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A cultural history of animals in the Medieval Age

Ed. Brigitte Resl. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical ...

A cultural history of animals in the Renaissance

Ed. Bruce Boehrer. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 The Renaissance was an extraordinary period of change in the West, fuelled by changing cultural formations, shifting empires, the growth in exploration, and developments in science and technology. A Cultural History of Animals in the Renaissance ...

A cultural history of animals in the Age of Enlightement

Ed. Matthew Senior. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 The period of the Enlightenment saw great changes in the way animals were seen. The codifying and categorising impulse of the age of reason saw sharp lines drawn between different animal species and between animals and ...

Historia de la ciencia sin los trozos aburridos

curiosidades y locos experimentos

¿Cansado de la ley de Ohm? ¿Harto de la estadística? Hastiado del número de Avogadro? ¿La entropía le suena a entronque, las globulinas a globos pequeños? Entonces el lector necesita una dosis de La ciencia sin la parte aburrida.Esta cronología de curiosidades científicas comprende ...

Transformando la cadena de suministro

innovando para la creación de valor en todos los procesoso críticos

Basado en la amplia experiencia práctica de los autores y el análisis continuado de cientos de empresas, este libro describe las bases esenciales de una estrategia de éxito de la cadena de suministro e incluye ejemplos reales, herramientas de autoevaluación, y pasos a seguir que ...

Harem histories

envisioning places and living spaces

Ed. Marilyn Booth. Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, while also attending to its representational and political uses by visitors to those societies. One theme that ...

La anulación del contrato

Prol. Antonio-Manuel Morales Moreno. La jurisprudencia en materia de anulación del contrato, originada por los vicios del consentimiento al tiempo de contratar o por otras causas, es abundante. No hay duda de que la nulidad relativa o anulabilidad hace claudicante el contrato, que puede anularse ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transmission of financial crises and contagion

a latent factor approach

Auts. Mardi Dungey...[et al]. Financial crises often transmit across geographical borders and different asset classes. Modelling these interactions is empirically challenging, and many of the proposed methods give different results when applied to the same data sets. In this book the authors set out ...

Abderramán III y el Califato Omeya de Córdoba

Abd al-Rahman o Abderramán III (891-961) fue el octavo emir independiente y primer califa omeya de Córdoba. Vivió setenta años y reinó cincuenta. Fundó la fastuosa ciudad palatina de Madinat al-Zahra (Medina Azahara) y condujo al emirato cordobés al esplendor califal. Sin embargo, a pesar ...