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La persecución de los actos de piratería en las costas somalíes

Coords. Raquel Castillejo Manzanares. El libro trata de aportar al lector una visión multidisciplinar de los problemas que actualmente se presentan en las aguas del índico. Así, se tiene en cuenta la doctrina sentada por la Fiscalía del Tribunal Supremo y la Audiencia Nacional, el ...

La reforma de la Ley Orgánica de Extranjería

El objeto de este documento es ofrecer una primera valoración del Anteproyecto de Ley de Reforma de la Ley Orgánica 4/2000 de Derechos y Libertades de los Extranjeros en España y su Integración Social. Este Anteproyecto recibió informe conjunto de tres ministerios en sesión ...

Interventionism

an economic analysis

"Interventionism" provides Mises' analysis of the problems of government interference in business from the Austrian-school perspective. Written in 1940, before the United States was officially involved in World War II, this book offers a rare insight into the war economies of Hitler's Germany and ...

Mafias on the move

the Organized Crime conquers new territories

Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the ...

Islamic capital markets

products and strategies

Eds. M. Kabir Hassan, Michael Mahlknecht. Islamic Finance has experienced rapid growth in recent years, showing significant innovation and sophistication, and producing a broad range of investment products which are not limited to the complete replication of conventional fixed-income instruments, derivatives and fund structures. Islamic ...

Justice, crime, and ethics

The contributions in this book examine ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field. Comprehensive coverage is achieved through focus on law enforcement, legal practice, sentencing, corrections, research, crime control policy and philosophical issues. The seventh edition includes ...

Peddling protectionism

Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with - and sometimes blamed for - the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of world trade ...

The Age of social democracy

Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century

This is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. Francis Sejersted, one of Scandinavia's leading historians, tells how Norway and Sweden achieved a ...

Partisan balance

why political parties don't kill the U.S. constitutional system

With three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet, this system of government has functioned for well over two centuries, even through such heated partisan conflicts ...

Investments

principles of portfolio and equity analysis

Auts. Michael G. McMillan...[et al]. A comprehensive guide to investment analysis and portfolio management by an expert team from the CFA Institute In a world of specialization, no other profession likely requires such broad, yet in-depth knowledge than that of financial analyst. Financial analysts ...

Investments workbook

principles of portfolio and equity analysis

Auts. Michael G. McMillan...[et al]. Companion workbook to the CFA Institute's Investments: Principles of Portfolio and Equity Analysis Workbook In a world of specialization, no other profession likely requires such broad, yet in-depth knowledge than that of financial analyst. Investments: Principles of Portfolio ...

Financial models with Lévy processes and volatility clustering

Aut. Svetlozar T. Rachev...[et al]. An in-depth guide to understanding probability distributions and financial modeling for the purposes of investment management In Financial Models with Levy Processes and Volatility Clustering, the expert author team provides a framework to model the behavior of stock returns ...

Wiley Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards

Aut. Bruce MacKenzie. A one-stop resource for understanding current International Financial Reporting Standards As the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) makes significant strides in achieving global convergence of accounting standards worldwide, the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) become extremely important to the accounting world. Wiley ...

No one would listen

a true financial thriller

Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme No One Would Listen is the thrilling story of how the Harry Markopolos, a little-known number cruncher from a Boston equity derivatives firm, and his investigative team uncovered ...

Arguments, stories and criminal evidence

a formal hybrid theory

In this book a theory of reasoning with evidence in the context of criminal cases is developed. The main subject of this study is not the law of evidence but rather the rational process of proof, which involves constructing, testing and justifying scenarios about what ...

Tratado de Derecho municipal

Dir. Santiago Muñoz Machado. El estudio del Derecho municipal vigente en España se ha complicado extraordinariamente en los años que van transcurridos desde que apareció la primera edición de este Tratado, a poco de publicarse la Ley reguladora de las bases de régimen local de ...

The practice of organizational diagnosis

theory and methods

The Practice of Organizational Diagnosis: Theory & Methods presents a new paradigm for examining the intergroup dynamics of organizations by combining the procedures of organizational diagnosis with the theory of embedded intergroup relations. In this volume, Alderfer explains the relevance of the paradigm concept for the ...

Understanding deviance

a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking

Downes and Rock's popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule- breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms ...

Manifiesto de Economistas Aterrados

Cuatro prestigiosos economistas de diversa procedencia teórica redactaron este Manifiesto en septiembre de 2010 al que, en menos de tres meses, se han adherido 3.000 personas del mundo de la economía y el pensamiento. En él denuncian diez falsas evidencias (?los mercados financieros favorecen ...

The foundations of public Law

principles and problems of power in the British Constitution

This thought-provoking and engaging book offers an insightful examination of public law, exploring the complex relationship between institutions, individual and state, and offering both explanation and critical analysis. Public law is viewed against a backdrop of differing types of governmental power and the problems to ...