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El arte de la mediación

argumentación, negociación y mediación

En el mundo jurídico se está viviendo un auténtico auge de la mediación. En general, tiende a pensarse que constituye una de las principales soluciones a los «males estructurales» que afectan a la jurisdicción. En este sentido, empieza a haber una amplia literatura relativa a ...

Historia de la abogacía española

"Roma es el punto de partida, y el derecho vigente en la actualidad el argumento de cierre. Representado este no solo por la legislación interna sino por las variaciones y aperturas que vienen del derecho de la Unión Europea. Entre esas dos marcas, de comienzo ...

El canto del cisne

una comedia moderna

Soames Forsyte y su hija Fleur regresan a casa después de haber dado una vuelta al mundo, destinada a olvidar el pleito que trastocó la paz familiar. Soames no se considera viejo, pero comienza a advertir signos de cansancio, al tiempo que recuerda incesantemente a ...

Cultural DNA

the psychology of globalization

Develop deeper cultural intelligence to thrive in a globalized world. Cultural DNA is a thought provoking book for successful engagement with cultures around the world. Written by Gurnek Bains, founder and chairman of a global business psychology consultancy, this book guides leaders through the essential ...

Sexting and cyberbullying

defining the line for digitally empowered kids

Directed at policy makers, legislators, educators, parents, the legal community, and anyone concerned about current public policy responses to sexting and cyberbullying, this book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences. It offers an analysis of reactive versus preventive legal and educational responses ...

Lyra mixta

silva ejemplar de artificios gráfico-literarios

Se reúnen en este libro veintiocho trabajos realizados a lo largo de más de tres decenios de investigación que abordan una temática común: las complejas relaciones entre el texto, los textos y la imagen, las imágenes, a lo largo de varios siglos aunque con especial ...

Spanish Infantry of the Early Peninsular War

uniforms, organisation and equipment of the line and militia

This is our major publication for 2014 and with it we are delighted to welcome Gerard Cronin into our elite band of authors. Gerard will be well known to many for his Gringos40 model soldiers company. Here, Gerard & Stephen put their talents together to produce the finest ever study of early Napoleonic Spanish uniforms. So, some facts: There are over 400 colour drawings including over 104 contemporary illustrations from Ordovas (1805 and 1806), Christopher Suhr, Augsburger and Bradford plus 138 uniform schematics based on Jose Bueno & Lienhart & Humbert; 52 fl;ags & shields are depicted; there is ...

Transnational legal orders

This book offers a path-breaking, empirically-grounded theory that reframes the study of law and society. It shifts research from a predominantly national context to one that places transnational, national and local lawmaking and practice within a single, coherent, analytic frame. By presenting and elaborating a ...

El poder de la propiedad

élites y desamortización en la España interior (Madrid y Castilla-La Mancha)

Este libro pretende enlazar el estudio de la desamortización con la evolución económica de la Región y realizar una sociología rigurosa de los beneficiarios con especial incidencia en el papel de las elites tanto madrileñas como castellano-manchegas. El proceso desamortizador configuró un determinado tipo de ...

What every economics student needs to know and doesn't get in the usual principles text

This short book explores a core group of 40 topics that tend to go unexplored in an Introductory Economics course. Though not a replacement for an introductory text, the work is intended as a supplement to provoke further thought and discussion by juxtaposing blackboard models ...

The modern mercenary

private armies and what they mean for world order

t was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's ...

Social movements in times of austerity

bringing capitalism back into protest analysis

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with Iceland in ...

Erasing the invisible hand

essays on an elusive and misused concept in economics

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed on ...

International relations theory

the game-theoretic approach

Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this is the first textbook on international relations theory to take a specifically game-theoretic approach to the subject, and provide the material needed for students to understand the subject thoroughly, from its basic foundations to more complex models ...

Labor guide to labor Law

Labor Guide to Labor Law is a comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members. This thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition covers new statutes, current issues, and the ...

The racket

a rogue reporter vs. the masters of the universe

While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard's unbridled access over four years to the ...

Labor relations in a globalizing world

Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging ...

Cyber war

Law and ethics for virtual conflicts

Cyber weapons and cyber warfare have become one of the most dangerous innovations of recent years, and a significant threat to national security. Cyber weapons can imperil economic, political, and military systems by a single act, or by multifaceted orders of effect, with wide-ranging potential ...

Marxism and the muslim world

In the wake of the uprisings which rocked the Arab world, Maxime Rodinson's work has taken on a new and powerful resonance. Dating from 1958, the time of his expulsion from the French Communist Party, to 1972, the assembled articles, papers and essays which ...

Finanzas cuantitativas básicas

Este libro está orientado tanto a alumnos de programas de grado del área de Economía y Empresa como a alumnos de programas de posgrado especializados en Finanzas, que no tengan necesariamente conocimientos previos en este campo. Finanzas Cuantitativas Básicas es un manual que trata de ...