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A history of social justice and political power in the Middle East

the circle of justice from Mesopotamia to globalization

From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, "the Circle of Justice" as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle of Justice depicts graphically how a government's justice toward the population generates ...

A gentle introduction to Stata

Updated to reflect the new features of Stata 11, A Gentle Introduction to Stata, Third Edition continues to help new Stata users become proficient in Stata. After reading this introductory text, you will be able to enter, build, and manage a data set as well ...

Modelo de empresa saludable = Healthy workplace model

Este libro presenta un modelo que establece los requisitos de un sistema de gestión de empresa saludable para organizaciones que quieran promover y proteger la salud, seguridad y bienestar de los trabajadores y la sostenibilidad del ambiente de trabajo de manera continuada, basado en los ...

Trata de personas, dignidad y Derechos Humanos

En el actual contexto global la trata de personas constituyte el tercer negocio más lucrativo del mundo después del tráfico de armas y de drogas, favorecido por la movilidad de personas, de capitales así como por las dinámicas que genera el neoliberalismo económico. Contribuir a ...

La procrastinación eficiente

guía para dar largas, pensar en las musarañas y posponer todo de manera productiva

"Para ser eficiente siempre debes trabajar en algo importante que te sirva de excusa para no hacer algo aún más importante". Enfocado en un problema de carácter casi universal como es el de diferir las acciones para el día siguiente, La procrastinación eficiente es un ...

Understanding investments

theories and strategies

The author's main goal in writing Understanding Investments is to present the classic theories and strategies in the field of finance in a new, intuitive, and practical way. This text offers context and grounding information to students truly looking, as the title indicates, to ...

Mentefactura

el cambio de modelo productivo. Innovar sobre los intangibles del trabajo y de la emrpesa

Vivimos en una época de grandes transformaciones sociales y, entre ellas, el trabajo y su naturaleza están en plena metamorfosis. Los países desarrollados experimentan tasas de paro inauditas, las capacidades productivas se desplazan a países emergentes, y generaciones de jóvenes formados no tienen empleo. Todo ...

Atlas: Arquitecturas del siglo XXI

Obra completa

Estos Atlas dedicado a la arquitectura más reciente del mundo y desarrolla y pone al día la obra publicada en 2007 por la Fundación BBVA, Atlas. Arquitectura global circa 2000. Esta obra propone una evaluación crítica de la arquitectura del mundo en nuestra época global ...

Fondamenti di tecnica contrattuale

L'impostazione del testo è originale e chiara, l'autore intende fornire ai suoi studenti un manuale agile della materia, specificamente sul tema dei contratti, che sia di introduzione e di formazione a tutti gli studenti di Giurisprudenza cosi come di Economia che nella loro ...

¿Derecho a la vivienda?

miradas críticas a las políticas de vivienda

Durante tres años un grupo de profesores de la Universitat de Barcelona y de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a través del Laboratorio de Hábitat Social, Participación y Género (LAHAS), financiado por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo (AECID), hemos tenido ocasión ...

Visual guide to chart patterns

The step-by-step visual guide to spotting potential price movements and improving returns Bloomberg Visual Guide to Chart Patterns is a concise and accessible visual guide to identifying, understanding, and using chart patterns to predict the direction and extent of price moves. Packed with visual learning ...

The carbon crunch

how we're getting climate change wrong -and how to fix it

Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25 per cent to almost 30 per cent of world energy use. And while European countries have ...

Evaluaciones de impacto ambiental y autorización ambiental integrada

doctrina, textos legales anotados y jurisprudencia

Las leyes que regulan las evaluaciones de impacto ambiental y la autorización ambiental integrada, imponen a los planes, programas, obras o instalaciones sujetos a las mismas un control previo dirigido a analizar y minimizar sus efectos negativos sobre el medio ambiente. Este libro pretende que ...

Newpaper

cómo la revolución digital transforma la prensa

Internet ha roto las reglas sagradas de la prensa escrita. Los lectores han pasado de mancharse los dedos con la tinta del papel a deslizarlos por las pantallas de sus iPads. Los diarios están huérfanos, sometidos a una sangría de difusión y publicidad, y a ...

Failing Law schools

On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Yet behind the flourishing facade, law schools are failing abjectly. Recent front-page stories have detailed widespread dubious practices, misleading placement ...

Public capitalism

the political authority of corporate executives

In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate. Corporate executives issue directives to employees, who are normally prepared to comply with them, and impose penalties ...

Innovation economics

the race for global advantage

This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America has no robust innovation policy at ...

The digital rights movement

the role of technology in subverting digital copyright

The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In The Digital Rights Movement, Hector Postigo shows that what began as an assertion of consumer rights to digital content has become ...

L'ordine frattalico delle fonti del Diritto

Aggiungendo questa riflessione in favore di un ordine armo-nico delle fonti alle molte critiche degli ordini sistematici, mi è accaduto d’incrociare il rapporto fra la consuetudine e la legge al di fuori della tradizionale opposizione di morfologia e di ef-ficacia. E di constatare come ...

The left and the European Constitution

from Laeken to Lisbon

This book examines how left-wing parties are being affected by European integration. It does so by concentrating on the left-wing responses to the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Constitutional Treaty. Both treaties were rocked by No votes in referendums, and left-wing parties played crucial ...