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Sistemas de información

introducción a la informática en las organizaciones

En las últimas tres décadas el campo de los sistemas de información ha llegado a establecerse como un área de enseñanza y de investigación en muchos centros de educación superior de todo el mundo. La planificación, gestión y desarrollo de sistemas de información para las ...

E-commerce 2013

negocios, tecnología, sociedad

En esta nueva edición, todos los casos de inicio, cierre son nuevos o están actualizados. El texto, así como todos los datos, figuras y tablas del libro han sido actualizados con la información más reciente sobre marketing y negocios proporcionada por eMarketer, Pew Internet & American ...

Sistemas de bases de datos

Este libro es una introducción a las modernas tecnologías de bases de datos como medio de almacenamiento de la información. Casi todas las organizaciones modernas tienen la necesidad de guardar datos importantes relativos a sus actividades, y muchas de ellas eligen almacenarlos en sistemas de ...

A practical approach to sentencing

Sentencing is one of the fastest moving areas of law, with frequent legislative changes and hundreds of reported appellate decisions each year. A Practical Approach to Sentencing - a completely updated and revised new edition of Emmins on Sentencing - offers the most comprehensive coverage of modern ...

Point made

how to write like the nation's top advocates

With Point Made, legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive ...

America walks into a Bar

a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies and grog shops

When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted ...

A practical guide to price index and hedonic techniques

This book provides an accessible guide to price index and hedonic techniques, with a focus on how to best apply these techniques and interpret the resulting measures. One goal of this book is to provide first-hand experience at constructing these measures, with guidance on practical ...

Europe and the governance of global finance

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a central actor in financial governance. Hardly any corner of European financial markets remains untouched by EU rules, and key regulatory competences have been shifted from national authorities to supranational ones. At the same time, the global context ...

The Right and the Welfare State

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments. These parties have been assumed to be nothing but the welfare-sceptical flip-side of the Left, but the book presents a new theory arguing that the conventional wisdom is wrong ...

Contract Law in Russia

The book explains Russian contract law in a form understandable to lawyers qualified in other countries, especially common law countries. The introduction gives a concise overview of the Russian legal system in general and contract law in particular as well as a brief insight into ...

Nationalism and private Law in Europe

While the internationalisation of society has stimulated the emergence of common legal frameworks to coordinate transnational social relations, private law itself is firmly rooted in national law. European integration processes have altered this state of affairs to a limited degree with a few, albeit groundbreaking ...

The Constitution of Israel

a contextual analysis

This book presents the main features of the Israeli constitutional system and a topical discussion of Israel's basic laws. It focuses on constitutional history and the peculiar decision to frame a constitution 'by stages'. Following its British heritage and the lack of a formal ...

An introduction to comparative Law theory and method

This short book on comparative law theory and method is designed primarily for postgraduate research students whose work involves comparison between legal systems. It is, accordingly, a book on research methods, although it will also be of relevance to all students (undergraduate and postgraduate) taking ...

Perpetrators and accessories in international Criminal Law

individual modes of responsibility for collective crimes

International criminal law lacks a coherent account of individual responsibility. This failure is due to the inability of international tribunals to capture the distinctive nature of individual responsibility for crimes that are collective by their very nature. Specifically, they have misunderstood the nature of the ...

The method and culture of comparative Law

essays in honour of Mark Van Hoecke

Awareness of the need to deepen the method and methodology of legal research is only recent. The same is true for comparative law, by nature a more adventurous branch of legal research, which is often something researchers simply do whenever they look at foreign legal ...

Abuse of EU Law and regulation of the internal market

How can the concept of abuse of European Union law - which can be defined as undesirable choice of law artificially made by a private citizen - generate so much disagreement among equally intelligent individuals? Seeking to transcend the classical debate between its supporters and adversaries, the ...

The legal theory of Carl Schmitt

The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt provides a detailed analysis of Schmitt's institutional theory of law, mainly developed in the books published between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. By reading Schmitt's overall work through the lens of ...

The experience of tragic judgment

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world ...

Justice as improvisation

the Law of the extempore

Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular 'other'. The same can be said ...

The concept of injustice

This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice. For 2500 years, philosophers have subordinated the concept of injustice to the concept of justice, as if injustice were only a secondary, derivative notion. This book summons literary classics, notably Shakespeare, to argue that ...