Libros de

Havana

Autos and architecture

Norman Fosters visits to Havana over the past ten years have enabled him to meet a variety of Cuban practitioners, from artists to architects. This book is inspired by his travels, and features historic and contemporary photographs that reveal the island nations love affair with ...

Forensic Shakespeare

Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays - Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice ...

European tort Law

The new edition of European Tort Law provides an extensive revision and update of the only English language handbook in this constantly evolving area. The coverage in the new edition has been expanded with material on the latest developments in legislation, legal literature, and the ...

Democracy declassified

the secrecy dilemma in national security

Democracy Declassified tackles an enduring question of particular current importance: How do democratic governments balance the need for foreign policy secrecy with accountability to the public? Democracies keep secrets both from potential enemies and their publics. This simple fact challenges the surprisingly prevalent assumption that ...

Marketing value metrics

a new metrics model to measure marketing effectiveness

The second edition of Marketing Accountability now called Marketing Value Metrics introduces and guides readers through a metrics model that shows not only how marketing systematically contributes to shareholder value but also provides a metrics-based framework for developing and implementing marketing strategies that are measurable ...

The death of money

the coming collapse of the internacional monetary system

“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.” The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past ...

Exile and the politics of exclusion in the Americas

This collection of essays brings together leading experts in the study of exile and expatriation, whose historical and comparative perspectives enable readers to understand the phenomenon of forced displacement in the Americas. Political exile, a major political practice throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth ...

Catching lightning in a bottle

how Merrill Lynch revolutionized the financial world

he fascinating story behind the company that revolutionized the financial world Catching Lightning in a Bottle traces the complete history of Merrill Lynch and the company's substantial impact on the world of finance, from the birth of the once-mighty company to its inauspicious end ...

1700 dudas sobre la Ley de lo contencioso-administrativo

En esta obra, cuatro eminentes juristas, dos reconocidos catedráticos de Derecho administrativo y dos magistrados de la jurisdicción contenciosa, abordan las dudas —o, si se quiere, los problemas o cuestiones problemáticas— que suscita la Ley de la Jurisdicción contencioso-administrativa, ofreciendo una solución completa, fundada en ...

De la permuta y otras figuras afines

El presente libro estudia la permuta como contrato típico y autónomo, expresión jurídica del hecho económico del cambio in natura, sin la intervención principal del dinero. Se incursiona en sus remotos orígenes históricos, su devenir hasta la actualidad, deslindando la figura de otros contratos afines ...

Las parejas de hecho y su marco legal

Las parejas de hecho, cada vez más numerosas, constituyen una realidad social que, cuando reúnen determinados requisitos, han merecido el reconocimiento como una modalidad de familia, aunque sin equivalencia con el matrimonio. Muchos problemas se suscitan cuando se produce la ruptura, principalmente si no hay ...

Obras inéditas, anónimas, seudónimas, póstumas y huérfanas

En la presente obra se contienen las ponencias presentadas en el Colegio de San Gerónimo de La Habana a lo largo de unas Jornadas dirigidas por los profesores Carlos Rogel y Caridad Valdés en el marco de un concierto entre la Facultad de Derecho de ...

El documento jurídico y su electronificación

La puesta en circulación de instrumentos electrónicos facilita el tráfico jurídico y lo hace más ágil. Esta es la causa de que las instituciones jurídicas, de forma especial las mercantiles, se estén acomodando rápidamente a las nuevas prácticas de la era digital. Asimismo se observa ...

La mera tolerancia

El presente libro intenta romper con la inercia que parece supeditar las relaciones de vecindad -entendidas tanto en el sentido de contigüidad como en el de "buena vecindad"- a las servidumbres, respecto de las que el autor vuelve advertir sobre su naturaleza de gravamen. A ...

Propuestas para la reforma fiscal

(Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos, Nº 1, año 2014)

Las carencias de nuestro sistema fiscal han sido puestas de manifiesto por la crisis. La reducción de los ingresos públicos, que han caído hasta situarse entre los más bajos de la Unión Europea, ha afectado sobre todo a los impuestos indirectos, aunque los directos también ...

American conspiracy theories

We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's enduring, widely held beliefs such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination or alien activity at Roswell, fears of a powerful infiltrating group such as the Illuminati, Jews, Catholics, or communists, or modern ...

Intellectual property Law

Bently & Sherman's Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on the subject. The authors' all-embracing approach not only clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents, trade marks, passing off, and confidentiality, but also takes account of a wide range of academic ...

The invention of improvement

information and material progress in seventeenth-century England

Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ...

The Status Quo crisis

global financial governance after the 2008 Meltdown

The 2008 financial crisis was the worst since the Great Depression and many voices argued that it would transform global financial governance. Analysts anticipated a <"Bretton Woods moment>", referring to the 1944 conference that established the postwar international financial order. Widespread expectations of change were then reinforced by ...

Republican theology

the civil religion of american evangelicals

As an electoral bloc, contemporary white evangelical Christians maintain a remarkable ideological and partisan conformity, perhaps unmatched by any other community outside of African Americans. Historically, evangelicals have supported various political parties, but their approach to civil religion, or the way that they apply the ...