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TTIP

the truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault ...

Syria

Syria was once one of the Middle East's most stable states. Today it is a country on its knees. Almost 200,000 people are estimated to have died in its bloody internal conflict and, as the violence intensifies, Syria's future looks bleak. In ...

Financial risk management

applications in market, credit, asset and liability management and firmwide risk

A global banking risk management guide geared toward the practitioner Financial Risk Management presents an in-depth look at banking risk on a global scale, including comprehensive examination of the U.S. Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, and the European Banking Authority stress tests. Written by ...

Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal

The creation of the British Atlantic World

Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religious agendas? The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the inter-relationship between these competing explanations for the development of the British ...

Políticas lingüísticas en democracias multilingües

La diversidad lingüística es uno de los problemas clásicos con los que han tenido que enfrentarse las democracias liberales avanzadas. De su regulación depende que una situación de pluralismo inicial acabe derivando en una convivencia razonablemente armónica y equilibrada entre las diferentes lenguas o grupos ...

Empire and Nation

the American Revolution in the Atlantic World

The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world. How did ...

The Butterfly defect

how globalization creates systemic risks, and what to do about it

The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the latest insights from a wide variety ...

The ultimate Star Wars and philosophy

you must unlearn what you have learned

Does it take faith to be a Jedi? Are droids capable of thought? Should Jar Jar Binks be held responsible for the rise of the Empire? Presenting entirely new essays, no aspect of the myth and magic of George Lucas s creation is left philosophically ...

Diario de Berlín

un corresponsal extranjero en la Alemania de Hitler (1934-1941)

'Diario de Berlín' es un clásico, la mejor crónica de la Europa de entreguerras, un libro que sigue siendo la lectura obligada para conocer el período más oscuro y fascinante del siglo XX. Publicado por vez primera en 1941, la clarividencia, la pasión y la ...

Trading psychology 2.0

from best practices to best processes

Practical trading psychology insight that can be put to work today Trading Psychology 2.0 is a comprehensive guide to applying the science of psychology to the art of trading. Veteran trading psychologist and bestselling author Brett Steenbarger offers critical advice and proven techniques to ...

The global rise of China

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses. Exactly how did this ...

Entre dos mundos

Arrancan los felices años veinte y el encantador Lanny Budd, heredero del emporio armamentístico Budd Gunmakers Corp., lleva una relajada vida en la Riviera. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y los burgueses vacían botellas de champán festejando que aún siguen vivos. Sin embargo, nubes oscuras ...

Postanarchism

What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order, Saul Newman argues that anarchism - or as he calls it postanarchism - forms our ...

The China boom

why China will not rule the world

Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details ...

The negotiation book

your definitive guide to successful negotiating

Master the art of negotiation and gain the competitive advantage Now revised and updated, the second edition of The Negotiation Book will teach you about one of the most important skills in business. We all have to negotiate at some point; whether in the office ...

Working happy

todo lo que necesitas para crear la mejor empresa del mundo: la tuya

Este libro pone en tus manos el kit de supervivencia para crear tu propia empresa y vivir de lo que te gusta y te hace feliz. Incluye casos prácticos y plantillas muy útiles. Según un estudio de la Universidad de Oxford, a lo largo de ...

Cuba 1959

New Year's Eve, 1958, 10pm: Magnum photographer Burt Glinn is at a black tie party in New York when he hears news that dictator Fulgencio Batista has fled Cuba. By 7am the next morning, he is in Havana in a cab, saying 'take me ...

The anatomy of national revolution

Bolivia in the 20th Century

The Bolivian revolution in 1952 aimed at modernizing the country: the revolutionaries nationalized the large tin mines, limited the power of the upper classes, proceeded to the agrarian reform, and tried to strengthen the role of the state in the economic life. Because the success ...

Manual para la aplicación del sistema de valoración de daños de la Ley 35/2015

Como indica el título, esta publicación es un estudio práctico y completo del nuevo Sistema de Valoración de Daños Personales causados en Accidentes de Circulación, que viene a sustituir al sobradamente conocido como "Baremo de Tráfico". Se empieza con la revisión de los principios rectores ...