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Israel and its Army

from cohesion to confusion

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been perceived not only as the guardian of national survival, but also as a 'people's army' responsible for the custody of national values. This volume analyses the circumstances currently ...

Estampas de la guerra de la independencia en la provincia de Salamanca

El estudio pretende ser uno de los documentos gráficos más importantes de los realizados hasta la fecha sobre la Guerra de la Independencia en la provincia de Salamanca, el año que se cumple el bicentenario del asedio de las tropas francesas a Ciudad Rodrigo. La ...

International criminal Law

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the major areas of international criminal law (ICL). It approaches its subject matter from both a criminal law and an international law perspective, analysing the various topics exhaustively but in an accessible manner. While looking at the jurisprudence ...

Judaísmo para el siglo XXI

el rabino y el sociólogo

Este texto es el resultado del diálogo informal entre dos amigos, un rabino y un sociólogo. Surgen aquí reflexiones interesantes sobre la cuestión de las identidades de los grupos sociales que van más allá de las raíces judías. Desde ambos puntos de vista, el religioso ...

Globalización del agua

Compartir los recursos de agua dulce del planeta

Globalización del agua analiza la estrecha relación que existe entre la gestión del agua y el comercio internacional. A menudo, el agotamiento y la contaminación de los recursos hídricos a escala local están profundamente asociados con la estructura de la economía mundial. Al desarrollarse el ...

Derecho de la competencia para directivos

Éste es un libro escrito en lenguaje sencillo, con abundantes ejemplos, y perfectamente comprensible por un empresario o directivo aunque no tenga formación jurídica. Está escrito específicamente para ellos por un conocido experto en Derecho de la competencia, que durante muchos años fue él también ...

Estado, juristas y trabajo

Itinerarios del Derecho del trabajo en el siglo XX

En los cuatro capítulos de este libro, Giovanni Cazzetta, experto en la Historia del Derecho del trabajo, analiza el nacimiento de esta rama del ordenamiento y su evolución a lo largo del siglo XX hasta las teorías más recientes. Se trata de una visión crítica ...

Metodología jurídica y argumentación

A fin de que el derecho pueda llevar a cabo sus funciones de manera satisfactoria, un requisito previo es la posibilidad de que pueda determinarse cuál es la respuesta jurídica correcta, o, dicho en otros términos, qué es aquello que el derecho establece para cada ...

The life of Adam Smith

This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to ...

Global Poverty

how global governance is failing poor

Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global ...

Keynes on the wireless

Ed. Donald Moggridge. 'The slump in trade and employment and the business losses which are being incurred are as bad as the worst which have ever occurred in the modern history of the world. No country is exempt. The privation and -- what is sometimes worse ...

Essays in persuasion

With a new introduction by Donald Moggridge. Most of the essays in this book were first collected together in October 1931, immediately after Britain had left the gold standard. They reflected Keynes's attempts over the previous dozen years to influence public opinion and policy ...

Essays in biography

With a new introduction by Donald Winch. Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in what had by then become a highly successful career as an academic economist, as an official ...

Why we hate the oil companies

straight talk from an energy insider

"Americans have long had a love-hate relationship with the oil industry. Myself included." - from the Preface As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he's a man on a ...

Gender and the European Union

'A tour de force! This is an extremely important and useful book that systematizes the vast yet fragmented literature on gender and the EU. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the European Union - gender scholar or not.'¹Amy Mazur, Johnson Distinguished Professor ...

The end of lawyers?

rethinking the nature of legal services

This widely acclaimed legal bestseller has provoked a tidal wave of debate within the legal profession, being hailed as an inspiration by some and as heresy by others. Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers, and indeed all those in a professional service environment ...

Designing public policies

an approach based on multi-criteria analysis and computable general equilibrium modeling

This book presents a methodological approach for the joint design of economic and environmental policies. The starting point is the observation that, in practice, policy makers do not usually have a well- defined objective, but they are typically concerned about a number of economic and ...

American immigration policy

confronting the nation's challenges

The mission of this book is to counter the apocalyptic vision of the American 'invasion' with a more balanced account of the consequences of immigration. The book will examine how the United States has dealt with immigration through enactment of various public policies over time ...

Essays on port economics

Eds. Pablo Coto-Millán, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo. The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive overview of the economics of ports for scientists, students and professionals. The text is divided into five self-contained parts: the first chapter defines the demand for port ...

The economics of Foreign Exchange and global finance

CONTENTS: Foreign Exchange Markets and Foreign Exchange Rates.- Exchange Rate Regimes and International Monetary Systems.- International Parity Conditions.- Balance of Payments and International Investment Positions.- Open Economy Macroeconomics.- Balance of Payments Issues and Exchange Rate Movements.- The Mundell-Fleming-Model.- The Flexible Price Monetary Model.- The Dornbusch ...