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Contemporary diplomacy

"Contemporary Diplomacy" offers a comprehensive introduction to the changing actors, venues, processes and functions of diplomacy in the 21st Century. Aimed at students and practitioners alike, this textbook explores the critical theoretical tools that can be employed to understand diplomacy and its evolution since the ...

Long divergence

how islamic Law held back the Middle East

In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind - in living standards, technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize economically ...

Introduction to public policy

CONTENTS: Preface SECTION I WHAT IS PUBLIC POLICY? 1 Public Decision Making 3 To Snowmobile, or Not to Snowmobile? 3 1.1 Defining Public Policy 6 Policy in the Real World Bad Policy Can Be Fatal, Literally: Zimbabwe's Self-Inflicted Wounds 8 1.2 The ...

Locura

Escrita con sólo veinte años, Locura# es una de esas raras obras seminales de toda una trayectoria literaria, la de Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Lisboa, 1890-París, 1916), a quien su amigo Pessoa definió como «genio del arte». La genialidad atormentada y la pasión creativa son, de ...

The nazi symbiosis

human genetics and politics in the Third Reich

The Faustian bargain - in which an individual or group collaborates with an evil entity in order to obtain knowledge, power, or material gain - is perhaps best exemplified by the alliance between world- renowned human geneticists and the Nazi state. Under the swastika, German scientists descended ...

The blame game

spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In "The ...

The theory of taxation and public economics

"The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics" presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation - the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the subject rather than a textbook synthesis, the book contains new analysis that generates novel results, including ...

The history of sexuality in Europe

a sourcebook and reader

Ed. Anna Clark. The History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader" provides a dynamic introduction to the history of sexuality in Europe, from the Greeks to the present. By pairing the latest chapters and articles by experts with primary source excerpts, introduced by ...

Credit risk modeling using Excel and VBA

In today's increasingly competitive financial world, successful risk management, portfolio management, and financial structuring demand more than up-to-date financial know-how. They also call for quantitative expertise, including the ability to effectively apply mathematical modeling tools and techniques, in this case credit. Credit Risk Modeling ...

The vest pocket guide to GAAP

Quick answers to your GAAP questions The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives today's busy financial executives the GAAP advice they need in a quick-reference format. Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this ...

Guía para la gestión de fondos rotatorios para personas con discapacidad en América Latina

Coord. Blanca García Martínez.

La jubilación un año antes de la edad ordinaria como medida de fomento del empleo

Bajo el firme propósito de replantear la aplicación, configuración y viabilidad de la jubilación un año antes de la edad ordinaria como medida de fomento del empleo se acomete un detallado y práctico estudio de esta figura, que se complementa con un minucioso anexo jurisprudencial ...

Theatrum Pompei

forma y arquitectura de la génesis del modelo teatral de Roma

Este libro se preocupa fundamentalmente de la forma del teatro construido por Gn. Pompeyo Magno. Forma, en sentido clásico, esencia y abastracción a partir de una materialidad de base, agente vivo de un concepto, posterioy aglomerado descriptivo de su contiene y revelador de la expresión ...

Vita Christi Cartuxano I

Traducida del Latín al Romance por Fray Ambrosio Montesino; Transcripción y adaptación al español Vidal González Sánchez.

The limits to scarcity

contesting the politics of allocation

Ed. Lyla Mehta. Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made ...

Political thought in the Age of Revolution, 1776-1848

Burke to Marx

The years between the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 saw fundamental shifts from autocracy to emerging democracy. It is a vital period in what may be termed 'modernity': that is of the western societies that ...

Contratos gratuitos

Coord. Leonardo B. Pérez Gallardo. En enero de 2010, tuvo lugar en La Habana la IX Jornada Internacional de Derecho de Contratos, cuyo tema central fue el estudio de los contratos gratuitos. Estas jornadas se han convertido en una cita forzosa para las ciencias jurídicas ...

Light from the East

how the science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western World

Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with ...

Migration and mobility in the European Union

This book analyses the patterns of migration flow since the end of the Cold War and relates these to political and policymaking processes at EU level and among EU member states. It delivers an original and innovative perspective on the new dynamics of migration policy ...

The public value of the humanities

Ed. Jonathan Bate. Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swingeing savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical ...