Libros de

Igualdad afectiva

amor, cuidados e injusticia

Dentro del marco más amplio de la justicia y de los derechos humanos, este innovador trabajo ofrece una nueva perspectiva de la igualdad, ya que explora y pone de relieve la igualdad afectiva; las dimensiones de la justicia relacionadas con el amor, la afectividad, la ...

Un banquero en el Siglo de Oro

Octavio Centurión, el financiero de los Austrias

En plena Edad Moderna, la corona hispánica se enfrentó a una situación económica compleja: si bien la plata fluía desde ultramar, la hacienda pública debía hacer frente a las dificultades para sostener su vasto territorio. Los monarcas tenían que recurrir a los asientos —créditos—, aumentando ...

The real North Korea

life and politics in the failed stalinist utopia

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts ...

Unfinished work

the struggle to build an aging american workforce

The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century--globalization, technology, and unprecedented wealth mixed with jarring economic instability--are pushing the day of retirement later and later in life. The era of the aging worker is here. From the rice paddies of Japan to the ...

The emergence of norms

Edna Ullmann-Margalit provides an original account of the emergence of norms. Her main thesis is that certain types of norms are possible solutions to problems posed by certain types of social interaction situations. The problems are such that they inhere in the structure (in the ...

The origins of business, money, and markets

Understanding the origins of business is fundamental to grasping modern life, yet most historians look no further than the nineteenth century for their narratives. While the industrial revolution profoundly shaped business practice and much of the corporate organization we recognize today, the full sweep of ...

Agricultural and food controversies

what everyone needs to know

The public is more interested in agricultural and food issues than ever before, as is evident in the many agricultural controversies debated in the media. Why is it that some people embrace new agricultural technologies while others steadfastly defend traditional farming methods? Why do some ...

Marine pollution

what everyone needs to know

Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms-chemical, industrial, and agricultural-and the sources of pollution are endless. In recent history, we've seen oil spills, untreated sewage, eutrophication, invasive species, heavy metals, acidification, radioactive substances, marine litter, and overfishing, among other significant problems. Though marine pollution ...

Nuclear waepons

a very short introductions

Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the ...

Lírica española de tipo popular

Edad Media y Renacimiento

Esta edición reúne una selección de composiciones líricas de muy diverso origen y forma ordenadas temáticamente. Es una compilación de poemas de raíz folclórica como son las jarchas, las cantigas d' amigo y los cantos sefardíes que derrochan un delicado aroma de gracia y frescura ...

Cartas a un joven psicólogo

Estas "Cartas a un joven psicólogo" ofrecen un enfoque que no suele estar presente en los libros de psicología. Bajo la coordinación de María Dolores Avia, diecinueve expertos y entusiastas especialistas se dirigen de forma epistolar a un hipotético estudiante, recién licenciado o profesional de ...

Chinese Law

knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s

In Chinese Law, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, the authors provide valuable perspectives on the transformation, knowledge, practice, and effects of Chinese law and justice in the changing historical context of late imperial and modern China.

International Financial Reporting Standards

A framework-based perspective

International Financial Reporting Standards: A Framework-based Perspective links broad concepts and general accounting principles to the specific requirements of IFRS to help students develop and understand the judgments required in using a principle-based standard. Although it is still unclear whether the US will adopt IFRS ...

The death of Caesar

the story of history's most famous assassination

Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history. But what actually happened on March 15, 44 BC is even more gripping than Shakespeare's play. In this thrilling new book, Barry Strauss tells the real story. Shakespeare ...

Value added tax

a comparative approach

This book integrates legal, economic, and administrative materials about the value added tax (VAT) to present the only comparative approach to the study of VAT law. The comparative presentation of this volume offers an analysis of policy issues relating to tax structure and tax base ...

Salud, excelencia y sostenibilidad

En Salud, excelencia y sostenibilidad se narra la historia del sistema de salud de Singapur: cómo funciona, cómo se financia, su pasado, su futuro y, sobre todo, qué pueden aprender de ella los demás sistemas sanitarios del mundo. Singapur es el sexto país con mejores ...

La disciplina del emprendedor

24 pasos para lanzar una Startup exitosa

¿Emprendedor se nace o se hace? Si eres de los que piensan que hay que nacer con un gen creativo, este libro te hará pensar de forma diferente. Emprender es un arte y se puede aprender. Los que han triunfado no nacieron con algo distinto ...

Gobierno corporativo en personas jurídicas no mercantiles

El estudio del gobierno corporativo suele abordarse en sociedades mercantiles cotizadas, y más recientemente en las no cotizadas. Sin embargo, es significativamente menor el análisis del gobierno corporativo en relación con personas jurídicas tradicionalmente consideradas no mercantiles, como asociaciones, fundaciones o cooperativas, y hoy en ...

Los acuerdos de refinanciación

Se analizan la regulación de los acuerdos de refinanciación después de las reformas introducidas en la mismas en pasado año 2014 Se trata del primer estudio completamente actualizado después de las reformas introducidas el pasado año 2014, que analiza de una forma práctica, pero con ...

Constitutionalism of European Supranational Courts

recent decelopments and challenges

This book analyses the recent development and challenges in the evolving constitutionalism of the European area as it has been developed by interaction of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. This book publishes the result of ...