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Media, mobilization, and Human Rights

mediating suffering

What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Why do these news stories sometimes mobilize people, while at other times they are met with indifference? Do different forms of media have greater or lesser impacts on mobilization? These are just some of ...

HyperThinking

creating a new mindset for the Age of Networks

Hyperthinking is predicated on the assumption that the single most important skill required to help you and your organization thrive in the age of perpetual change, digital communications and networks is the mind-set of individuals. This includes your values, your ability to learn and ability ...

Framing democracy

a behavioral approach to democratic theory

The past thirty years have seen a surge of empirical research into political decision making and the influence of framing effects - the phenomenon that occurs when different but equivalent presentations of a decision problem elicit different judgments or preferences. During the same period, political philosophers ...

Intelligent commodity indexing

a practical guide to investing in commodities

Best practices for capitalizing on the commodities boom--from the inventor of the investible commodity index! Intelligent Commodity Indexing explains how to use indices to succeed in the challenging but highly lucrative commodities market. Written by an elite team from PIMCO's CommodityRealReturn Strategy Fund--including Robert ...

The Oil Era

emerging challenges

While oil remains a comparatively inexpensive form of energy and enjoys global demand, its future as a major and essential source of world energy remains uncertain in light of the decline of strategic reserves and the adverse effects of fossil fuels on the climate and ...

Global strategic developments

a futuristic vision

The world today faces numerous challenges, including the ongoing fallout from the financial crisis and varied and diverse examples of violence and conflict across the globe. Combined with the many changes affecting both the regional and global balance of power - such as the apparent decline ...

Everything is obvious

how common sense fail us

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much can CEO’s impact the performance of their companies? And does ...

Lost decades

the making of America's debt crisis and the long recovery

This lucid explanation of the origins and long-term effects of the recent financial crisis draws on historical and comparative perspective by two leading political economists. By 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with almost half of its $6 ...

A right to offend

Over the past two decades, there have been a series of events that have brought into question the concept and practice of free expression. In this new book, Winston provides an account of the current state of freedom of expression in the western world. He ...

Global corruption

money, power and ethics in the Modern World

Corruption has played a pivotal role in determining the current state of the world - from mass poverty in developing countries, to the destruction of natural resources and to the erosion of trust in political parties. Laurence Cockcroft here argues that corruption has to be seen ...

Pricing the planet's future

the economics of discounting in an uncertain world

Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what ...

Le tutele contrattuali

estratto

I. L’approccio alle tutele contrattuali. – II. Contratto e torto. – III. Il ruolo della colpa. – IV. La responsabilità e i suoi dintorni. – V. Il danno contrattuale. – VI. La risoluzione. – VII. L’onere della prova nelle azioni contrattuali. VI. – Le tutele contrattuali.

Debtor nation

the history of America in Red Ink

Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors ...

La acción exterior del sistema de la integración Centroamericana

Las autoras, profesoras de Derecho Internacional Público de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, realizan un minucioso y detallado examen de la acción exterior del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericano. Un Sistema que responde, en gran medida, a un multilateralismo a la carta, con amplio margen ...

El contrato de juego y apuesta

El juego y la apuesta es una materia que tradicionalmente ha sido objeto de regulación por el legislador desde distintos ámbitos, fundamentalmente, desde una perspectiva administrativa, pero también es un tema clásico en el panorama del Derecho civil. Concretamente, el juego y la apuesta se ...

Manual de aplicación práctica de Derecho romano

Este manual práctico consta de dos partes: en la primera se abordan tres grandes bloques, historia, fuentes y recepción, procesos y derechos reales; en la segunda, obligaciones, familia y sucesiones. En todos ellos hay numerosos ejercicios: de comentario de texto, de casos, etc. En la ...

La mandato constitucional hacia la reeducación y reinserción social

En este trabajo se pone de manifiesto las dificultades que existen para que pueda tener éxito el mandato constitucional del art. 25.2 de la C.E. que establece: “Las penas privativas de libertad y las medidas de seguridad estarán orientadas hacia la reeducación y ...

La cooperación internacional y los países de renta media Sudamericanos

Esta obra, anclada en discusiones conceptuales sobre la Cooperación al desarrollo y en los roles que pueden jugar los Países de Renta Media -poniendo foco en Sudamérica- pretende acercar herramientas de análisis y algunos ejemplos concretos para visualizar modalidades de nuevo cuño y un esfuerzo ...

Sistema penal y perspectiva de género

trabajo sexual y trata de personas

Este libro colectivo agrupa algunas de las participaciones con las que contamos en el II Curso de Novos Feminismos: O traballo sexual desde unha perspectiva de xénero, no tempo da emerxencia da industria do sexo los días 7, 8 y 9 de septiembre de 2011 ...

El espíritu de los derechos y su relatividad teológica jurídica

Es notorio que en los orígenes la teoría del abuso de derecho permitía superar los excesos del formalismo jurídico positivista, aplicado al ejercicio de los derechos subjetivos, reclamando los principios jurídicos o los presupuestos jurídico-materiales subyacentes a tales derechos. En la estructura mínimamente compleja de ...