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Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of contract

Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston's Law of Contract stands as one of the classic textbooks on contract law more than 50 years after the publication of the first edition. Michael Furmston combines an authoritative account of the principles of the law of contract with thought-provoking analysis ...

The financial decline of a Great Power

war, influence, and money in Louis XIV's France

The financial humbling of a great power in any age demands explanation. In the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) Louis XIV's France had to fight way beyond its borders and the costs of war rose to unprecedented heights. With royal income falling as ...

Stella salvó la granja

una granja al borde de la quiebra y sólo una vía de salvación: el trabajo en equipo y el cambio

Una granja en problemas. Unos animales incapaces de gestionarla. La amenaza de bancarrota o de que los derechos de la explotación sean adquiridos por un humano hostil ensombrece el ánimo de sus moradores. La realidad del fin los asusta. La granja sólo sobrevivirá si sus ...

Two cheers for anarchism

James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary ...

Handbook of european financial markets and institutions

The development and integration of financial markets is at the forefront of academic and policy debates around the world. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in Europe where the integration of financial markets is a primary objective of the European Commission and fully supported ...

Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution

Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection

While standard accounts of the 1930s debates surrounding economic thought pit John Maynard Keynes against Friedrich von Hayek in a clash of ideology, this reflexive dichotomy is in many respects superficial. It is the argument of this book that both Keynes and Hayek developed their ...

Makers

the new industrial revolution

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation ...

Security Features of Banknotes and other Documents

Methods of Authentication (Print version)

Illustrated description of security features used in the production of banknotes of different countries, security certificates, traveler’s cheques, and other documents; All stages of the production of security printing products with the explanation of how groups of security features are formed at each stage ...

Dark pools

high-speed traders, A.I. bandits, and the threat to the global financial system

A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them. In the beginning was ...

But will the planet notice?

how smart economics can save the world

You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Put bluntly, whatever you do personally - eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius - the planet doesn't care. Nor, for that matter, does the economy. And when confronting the entwined challenges of climate ...

La independencia de Escocia

Trescientos años después de su fundación la Unión entre Inglaterra y Escocia está en cuestión y se anuncia un referéndum sobre la independencia escocesa. No porque haya un grave problema identitario o una profunda división cultural y lingüística, sino porque en las últimas décadas se ...

Políticas para la interculturalidad

Six months in 1945

FDR, Stalin, Churchill and Truman. From World War to Cold War

From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in ...

Finance essentials

the practitioners' guide

Collated by Scott Moeller of Cass Business School, this collection brings together the informative articles a budding finance practitioner needs to operate effectively in today's corporate environment. Bringing together core finance knowledge and cutting-edge research topics in an engaging and effective way, this text ...

The dictator's learning curve

inside the global battle for democracy

We are witnessing an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—waves of protests are sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots have fallen in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. But the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a worldwide battle between freedom ...

Fernando III tiempo de cruzada

Las primeras décadas del siglo XIII constituyen un tiempo de cruzada, cruzada a uno y otro lado del Mediterráneo, y cruzada también en los registros políticos de una monarquía, la castellano-leonesa, llamada a forjar en sus presupuestos la legitimación hegemónica sobre el conjunto de la ...

Ciberactivismo

las nuevas revoluciones de las multitudes conectadas

Se extiende por el mundo una nueva forma de activismo social. En los últimos años hemos presenciado las revueltas árabes, las filtraciones de secretos de las embajadas de EE UU y los gobiernos de todo el mundo a través de Wikileaks, las acciones del colectivo ...

Memoria de la librería

MEMORIA DE LA LIBRERÍA relata las peripecias de tres grandes libreros españoles, Antonio Rivero, Carlos Pascual y Paco Puche, tres empresarios que provienen de realidades bien diferentes y que, sin embargo, alumbran los caminos que este sector debe seguir transitando. “Recuerdo muchas mañanas de sábado ...

Gestión de la innovación y nuevas estrategias de investigación y difusión del fondo documental artístico

Esta publicación surge a raíz de las aportaciones recibidas en los IV y V Encuentros de Centros de Documentación de Arte Contemporáneo que con carácter bienal organiza la Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación de Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo. La obra se presenta como ...

Pensar desde la izquierda

mapa del pensamiento crítico para un tiempo en crisis

Tras el extraordinario movimiento de insubordinación global de Mayo del 68, la historia política de las últimas cuatro décadas ha estado marcada, en buena medida, por el retroceso de la izquierda más reivindicativa y el triunfo del neoliberalismo en todo el mundo. El crash de ...