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Microfinance

battling a wicked problem

A school of thought hails microcredit as a social innovation, a messiah to enable people to help themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. An opposing school of thought considers microcredit as a capitalist demon ensnaring the poor in poverty and debt. The layman and the ...

Federalism

a political theory for our time

This volume is a collection of essays published between 1999 and 2015 in the review The Federalist Debate. The book highlights the issue of federalism intended as a theoretical paradigm to interpret the major problems of our age, and in particular the issues of peace ...

The man who knew

the life and times of Alan Greenspan

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby’s magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid ...

La opinión de los jueces

reflexiones sobre los Derechos Humanos

Esta obra contiene la opinión de los jueces sobre aspectos de análisis e interpretación constitucional, como inicio de los trabajos que realizan para la elaboración de la denominada Colección Constitucional, en la que se ocuparán de realizar estudios e interpretación de instituciones jurídicas que prevé ...

Pasaje al Limbo

relatos de la Guerra Civil española

Este volumen compila las memorias de Isidro Corbinos Pontaque, reconocido periodista que, en el punto más alto de su carrera y empujado por la Guerra Civil española, debió abandonar la península definitivamente para radicarse en Chile. Los reportajes que aquí se presentan corresponden a un ...

La vida y el corcel

Poemas

Un poemario en el cual los personajes se muestran alienados e incapaces de hallar una razón que los integre con la vida; pero que cuando transitan en el ámbito familiar en medio de una paz espiritual.

Filosofía para Dummies

Uno de los mayores atractivos de la filosofía es que te hace pensar mucho, para comprender los razonamientos e ideas de otros pensadores, y para desarrollar tus propias respuestas. Pero puede ocurrir que ¡acabes con más preguntas que al principio!. Esta sencilla guía es como ...

Chain reactions in criminal justice

discretion and the necessity of interdisciplinary research

By drawing from her research on ethnic profiling, crimmigration and counterterrorism legislation, Van der Woude illustrates the key role that discretion has in various criminal justice matters, as well as emphasizing the need to view and research discretion as an interdisciplinary concept.Whereas discretion is ...

Alternative enforcement of competition Law

This research analyses and compares the use of certain alternative enforcement instruments, such as negotiated procedures, markets work, individual guidance and compliance programmes, by the Dutch, UK and French competition authorities. Competition authorities are known for imposing enormous fines on companies that have infringed the ...

Cybercriminal networks

origin, groth and criminal capabilities

This book is about cybercriminal networks that make use of digital means, such as phishing, malware or hacking, to steal money from customers of financial institutions. The author analyzes the processes of origin and growth and criminal capabilities, and puts forward several explanations for the ...

Fundamental rights

justification and interpretation

The notion of fundamental rights is one of the most important topics of our times. Strident controversies concerning the content of fundamental rights have increased worldwide, sometimes degenerating into violent conflicts. Yet legal and political theorists have so far paid insufficient attention to these controversies ...

International air Law and ICAO

This is the third edition of the acclaimed International Air Law and ICAO, first published in 2008. The book has been fully updated to take the latest developments into account. Specialized legal literature dealing with different aspects of international air law is rare, the developments ...

Sentencing at the International Criminal Court

from Nuremberg to the Hague

This book deals with the purposes of sentencing in international criminal law focusing on the International Criminal Court. Notwithstanding the modern longevity of international criminal law and the volume of research produced on the issue of international sentencing rationales, the International Criminal Court has not ...

Radioactive waste management in international and european legal perspective

The management of radioactive waste in Europe and elsewhere has been the subject of continuous legal and political challenges, both in court rooms and by environmental groups in the field. Public concern was and is often considerable. In case of its transport blockades of roads ...

Power

a conceptual analysis

Power is a central concept in the social sciences. This book presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of this concept. By broadly defining power as the relative ability to affect or receive, it develops the concept in the categories of power structures, personal agency, the ...

Legal argumentation and the rule of Law

Modern legal systems are characterized by a tension between two commonplaces: the Rule of Law on the one hand, and the arguable character of law on the other. The Rule of Law calls for legal certainty, predictability and reasonableness; the argumentative character of law implies ...

Los magos del mercado

entrevistas con traders legendarios

Los magos del mercado reúne diecisiete entrevistas con legendarios traders estadounidenses -incluidos Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Michel Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz y Tom Baldwin- trufadas de numerosas anécdotas reales del mundo del trading. Jack Schwager, que es también trader, identifica los ...

Aspectos esenciales de la criminología actual

En este libro se aborda el estudio de cuatro manifestaciones delictivas que han cobrado protagonismo en los últimos años: la delincuencia juvenil, la inmigración y la delincuencia, la delincuencia organizada y la violencia de género. El primer capítulo proporciona una introducción al estudio de la ...

El nuevo baremo de tráfico

comentario crítico a las disposiciones generales. (Ley 35/2015, de 22 de septiembre)

La presente monografía contiene un análisis crítico de las disposiciones generales del Baremo (arts. 32 a 49). Su estudio es fundamental para el conocimiento y correcta aplicación de las reglas específicas, así como para deducir la preeminencia de la regulación articulada sobre la tabular. Del ...

The 3 A's in success

business consulting techniques applied to human performance

In the world of business, the best practices are techniques that produce outstanding results and are used as a point of reference. Could the same be done from a personal point of view? The answer is YES, since many people consistently get what they set ...