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Managing biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems

Eds. D.I. Jarvis, C. Padoch, H.D. Cooper. Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. The volume includes the most recent research and developments in the maintenance of local diversity ...

Fundamental Rights and private Law in the European Union

Eds. Gert Brüggemeier, Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Giovanni Comandé. This two-volume comparative study, carried out by the Research Training Network on Fundamental Rights and Private Law in the European Union, offers an overview of the doctrines and case law on the direct or indirect application of ...

The land is the source of the Law

a dialogic encounter with indigenous jurisprudence

"The Land is the Source of Law" brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a 'dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence' in which individuals are characterised by their rights ...

Financial reporting under IFRS

a topic based approach

This practical text on financial accounting and reporting offers a global perspective on IFRS. It presents the rationale and principles prescribed throughout the IAS/IFRS, including numerous examples from large international companies, and develops fundamental skills necessary to read and use the information contained in ...

Cross-border divorce Law

Brussels II bis

This book examines the divorce aspects of the Brussels II bis Regulation (Regulation 2201/2003). It gives detailed consideration to the new jurisdictional rules and to the likely interpretation of the core jurisdictional concept of 'habitual residence'. The scope of the Regulation is analysed, and ...

An introduction to the chinese economy

the driving forces behind modern day China

This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The ...

Probability and statistics for finance

Aut. Svetlozar T. Rachev...[et al]. A comprehensive look at how probability and statistics is applied to the investment process Finance has become increasingly more quantitative, drawing on techniques in probability and statistics that many finance practitioners have not had exposure to before. In order ...

The little book that still beats the market

In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market-a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print- Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market ...

History of greed

financial fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff

Praise for "History of Greed: 'David Sarna is a visionary technologist. He is also a sophisticated investor and financier. He has written a readable, comprehensive, fascinating, and well-researched book that explores troublesome aspects of the financial system in a way only an experienced insider could ...

Dear Mr. Buffett

what an investor learns 1,269 miles from Wall Street

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 years, they both saw the writing on the wall, made clear by the implosion of Bear Stearns. Tavakoli, in clear ...

Madoff with the money

An intriguing look at Bernie Madoff the man, and his scam Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton ...

And then the roof caved in

how Wall Street's greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure ...

The marketisation of higher education and the student as consumer

Eds. Mike Molesworth, Richard Scullion, Elizabeth Nixon. In recent years government policy in the UK has encouraged an expansion of Higher Education to increase participation with the express aim of creating a more educated workforce, capable of competing in international 'knowledge-based' economies. This expansion has ...

El régimen jurídico preconcursal de los acuerdos de refinanciación (d.ad.4ª LC)

propuesta de reforma legislativa

Antes de entrar en crisis las empresas y deudores profesionales pasan por dificultades de toda índole de definen un estadio previo a la insolvencia que podemos denominar de 'preinsolvencia' o de 'precrisis'. En muchos casos ese estado -tan difícil de delimitar con rigor jurídico- es ...

Droit constitutionnel français

Adossé à une lecture constructive de l'histoire constitutionnelle française, dont il s'agit de repérer les lignes de force et les fractures, à travers changements et continuité, ce manuel entend mettre à la disposition des étudiants de première année une approche renouvelée du droit ...

Droits constitutionnels étrangers

Principalement destiné aux étudiants des facultés de droit et des instituts d'études politiques, cet ouvrage, conçu sous la forme de développements synthétiques, structurés et illustrés, permettra au lecteur d'acquérir une vision comparative des droits constitutionnels étrangers situés dans leur contexte historique et leur ...

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 ...