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Family offices

the step handbook for advisers

The family office sphere is of great interest to lawyers, accountants, trust companies, those in private banks and the financial world, as well as family office executives and wealthy families themselves. This new handbook, prepared in association with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.V: Expanding webs of exchange and conflict, 500 CE - 1500 CE

Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and ...

Masters of the universe, slaves of the market

This account of the financial crisis of 2008 2009 compares banking systems in the United States and the United Kingdom to those of Canada and Australia and explains why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Central to this analysis are differences ...

Constitutional calculus

the math of justice and the myth of common sense

How should we count the population of the United States? What would happen if we replaced the electoral college with a direct popular vote? What are the consequences of allowing unlimited partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts? Can six-person juries yield verdicts consistent with the needs ...

El dialecto árabe hablado en la ciudad marroquí de Larache

La presente obra se enmarca dentro del ámbito científico de la dialectología árabe magrebí. Desde un enfoque diacrónico, el autor presenta un estudio lingüístico del dialecto árabe hablado en la ciudad marroquí de Larache. La descripción abarca los principales aspectos de la variedad vernácula en ...

El laberinto italiano

del fenómeno Berlusconi a la crisis actual 1994-2014

¿Qué es lo que está sucediendo en Italia para que en sólo dos años haya habido tres primeros ministros diferentes y ninguno de ellos elegido por los italianos? ¿Por qué el Presidente de la República, Giorgio Napolitano, obligó a Silvio Berlusconi a dimitir cuando a ...

Climate shock

If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and ...

Réflexions sur le procés de common Law

Dans le monde actuel globalisé, plus de deux milliards d’individus vivent sous le régime de la common law. Le prestige des États (États-Unis, Royaume-Uni, Australie, etc.) qui utilisent cette procédure, la langue que ces mêmes États ont en partage et l’importance des débats ...

Who governs?

presidents, public opinion, and manipulation

America's model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, say James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman and Jacobs combine existing research with novel data from ...

Los primeros paisajes altomedievales en el interior de Hispania

registros campesinos del siglo Quinto d.C.

El presente volumen constituye la edición de la tesis doctoral defendida por el autor en la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV/EHU en noviembre de 2009. Llevaba por título Escenarios de emergencia de un paisaje social y político ...

Losing control?

sovereignty in the Age of Globalization

What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains ...

The confidence trap

a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present

Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the ...

La capa de Elías

La capa de Elías indaga en las complejas relaciones entre las comunidades judía y cristiana de Hervás (Cáceres) en el siglo XV, las trágicas consecuencias del edicto de expulsión y el marco opresivo al que estuvieron sometidos los cristianos nuevos en el Barroco. Una sociedad ...

Ideal de Aragón

regeneración e identidad en las artes plásticas 1898-1939

En la tierra y sus gentes se encontraba el “ideal de belleza” de una sociedad que, paralelamente, asistía a su primer desarrollo industrial. Esta doble dimensión: la tradición heredada frente a los avances propios de la sociedad contemporánea, marcó el debate cultural español durante las ...

Liquidity management

a funding risk handbook

Robust management of liquidity risk within the changing regulatory framework Liquidity Management applies current risk management theory, techniques, and processes to liquidity risk control and management to help organizations prepare in case of future economic crisis and changing regulatory framework. Based on extensive research conducted ...

Las guerras de España en el Norte de África

(Marruecos 1497-1956)

Mucho se ha escrito sobre la presencia española en el norte de África (parte del territorio del actual reino de Marruecos) acerca de los diferentes sucesos que allí ocurrieron. En este libro se narran de forma sencilla e interrelacionada los acontecimientos bélicos acaecidos contra las ...

The Human Right to water

a legal comparative perspective at the international, regional and domestic level

This book summarises the history of the human right to water and examines its main content and the obligations that derive from this right. The main purpose of the recognition of the human right to water is to guarantee to everyone access to sufficient, safe ...

Finance and Law

twins in trouble

From the start of the financial crisis in 2007, which turned into an economic crisis soon afterwards, it was obvious that public law could not prevent the genesis of this crisis although it has adequate instruments to make a reoccurrence of such a crisis unlikely ...

Historias falangistas del sur de España

una teoría sobre vasos comunicantes

Cuando el socialista José Bono era presidente de las Cortes alguien le preguntó sobre su padre: «Mi padre hizo la guerra, era falangista y no fue ni un criminal ni un sinvergüenza, contestó. Y Duncan Shiels, en un libro que habla sobre su propia familia ...

Building responsive and responsible financial regulators in the aftermath of the global financial crisis

The global financial crisis that started in 2007 sparked several academic debates about the role that financial sector regulators played in the crisis and prompted policy reforms in the financial supervision architectures of several countries. This book focuses on the question of what accountability, independence ...