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The rule of Law and the measure of property

When property rights and environmental legislation clash, what side should the Rule of Law weigh in on? It is from this point that Jeremy Waldron explores the Rule of Law both from an historical perspective - considering the property theory of John Locke - and from the ...

The money trap

escaping the grip of global finance

Why have the efforts of governments and central banks to revive economic growth and solve the problems left by the global financial crisis met with such limited success? Why have markets been periodically paralysed by fear and uncertainty? This book argues that governments have been ...

Actos de comunicación procesal y derechos fundamentales

El presente libro contiene un estudio de los distintos actos de comunicación que pueden practicarse dentro de un proceso judicial, tales como notificaciones, emplazamientos, citaciones, requerimientos, etc. En él se exponen la forma en que deben realizarse estas comunicaciones y los requisitos necesarios para su ...

Los Juzgados de Violencia sobre la Mujer

Tercera edición de las Jornadas "Justicia con Ojos de Mujer" celebradas en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Leioa, 25 de noviembre 2010)

Con la edición de este libro, la asociación Foro Europa Epsilon pretende aglutinar las exposiciones de varias expertas en materia legal reunidas en la Facultad de Derecho, Sección Bizkaia, de la Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. La tercera edición de las Jornadas Justicia con ...

The clash of economic ideas

the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years

The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical events ...

Principles of organizational behavior

realities and challenges

CONTENTS: Part I: INTRODUCTION. 1. Organizational Behavior and Opportunity. 2. Challenges for Managers. Part II: INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES AND BEHAVIOR. 3. Personality, Perception, and Attribution. 4. Attitudes, Emotions, and Ethics. 5. Motivation at Work. 6. Learning and Performance Management. 7. Stress and Well-Being at Work. Part ...

Capitalism from below

markets and institutional change in China

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise ...

Rethinking patent Law

Scientific and technological innovations are forcing patent law into the spotlight and revealing its many glaring inadequacies. Take, for example, the patent case that almost shut down the BlackBerry, or the growing phenomenon of patent trolling, in which patents are acquired for the sole purpose ...

Theory of strategic management

with cases

CONTENTS: PART I: INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT. 1. Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy-Making Process for Competitive Advantage. 2. External Analysis: The Identification of Opportunities and Threats. PART II: THE NATURE OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. 3. Internal Analysis: Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage, and Profitability. 4. Building Competitive ...

Ancient historians

a student handbook

This is an accessible and concise overview of Greek and Roman history writing. The ancient historians were not always objective or accurate, and their intentions for writing were very different from those of modern historians. This introductory guide helps to unravel some of the difficulties ...

Constitución política de la Monarquía española promulgada en Cádiz a 19 de marzo de 1812 y Discurso preliminar leído en las Cortes, al presentar la Comisión de Constitución el proyecto de ella

Gibraltar

a modern history

This modern history of Gibraltar updates and enhances scholarship on the Rock's history by bringing together the author's extensive archival research and developments in the secondary literature surrounding British Gibraltar. Central to its narrative is an examination of the development of a Gibraltarian ...

El magnicidio del General Prim

los verdaderos asesinos

Numerosos historiadores como Olivar Bertrand, Pere Anguera, Piqueras Arenas o Rueda Vicente, en sus estudios y biografías de Prim, propusieron abundantes hipótesis sobre el autor o autores del magnicidio y un jurista de gran solvencia, como Don Antonio Pedrol Ríus, abogado prestigioso y paisano de ...

El PSOE ¿un problema para España?

(1870-1936)

"El mesianismo y el dogmatismo de la doctrina marxista empaparon desde el primer momento al PSOE. Ni Pablo Iglesias, ni ninguno de los líderes que le acompañaron en el Partido hasta su muerte, ni les que le sucedieron, abdicaron jamás del totalitarismo predicado por Marx ...

La Guerra de la Independencia en Badajoz: fuentes francesas

1b. La opinión de los contendientes

Profesor titular de Arqueología en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Fernando Valdés ha partido de la excavación de una fosa común con soldados al servicio de Francia, muertos en el asalto inglés a Badajoz el 7 de abril de 1812, para investigar en el fondo ...

Historia del franquismo

Historia de España IV

Federico Jiménez Losantos y César Vidal se unen para transmitir al lector una de las pasiones que comparten: la historia de España. Este libro surge de la sección sobre historia que se emite en «Es la mañana de Federico » de esRadio. Una historia de España ...

Propagandistas y diplomáticos al servicio de Franco

(1936-1945)

Esta obra, de carácter colectivo y multidisciplinar, analiza, describe e interpreta la acción exterior de determinados personajes bajo la bandera de la España franquista, o a su favor. Dentro de esa nómina de colaboradores (por no decir «fieles funcionarios») se incluyen diplomáticos de carrera (que ...

Border politics

the limits of sovereign power

This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the possibility that the concept of the ...

An introduction to political thought

a conceptual toolkit

New for this edition * New chapter on international political thought This textbook gives you all the vocabulary you need -- political, conceptual and historical -- to engage confidently and deeply with political thought and the moral and political worlds in which we live. It traces the history ...

Women in Ancient Greece

a sourcebook

This is an unrivalled collection of source material on women in the ancient Greek world including literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, and papyri and inscriptions. The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world is a topic of growing interest among classicists and ancient ...