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Essential qualities of the professional lawyer

More than ever, new and aspiring lawyers must both internalize those professional values and qualities that build resilience in an era of seismic professional change, and be exposed early and broadly to the lawyer skill sets and habits that engender professional success. This essential resource ...

Machiavelli and the Modern State

The Prince, the Discourse on Livy, and the extended territorial republic

This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccol- Machiavelli's place within it. It locates Machiavelli's political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as states grew larger ...

Strategy builder

how to create and communicate more effective strategies

A visual and interactive guide to building and communicating strategies that actually work YOUR STRATEGY HAS SEVEN SECONDS TO CAPTIVATE ITS AUDIENCE So how are you going to present it? A big wordy document? A lengthy address? Slides full of bullet points? The best way ...

The economics of freedom

theory, measurement, and policy implications

What is freedom? Can we measure it? Does it affect policy? This book develops an original measure of freedom called 'Autonomy Freedom', consistent with J. S. Mill's view of autonomy, and applies it to issues in policy and political design. The work pursues three ...

Music Law

for the general practitioner

Music law involves several key substantive areas of law copyrights, trademarks, and identity rights, to name a few. While traditional entities such as songwriters and record companies have always existed, technological advances in digital distribution have brought important new players into the mix. Concerns about ...

Planet dialectics

explorations in environment and development

All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet's limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion. And yet, as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years ago, environmental concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics and power structures of ...

Circus maximus

the economical gamble behind hosting the olympics and the World Cup

The numbers are staggering: China spent $40 billion to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and Russia spent $50 billion for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Brazil's total expenditures are thought to have been as much as $20 billion for the World ...

Luces de otro tiempo

la exhibición cinematográfica en la provincia de Segovia

La presente obra supone un recorrido por todos los aspectos de la exhibición cinematográfica en la provincia de Segovia desde la llegada del cinematógrafo hasta nuestros días. El nomadismo de los primeros proyeccionistas, la llegada del sonoro, las primeras salas, la rica realidad del mundo ...

Legal and compliance risk

a strategic response to a rising threat for global business

Over the last 30 years, risks and costs associated with legal conflicts, compliance breaches, litigation, regulatory investigations, criminal prosecution, trials, and arbitration have increased exponentially in frequency and financial harm. Peter Kurer, former business lawyer, GC and chairman of UBS, and board member from various ...

An introduction to empirical legal research

Is the death penalty a more effective deterrent than lengthy prison sentences? Does a judge's gender influence their decisions? Do independent judiciaries promote economic freedom? Answering such questions requires empirical evidence, and arguments based on empirical research have become an everyday part of legal ...

Public sector entrepreneurship

U.S. technology and innovation policy

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity. These initiatives can transform a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and innovative activities in the face of uncertainty. Public Sector ...

Teatro completo

Este Teatro completo de Ramón J. Sender (1901-1982) reúne por primera vez trece obras dramáticas del autor. La vocación escénica del dramaturgo, muy temprana y en cualquier caso anterior a la Guerra Civil, se vio frustrada por las circunstancias de su exilio, primero en México ...

Rastafari and the arts

an introduction

Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The religious underpinnings of the Rasta movement are often overshadowed by Rasta's association with reggae music, dub, and performance ...

China's bitter victory

the war with Japan 1937-1945

"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of ...

The decline of the traditional pension

a comparative study of threats to retirement security

The traditional (final or average salary) pension that employers have provided their employees has suffered a huge decline in labor force coverage in the United Kingdom and the United States, and less severe declines in Canada and elsewhere. The traditional pension provides a precious measure ...

Illustration school

Plantas y pequeñas criaturas

Este libro es una estupenda introducción al mundo de la ilustración de la mano de la popular artista japonesa Sachiko Umoto. Paso por paso, niños y no tan niños pueden disfrutar aprendiendo a dibujar más de setenta tipos de plantas y pequeñas criaturas como flores ...

Carlos V

En 1872 Gachard publicó, tras décadas de trabajos previos, la primera gran monografía sobre Carlos V de la moderna historiografía europea. El texto, sin embargo, fue incluido dentro de un diccionario biográfico belga, por lo que no tuvo la difusión que merecía. Con todo, cincuenta ...

El Parlamento de los invisibles

En la actualidad, hay muchas personas que se sienten incomprendidas, no escuchadas y no representadas. Para remediar esta infrarrepresentación Rosanvallon propone un proyecto web participativo, el equivalente a un parlamento invisible. Un movimiento social de un nuevo tipo, basado en la interacción y el intercambio ...

El arco y la lira

El poema. La revelación poética. Poesía e Historia

Las reflexiones de Octavio Paz sobre el fenómeno poético, su lugar en la historia y, singularmente, en nuestra época y en nuestra vida personal son en buena parte el testimonio que el poeta da acerca de una cuestión nunca dilucidada del todo. Al preguntarse ¿qué ...

Manifiesto Comunista

A fin de que constataran de una manera clara, y hasta cierto punto oficial, los propósitos, los fines y las tendencias del llamado Partido Comunista, la sociedad obrera, secreta e internacional conicida con el nombre de Federación de los Comunistas, en el congreso que celebraron ...