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A dictionary of business and management

This wide-ranging and authoritative dictionary contains over 7,100 entries covering all areas of business and management, including marketing, organizational behaviour, business strategy, law, and taxation. In its sixth edition, it features the very latest developments, such as those relating to information technology (including mobile ...

EL futuro de la comunicación

píldoras de publicidad, marketing y medios digitales

La comunicación es una constante en nuestras vidas. Todo gira alrededor de la comunicación, desde la publicidad hasta las más sofisticadas herramientas del nuevo marketing y los medios digitales que sirven para que las empresas establezcan el diálogo comercial con sus clientes. Para entender el ...

Interpreting the Constitution

This third volume about legal interpretation focuses on the interpretation of a constitution, most specifically that of the United States of America. In what may be unique, it combines a generalized account of various claims and possibilities with an examination of major domains of American ...

Economics and the virtues

building a new moral foundation

While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods. But recent financial crises in the real world have reignited discussions of ...

Dealing with losers

the political economy of policy transitions

Whenever governments change policies-tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others-there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and ...

Legalism

rules and categories

Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside. Anthropologists, meanwhile, have treated rules ...

Constitutional Courts and deliberative democracy

Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of ...

Why Law matters

Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. In the popular imagination, however, many people seem to value public institutions for their own ...

A new history of the humanities

the search for principles and patterns from Antiquity to the present

Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. There are already historical studies of musicology, logic, art history, linguistics, and historiography, but this volume gathers these ...

Securing the world economy

the reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946

Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based on new research drawn together from archives on three continents, it explores how the world's first ever inter-governmental organization confronted the powerful forces ...

The economics of chocolate

This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history, government, nutrition, and geography. The chapters are organized around several themes ...

The american President

from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

The American President is a riveting account of the actions of American presidents in the twentieth century from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian who has been a ...

Guía de lectura de Ser y Tiempo de Martin Heidegger

Volumen 1

Ser y tiempo de Heidegger es un título mágico, compuesto de dos palabras intrigantes, que intenta repensar la cuestión fundamental de la historia de la filosofía: la pregunta por el sentido del ser. En esta obra confluyen las inquietudes fundamentales de la época contemporánea: el ...

Medieval Philosophy

a very short introduction

For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities of Christian ...

Environmental politics

a very short introduction

Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one ...

The Mexican Revolution

a very short introduction

The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940 ...

The Founding Fathers

a very short introduction

The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"-who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ...

Islam and democracy after de Arab Spring

In late 2010, the wave of civil resistance known as the Arab Spring stunned the world as dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya were overthrown, while the regimes of Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen brutally suppressed their own revolutions. The Islamic political parties of Tunisia and ...

Cuestiones de Metafísica

Serie de Filosofía de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica

Cuestiones de Metafísica reúne once aportaciones de destacados especialistas en temas centrales de la reflexión metafísica contemporánea. Ayudará a eliminar el supuesto extendido que considera que la filosofía analítica deja de lado los problemas fundamentales de la cultura filosófica occidental. En el libro se muestra ...

Sociolinguistics of Moroccan Arabic

New Topics

This book focuses on Moroccan sociolinguistic dynamics of change. Its aim is to analyse the changing contemporary situation of Moroccan Arabic as a local language and linguistic resource. Starting with a critical sociolinguistic overview of language policy in Morocco, the book aims to respond to ...