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Wildcat currency

how the virtual moeny revolution is transforming the economy

Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers once redeemed for household items. Today's economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federal government. Credit card ...

Popular Punishment

Should public opinion determine-or even influence-sentencing policy and practice? Should the punishment of criminal offenders reflect what the public regards as appropriate? These deceptively simple questions conceal complex theoretical and methodological challenges to the administration of punishment. In the West, politicians have often answered these ...

Creating a learning society

a new approach to growth, development, and social progress

It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but ...

The watchdog that didn't bark

the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative journalism

In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He locates the roots of the problem in the origin of ...

Immigration economics

Millions of people--nearly 3 percent of the world's population--no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched ...

The economics of creativity

art and achievement under uncertainty

Creative work has been celebrated as the highest form of achievement since at least Aristotle. But our understanding of the dynamics and market for creative work--artistic work in particular--often relies on unexamined cliches about individual genius, industrial engineering of talent, and the fickleness of fashion ...

Applied bayesian modelling

This book provides an accessible approach to Bayesian computing and data analysis, with an emphasis on the interpretation of real data sets. Following in the tradition of the successful first edition, this book aims to make a wide range of statistical modeling applications accessible using ...

The handbook of market intelligence

understand, compete and grown in global markets

An important update to this roadmap for the development of a corporate intelligence program Market intelligence is the distinct discipline by which organisations systematically gather and process information about their external operating environment in order to facilitate accurate and confident decision making that is based ...

Think like the great investors

make better decisions and raise your investing to a new level

Achieve a new level of investing and trading success by defeating your worst enemy--yourself Successful trading relies on three vital skills: market analysis, money management, and decision-making. The first two are straightforward skills anyone can learn, but the third is much more difficult. Your ability ...

Solidaridades orgánicas

de cuerpos y trasplantes

"Solidaridades Orgánicas podría ser entendido como un texto narrada a contracorriente, aunque no es así. El libro ofrece al lector una historia de vida de un trasplante de hígado realizado a partir de un donante vivo. Se trata de un libro que habla de historias ...

La argumentación en la comunicación

La sociedad democrática recurre sistemáticamente al debate, a la discusión, a la argumentación. Sin embargo, las técnicas que permiten convencer al otro sin violencia son poco conocidas y se enseñan poco. El autor plantea diversas cuestiones fundamentales sobre este tema. ¿Qué argumentos utilizamos normalmente? ¿Qué ...

Follow friday

método estratégico de comunicación 2.0 y márquetin digital

A las puertas de la web 3.0 y cuando hasta la ropa que vestimos está a punto de conectarse a internet para estimular la interacción y el consumo, las marcas deben reorientar su estrategia de relación con el cliente. La conectividad ha venido para ...

Los amos del mundo

las armas del terrorismo financiero

La concentración de poder económico ha dado a la banca internacional y a las grandes corporaciones la posibilidad de controlar los mecanismos de la economía en beneficio propio, convirtiéndola en un casino especulativo en donde desarrollan instrumentos financieros muy sofisticados con los que practican la ...

The young Leonardo

art and life in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning of his career as an ...

The barbarians of Ancient Europe

realities and interactions

The Barbarians of Ancient Europe deals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe, in contrast to many publications that explore these peoples in the context of the Greek idea of 'barbarians' as the 'Other'. These varied groups - Thracians, Scythians, Celts, Germans, Etruscans, and ...

Open standards and the Digital Age

history, ideology, and networks

How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century ...

The 'Red terror' and the Spanish Civil War

revolutionary violence in Madrid

This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936-9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudically executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined ...

Los bandos de Castilla

Durante el reinado de Juan II, Ramiro de Linares, hijo único del conde de Pimentel y vasallo del rey de Aragón, se enfrenta en un torneo a don Pelayo de Luna, hijo de Álvaro de Luna, condestable de Castilla, por los amores de Blanca de ...

Para entender el mundo social del Nuevo Testamento

El Nuevo Testamento es una obra de gran importancia en la cultura occidental, pero a menudo resulta poco accesible para los estudiantes por las enormes diferencias entre el mundo moderno y el antiguo mundo mediterráneo en que fue escrito. Para poder entender y apreciar plenamente ...

Las Órdenes Militares y el Conde Duque de Olivares

la convocatoria de los caballeros de hábito (1621-1641)

El propósito de esta obra es muy claro: rebatir los argumentos que durante mucho tiempo han mantenido como una realidad incuestionable el divorcio entre las Órdenes Militares y la guerra durante el siglo XVII (y más concretamente durante el reinado de Felipe IV). Para ello ...