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The candidate

what it takes to win -and hold- the White House

There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference between them. While plenty of political insiders have written about specific campaigns, only Popkin - drawing ...

What's wrong with the British Constitution?

In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they ought to behave. In fact ...

Keeping secrets

a practical introduction to trade secret Law and strategy

Trade secrets - stealing them, protecting them, enforcing them - are increasingly big business. To understand why, consider any information you know about your job that you're supposed to keep confidential. That information may qualify as a trade secret. Trade secrets concern everyone; from the engineer ...

Unintended consequences

why everything you've been told about the economy is wrong

In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many com­monly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down pay­ments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into ...

The arab uprisings

what everyone needs to know

Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is ...

Aftermath

the cultures of the economic crisis

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different from the ...

Le principe de confiance légitime en Droit allemand, français et anglais

un example de convergence des Droits administratifs des pays européens?

Partant des affirmations répétées, pendant ces dernières années, des publicistes, qu'il y a une convergence entre les droits administratifs des pays européens, l'ouvrage tend à vérifier si et, dans quelle mesure, il y a une convergence entre les trois pays qui se réclament ...

Twilight of the elites

America after meritocracy

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade ...

Las obligaciones alternativas

Las obligaciones alternativas constituyen una de las joyas del pensamiento jurídico romano pensado para mejorar las garantías de los acreedores que financiaban el tráfico de bienes a través del Mediterráneo. Las primeras sociedades medievales europeas las desatendieron porque para su restringido comercio eran de una ...

Staying power

six enduring principles for managing strategy and innovation in an uncertain world

As we continue in an era of simultaneous innovation and commoditization, enabled by digital technologies, managers around the world are asking themselves "how can we both adapt to rapid changes in technology and markets, and still make enough money to survive - and thrive?" To provide ...

Political philosophy

a historical introduction

From Greek antiquity to the latest theories, this historical survey of political philosophy not only covers the major thinkers in the field but also explores the theme of how political philosophy relates to the nature of man. It illustrates how the great political thinkers have ...

Comentarios a la Ley del Registro Civil

Ha hecho falta el transcurso de más de cinco décadas para que un nuevo texto legal viniera a ordenar el Registro Civil. El nuevo marco legal convierte al Registro Civil en un órgano administrativo, único y electrónico, formado por el conjunto de los registros individuales ...

Creation without restraint

promoting liberty and rivalry in innovation

Both antitrust and intellectual property laws are intended to facilitate economic growth. Antitrust is meant to encourages competition of all kinds and intellectual property law should offer inventors and artists the correct incentives to develop new ideas and technologies, but the harsh reality is that ...

Elección tácita de Ley en los contratos internacionales

La libertad que actualmente se concede a las partes para que escojan la ley aplicable a su contrato comercial internacional no siempre se manifiesta mediante una cláusula expresa en el acuerdo. Este silencio deriva frecuentemente en litigación relativa a determinar si las partes efectivamente ejercieron ...

Octopus

Sam Israel, the secret market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con

Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for a “secret market” beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel was a man who ...

Derecho concursal

En este libro se analiza el Derecho Concursal después de las reformas por Ley 13/2009, de 3 de noviembre, de reforma de la legislación procesal para la implantación de la nueva oficina judicial, el Real Decreto-Ley 3/2009, de 27 de marzo, de medidas ...

La isla de Bali

Pintor y dibujante excelente doblado de etnógrafo de primera categoría, Miguel Covarrubias descubrió Bali en la década de 1930. Acompañado de su mujer, residió dos años en la isla y posteriormente publicó este libro extraordinario, único, por un lado, por la información de primera mano ...

El plagio como una de las bellas artes

¿Todo lo que no es autobiografía es plagio? Uno de los temas más morbosos, además de oscuros, del mundo editorial contemporáneo es el del plagio. Abundando en el título de Quincey, el insinuar que un escritor plagia es el crimen más imperdonable que se le ...

La aplicación del Derecho internacional en México

una visión crítica

En el ámbito del Derecho Internacional, uno de los principales puntos controversiales suele ser la compatibilidad de los tratados que se establecen entre diversos países con el sistema jurídico de cada uno de ellos. Por consiguiente, en este libro se examina a fondo la relación ...

Vasconavarros en México

Con una vivaz recreación de pasajes cotidianos, debidamente documentada, el historiador Jesús Ruiz de Gordejuela nos abre el mundo de la emigración vasconavarra al México independiente: en qué condiciones salían de la Península, cómo era el viaje transatlántico, a dónde llegaban y en qué se ...