Libros de

Paisaje y patrimonio

Ed. Javier Maderuelo. Éste es el quinto y último libro de una serie de monografías, titulada Pensar el paisaje, que el CDAN ha dedicado al estudio del paisaje desde diferentes perspectivas. Este libro ha sido precedido de otros cuatro en los que se ha analizado ...

El cuerpo habla

grandes secretos de la comunicación no-verbal revelados por un ex-agente del F.B.I.

Es sabido que más del 80% de nuestra comunicación con los demás tiene lugar mediante señales no verbales. Es lo que se conoce como lenguaje corporal. Joe Navarro ha estudiado este lenguaje no verbal durante más de 30 años, 25 de los cuales trabajando para ...

Anuario de Historia del Derecho español. T.LXXX

(2010)

Elaborado por el Ministerio de Justicia

Estatuto del trabajo autónomo y normas de desarrollo

Elaborado por el equipo de redacción de CINCA.

Doing business in India

building research-based practice

Eds. Pawan S. Budhwar, Arup Varma. Considering the immense interest of both the academics and practitioners in the growth and developments in Indian economy, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive guide to provide useful information on doing business in the Indian context. This ...

Nuclear energy and global governance

ensuring safety, security and non-proliferation

This book considers the extent and nature of the global revival in the use of nuclear energy in the coming decades and its likely impact on global nuclear governance.

Agriculture in world history

The survival of the human race since earliest times has depended on its exploitation of the land through agriculture. Mark Tauger looks at farming in early civilizations - from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to early China and India - and asks how it is that since farmers ...

A factual assessment of the draft common frame of reference

Eds. Luisa Antoniolli, Francesca Fiorentini. This book contains a case-based assessment of the Draft Common Frame of Reference carried out by the Common Core Evaluating Group, which gathers a number of well-established and younger scholars coming from Eastern and Western countries of the European Union ...

Extreme events

robust portfolio construction in the presence of fat tails

With slight exaggeration, a case can be made that modern finance has been built, in practice, if not in theory, on implicit tolerance and widespread ignorance of extreme events." -Jean Pierre Landau, Deputy Governor, Banque du France Markets are fat-tailed; extreme outcomes occur more often ...

Executive's guide to solvency II

A straightforward guide to the evolution, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II Providing a guide to the evolution, practice, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II, Executive's Guide to Solvency II deftly covers this major European regulation which ensures that insurers can meet their risk-based ...

Cinema and the Swastika

the international expansion of Third Reich cinema

Eds. Roel Vande Winkel, David Welch. Cinema and the Swastika is the very first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of the Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to economically, politically and culturally infiltrate the film industries of 20 ...

Media and Crime

Yvonne Jewkes' Media and Crime is a remarkable book-a book remarkable for its critical, comprehensive engagement with the most important of contemporary issues. As one of the top scholars in her field, Jewkes provides a panoramic view across the full sweep of media and crime ...

Health Care financing and insurance

options for design

This book offers a unique combination of conceptual, institutional and empirical analyses of the design of healthcare financing systems, and explores the complex interactions of finance and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries.

The economic crisis and the state of economics

Eds. Robert Skidelsky, Christian Westerlind Wigström. The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how economics can explain the current crisis but also how the crisis will affect economic thought.

The Oxford handbook of empirical legal research

Eds. Peter Cane, Herbert M. Kritzer. The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and ...

Britain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars

alliances and diplomacy in economic maritine conflict

In the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was, essentially, a politico-economic conflict for pre-eminence fought on a global scale and it reached a zenith in 1806-1808 with France's apparent dominance of Continental Europe. Britain reacted ...

America, Hitler and the UN

how the allies won World War II and forged a peace

On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states. This marked the beginning of the UN in a real and tangible form. Yet today many people have forgotten that the UN was forged in the midst of ...

Los lindes del patrimonio

consumo y valores del pasado

Eds. Camila del Mármol, Joan Frigolé, Susana Narotzky. Este libro es fruto del quinto Encuentro Ibérico de Antropólogos centrado en la problemática de los lindes del patrimonio, el consumo y los usos del pasado en la sociedad contemporánea. Presenta una mirada compleja sobre los procesos ...

El sistema mundial

perspectivas políticas y sociológicas

Breve descripción de EL SISTEMA MUNDIAL: PERSPECTIVAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLÓGICAS Decir que el mundo se ha globalizado es un asunto tan obvio que a nadie puede llamarle la atención. Sin embargo, ¿quién es capaz de exponer, argumentar, debatir #y además hacerlo con alguna solidez# las ...

Tratado práctico de Propiedad Industrial

Se ha procurado en esta obra concentrar de modo sistemático, pero no por ello menos completo, las modalidades que en derecho español, y en general en el derecho continental, conforman la denominada propiedad industrial, es decir, las invenciones industriales #patentes y modelos de utilidad-, los ...