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Learning by example

imitation and innovation at a global bank

In business, as in other aspects of life, we learn and grow from the examples set by others. Imitation can lead to innovation. But in order to grow innovatively, how do businesses decide what firms to imitate? And how do they choose what practices to ...

Unsettled account

the evolution of banking in the industrialized world since 1800

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In "Unsettled Account", Richard Grossman takes the ...

Valuing the unique

the economics of singularities

In this landmark work of economic sociology, Lucien Karpik introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for singularities. Singularities are goods and services that cannot be studied by standard methods because they are multidimensional, incommensurable, and of uncertain quality. Examples include movies ...

Caminando por los escenarios de la Guerra Civil

Sierras del Rincón, Guadarrama y Malagón

Ponemos en tus manos el extraordinario trabajo de campo llevado a cabo por Domingo Pliego para localizar los numerosos restos que la Guerra Civil española dejó dispersos por las Sierras próximas a Madrid. ¿Cómo llegar hasta ellos? Pues recorriendo a pie los 28 itinerarios arqueológicos ...

A republic of statutes

the new american constitution

The Constitution is often conceived as our nation's Grand Blueprint and the embodiment of our Highest Aspirations. The authors, using prominent cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, maintain that this conception is myth. Instead, William Eskridge and John Ferejohn propose an original ...

Internet architecture and innovation

The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of networks over which the Internet can run. Questions about the relationship between innovation and the Internet ...

The spirit of the Law

religious voices and the Constitution in Modern America

A new constitutional world burst into American life in the mid- twentieth century. For the first time, the national constitution's religion clauses were extended by the United States Supreme Court to all state and local governments. As energized religious individuals and groups probed the ...

The errors of atheism

This work fills the gap for a much needed analytical philosophical work articulating and defending agnosticism as a critique of both theism and atheism. "The Errors of Atheism" is a response to the glaring gap that exists in the analytical philosophical literature on the problem ...

Bad for democracy

how the presidency undermines the power of the people

Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power - from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush - as a grave threat to the United States ...

The divided world

Human Rights and its violence

CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The International Division of Humanity 1 Conscience Denied: Amnesty International and the Antirevolution of the 1960s 2 Who Claims Modernity? The International Frame of Sexual Recognition 3 A Duty to Intervene: On the Cinematic Constitution of Subjects for Empire in Hotel ...

Teoría y práctica para una ordenación racional del territorio

Coords. Luis Galiana, Julio Vinuesa. En la enseñanza de la Ordenación del Territorio es primordial no disociar la teoría de la práctica. Este manual incorpora los fundamentos teóricos relativos a los componentes más relevantes del análisis territorial junto con ejemplos prácticos de la acción planificadora ...

Stilicho

the vandal who saved Rome

The period of history in which Stilicho lived was one of the most turbulent in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal ...

Principles of quantitative development

With CD-ROM. "Principles of Quantitative Development" is a practical guide to designing, building and deploying a trading platform. It is also a lucid and succinct expose on the trade life cycle and the business groups involved in managing it, bringing together the big picture of ...

The political economy of the European Union

The core business of the European Union is the creation of an integrated European market. The scale of this project is enormous, covering a wide variety of national #models' of capitalism, many of which are marked by a heavy reliance on non-market institutions to govern ...

Dietari d'un viatge per les regions de l'Iraq

(1922-1923)

Aquest dietari del P. Bonaventura Ubach (1897-1960) conté el relat del viatge realitzat a Mesopotàmia els anys vint, redactat a partir de les notes de la seva agenda, ampliades quan, a partir de 1951, era ja a Montserrat. La relació va acompanyada d´una abundant ...

Tots a l'escola?

el sistema educatiu liberal en la LLeida del XIX

Tots a l'escola? és un títol que juga amb la ironia de les intencions educatives liberals de la primera meitat del segle XIX. El llibre pretén explicar els avenços en matèria educativa del XIX espanyol des de la crítica objectiva que permet la distància ...

El corazón de la materia

Este último volumen de los ensayos que Pierre Teilhard de Chardin nos dejó se abre con dos obras maestras inéditas: El Corazón de la Materia y Lo Crístico. Después reúne por orden cronológico La Misa sobre el Mundo y diversos opúsculos recuperados. En El Corazón ...

Ermeneutica e interpretazione giuridica

Prefazione. # Parte prima: I. L#interpretazione nell#universo delle norme. # II. L#interpretazione nel pluriverso delle norme e dei fatti. # Parte seconda. # I. Una teoria ermeneutica del diritto. # II. Premesse di una teoria ermeneutica del giudizio giuridico. # III. Una teoria ermeneutica del giudizio giuridico. # Indice ...

Il contratto internazionale

I. La redazione del contratto internazionale. # II. La normativa applicabile e risoluzione delle controversie. # III. Imposta sul valore aggiunto. # IV. Le imposte sul reddito. # Appendice. # Indice Bibliografico. # Indice della Giurisprudenza.

Trattato di Diritto privato (IV: Il Diritto di Famiglia)

I. Famiglia e matrimonio

I. L#evoluzione del Diritto di famiglia e le molteplici realtà affettive (L. Balestra). # II. Parentela e affinità (S. Ciccarello). # III. Il diritto della famiglia in Europa (M.G. Cubeddu). # IV. Il regolamento n. 2201/2003: quale esempio di armonizzazione nell#Unione europea del diritto ...