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Voices from criminal justice

insider perspectives, outsider experiences

Voices from Criminal Justice, Second Edition, gives students rich insight into the criminal justice system as practitioners, as well as outsiders-citizens, clients, jurors, probationers, or inmates. These qualitative and teachable articles cover all three components of the criminal justice system, ensuring students will be better ...

Theory of the border

Despite - and perhaps because of - increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our ...

American Law and legal systems

American Law and Legal Systems examines the philosophy of law within a political, social, and economic framework with great clarity and insight. Readers are introduced to operative legal concepts, everyday law practices, substantive procedures, and the intricacies of the American legal system. Eliminating confusing legalese ...

The idea of socialism

The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to ...

Nuding health

health Law and behavioral economics

Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver's seatbelt isn't fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed ...

Managing risk in reinsurance

from city fires to global warming

The business of reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, went largely unnoticed outside the expert community. More recently, both public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased and reinsurers have emerged as authorities on global threats ...

Legal aspects of EU energy regulation

the consolidation of energy Law across Europe

This book provides comprehensive coverage of EU energy law in practice, evaluating the effectiveness of the Third Energy Package, the rise and importance of national and EU renewable energy measures in electricity markets, interconnection and infrastructure aspects of the electricity and gas markets. The national ...

The economics, regulation, and systemic risk of insurance markets

Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic, and financial activities, discussions about the macro-economic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited. The core motivation for publishing this book is to bring together academics, regulators, and industry experts to ...

Global capitalism in disarray

inequality, debt, and austerity

Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract. This book focuses on the incidence of these phenomena in the US, UK, Greece, Spain, Chile, South Africa, Australia ...

Elinor Ostrom

an intellectual biography

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice revolutions, discovering surprising ways in which communities around the world have succeed in solving difficult collective problems. She first ...

Este libro cree que eres científico

experimenta, imagina, crea

Este libro te enseñará a pensar como un científico y te ayudará a entender el mundo que te rodea experimentando de forma divertida con tus propios métodos. - Imagina que viajas al espacio y prepárate para vivir sin la gravedad de la Tierra. - Capítulos dedicados al ...

The analytical marketer

how to transform your marketing organization

How to lead the change Analytics are driving big changes, not only in what marketing departments do but in how they are organized, staffed, led, and run. Leaders are grappling with issues that range from building an analytically driven marketing organization and determining the kinds ...

The future of consumer society

prospects for sustainability in the new economy

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity. At the same time, steady jobs that compensate employees on a salaried or hourly basis are being replaced by freelancing and contingent ...

Las historias más bellas de los mitos griegos

Abre la puerta al fascinante mundo de los mitos griegos. Con palabras sencillas, disfrutarás de las historias de estos dioses y diosas tan temibles. Conoce a los héroes más valientes, a las más bellas mujeres, a los más temidos monstruos y vive con ellos fantásticas ...

The International Court of Justice

In recent years States have made more and more extensive use of the International Court of Justice for the judicial settlement of disputes. Despite being declared by the Court's Statute to have no binding force for States other than the parties to the case ...

The politics of energy crises

Energy crises, which amount to painful combinations of energy shortages and soaring prices, have struck the United States several times in recent decades. Each time they have resulted in political and economic shockwaves because, when gasoline becomes more expensive, the American public tends to react ...

Just property

a history in the Latin West. Vol.II: Enlightenment, revolution, and history

Property remains the bedrock of the societies we all inhabit. It underpins our core institutions - including families, states and economies - and it is the medium through which the intensifying politics of inequality is played out. There is plenty of evidence that its importance is increasing ...

Due process of Law beyond the State

requirements of administrative procedure

Traditionally the issues concerning the exercise of administrative powers by public authorities were considered a type of national enclave. It was the responsibility of the state to ensure that adequate procedural safeguards were in place to prevent the government from interfering with the rights of ...

Philosophical foundations of contract Law

In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the philosophical study of contract law. In 1981 Charles Fried claimed that contract law is based on the philosophy of promise and this has generated what is today known as 'the contract and promise ...

Diotima o de la dificultad de enseñar filosofía

Los escritos de Aristóteles que nos han llegado reciben el nombre de acroamáticos, por ser apuntes de clases. Pero la akróasis no sugiere solo un texto de importancia secundaria, al no pertenecer la mano que lo escribe a quien lo dicta, sino, más bien, alude ...