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Historia de la Europa urbana. T.IV

La ciudad contemporánea hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial

En el siglo XIX Europa experimenta a la vez una industrialización vigorosa y una urbanización acelerada. La difusión desigual de estos procesos acentúa la diversidad de un mundo urbano que va desde las pequeñas ciudades administrativas o de mercado, las llamadas de trama urbana tradicional ...

De finezas y libertad

acerca de la Carta Atenagórica de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y las ideas de Domingo de Báñez

Narrando desde sus orígenes la problemática que tuvo Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz al escribir su Carta Atenagórica, y al ser publicada ésta sin su autorización, Pérez Amador realiza un estudio de la Carta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz así como los supuestos ...

La Galatea

"La Galatea" es la primera obra que escribió Cervantes. Aunque sólo concluyó la primera parte, en su lecho de muerte todavía se acordaba el autor de su propósito de acabarla. El siguiente libro que escribió Cervantes después de éste fue el "Quijote", veinte años después.

Constructivismo y teorías del Derecho

Energy security in the gulf

challenges and prospects

This title examines the links between security issues and energy and oil resources in the Gulf - a hot topic of discussion in both the media and academia. With its analysis of geo-strategic developments and economic and security-related challenges, this book is vital for policy makers ...

Information markets

a strategic guideline for the i-commerce

"Information Markets" is a compendium of the i-commerce, the commerce with digital information, content as well as software. "Information Markets" is a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of economic and information science endeavors on the markets of digital information. It provides a ...

The microeconomics of risk and information

The Microeconomics of Risk and Information covers the principal areas in the field, including risk aversion, simple portfolio theory, precautionary savings, production under risk, risk sharing in the Edgeworth box, adverse selection and moral hazard. Keeping to a strict two-dimensional environment and using only some ...

Global financial crisis

global impact and solutions

Out of the debate over the effectiveness of the policy responses to the 2008 global financial crisis as well as over the innovativeness of global governance comes this collection by leading academics and practitioners who explore the dynamics of economic crisis and impact. Edited by ...

International double taxation

A tax convention (or tax treaty) is an official agreement between two countries on the administration of taxation when the domestic tax legislation of the respective states applies simultaneously to a particular issue or taxpayer (e.g., when a taxpayer resident in one country derives ...

Labour Law in Japan

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph on labour law in Japan not only describes and analyses the legal aspects of labour relations, but also examines labour relations practices and developing trends. It provides a survey of the subject that is ...

Financial regulation at the crossroads

implications for supervision, institutional design and trade

To gain from trade, modern economies rely on a stable financial system. In many countries around the world, the benefits of finance are taken for granted. Financial stability comes to the forefront only in times of crisis. The global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 ...

Publishing Law

Publishing Law is a comprehensive guide to the law as it affects the publishing process. Written by the Copyright Counsel of the Publishers Association and a practising solicitor with many years experience of the publishing trade, this work will serve as a comprehensive handbook for ...

Introduction to turkish Law

English-speaking legal practitioners and academics get an ideal introduction to the basic institutions, principles and rules of Turkish law in this book. Encompassing all the major fields of legal practice, Introduction to Turkish Law provides an essential understanding of the Turkish legal system, so that ...

Towards a European Civil Code

  Since its original publication in 1994, Towards a European Civil Code has become an international classic. This fourth edition of the book reflects the current state of the debate on the future of European private law and provides materials for academic teaching in this ...

Regulating gas liberalization

a comparative study on unbundling and open access regimes in the US, Europe, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

  Along with aviation and telecommunications, the gas supply chain has proved to be one of the paradigmatic factors in the great transformation in regulated industry law that has characterized recent decades. The liberalization in the gas market has taken two primary legal forms: (i ...

Concise international and european IP Law

TRIPS, Paris Convention, european enforcement and transfer of technology

This book provides a rapid understanding of the most important European and international texts, addressing general and jurisdictional issues from a practical viewpoint. Key features include: - An article-by-article commentary on the relevant international treaties and European instruments - Short and straightforward explanation of the principles of ...

A macroeconomics regime for the 21st Century

towards a new economic order

The book aims to give non-economists a detailed understanding of how macroeconomic policy works in modern economies, and the issues it faces. The world has recently been through a huge economic crisis and thinking people everywhere have reason to wonder whether something is not seriously ...

Agricultural marketing

structural models for price analysis

This book rigorously examines key economic issues in the field of agricultural marketing and price analysis. Topics are introduced via simple presentation of key theory and applications of the theory through the use of mini-case studies and stylized spreadsheet models. The coverage is broad, ranging ...

Crossing borders

migration and citizenship in the Twentieth-Century United States

Aspiring immigrants to the United States make many separate border crossings in their quest to become Americans--in their home towns, ports of departure, U.S. border stations, and in American neighborhoods, courthouses, and schools. In a book of remarkable breadth, Dorothee Schneider covers both the ...

Reasoning from race

feminism, Law and the Civil Rights Revolution

Informed in 1944 that she was "not of the sex" entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the injustice she called "Jane Crow." In the 1960s and 1970s, the analogies between sex and race discrimination pioneered by Murray ...