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Using stata for principles of econometrics

Using Stata for Principles of Econometrics is a cutting edge text which incorporates the capabilities of Stata software to practically apply the principles of econometrics. Readers will learn how to apply basic econometric tools and the Stata software to estimation, inference and forecasting in the ...

Perspectivas europeas para una criminología crítica

El valor de la criminología comparada. Las culturas norteamericanas y europeas comparadas. Tipos ideales de justicia penal en Europa. La tolerancia como control social. Las primeras críticas criminológicas a la reforma penal. El “Programa de Marburgo” de Franz von Liszt. Críticas en idioma alemán al ...

Investments and portfolio management

Bodie, Kane, and Marcus' "Investments and Portfolio Management" sets the standard for graduate/MBA investments textbooks. It blends practical and theoretical coverage, while maintaining an appropriate rigor and a clear writing style. Its unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most ...

Schopenhauer traductor de Gracián

diálogo y formación

La admiración del filósofo por el escritor y moralista barroco Baltasar Gracián, tan conocida y citada, culmina en la traducción alemana del Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia. La explicación a esa admiración se ha resuelto siempre con la escueta etiqueta del pesimismo consustancial a ...

El rey se inclina y mata

«A menudo me preguntan por qué en mis textos aparece tanto el rey y tan raras veces el dictador. La palabra «rey» suena suave. Y a menudo me preguntan por qué en mis textos aparece tanto el peluquero. El peluquero mide los cabellos, y los ...

Changes of State

nature and the limits of the city in Early Modern Natural Law

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and ...

Financial institutions management

a risk management approach

Saunders and Cornett's "Financial Institutions Management: A Risk Management Approach, 7/e" provides an innovative approach that focuses on managing return and risk in modern financial institutions. The central theme is that the risks faced by financial institutions managers and the methods and markets ...

Asesinato en América

los grandes delitos de sangre de la historia norteamericana relatados por los Premios Pulitzer

Asesinato en América es una antología indispensable de la gran crónica negra contemporánea. Un libro que recoge ocho de los más dramáticos y atroces delitos de sangre de la historia de los Estados Unidos, narrados por los maestros del periodismo del siglo XX, que recibieron ...

An introduction to political communication

An Introduction to Political Communication introduces students to the complex relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the United Kingdom, United States and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, NGOs and terrorist organisations make use of the media ...

Law in many societies

a reader

This law and society reader taps a rich and diverse literature to compare and contrast the legal experience of many different cultures and nations. Drawing on a variety of methodological approaches, the selections allow students to evaluate whether there are general patterns that explain how ...

El violento oficio de escribir

obra periodística

«De todos mis oficios terrestres, el violento oficio de escribir era el que más me convenía».La regla fundamental del periodismo radica en la responsabilidad con la información. Los artículos de Rodolfo Walsh lo confi rman. Escritor literario, político, militante con la verdad y la ...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

Reunidos por primera vez en un formato trade, esta edición en 4 tomos con estuche supone reunir por primera vez la totalidad de dibujos de Mingote realizados como homenaje a nuestro clásico más universal. Incluye los bocetos preliminares de la obra, inéditos hasta la fecha ...

Constitutional redemption

political faith in an unjust wolrd

Political constitutions, hammered out by imperfect human beings in periods of intense political controversy, are always compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legitimate, argues this daring book, is Americans' enduring faith that the Constitution's promises can someday be redeemed, and the ...

Una historia de españa para el siglo XXI

The ethics of banking

conclusion from the financil crisis

This book analyzes the systemic and the ethical mistakes that have led to the financial crisis of 2008. It explores the middle ground between the argument that financial managers cannot be expected to take responsibility for a systemic crisis and the argument that moral failure ...

Religions of the Ancient Near East

This book is a history of religious life in the Ancient Near East from the beginnings of agriculture to Alexander the Great's invasion in the 300s BCE. Daniel C. Snell traces key developments in the history, daily life and religious beliefs of the people ...

El público fantasma

En una era disgustada con los políticos y los diversos instrumentos de democracia directa, El público fantasma de Walter Lippmann no ha perdido un ápice de actualidad. Esta obra nos muestra al Lippmann más crítico de la democracia americana. De sentimiento antipopulista, este libro defiende ...

Roman imperialism and local identities

Revell examines questions of Roman ethnic identity and explores Roman imperialism as a lived experience based around the paradox of similarity and difference. Her case studies of public architecture provide an understanding of how urbanism, the emperor and religion were part of the daily encounters ...