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Taxing the rich

a history of fiscal fairness in the United States and Europe

In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens--and their answers may surprise you ...

The crime of all crimes

toward a criminology of genocide

Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders-from the colonial ...

International negotiation

process and strategies

Negotiation has always been an important alternative to the use of force in managing international disputes. This textbook provides students with the insight and knowledge needed to evaluate how negotiation can produce effective conflict settlement, political change and international policy making. Students are guided through ...

The psychological foundations of evidence Law

Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their ...

Corporate strategy

tools for analysis and decision-making

Many companies are not single businesses but a collection of businesses with one or more levels of corporate management. Written for managers, advisors and students aspiring to these roles, this book is a guide to decision-making in the domain of corporate strategy. It arms readers ...

The end of the eurocrats dream

adjusting to european diversity

This volume argues that the crisis of the European Union is not merely a fiscal crisis but reveals and amplifies deeper flaws in the structure of the EU itself. It is a multidimensional crisis of the economic, legal and political cornerstones of European integration and ...

The digital transformation playbook

rethink your business for the digital age

Rethink your business for the digital age. Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy? Globally recognized digital expert David L. Rogers argues that digital transformation is not about updating your technology but ...

The great departure

mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world

Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free" and yet more than a third returned home again ...

IV Jornadas de Arqueología e Historia Medieval de la Frontera Inferior de Al-Andalus

Vol.2: La Lusitania tras la presencia islámica (713-756 d.C. / 94-138 H)

SUMARIO: Presentación. Bruno Franco Moreno, Miguel Alba y Santiago Feijoo. · El reino visigodo a comienzos del siglo VIII: debilidad interna y actitud ante la presencia islámica. Paulina López Pita. · El Islam y su expansión en Occidente: efectos tomados como causas. Emilio González Ferrín. · La Lusitania ...

Corruption and government

causes, consequences, and reform

The second edition of Corruption and Government updates Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 book to address emerging issues and to rethink old questions in light of new data. The book analyzes the research explosion that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of Transparency ...

Périclès

la démocratie athénienne à l'épreuve du grand homme

Dans la culture occidentale, Périclès a le rare privilège de donner son nom à un « Siècle », incarnant l’apogée politique et culturel du monde grec. Pour autant, faut-il croire l’historien Thucydide lorsqu’il soutient, à propos d’Athènes : « C’était, de nom, une démocratie ...

International pecking orders

the politics and practice of multilateral diplomacy

In any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others. Practitioners often refer to this form of diplomatic hierarchy as the 'international pecking order'. This book is a study of international hierarchy in practice, as it emerges out of the multilateral diplomatic ...

Power and international relations

a conceptual approach

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concept of power has not always been central to international relations theory. During the 1920s and 30s, power was often ignored or vilified by international relations scholars-especially in America. Power and International Relations explores how this changed in later decades ...

Predicting the presidency

the potential of persuasive leadership

Millions of Americans-including many experienced politicians-viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White ...

Coup d'État

a practical handbook

"Coup d Etat" astonished readers when it first appeared in 1968 because it showed, step by step, how governments could be overthrown. Translated into sixteen languages, it has inspired anti-coup precautions by regimes around the world. In addition to these detailed instructions, Edward Luttwak s ...

Coplas para sobrevivir

Conchita Piquer, los vencidos y la represión franquista

Durante la posguerra española, el régimen franquista sometió a los vencidos a un aparato de represión que buscaba aniquilarles tanto física como psicológicamente. Este libro identifica tres amenazas psicológicas principales: el terror continuo, el duelo bloqueado y el estrés traumático. Numerosos testimonios posteriores han destacado ...

Género, memoria y cultura visual en el primer franquismo

(materiales cotidianos, más allá del arte)

"Género, memoria y cultura visual en el primer franquismo (materiales cotidianos, más allá del arte)" aborda la construcción y recepción de las identidades de género en la cultura visual del periodo autárquico en España (1938-1953). El estudio de los materiales culturales de la vida cotidiana ...

Matrimonio, religión y Derecho en una sociedad de cambio

Desde la Junta Directiva hemos tratado de presentarles unas Jornadas atractivas, que cubran temática variada, actual y de interés para todo canonista, que se dedique al cultivo del Derecho canónico en sus diferentes ámbitos, administración del patrimonio eclesiástico, de la justicia eclesiástica, profesionales del foro ...

Historia verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España

Antología

Entre los episodios grandiosos de la historia del hombre, pocos son comparables a la aventura de los primeros españoles en América, probablemente similar en términos actuales al hipotético descubrimiento de una nueva civilización en un planeta distinto a la Tierra. La naturaleza, las dimensiones enormes ...

La identitat catalana en temps de Napoleó (1808-1814)

Quart volum de la col·lecció que el Centre d'Història Contemporània de Catalunya dedica a l'anàlisi de l'origen de la formació de la consciència identitària del poble català des dels segles de l'alta edat mitjana, que va ser quan Catalunya va ...