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What is slavery?

What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America ...

Industrial organization

markets and strategies

Thoroughly revised according to classroom feedback, Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies offers an up-to-date and rigorous presentation of modern industrial organization that blends theory with real-world applications and derives implications for firm strategy and competition policy. This comprehensive textbook acquaints readers with the most important ...

Stochastic interest rates

This volume in the Mastering Mathematical Finance series strikes just the right balance between mathematical rigour and practical application. Existing books on the challenging subject of stochastic interest rate models are often too advanced for Master's students or fail to include practical examples. Stochastic ...

Criminal litigation and sentencing

Criminal Litigation and Sentencing offers an excellent introduction to the criminal justice system and the rules and procedures which govern the role of the criminal advocate. The manual provides practical guidance on all aspects of a criminal case, from arrest and charge, to trial, appeals ...

The political marketing game

The Political Marketing Game identifies what works in political marketing - the rules of the game - showing politicians can choose to play the game to achieve change, not just win votes, because authenticity, values and vision are as much a part of a winning strategy as ...

Statelessness

the enigma of the international community

'Statelessness' is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual and a state is absent. The increasingly widespread problem of statelessness has profound legal, social, economic and psychological consequences but also gives rise to the ...

Matemática financiera

El objetivo de este libro es por un lado, definir de una forma clara y concisa los conceptos y herramientas más importantes en los que se sustenta la matemática financiera, y por otro lado, abordar la valoración de las operaciones financieras que con más frecuencia ...

Derecho constitucional. Tomo I

Grupos de trabajo

E-voting case Law

a comparative analysis

E-voting is the use of electronic means in the casting of the vote at political elections or referendums. This book provides an overview of e-voting related case-law worldwide and explains how judicial decisions impact e-voting development. With contributions by renowned experts on thirteen countries, the ...

Freedom of speech under attack

This book is a 'follow-up' of a book that appeared in 2011, in Dutch. That year saw the trial of Geert Wilders, parliamentarian and party leader of one of the largest political parties in The Netherlands. Central questions were: Should a parliamentarian be allowed more ...

Cultures of anyone

studies on cultural democratization in the spanish neoliberal crisis

Cultures of Anyone studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen online and through social movements such as the Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural tradition ...

The Enlightenment

a very short introduction

A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation ...

Tres guineas

Hacer a un lado todas las preocupaciones y estudios terrenales y delegarlos a otra persona constituye una motivación muy atractiva para algunos; pues indudablemente hay quienes quieren retirarse y estudiar, como demuestran la teología con sus refinamientos y la erudición con sus sutilezas; para otros ...

Diarios de viaje

"Estos Diarios de viaje provocan en nosotros un sentimiento extraño. Ciudadanos como somos del siglo XXI, nos transportan a un pasado remoto, en tiempo y espacio: datan del período premoderno de un Japón cultivado (por rural, y también por estudioso). Ilustran las andanzas de un ...

Literatura, siempre

A través de la lectura de este ameno ensayo, nos lleva el autor desde la fundamentación del concepto, funciones sociales, necesidad, enseñanza, oralidad y escritura... hasta su aspecto más lúdico y práctico, sin olvidarse de añadir una motivadora sugerencia, para lectores curiosos, acerca de 50 ...

Nine visions of capitalism

unlocking the meanings of wealth creation

This important book examines the values essential to wealth creation. Some of the world’s most successful Capitalist economies have absorbed very different values from those espoused in the Anglo-American system. In East Asia, for example, East and West have mingled in a way rarely ...

Systemic risk, crises, and macroprudential regulation

The recent financial crisis has shattered all standard approaches to banking regulation. Regulators now recognize that banking regulation cannot be simply based on individual financial institutions' risks. Instead, systemic risk and macroprudential regulation have come to the forefront of the new regulatory paradigm. Yet our ...

Time series analysis

forecasting and control

Praise for the Fourth Edition The book follows faithfully the style of the original edition. The approach is heavily motivated by real-world time series, and by developing a complete approach to model building, estimation, forecasting and control." - Mathematical Reviews Bridging classical models and modern topics ...

Tort Law

Hit the ground running with the best-selling tort law textbook from leading academics Kirsty Horsey & Erika Rackley. Are you new to tort law and seeking to understand its complexities? This textbook provides a lively, insightful and thought-provoking account which assumes no prior knowledge. As well ...

Repo and stock lending

Repo and stock lending are now global markets, covering a huge variety of underlying assets and encompassing an ever-widening range of participants, each with a different set of motivations. Their use has increased exponentially since the financial crisis began, and the markets have become more ...