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Estudio sobre la campaña de las Navas de Tolosa

El arabista Ambrosio Huici (Huarte, 1880) presentó en 1912 un trabajo demoledor al concurso con el que la Diputación Foral de Navarra pretendía celebrar el VII centenario de la batalla de las Navas de Tolosa (1212). Pese a elogiar la apabullante erudición de Huici, el ...

Making History

The historian and uses of the past

Everyone has a personal connection to the past, independent of historical inquiry. So, what is the role of the historian? Making History argues that historians have damagingly dissociated the discipline of history from the everyday nature of history, defining their work only in scholarly terms ...

Relational accountability

complexities of structural injustice

Accountability is a central yet vague and misunderstood term in development, which attracts little consensus on what it is or on the best route to achieving it. In this insightful new book, Moncrieffe argues that the traditionally narrow interpretation of accountability obscures relationships, power dynamics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Revenge versus Legality

wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib

In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a ...

Filipinas, un país entre dos imperios

Filipinas es un país singular forjado a través de dos experiencias coloniales muy significativas, la española y la estadounidense, además de los años bajo dominación japonesa durante la segunda guerra mundial. Estas experiencias, unidas a sus propias raíces, a sus caracteres como país asiático, a ...

The handbook of Public Administration

The past two decades have been marked by a period of substantial and often fundamental change in public administration. Critically reflecting on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, the Handbook of Public Administration ...

Escuchar para vender

descubre las verdaderas necesidades de tus clientes

Primer libro dedicado íntegramente al proceso de saber escuchar para mejorar las ventas. La escucha no es algo sencillo porque puede sufrir múltiples deformaciones, que se analizan con gran sagacidad y detalle en este libro.

Emprendedores sociales

todos podemos cambiar el mundo

Encuentra en este libro algunas claves del emprendimiento social y actual y descubre tu papel como Changemaker (Impulsor del Cambio) Bill Drayton, Fundador de Ashoka, ha recibido el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional 2011 por dar un impulso fundamental al campo del emprendimiento ...