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La protección por desempleo en España

Este libro refleja la riqueza de planteamientos de Ponencias y Comunicaciones (no siempre convergentes) presentadas y debatidas en el XII Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Salud y Seguridad Social (AESSS), dedicado específicamente al estudio en profundidad del sistema de protección por desempleo en ...

White collar crime in a nutshell

This text provides a broad overview of white collar crime, including procedural and evidentiary issues. It covers specific offenses such as mail and bank fraud, securities fraud, obstruction of justice, bribery, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and computer crimes. It covers procedural ...

Between debt and the devil

money, credit, and fixing global finance

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis ...

Migrating into financial markets

how remittances became a development tool

We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances - the resources of some of the world's ...

The war that must never be fought

dilemas of nuclear deterrence

The Nuclear Dilemma in a Changing World The War That Must Never Be Fought explores how nuclear deterrence should be understood seventy years after the first nuclear tests. These essays, edited by George P. Shultz and James E. Goodby, challenge outdated deterrence theories and show ...

The politics of global governance

international organizations in an interdependent world

Covering decisionmaking processes, peace and security affairs, and economic, social, and humanitarian issues, The Politics of Global Governance helps students of international organizations to understand the major themes, theories, and approaches central to the subject. The fifteen new selections in this fully revised edition reflect ...

International Organizations

the politics and processes of global governance

The third edition of the award-winning International Organizations has been thoroughly revised and updated to take into account new developments and shifting power relations since 2009, as well as the most current scholarship. As before, the authors provide a comprehensive, in-depth examination of the full ...

Obfuscation

a user's guide for privacy and protest

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers ...

The invention of coinage and the monetization of Ancient Greece

The invention of coinage was a conceptual revolution, not a technological one. Only with the invention of Greek coinage does the concept ""money"" clearly materialize in history. Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society, bringing with it rationalization ...

Nicasio Álvarez de Sotomayor Gordillo y Aguilar

auge y ocaso de un anarcosindicalista

Este libro es la reconstrucción biográfica de uno de los personajes más influyentes en el ámbito sindical de la década de los años 30 que hubo en la capital de España y que hasta la fecha ha permanecido inexplicablemente sumido en el olvido de historiadores ...

Human Rigths

a very short introduction

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very ...

Freedom regained

the possibility of free will

It’s a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and is at the heart of numerous political, social, and personal concerns: Do we have free will? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of free will from every ...

Noruega y Edvard Munch

cuaderno de viaje

Libro encuadernado en rústica con cubierta en cartulina plastificada mate, con cantos redondeados. Cierre con cordón de goma y golpe en seco en la primera de cubierta. Con breve cronología del artista e información práctica sobre el recorrido turístico descrito en el libro. Noruega es ...

The European Court of Justice and international Courts

The Court of Justice of the European Union has exclusive jurisdiction over European Union law and holds a broad interpretation of these powers. This, however, may come into conflict with the jurisdiction of other international courts and tribunals, especially in the context of so-called mixed ...

Semper dolens

historia del suicidio en Occidente

El suicidio, concebido durante muchos siglos, en la estela del pensamiento clásico, como un ejercicio de libertad, e incluso como una liberación, queda reducido, a la luz de la psiquiatría de las últimas décadas, a la mera patología mental. Sin embargo, tal reducción supone la ...

Failed

what the "experts" got wrong about the global economy

Why did the Eurozone end up with an unemployment rate more than twice than that of the United States and six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Was crisis in the Eurozone inevitable? What caused the prolonged economic failure experienced by the majority of ...

Economic theory of bank credit

L. Albert Hahn published the first edition of the Economic Theory of Bank Credit in 1920 and a radically revised third edition in 1930. Economic Theory of Bank Credit is a clear exposition of a theory of credit and stands in the tradition of Harley ...

Understanding Piketty's Capital in the twenty-first century

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century reached the top of most best-seller lists last year shortly after it was released. Nonetheless, few people actually read the book. Yet reviewers have agreed that the book is important because it touches on one of the ...

Union in separation

diasporic groups and identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1800)

Union in Separation presents a series of case studies on diasporic groups in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. It explores how Armenian, Byzantine/Greek, Florentine, Genoese, Hospitaller, Jewish, Mamluk, and Venetian communities characterized by diasporic identities and inserted into ...

Diccionario de árabe marroquí

El Diccionario de árabe marroquí de Francisco Moscoso, que ahora se ofrece en versión revisada y notablemente aumentada en más de cuatro mil entradas, es el resultado de la dedicación del autor a la enseñanza de esta lengua y a la recopilación de su léxico ...