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Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence

with selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations

Christian Thomasius' natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke's in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius' "Institutionum Jurisprudentiae Divinae" ("Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence") attempted to draw a clear ...

Portfolio representations

a step-by-step guide to representing value, exposure and risk for fixed income, equity, FX and derivatives

This book provides a practical and sophisticated insight into each financial asset type, and how the different risks and exposures they involve should be most accurately combined and represented in a portfolio. The financial issues facing the world since the late 2000s have provided the ...

Bernie Madoff, the wizard of lies

inside the infamous $65 billion swindle

Since news broke of Bernie Madoff's world-circling $65 billion Ponzi scheme, many have speculated about how he did it. But no reporter has been able to get the full story - until now. Based on award-winning reporter Diana Henriques' unprecedented access to Madoff, including extensive ...

Evidence, inference and enquiry

Evidence - its nature and interpretation - is the key to many topical debates and concerns such as global warming, evolution, the search for weapons of mass destruction, DNA profiling, evidence-based medicine. In 2004 University College London launched a cross-disciplinary research programme "Evidence, Inference and Enquiry" to ...

The quest

energy, security, and the remaking of the Modern World

Renowned energy authority Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Prize, in this gripping account of the quest for the energy the world needs -- and the power and riches that come with it. A master story teller as ...

The Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law dictionary

This new dictionary is derived from the famous 1853 law dictionary of John Bouvier, the dictionary used by John Marshall, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Relying on Bouvier's structure and original entries, Professor Stephen Sheppard of the University of Arkansas, has added thousands of ...

Bending opinion

essays on persuasion in the public domain

With communication playing an increasingly important role in contemporary society, rhetoric appears to have gained in influence and importance. The ancients knew all along: power belongs to those who know how to use their words. Nowadays, we know that rhetoric pervades all discourse. There is ...

The principles of personal property Law

The law of personal property covers a very wide spectrum of scenarios and has had little detailed scrutiny of its overarching structure over the years. This is a shame. It is a system and can best be understood as a system. Indeed without understanding it ...

Borderless economics

Chinese Sea turtles, indian fridges and the new fruits of global capitalism

A century ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call--or Skype--home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their ...

Why punish? How much?

a reader on punishment

Punishment is a complex human institution. It has normative, political, social, psychological, and legal dimensions, and ways of thinking about each of them change over time. For this reader on punishment, Michael Tonry, a leading authority in the field, has composed a comprehensive collection of ...

Alemanes en Normandia

Desde el desembarco hasta la toma de París

Alrededor de 60.00 soldados, marineros y aviadores alemanes cayeron en los combates de Normandía. A pesar del odioso régimen al que servían, lucharon con bravura, y en muchos casos honorablemente, contra un enemigo que les superaba numéricamente y en medios de una forma aplastante ...

Applied calculus

for business, economics, and the social and life sciences

Reforming the Law on business organizations

back to basics in business and Tax Law

This book is the result of a joint effort of researchers of Tilburg University's Center for Company Law (CCL). It concludes the former CCL research program Foundations and Developments of (Inter)national and European Business and Tax Law (2004-2009) and is the start of ...

The shadow market

how sovereign wealth funds secretly dominate the global economy

The most potent force in global finance today isn't Wall Street, the multinational banks, or the G7 countries. In this brilliant and startling investigation, Eric J. Weiner uncovers the real leaders guiding our shaky recovery from the financial crisis. Taking advantage of liquidity problems ...

Health economics

an industrial organization perspective

Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline during the last 25 years. All this intense research activity has come about through the teaching of courses on health economics, mostly at graduate level. However, the Industrial Organization aspects of the health care market ...

Universal Rights down to Earth

Richard Thompson Ford offers a lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities. His analysis of human rights struggles across the globe uncovers the complexities of observing "universal" principles in specific cultures. Ford sketches divergent views on how we ...

MEMENTO EXPERTO-Plazos en las actuaciones y procedimientos tributarios

-Analiza de forma exhaustiva los plazos contemplados en la normativa que regula las actuaciones y procedimientos de aplicación de los tributos. -El Memento Experto Plazos en las actuaciones y Procedimientos Tributarios facilita al usuario la compresión de los conceptos expuestos con multitud de ejemplos en ...

Organización local

nuevos modelos

Nos encontramos en un momento clave sobre el debate de la estructura de la Administración Pública, y más en concreto, de la reestructuración del esquema tradicional de la Administración Local. Las experiencias del derecho comparado de nuestro entorno, avalan la necesidad del debate y de ...

Wilful blindness

why we ignore the obvious at our peril

In the 2006 case of the US Government vs Enron, the presiding judge instructed the jurors to take account of the concept of wilful blindness as they reached their verdict about whether the chief executives of the disgraced energy corporation were guilty. It was not ...

Análisis de las políticas educativas de la República de Corea

una aproximación a través de técnicas de microsimulación

El extraordinario crecimiento económico experimentado en Corea desde la década de 1960 se vio favorecido por la dotación educativa inicial de su población y por el rápido desarrollo educativo del país. Menos conocido es el hecho de que dicho proceso fue alcanzado manteniendo moderados los ...