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Principles of finance with Excel

Finance is a topic that requires much computation, and in today's business world that computation is done almost entirely using Excel. Despite this, existing finance textbooks continue to rely heavily on hand calculators. Business school students--whose background in Excel is often weak when they ...

The roman foundations of the Law of Nations

Alberico Gentili and the justice of empire

Eds. Benedict Kingsbury, Benjamin Straumann. This book makes the important but surprisingly under-explored argument that modern international law was built on the foundations of Roman law and Roman imperial practice. A pivotal figure in this enterprise was the Italian Protestant Alberico Gentili (1552-1608), the great ...

Figures of invention

a history of modern patent Law

Taking the invention as its object of study, this book develops a radical new perspective on the making of modern patent law. It develops an extended historical and conceptual exploration of the invention in modern patent law. Focussing primarily on the figures that make inventions ...

The evolution of European Convention of Human Rights

from its inception to the creation of a Permanent Court of Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights underwent a spectacular evolution over the first fifty years of its life. In recent times the European Court of Human Rights has been compared to a quasi- constitutional court for Europe in the field of human rights, and for ...

Judicial creativity at the international criminal tribunals

Eds. Shane Darcy, Joseph Powderly. As the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda enter the final phase of their work, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the significant contribution that these unique institutions have made to the development of international ...

God, justice, and society

aspects of Law and legality in the Bible

What is the real meaning of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'? Where did the idea for the 'Jubilee 2000' and 'Drop the Debt' campaigns come from? And what, really, are the 'Ten Commandments'? In God, Justice, and Society, Jonathan ...

Canon Law

a comparative study with anglo-american legal theory

Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory, by the Reverend John J. Coughlin, explores the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church from a comparative perspective. The Introduction to the book presents historical examples of antinomian and legalistic approaches to canon law (antinomianism ...

Banking and capital markets

new international perspectives

Eds. Lloyd P. Blenman, Harold A. Black, Edward J. Kane. This timely collection of papers probes into the major issues that are at the heart of our current financial market crises. The coverage of banking topics include the changing nature of intra and inter-bank markets ...

Valuation of equity securities

history, theory and application

This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of academic and practitioner approaches to equity security valuation. Guided by historical and philosophical insights, conventional academic wisdom surrounding the ergodic properties of stochastic processes is challenged. In addition, the implications of a general stochastic interpretation of ...

Investments and portfolio performance

This book contains the recent contributions of Edwin J Elton and Martin J Gruber to the field of investments. All of the articles in this book have been published in the leading finance and economic journals. Sixteen of the nineteen articles have been published in ...

Game Theory

a nontechnical introduction to the analysis of strategy

This book serves as an introduction to game theory for students with no prior game theory knowledge, or with limited background in economics and mathematics. It is specifically designed to provide an intuitive and accessible interdisciplinary approach to game theory, while simultaneously exploring cooperative games ...

Macroeconomics

With CD-ROM. This book presents the stylized facts on the important variables (output, inflation, money supply and interest rates, etc.) of the macro economy and uses them to differentiate how well particular economic theories perform or fail to do so. On the determination of aggregate ...

Triunfo de la Católica Religión

el Auto de Fe de Cuenca de 1654

"Entre las pruebas que avalan el éxito histórico alzancado n su cometido por el Tribunal del Santo Oficio de España se halla con toda seguridad la de su definitiva identificación universal con la ceremonia empleada para hacer públicas sus sentencias. El auto de fe, como ...

Poder y privilegio

nuevos textos para el estudio de la nobleza vizcaína al final de la Edad Media (1416-1527)

Auts. Arsenio Dacosta...[et.al]. Este libro recoge una selección de documentos extraídos de pleitos de la Sala de Vizcaya del Archivo de la Real Audiencia y Chancillería de Valladolid, un tribunal constituido para la vista de conflictos referidos al Señorío. Los textos incluyen un ...

Las noches oscuras de María de Cazalla

mujer, herejía y gobierno en el siglo XVI

Desde que los Reyes Católicos crearon la Inquisición española, se empezó a utilizar el término alumbrado para designar a cualquier persona que presentase un modo intimista de practicar la fe cristiana y se alejara de los formalismos de la ortodoxia católica. Ya en las primeras ...

Legal interpretation

perspectives from other disciplines and private texts

Comparative Legal Interpretation focuses on textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. Greenawalt covers the dominant methods of legal interpretation, explaining their underlying structure and efficacy. But there are other issues involved. Which ...

The constitutional State

The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena. It presents the state as a form of social group, consisting of people, territory and institutions bound together by rules. The institutions of the state make a distinctive and ...

Tribal constitutionalism

States, tribes, and the governance of membership

Recognised tribes are increasingly prominent players in settler state governance, but in the wide-ranging debates about tribal self- governance, little has been said about tribal self-constitution. Who are the members of tribes, and how are they chosen? Tribes in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the ...

Cooperation, comity, and competition policy

Ed. Andrew T. Guzman. Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy, edited by Andrew T. Guzman, illustrates how domestic competition law policies intersect with the realities of international business. It offers a discussion of what might be done to improve the way in which cross-border business is ...

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