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula ...

An introduction to the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court ushered in a new era in the protection of human rights. The Court prosecutes genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression when national justice systems are either unwilling or unable to do so themselves. This fifth edition ...

Speculation

a history of the fine line between gambling and investing

What is the difference between a speculator and a gambler? This simple question, reminiscent of an old joke, lies at the heart of one of the most fraught issues within the American economy. And with it come more questions, equally distressing: how can we tell ...

La expedición española a Cochinchina

1858-1863

Durante la segunda mitad de XIX los militares españoles recorrieron medio mundo combatiendo en una serie de intervenciones que a la larga nada aportarían de provecho al conjunto de la sociedad y que son muy desconocidas por el público actual. Los estados pontificios, Méjico, Marruecos ...