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Nuclear energy

what everyone needs to know

Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United ...

The Cyprus problem

what everyone needs to know

For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the ...

The idea of human Rights

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination ...

Walker and Walker's english legal system

With a pedigree extending over eleven editions, students can be sure that Walker and Walker's English Legal System provides an excellent grounding in the English legal system. The book covers all areas commonly taught on undergraduate courses, with a focus on judicial and legislative ...

International child abduction

the inadequacies of the Law

International child abduction occurs when one parent wrongfully (i.e. in breach of the parental responsibility of the other parent) takes a child to a country other than that of the child's habitual residence, or wrongfully keeps a child in such country. The author ...

Inside the castle

Law and the family in 20th Century America

"Inside the Castle" is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel ...

Constitutional exclusion

the rules, rights, and remedies that strike the balance between freedom and order

Supreme Court interpretations of the Bill of Rights have produced seven constitutional "exclusionary rules." These rules prevent prosecutors from introducing evidence of guilt in criminal trials, making it harder to convict offenders and enabling some criminals to avoid conviction and punishment. The importance of these ...

Capital and effects

the politics of the language economy

Communication as work: we have recently experienced a profound transformation in the processes of production. While the assembly line (invented by Henry Ford at the beginning of the last century) excluded any form of linguistic productivity, today, there is no production without communication. The new ...

Macroeconomics

policy and practice

Gain Hands on Insight, Make the Connections, Analyze the Theory, and Tailor the Material to Your Course! This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to ...

Forex revolution

an insider's guide to the real world of foreign exchange trading

For many investors, an intense, 24-hour-a-day, $1.5 trillion roller-coaster of a market spells "danger"; for readers of Forex Revolution, the word is "opportunity." --Michael J. Panzner, vice president, Rabo Securities USA, Inc., and author of The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle "The ...

Understanding terrorist finance

Understanding Terrorist Finance provides powerful new insights in the financial and economic realities of terrorist groups. Dispelling popular myths, the book presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance and includes empirical studies of the financing of groups in Europe ...

Options on foreign exchange

A comprehensive guide to the world's largest financial market Foreign exchange is the world's largest financial market and continues to grow at a rapid pace. As economies intertwine and currencies fluctuate there is hardly a corporate entity that doesn't need to use ...

101 management models

Management models: many students will come across them in their studies, yet it is only when actually working with them that the function and benefit of management models are revealed. 101 Management Models gives a comprehensive overview of traditional models as well as innovations in ...

Enforcement of the EU public procurement rules

This publication is the third book in the "European Procurement Law Series". The publications in the Series consider the current state of law in the EU and looks into the interpretation, implementation and practice in a range of Member States. An important part of the ...

Actúa contra la crisis

Ante la crisis hemos visto casos de abatimiento y miedo que han llevado a la parálisis. Casi todos, en algún momento, nos hemos dejado arrastrar por el pesimismo reinante y nos hemos dedicado a repetir los mismos mensajes. Pero en estos tiempos de incertidumbre tambien ...

Civismo

El civismo es una obligación y una responsabilidad compartida, que no admite la separación entre la clase política y la sociedad civil. Unos tienen más obligaciones que otros porque ocupan cargos de mayor responsabilidad. Pero todos están igualmente llamados a sostener y mejorar el mundo ...

Nueva York, 8:45 A.M

la tragedia de las Torres Gemelas y la muerte de Bin Laden. Los reportajes ganadores el Premio Pulitzer

A las 8:45 de la mañana del 11 de septiembre de 2001 la historia cambió de rumbo. Y con ella cambiaron cuestiones esenciales de nuestras sociedades, de nuestra percepción del mundo e incluso del desarrollo de nuestras vidas cotidianas. Pocos eventos, tal vez ninguno ...

Gestión. Turno libre

Temario 2: Políticas Públicas. Administración de Recursos Humanos

ADAMS publica la nueva edición, complematente actualizada y revisada, del Temario 2 para la preparación de las pruebas selectivas de ingreso, por el turno libre, en el Cuerpo de Gestión de la Administración Civil del Estado. Desarrolla los temas relativos a los bloques de políticas ...

The end of progress

how modern economics has failed us

Modern economics has failed us. We need a new measure of progress. We live in an Age of Endarkenment. Our economic, social and political systems have failed us. Modern economics has not done what it promised. It has widened the gap between rich and poor ...

Unemployment fluctuations and stabilization policies

a new keynesian perspective

The past fifteen years have witnessed the rise of the New Keynesian model as a framework of reference for the analysis of fluctuations and stabilization policies. That framework, which combines the rigor and internal consistency of dynamic general equilibrium models with such typically Keynesian assumptions ...