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De comerciantes para comerciantes

el Banco de Santander, 1857-1874

En las ciudades portuarias decimonónicas, como lo fue Santander, toda ocupación giraba en torno a la actividad mercantil; medios e infraestructuras se disponían y trazaban con el fin principal de facilitar y fomentar esta actividad. Y en este contexto debe entenderse el porqué de la ...

EU Law

text, cases and materials

'Craig & de Burca has become a byword for quality: legally accurate and contextually rich' Christopher Hilson, Professor of Law, University of Reading Building on its unrivalled reputation as the definitive EU law textbook, this sixth edition continues to provide clear and insightful analysis of all ...

Wildcat currency

how the virtual money revolution is Ttansforming the economy

Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps to Bitcoin. Today's economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federal government. Credit card companies offer points that can ...

Aftershock

protect yourself and profit in the next global financial meltdown

Secure your financial future before the next big bubble bursts Aftershock provides a definitive look at the economic climate still ahead in 2015 and beyond and details the steps you can take now to secure your financial future. Written by the authors who accurately predicted ...

La industrialización en su laberinto

historias de empresas argentinas

Muchos de los mejores intentos por explicar el «atraso» económico y social de las naciones han sido ligados a las dificultades para transformarse en economías con fuerte presencia manufacturera. A partir de un enfoque que pondera el impacto de los factores propios a la dinámica ...

Financial regulation and compliance

how to manage competing and overlapping regulatory oversight

Devise an organized, proactive approach to financial compliance Financial Regulation and Compliance provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for the compliance professional seeking to manage overlapping and new regulatory responsibilities. Written by David Kotz, former Inspector General of the SEC with additional guidance provided by leading experts ...

Los surrealistas en Tenerife

En mayo de 2015 se cumplieron 80 años del viaje de los surrealistas, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba y Benjamin Péret a Tenerife. La aventura surrealista comenzó en 1934, cuando Óscar Domínguez entró a formar parte del grupo surrealista francés, liderado por Breton. Las narraciones sobre ...

Las Malvinas entre el Derecho y la Historia

refutación del folleto británico "Más allá de la historia oficial. La verdadera historia de las Falklands/Malvinas"

En el año 2008, dos autores británicos sin perfil académico, Graham Pascoe y Peter Pepper, publicaron en inglés y en castellano un folleto titulado “Más allá de la historia oficial. La verdadera historia de las Falklands/Malvinas”. Desde entonces ha sido publicado en diferentes versiones ...

Dinámicas de inclusión y exclusión en América Latina

conceptos y prácticas de etnicidad, ciudadanía y pertenencia

Desde la década de los noventa del siglo XX, los modelos y prácticas de integración social y política han sufrido fuertes cambios en los países latinoamericanos y a nivel global. Entre los factores más decisivos de este proceso, tanto en el ámbito nacional como internacional ...

Rémunérer le travail au Moyen Âge

pour une histoire sociale du salariat

Un collectif de médiévistes européens et américains livre le résultat de ses recherches sur la question du salaire au Moyen - Age à travers l'ensemble de l'Europe. Cette question et celle de la rémunération du travail dans l'Europe médiévale n'ont jamais été ...

Cybercrime

key issues and debates

As technology develops and internet-enabled devices become ever more prevalent new opportunities exist for that technology to be exploited by criminals. One result of this is that cybercrime is increasingly recognised as a distinct branch of criminal law. This book is designed for students studying ...

Autonomia negoziale e vincoli negli atti di destinazione patrimoniale

La ricerca propone un ripensamento della materia degli atti di destinazione costitutivi di vincoli reali, la cui meritevolezza rappresenta non soltanto un’espressione del positivo esercizio dell’autonomia negoziale, ma anche un «vincolo » alla stessa. I vincoli di destinazione d’uso si compenetrano in un ...

La máscara, 1954

Tras haber perdido su trabajo en el periódico, Fantasio es acusado del robo de cincuenta relojes de oro y de la máscara de la reina Nefersisit. Menos mal que su amigo Spirou le ayudará a descubrir qué es lo que ha ocurrido y a demostrar ...

Scritti in onore di Giancarlo Laurini

Scritti di: Carlo Amatucci, Antonio Areniello, Francisco S. Arias, Nicola Atlante, Ferruccio Auletta, Roberto Barone, Amedeo Bassi, Laurent Besso, Guido Bevilacqua, Ermanno Bocchini, Daniela Boggiali, Juan Bolas, Consiglia Botta, Ernesto Briganti, Ciro Caccavale, Oreste Cagnasso, Biagio Caliendo, Erica Cappuccio, Sergio M. Carbone, Giuliana Michela Cartanese ...

Healing corrections

the future of imprisonment

Unlike critics who see the organizational cultures of prisons, jails, and community correction agencies as a problem that needs to be fixed with simple-sounding reforms, Chris Innes argues instead that these types of organizational cultures are adaptive and a source of strength that can be ...

Field Marshal

the life and death of Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy ...

Atlas mondial des femmes

les paradoxes de l'émancipation

Plus de 120 cartes et infographies sur la condition des femmes dans le monde pour prendre acte des avancées remarquables et mesurer les obstacles. . Le droit de disposer librement de son corps est-il acquis ? . Sexualité, famille, vieillesse, canons esthétiques : la vie privée des femmes a ...

Games of strategy

Games of Strategy, famous for its simple yet accurate exposition and its great examples and exercises, has been extensively revised for this Fourth Edition. The key to its broad success is that the authors assume no prior knowledge of game theory and present the material ...

The importance of being civil

the struggle for political decency

Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? The Importance of Being Civil offers the most comprehensive look at the nature and advantages of civility throughout history and in our world today. Esteemed sociologist John Hall expands our understanding of civility ...

Crowdsourcing

Ever since the term "crowdsourcing" was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary to the choosing of new colors for M&Ms have been labeled with this most buzz-generating of media buzzwords. In this accessible but authoritative account, grounded in the empirical literature, Daren Brabham explains what crowdsourcing is, what it is not, and how it works. Crowdsourcing, Brabham tells us, is an online, distributed problem solving and production model that leverages the collective intelligence of online communities for specific purposes set forth by a crowdsourcing organization -- corporate, government, or volunteer. Uniquely, it combines a bottom-up, open, creative process with top-down organizational goals. Crowdsourcing is not open source production, which lacks the top-down component; it is not a market research survey that offers participants a short ...