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Global crisis

war, climate change and catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished ...

Commercial Law

Commercial Law offers a fresh, modern, and stimulating account of the subject, thereby helping students better understand this important area of law. The text provides thorough coverage of all key aspects of the syllabus, including the law of agency, the sale of goods, international trade ...

Berkshire beyond buffett

the enduring value of values

Berkshire Hathaway, the $300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves that assumption wrong ...

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Wealth of States

how taxes, energy, and worker freedom change everything

A passionate, detailed, quantified argument for state-level tax reform An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States explains why eliminating or lowering tax burdens at the state level leads to economic growth and wealth creation. A passionate argument for tax reform ...

The marketplace of attention

how audiences take shape in a digital age

Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, public attention is not. How do digital media find the audiences they need in an era of infinite ...

Warren buffett wealth

principles and practical methods used by the world's greatest investor

The strategies and techniques of THE investment legend Warren Buffett Wealth follows the world's greatest investor from the beginning of his career, as he takes a 100-dollar investment and turns it into one of the most successful multibillion-dollar companies in the world. By carefully ...

One world currency

The globe

One World Currency presents a serious study about the need for a single stable currency with timely, historical references and skillful economic analysis by noted economist Jose Rafael Abinader. This book describes how a global and universally accepted currency will lead to economic stability throughout ...

Absolute recoil

towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism

"In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that philosophical materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century Communism. To ...

Libro blanco del talento

La gestión del talento ofrece un enorme valor de negocio hoy en día, es compleja y cada vez más creciente, influida por factores externos como la macroeconomía, la expansión internacional y las fusiones y adquisiciones empresariales. En definitiva es importante saber qué talento necesitamos y ...

Gestión de tesorería

cash management

El contenido del libro no sólo se centra en los objetivos que debe perseguir el responsable del dinero en la empresa, sino que también aborda la gestión diaria (provisional y de control) que debe realizarse; la negociación con las entidades financieras, los bancos, de importancia ...

Complementos de gestión financiera

planificación y valoración

Este libro es la continuación de otro anterior, publicado en esta misma editorial, donde se introducía al estudioso de las finanzas en la temática del cálculo financiero, la selección de activos y pasivos y otros temas que los autores consideran básicos en esta disciplina. Ahora ...

Cómo convencer eficazmente

hacia una retórica anclada en la personalidad y en los valores

La retórica es el arte de convencer. La experiencia muestra que el mero dominio de esta técnica puede llegar a ser perjudicial para el hablante pues corre el peligro de parecer sospechoso de manipulación. La retórica es una paradoja: cuanto más se domina, más se ...

La escuela de Paula Montal en sus documentos

La autora desea ofrecernos unos documentos que, pareciendo sencillos, son significativos. La escuela de Paula Montal surge en el marco histórico de Cataluña a principios del S. XIX, con unas peculiaridades originales ante el sistema que ofrecía la "enseñanza tradicional" que en este momento existía ...

Invitación a Keynes

Federico Novelo analiza ampliamente la obra teórica, así como los aspectos morales, políticos y culturales que más influyeron en el pensamiento y la praxis del autor inglés, con lo cual nos exhorta a sumergirnos en el universo de uno de los economistas más influyentes del ...

El reino del dios mercado

crítica a la sagrada hegemonía consumista-capitalista

El mercado es el nuevo Dios de nuestro tiempo. En su nombre se deben llevar a cabo cuantos sacrificios sean necesarios. Su voluntad es todopoderosa y exige sumisión y fe absoluta en sus bondades como Dios de amor y justicia. La economía es su teología ...

Annals of the Kings of Assyria

the cuneiform texts with translations and transliterations from the original documents

Collected for the first time by the eminent scholar E. A. Wallis Budge, this work contains all of the written records of the early Assyrian kings, from the reign of Irishum in about B.C. 2000 to the reign of Ashur-nasir-pal, which ended in B ...

The South China Sea

the struggle for power in Asia

China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers ...

Text, manuscript, and print in Medieval and Modern Iberia

studies in honour of David Hook

Investment in blood

the true cost of britain's afghan war

In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom of Information requests, he pieces together the enormous ...

The struggle for Pakistan

a muslim homeland and global politics

In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on ...