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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The political theory of political thinking

the anatomy of a practice

This book is the first to explore systematically what it means to think 'politically'. Using detailed contemporary and historical material, and investigating both professional and 'amateur' forms of political thinking, this study challenges much accepted wisdom on the topic, arguing that it is to be ...

European banking Union

This comprehensive and topical work examines the impact of European Banking Union in the context of the European Central Bank taking over supervision of the 130 European banks in 2014. The work addresses the effect on the daily supervision of large banks in Europe and ...