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Escribir el horror

literatura y campos de concentración

Pról. Alfons Cervera. La experiencia concentracionaria, una de las más terribles expresiones de violencia y barbarie del siglo XX, se conecta con un tipo concreto de escritura desarrollada fundamentalmente a partir de la década de 1930 y caracterizada por transmitir el testimonio de los supervivientes ...

Mujeres y mercado laboral en España

cuatro estudios sobre la discriminación salarial y la segregación laboral

Dir. Antonio Villar. Esta monografía analiza la situación laboral de la mujer en España. Se articula en cuatro estudios en los que se abordan diferentes aspectos relacionados con la segregación laboral y la discriminación salarial, por una parte, y con el uso del tiempo y ...

El malogrado registro de revocaciones de poderes

El protagonismo creciente de las comunicaciones telemáticas en el tráfico jurídico terminará afectando al modo tradicional, hasta ahora imperante, de acreditar la representación documentada en escritura pública. La accesibilidad de la información a través de Internet y la conectividad electrónica de los archivos y registros ...

Engels

a very short introduction

It is by no means absurd to say that Engels invented Marxism. His work did more than Marx to make converts of the most influential political movement of modern times. He was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of ...

Hacer vivir, dejar morir

biopolítica y capitalismo

Coords. Sonia Arribas, Germán Cano, Javier Ugarte. INDICE: Más allá del biopoder: el arte de la existencia. Biopolítica, liberalismo y neoliberalismo: acción política. Neoliberalismo y gobierno de la vida. Gubernamentalidad, biopolítica, neoliberalismo: Foucault en situación. El resentimiento como estrategia de poder. Biopolítica y "población" en ...

Violent Democracies in Latin America

Eds. Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein. Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned ...

Historia de la medicina

desde chamanes y filósofos hasta la medicina nuclear

Esta obra recorre las etapas históricas y analiza cómo se entendía la salud y la enfermedad en las diferentes sociedades y culturas hasta la actualidad.

Productividad

una perspectiva internacional y sectorial

La presente publicación analiza con detalle los perfiles seguidos por la productividad del trabajo a lo largo del periodo 1970-2005 en cada uno de los países pertenecientes a la UE-25, Australia, Corea del Sur, Estados Unidos y Japón. El punto de partida son los resultados ...

Industrial organization in context

Industrial Organization is a central branch of microeconomics that has historically provoked a great deal of debate among economists. Steve Martin draws on this debate and economic history in order to examine the economics of markets, industries and their participants and in doing so addresses ...

Law as a moral idea

This book argues that the institutions of law, and the structures of legal thought, are to be understood by reference to a moral ideal. The idea of law is an ideal of freedom, or independence from the power of others. The moral value and justificatory ...

Contabilidad de sociedades

supuestos prácticos

La contabilidad de sociedades tiene como objeto el estudio de las particularidades contables que presenta la normativa mercantil, por lo que resulta obligado conocer esta última para proceder a la contabilización de las distintas operaciones allí reguladas. Este derecho contable tiene un campo de actuación ...

Eventful cities

cultural management and urban revitalisation

Cities used to compete to be monumental - now they compete to be eventful. Processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve economic, social, cultural and environmental aims ...

Stalking the black swan

research and decision making in a world of extreme volatility

Kenneth A. Posner spent more than a decade tracking the volatile stock sector known as "specialty finance." A research analyst with Morgan Stanley, Posner monitored markets known for surprise shifts in volatility, including the stocks of controversial credit card companies and mortgage lenders, some of ...

Public service improvement

theories and evidence

Eds. Rachel Ashworth, George Boyne, Tom Entwistle. The performance of the public services, from education and policing to health and recycling, is a matter of concern in many countries. Issues of public service efficiency, cost, and effectiveness have moved to the forefront of political debate ...

Perspectives for European Consumer Law

towards a Directive on consumer rights and beyond

Eds. Hans Schulte-Nölke, Lubos Tichý. The forthcoming Directive on Consumer Rights is part of a far-reaching European development in the field of consumer law and general contract law. The European Commission has initiated the long expected broad shift to full harmonisation. This puts the national ...

Awakening giants, feet of clay

assessing the economic rise of China and India

The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention - and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet ...

Portfolio risk analysis

Portfolio risk forecasting has been and continues to be an active research field for both academics and practitioners. Almost all institutional investment management firms use quantitative models for their portfolio forecasting, and researchers have explored models' econometric foundations, relative performance, and implications for capital market ...

The mutual fund industry

competition and investor welfare

Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth over recent decades, are sure to become even more financially critical in the coming decades. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can ...

Secretos de la venta

ideas, técnicas y consejos prácticos de marketing que realmente funcionan

En esta obra encontrará cientos de trucos, ideas y técnicas para incrementar sus ventas de manera espectacular. David Abingdon es un emprendedor sorprendente que ha cosechado varios éxitos empresariales verdaderamente notables. Aquí, por vez primera, nos revela parte de la mentalidad que ha permitido que ...

Rational choice

This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice theory. It draws on formal theories of microeconomics, decision making, games, and social choice, and on ideas developed in philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Itzhak Gilboa argues that ...