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Teoría de la posmodernidad

Teoría de la postmodernidad es la versión castellana, adaptada y preparada por el propio Jameson, de Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, recopilación de ensayos a los que el autor dio forma definitiva en 1991. En este trabajo, uno de los más influyentes ...

Listen, liberal

or, what ever happened to the party of the people?

From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics -- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats? It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate ...

The econometric analysis of recurrent events in macroeconomics and finance

The global financial crisis highlighted the impact on macroeconomic outcomes of recurrent events like business and financial cycles, highs and lows in volatility, and crashes and recessions. At the most basic level, such recurrent events can be summarized using binary indicators showing if the event ...

What's wrong with the United Nations and how to fix it

Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today s UN is ill-equipped to deal ...

Competition and stability in banking

the role of regulation and competition policy

Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have evolved over time, from interventionist regulatory control after the Great Depression to the liberalization policies that started in the United ...

Cotton

Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion. But behind this ubiquitous fibre prized for its softness lies a darker story of exploitation and hardship. In this penetrating analysis, Adam Sneyd explores the power politics that envelope ...

Corporate valuation

measuring the value of companies in turbulent times

Risk consideration is central to more accurate post-crisis valuation Corporate Valuation presents the most up-to-date tools and techniques for more accurate valuation in a highly volatile, globalized, and risky business environment. This insightful guide takes a multidisciplinary approach, considering both accounting and financial principles, with ...

Inside the investments of Warren Buffett

twenty cases

Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century's most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right investments? What did Buffet and his partners look for in an up-and-coming company, and how ...

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies

a comprehensive introduction

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know ...

Brazil

what everyone needs to know

Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the ...

Economic, social and cultural rights in international Law

Since the first edition (published in 2009), there have been several important treaty developments, including the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) on individual communications, and significant developments in the case law on ...

International public policy analysis

Most public policy analysis books currently on the market are US-centric and focused on quantitative analysis, while comparative public policy textbooks are oriented around countries and specific policy processes. International Public Policy Analysis is the first textbook to take a truly comparative and cross-cultural approach ...

Kill chain

drones and the rise of high-tech assassins

Kill Chain is the essential history of drone warfare, a development in military technology that, as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates, has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from ...

The Long Depression

how it happened, why it happened, and what happens next

Written from a Marxist perspective, this book argues that the global economy is in a depression. The profitability of capital is too low and debt built up before the Great Recession is too high. This depression will end when the profitability of capital is restored ...

Medicine, patients and the Law

Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up. In this highly acclaimed and very accessible book, now in its ...

From convergence to crisis

labor markets and the instability of the Euro

What explains Eurozone member-states' divergent exposure to Europe's sovereign debt crisis? Deviating from current fiscal and financial views, From Convergence to Crisis focuses on labor markets in a narrative that distinguishes the winners from the losers in the euro crisis. Alison Johnston argues that ...

The Supreme Court on unions

why labor Law is failing american workers

Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argues that while the role of the Supreme Court has become more central in shaping ...

Making the unipolar moment

U.S. foreign policy and the rise of the Post-Cold War Order

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early ...

La guerra como la conocí

Por primera vez en español tenemos a nuestro alcance las fascinantes memorias del legendario general Patton, guerrero incansable y táctico sin parangón durante La Segunda Guerra Mundial. Valiéndose de sus memorias y diarios de guerra, a veces escritos pocas horas después de los combates, Patton ...