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National regulation of space activities

Ed. Ram S. Jakhu. This book comprehensively addresses all aspects of national space laws and regulations governing the conduct of space activities in fifteen space-faring nations. This is the first book of its kind that contains a compilation of materials written from a neutral and ...

Risk management in credit portfolios

concentration risk and basel II

Risk concentrations play a crucial role for the survival of individual banks and for the stability of the whole banking system. Thus, it is important from an economical and a regulatory perspective to properly measure and manage these concentrations. In this book, the impact of ...

Droit des Obligations

Le présent ouvrage est le couronnement de plus de trente années d'enseignement du droit des obligations à la Faculté de Droit de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, conjugué avec une pratique professionnelle quotidienne de cette matière et diverses études sur des sujets s'y ...

Law's Cosmos

juridical discourse in athenian forensic oratory

Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law has lost its connection to poetic language, narrative, and imagination. But modern ...

Anticipating risks and organising risk regulation

Ed. Bridget M. Hutter. Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organisations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This book shows how we can organise our social ...

The new multinationals

spanish firms in a global context

A new breed of multinational companies is reshaping competition in global industries. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, multinational firms came from the most technologically advanced countries in the world. Over the last two decades, however, new multinational firms from upper-middle-income economies (e ...

Value creation and sport management

The sports business has become one of the fastest growing industries in recent years. Sports organizations now have the potential to generate massive amounts of revenue through a variety of different channels, including broadcasting rights, advertising and branding. However, the rise of sports-related business has ...

The language of law and the foundations of American constitutionalism

For much of its history, the interpretation of the United States Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed by Chief Justice John Marshall to be 'the most sacred rule of interpretation ...

The evolution of modern States

Sweden, Japan, and the United States

The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the ...

Comparative company Law

text and cases on the Laws governing corporations in Germany, the UK and the USA

It can be difficult for students of comparative company law both to understand the internationally relative nature of a legal system and grasp it in practical detail. This book is designed to address that problem. Each chapter begins with a discursive analysis of the laws ...

Employee participation in governance

a legal and ethical analysis

The rights of the employee and the themes of employee ownership and participation have been central, recurring themes as the body of Catholic Social Thought has developed. There is now a unified corpus of official Catholic teaching that focuses the resources of moral theology and ...

Adam Smith

Western Europe, stagnant since the fall of Rome, showed signs of economic resurgence in the mid-18th century. Adam Smith was excited by the potential of this new era, and he was inspired to study the changes in Britain's evolving political institutions, the decline in ...

Mentes creativas

una anatomía de la creatividad

Ya hace mucho tiempo que Howard Gardner cambió nuestro modo de pensar sobre la inteligencia. En su obra clásica Frames of Mind destruyó el tópico de que se trataba de una simple habilidad que cada ser humano poseía en mayor o menor medida. Y ahora ...

Contabilidad financiera

En esta obra, el autor ha volcado la experiencia de 30 años de enseñanza de la contabilidad en la Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid. Se han intentado alcanzar los objetivos de sencillez en la exposición y progresividad en el estudio de las dificultades, sin hacer ...

Legitimacy and legality in International Law

an interactional account

It has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics. By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created ...

Discurso e institucionalización

un enfoque sobre el cambio social y lingüístico

La obra está estructurada en tres capítulos. El primero aborda las relaciones entre el discurso y el cambio social. Los discursos se articulan en relación con las instituciones existente y los sujetos se posicionan en la esfera pública y formulan alternativas para promover el cambio ...

Catálogo para el estudio de la educación primaria en la provincia de Badajoz durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX (1857-1900)

El estudio pretende dar a conocer los nombres, contratos, condiciones laborales, sueldos, destinos y traslados de todos los maestros de la enseñanza pública de la provincia de Badajoz a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Se trata de una época clave en ...

Sentido social

la comunicación y el sentido común en la era de la Internet Social

Prol. Enrique Dans. Auts. Javier Curtichs...[et.al] ; Prol. Enrique Dans Prol. Enrique Dans. Sentido Social es una herramienta imprescindible para aprovechar los nuevos cambios en los hábitos sociales digitales para hacer llegar lo que quieres contar. Internet ha revolucionado el mundo de la comunicación ...

Lead with LUV

a different way to create real success

For decades, Southwest has been the airline industry's shining performer: the company of choice for travelers, employers, and investors alike. Why? Southwest's leaders know how to lead with love. As Southwest's President, Colleen Barrett proved that leading with love is the non-stop ...

Yemen

situación actual y perspectiva de futuro

Coord. Enrique Vega Fernández. Cada vez es más frecuente la aparición de noticias en los medios de comunicación sobre el Yemen, un país hasta no hace mucho relativamente desconocido. Noticias no siempre, por no decir casi nunca, alentadoras, sino más bien indicativas de que el ...