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Stati uniti e Barcellona

il traffico marittimo della bandiera nordamericana con la catalogna attraverso i reports consolari (1800-1861)

Il volume analizza il commercio della flotta mercantile statunitense con Barcellona, città dalla precoce tendenza industriale, destinata a divenire lungo l¿Ottocento grande terminale marittimo del cotone statunitense. Tramite le carte inedite del U.S. Consular Service il libro porta alla luce i dati del commercio ...

Law's environment

critical legal perspectives

This book of essays follows from and adds to the presentations, discussions and debates – the exchanges of ideas – of the Critical Legal Conference 2010, held in Utrecht 10-12 September at the Department of Legal Theory of the Faculty of Law (Utrecht University). The ...

Le società pubbliche

ordinamento, crisi ed insolvenza

Il presente volume, frutto di esperienze interdisciplinari, scientifiche ed operative, si propone il difficile compito di ricostruire il quadro sistematico e l'ordinamento delle società pubbliche, il sistema delle fonti, la regolamentazione dello stato di crisi, i regimi di responsabilità, i rapporti tra materie concorrenti ...

English legal terminology

legal concepts in language

Legal English is a professional language. This means that a good command of ordinary English does not automatically make a student proficient in legal English. Many foreign law students on English language programmes experience problems when suddenly all their lectures, textbooks, discussions and written work ...

The globalisation of corporate governance

the challenge of clashing cultures

The structure of corporate governance has made significant progress in OECD countries but it remains imperfectly linked to the activities of many businesses. Its advance on the global stage will be hesitant and slow until its practice in OECD countries is more consistent and convincing ...

Istituzioni di Diritto privato

Vol.2: Le obbligazione. I contratti. L'impresa

INDICE. Le obbligazioni. Le vicende delle obbligazioni. L'inadempimento e la mora. Le garanzie dell'obbligazione. L'esecuzione forzata del creditio. Il procedimento di formazione del contratto. La sostituzione nell'attività contrattuale. L'invalidità del contratto. L'efficacia e lésecuzione del contratto. Le fonti da ...

Inside accounting

the sociology of financial reporting and auditing

Based on a study covering a one-year financial reporting cycle at a commercial subsidiary of a well-known scientific research organization, "Inside Accounting" examines how accountants and non-accounting managers construct their company's earnings. Addressing issues in both internal management accounting, such as budgeting, performance evaluation ...

Constitucional life and Europe's area of freedom, security and justice

The challenge of thinking about the place of constitutionalism beyond the conventional categories of the national state has become a principal concern for legal and political scholars. This book casts this issue in a different light by exploring the implications for the constitutionalism of legal ...

The new economic diplomacy

decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations

"The New Economic Diplomacy" explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically; how they negotiate internationally; and, how these processes interact. It documents the transformation of economic diplomacy in the 1990s and 2000s in response to ...

13 Bankers

the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown

Though this blistering book identifies many causes of the recent financial crisis, from housing policy to minimum capital requirements for banks, the authors lay ultimate blame on a dominant deregulatory ideology and Wall Street's corresponding political influence. Johnson, professor at the MIT Sloan School ...

Dictionary of accounting terms

The updated edition of this quick-reference short-entry dictionary defines more than 2,500 accounting, auditing, compliance, and tax-related terms. General areas covered include financial accounting and reporting, managerial and cost management, auditing and financial statement analysis, compliance, and information technology (IT) terms. Also included are ...

Palgrave handbook of international trade

The Palgrave Handbook of International Trade comprises twenty accessible, authoritative and up-to-date surveys of the major topics in international trade. The surveys are written by leading scholars and each is a balance between core knowledge and recent research. The Handbook, which was written to support ...

Resolving controversy in the European Union

legislative decision-making before and after enlargement

How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative ...

Decision making by the modern Supreme Court

There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete. This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from each of the three models ...

Shifu, harías cualquier cosa por divertirte

Esta novela de Mo Yan sorprende por fragmentarse en ocho relatos breves. El protagonista es el viejo Ding, un hombre que ha dedicado 43 años de su vida a una fábrica municipal ganadera y se ha ganado el título honorífico de "shifu" o maestro. A ...

Órdenes del amor

cursos seleccionados

En esta nueva edición revisada y actualizada, Bert Hellinger invita al lector a acompañarlo en el camino del conocimiento de los órdenes preestablecidos para el amor en toda relación humana, en el que la compresión liberadora y sanadora nace de la visión centrada. Dado que ...

Cultura constitucional de la jurisdicción

A Perfecto Andrés Ibáñez le debemos una de las más agudas reflexiones críticas y propuestas respecto al modelo de juez del Estado constitucional de derecho, y acerca de la cultura constitucional de la Jurisdicción. El autor llama la atención sobre la necesidad de hacer un ...

Cambio, creatividad e innovacion

desafío y respuesta

El planteo básico de este libro radica en recordarnos que vivimos en un mundo donde la única constante es el cambio, cada vez más variado, más amplio, más incontrolable y más veloz. La única respuesta que nos evita el fracaso y la eliminación está en ...

El oficio de Sociólogo

presupuestos epistemológicos

El corazón de la disciplina sociológica encierra un conflicto: por un lado, su ambición generalizadora, por otro, la tentación de volver a las situaciones concretas en las que encuentra sus materiales empíricos. ¿Y cómo estudiar una realidad social sin perder de vista al individuo? No ...

Sobre el Derecho y el quehacer de los juristas

dar y exigir razones

Este libro recoge la lección magistral que, el martes 25 de octubre de 2011, pronunció el Profesor Doctor D. Tomás Ramón Fernández, catedrático emérito de derecho Administrativo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.