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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 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 ...

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 ...

The last days of Stalin

Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was ...

Don Blas de Lezo

biografía un marino español del siglo XVIII

La vida del general de la Armada española, don Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta, tiene todos los ingredientes de una novela de aventuras: un protagonista de recio carácter que no se doblega ante la adversidad y que como prueba de su valor fue dejando en ...

Las burbujas de la tierra

en torno a William Shakespeare

"Shakespeare es, en nuestra opinión, el poeta más grande que ha producido la humanidad". Con esta poderosa declaración de principios, el filósofo Wilhelm Dilthey afirma algo que muy pocos serían capaces de discutir. El mundo propio y personal de William Shakespeare llegó a ser compartido ...

Dibujo científico

arte y naturaleza, ilustración científica, infografía, esquemática

No podríamos concebir el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la ciencia sin sus imágenes. El dibujo científico ha hecho visible lo observado y lo imaginado, dando forma, por igual, al pensamiento y al conocimiento. Este cuarto volumen de la serie "Dibujo y profesión ...

Dynasty

the rise and fall of the House of Caesar

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat ...

¿Qué es la Literatura?

Parece innecesario destacar la significación cardenal de la doctrina filosófica, si no ideada por Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980), si llevada por el a su punto de concreción y de expresión literaria mas alto. Quienes hayan leído sus libros imaginativos -es decir, todos los lectores interesados ...

A puerta cerrada; La puta respetuosa

Dos piezas maestras: A puerta cerrada, estrenada en el Vieux-Colombier el 27 de mayo de 1944, con una puesta en escena de Raymond Rouleau, y La puta respetuosa, que se estrenó el 8 de noviembre de 1946, bajo la dirección de Simone Berriau en el ...

Las manos sucias

Pieza fundamental del teatro sartreano, Las manos sucias trata sobre el ambiente de la Resistencia y es una de las obras más polémicas del autor. Fue representada por primera vez el 2 de abril de 1948 en el teatro Antoine de París, con una puesta ...

What's wrong with money?

the biggest bubble of all

The expert guide to understanding and surviving monetary failure "What's Wrong with Money? "explores how and why money is valued and the warning signs that point to its eventual collapse. Author Michael Ashton is widely regarded as a premier expert on inflation, and in ...

Politics against domination

Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the purpose of politics should be to combat domination, and he shows what this means in practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a ...

Crimes of the powerful

an introduction

As politicians and the media perpetuate the stereotype of the "common criminal," crimes committed by the powerful remain for the most part invisible, or are reframed as a "bad decision" or a "rare mistake." This is a topic that remains marginalized within the field of ...

ISIS

inside the army of terror

In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced videos and ...

Exemptions

necessary, justified, or misguided?

Should laws apply equally to everyone, or should some individuals and organizations be granted exemptions because of conflicting religious or moral convictions? Recently this question hasbecome intensely controversial in America. The Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage, in particular, has provoked barbed debates about ...

Liberty or death

the French Revolution

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France ...

Essentials of investments

Introducing...Essentials of Investments, 9th Global Edition, by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and Alan J. Marcus. We are pleased to present this Global Edition, which has been developed specifically to meet the needs of international Investment students. A market leader in the field, this text ...

La arquitectura de seguridad europea

un sistema imperfecto e inacabado

El 9 de noviembre de 1989 la población de Berlín Oriental derribó el Muro que separaba no sólo los dos sectores de la ciudad, sino también los dos bloques que dividieron al mundo durante la Guerra Fría. Entonces se impuso la idea de que Europa ...