Libros de

La prescrizione

T.II: Artt. 2941-2963

Il contratto in generale

T.I: Donti, teorie, metodi

L'organizzazione territoriale della Repubblica

l'ordenamiento regionale e locale

Minería de datos a través de ejemplos

La Minería de Datos es uno de los términos que más de moda están dentro de las ciencias de la computación, y consiste en analizar e interpretar de forma automática comportamientos, patrones, tendencias, asociaciones, predicciones y otras características del conocimiento inmerso en los datos. Las ...

Models of democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe

political institutions and discourse

This book explores the ways in which representative democracy works in two neighbouring collections of European states: the Nordic (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the Baltic (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Starting from a Nordic vantage point, contributors explore the extent to which aspects ...

Complex adaptive leadership

embracing paradox and uncertainty

Since its publication, Complex Adaptive Leadership has become a Gower bestseller that has been taught in corporate leadership programmes, business schools and universities around the world to high acclaim. In this updated paperback edition, Nick Obolensky argues that leadership should not be something only exercised ...

The hidden agenda of the political mind

how self-interest shapes our opinions and why we won't admit it

When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. But in fact most political views are governed by self-interest, even if we usually don't realize it. Challenging our fiercely held ...

Redefining pilgrimage

new perspectives on historical and contemporary pilgrimages

Exploring what does and what does not constitute pilgrimage, Redefining Pilgrimage draws together a wide variety of disciplines including politics, anthropology, history, religion and sociology. Leading contributors offer a broad range of case studies from a wide geographical area, exploring new ways of approaching pilgrimage ...

Concepts of Law

comparative, jurisprudential, and social science perspectives

Debates surrounding the concept of law are not new. For a wide variety of reasons and in a wide variety of ways, the meaning of 'law' has long been an important part of Western thought, both within legal scholarship and beyond. The contributors to Concepts ...

Evolution of internacional aviation

Phoenix rising

The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it lays out the forces that shaped the international aviation industry and that changed all the rules in the drive for liberalization. Second, it looks at the many interesting and difficult choices ahead that the airline industry ...

The European Union with(in) International Organisations

commitment, consistency and effects across time

Since its creation, the European Union (EU) has been a participant in the activities of other International Organisations (IOs) or has been working together with them. Still, little information is available on what this long-term involvement with(in) IOs means for International Relations and European ...

The quest for prosperity

how developing economies can take off

How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses ...

The end of normal

the great crisis and the future of growth

Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the economic growth from the early 1950s until 2000-interrupted only by the troubled 1970s-represented a normal performance. From this perspective the crisis was an interruption, caused by bad policy or ...

How voters feel

This book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the gaps between voting and recognition, being counted and feeling counted, having a vote and having a voice and ...

Law's history

american legal thought and the transatlantic turn to History

This is a study of the central role of history in late nineteenth-century American legal thought. In the decades following the Civil War, the founding generation of professional legal scholars in the United States drew from the evolutionary social thought that pervaded Western intellectual life ...

Maravillas de España = Wonders of Spain

Más de 3 años de viaje en furgoneta por España y alrededor de 150.000 fotografías para publicar esta obra autoeditada que refleja la esencia de uno de los países más bonitos del mundo. Más allá de un libro creado desde un banco de imágenes ...

De sellos, heráldica y alegorías

el papel sellado en España

Este libro analiza el papel sellado a través del sello que lo caracteriza y durante la vigencia de esta renta desde 1637 a 1881. Los análisis se han realizado en atención a distintos aspectos relacionados con el sello: el legislativo, el heráldico e icónico (tanto ...

La batalla del Mar Océano

Volumen IV: (16 febrero 1558 - 1604) Ejecución de la Empresa de Inglaterra de 1588.- Tomo I

El volumen IV, que ahora prologamos, corresponde al periodo de la ejecución de la Empresa de Inglaterra, a partir del 16 de febrero de 1588, en que el duque de Medina Sidonia comunica al secretario Idiáquez el acuse de recibo de la noticia sobre la ...

La batalla del Mar Océano

Volumen IV: (16 febrero 1558 - 1604) Ejecución de la Empresa de Inglaterra de 1588.- Tomo III

El volumen IV, que ahora prologamos, corresponde al periodo de la ejecución de la Empresa de Inglaterra, a partir del 16 de febrero de 1588, en que el duque de Medina Sidonia comunica al secretario Idiáquez el acuse de recibo de la noticia sobre la ...

La batalla del Mar Océano

Volumen IV: (16 febrero 1558 - 1604) Ejecución de la Empresa de Inglaterra de 1588.- Tomo IV

El volumen IV, que ahora prologamos, corresponde al periodo de la ejecución de la Empresa de Inglaterra, a partir del 16 de febrero de 1588, en que el duque de Medina Sidonia comunica al secretario Idiáquez el acuse de recibo de la noticia sobre la ...