Libros de

Jacobo Alba

la vida de novela del padre de la duquesa de Alba

¿Quién fue uno de los personajes más singulares de la nobleza española, sobrino de Eugenia de Montijo, íntimo amigo de Alfonso XIII y secreto enamorado de la reina Victoria Eugenia? Ese hombre, descendiente de un noble linaje y dueño de un extraordinario patrimonio fue Jacobo ...

Constitución de 1812. El nacimiento de la libertad

(Revista Cuadernos de Cultura Crítica y Conocimiento, Nº 236, año 2012)

Eco-business

a big-brand takeover aof sustainability

McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Today ...

The Law is a white dog

how legal rituals make and unmake persons

Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantanamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such ...

Elaboración y contenido de los estados y de la memoria de las cuentas anuales consolidadas

La única obra del mercado que explica y analiza el contenido de los estados y la memoria consolidados a efectos de la elaboración del Informe del ejercicio de la sociedad dominante y su grupo y del depósito de las cuentas anuales consolidadas en el Registro ...

Business and financial models

A good business model should describe how an organization creates and delivers value. A vital tool for business strategy, it enables a company to experiment with different ideas and scenarios in a safe, low-risk environment, to consider what it is aiming to achieve, and to ...

The diagrams book

50 ways to solve any problem visually

People find it difficult to express ideas and solve problems purely with words. They find it much easier to use diagrams. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 50 of the most useful diagrams, which are used by consultants, academics, MBA students and smart managers ...

La actualización de balances

El art. 9 de la Ley 16/2012, de 27 de diciembre, establece un gravamen único para aquellos sujetos pasivos de los Impuestos sobre Sociedades, Renta de las Personas Físicas y Renta de No Residentes que deseen actualizar sus balances. Los incentivos para acogerse a ...

Raifeissen's footprint

the co-operative way of banking

Co-operative banks have weathered the current financial crisis relatively well. In most countries, they did not need government support, their losses were comparatively small and they are seen as safe havens by clients and markets alike. This is not a new phenomenon, as earlier crises ...

The social organization of policy

an institucional ethnography of UN forest delibertaions

This book provides a specific case study--based upon direct research with UN processes--which enables the reader to situate larger theoretical arguments regarding civil society, globalization, and sustainable development within the context of the actual activities of practitioners working within the UN forest policy-making arena.

Prosecutors and politics

a comparative perspective

Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United States, citizens can challenge decisions ...

A short guide to contract risk

Savvy managers no longer look at contracting processes and documents reactively but use them proactively to reach their business goals and minimize their risks. To succeed, these managers need a framework and A Short Guide to Contract Risk provides this. The foundation of identifying and ...

International responses to issues of credit and over-indebtedness in the wake of crisis

This book explores the political, economic and regulatory context in which credit regulation is taking place following the global financial crisis. It suggests that current neoliberal economic policies favour multi-national corporations rather than consumers and examines regulatory responses to the internationalization of consumer finance protection ...

In sensible judgement

Taking its bearings from classic texts including Plato, Kant, Hegel and Arendt this thoughtful and intriguing book provides philosophical reflection on what it is to judge and what judgement achieves alongside, and sometimes in competition with, thinking and willing. Opening with the landmark Mabo High ...

Memory and commemoration in medieval culture

In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a ...

The Ashgate research companion to new public management

This new in paperback edition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a student readership with a special interest in contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management ...

Case studies on modern european economy

entrepreneurs, inventions, institutions

The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled and educated ...

Enough is enough

building a sustainable economy in a world of finite resources

It's time for a new kind of economy We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to ...

How cool brands stay hot

branding to Generetion Y

Generation Y (16-32 year olds) are the most marketing savvy and advertising critical generation ever. Three times the size of the previous Generation X, they have a much bigger impact on society and business. But what drives them and how do you develop the right ...

China's banking Law and the national treatment of foreign-funded banks

This book assesses new developments in and reform of China's banking law system following its accession of the WTO. It focuses on the relationship between GATS/WTO national treatment obligations and China's banking law. Tracing the history of national treatment in China, the ...