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El honor de Dios

una novela basada en el asesinato de Lasa y Zabala y el terrorismo de Estado

Esta novela es el relato de lo que pudo haber sucedido cuando los amigos y familiares de Lasa y Zabala buscaron, el rastro de los muchachos. Protagonistas de esa investigación son las cuatro mujeres: Isidora, Begoña, Edurne y Socorro, que desde diversos ámbitos: la abogacía ...

Corso di istituzioni di diritto privato

Il "Corso di Istituzioni di diritto privato" è un manuale destinato in primo luogo agli studenti universitari: ha pertanto funzioni e caratteri essenzialmente didattici, connotandosi per lo stile piano e discorsivo, per l'approccio graduale alla materia, per l'abbondanza di esempi riferiti alla vita ...

Revenue Law

principles and practice

Now in its 34th edition, this highly respected work is a leading textbook for students and an invaluable first point of reference for practitioners. Its impressive list of contributors provide a clear and detailed explanation of the law, with a wealth of practical examples. The ...

Sustainability

a history

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global ...

The information nexus

global capitalism from the Renaissance to the present

Capitalism is central to our understanding of contemporary economic and political life and yet what does it really mean? If, as has now been shown to be the case, capital and property rights existed in pre-modern and pre-capitalist societies, what is left of our understanding ...

The power of market fundamentalism

Karl Polanyi's critique

What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend ...

Financial risk modelling and portfolio optimization with R

Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R, 2nd Edition Bernhard Pfaff, Invesco Global Asset Allocation, Germany A must have text for risk modelling and portfolio optimization using R. This book introduces the latest techniques advocated for measuring financial market risk and portfolio optimization, and ...

An economic history of twentieth-century Europe

economic regimes from Laissez-Faire to globalization

This new edition of Ivan Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial-economic crisis. Praised for its ...

The Shia revival

how conflicts within Islam will shape the future

One of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this "smart, clear and timely" book (The Washington Post). Still essential and timely ten years after its original ...

Última asignatura

de la universidad al primer empleo

Salvo casos de contratación directa justo al concluir los estudios universitarios, la mayoría de los jóvenes titulados se ven abocados a realizar una etapa de transición que se inicia el día de la finalización de sus estudios y que concluirá el día que firmen su ...

Dictators and democrats

masses, elites, and regime change

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators ...

Contested conventions

the struggle to establish the constitution and save The Union, 1787-1789

There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes ...

Moral politics

how liberals and conservatives think

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold ...

Political ideologies

their origins and impact

Comprehensive and accessible, Political Ideologies follows the evolution of political thought over 300 years. Organized chronologically, this text examines each major ideology within a political, historical, economic, and social context. Leon Baradat's skillful prose is joined by John Phillips' skillful updating to ensure that ...

The innovation illusion

how so little is created by so many working so hard

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together ...

Anthropologists in the stock exchange

a financial history of victorian science

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of ...

Fijación del justiprecio en la expropiación forzosa

En la presente Selección de Jurisprudencia analizamos uno de los aspectos fundamentales en los procedimientos de expropiación forzosa, el justiprecio. Se trata de un elemento no fácilmente determinable, pues entran en liza diversos factores como la hoja de aprecio o la valoración de la prueba ...

The world economy

structure and markets

This book covers the main features and problems of the contemporary world economy: the globalization process, the sources of economic growth, national policies to promote economic progress, and the role of the different international institutions. The first two units are dedicated to explain the main ...

Conciencia y libertad en la literatura europea

de la tragedia clásica al espiritualismo del siglo XIX

El presente volumen se hace eco del progresivo avance del mito a logos: No un avance en el conocimiento hallado en e Grecia o Roma, como si se tratase de un objeto arqueológico, sino una tentación constante en cada época, sociedad o individuo. Así, todo ...

La grande histoire du monde

Des grands empires de l’Antiquité à la chute de l’URSS, de l’Europe de Charlemagne au Japon du xixe siècle, de l’Asie des Mongols à l’Afrique de la décolonisation, cet ouvrage nous convie à un voyage extraordinaire au fil des siècles ...