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How the West came to rule

the geopolitical origins of capitalism

Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told ...

Derecho penal y redes sociales

La extraordinaria expansión de Internet y, en especial, de las redes sociales, durante la última década, ha creado un nuevo escenario delictivo en el que concurren delitos tradicionales y delitos de nuevo cuño. La confluencia de la normativa específica de esta materia y de la ...

Prevención de riesgos laborales

Teoría y práctica de administración de empresas

fundamentos y opciones estratégicas

Esta ofrece una perspectiva integradora sobre los distintos ámbitos de actuación de una empresa, abarcando desde el ámbito funcional, hasta el ámbito competitivo y el ámbito corporativo. El lector podrá conocer cómo tomar las decisiones relativas a la operativa del día a día de una ...

El plagio en el Derecho de autor

La obra ofrece un análisis profundo de la conducta plagiaria a la luz del derecho civil y penal español, examinando las cuestiones más controvertidas, con un profundo estudio de la jurisprudencia española y foránea y desde una óptica actual y practica que toma en cuenta ...

Sucesión "mortis causa" de la familia recompuesta (del a reserva vidual a la fiducia sucesoria)

La problemática que suscita la postergación de un grupo familiar por el nacimiento de nuevos afectos ha sido una constante histórica a la que el Derecho sucesorio ha dado respuesta a través de diversas instituciones, como la reserva clásica o vidual. La cotidianeidad actual de ...

De nuestros impuestos y su administración

claves para una mejor administración fiscal

La viabilidad financiera de nuestro sector público depende de manera crucial no solo de qué impuestos tenemos y de cómo los regulamos, sino también de cómo los administramos. De nada sirve legislar estableciendo como objetivos, por ejemplo, la justicia o la sostenibilidad financiera si después ...

Politics in commercial society

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society ...

Ideas of liberty in Early Modern Europe

from Machiavelli to Milton

Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever ...

The great escape

health, wealth, and the origins of inequality

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton - one of ...

Economics for everyone

a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Economics for Everyone, now published in second edition, is an antidote ...

The shape of the new

four big ideas and how they made the Modern World

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the ...

Strategic modelling and business dynamics

a feedback systems approach

Modelling and simulation of dynamic systems for better business strategy The performance of firms and industries over time rarely unfolds in the way management teams expect or intend. By modelling and simulating the relationships among the parts of an enterprise it is possible to anticipate ...

Who gets what-and why

A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities — both mundane and life-changing — in which money may play little or no role. If you’ve ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child ...

¡Oh diabólica ficción!

¿Un pajarraco desgarbado, bufo y charlatán que se las da de diablo y que asegura ser la fuente de inspiración de todos los autores de ficciones desde el principio de los tiempos? ¡Anda ya! Max organiza en estas páginas, la mayoría de ellas publicadas en ...

On Dionysius the Aeropagite. Volume 2: The divine names, Part II

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 67)

In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the ...

On Dionysius the Aeropagite. Volume 1: Mystical theology and the divine names, Part I

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 66)

In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the ...

Maimonides

life and thought

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing ...

The hammer of the Scots

Edward I and the scottish wars of independence

Known to posterity as Scottorum Malleus - the Hammer of the Scots - Edward I was one of medieval England's most formidable rulers. In this meticulously researched new history, David Santiuste offers a fresh interpretation of Edward's military career, with a particular focus on his ...

Young Islam

the new politics of religion in Morocco and the Arab World

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself. Drawing on extensive ...