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La historia secreta del mundo

Tras más de veinte años de investigación y con la ayuda de un iniciado en diferentes sociedades secretas, Jonathan Black nos ofrece una guía exhaustiva, fiable y definitiva de las enseñanzas de las antiguas escuelas mistéricas conservadas a lo largo de los siglos gracias a ...

Aproximación al Derecho penal contemporáneo

International business

challenges and choices

What is international business? How serious are multinational enterprises about corporate responsibility? How does a gearbox made in China end up in a car sold in Europe? In today's increasingly connected world, international business plays an integral role in day-to-day life. This introductory textbook ...

The non-nonsense guide to democracy

Following the economic meltdown and the triumph of Barack Obama, have the chances of genuine democracy improved? In this updated edition of the "No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy", Richard Swift explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class ...

La constitución postiza

el nacimiento del Fuero de los Españoles

Decidida la suerte de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en el proceso de acomodo internacional del Régimen de Franco, el nuevo Estado, bajo el mando del general Franco, acomete la empresa de la elaboración de un texto que ha de recoger los derechos y deberes ...

L´Enquête Sociologique

Dir. Serge Paugam. Si les premiers sociologues ne définissaient pas leur métier par la pratique du terrain et se contentaient le plus souvent de collecter des données historiques ou des observations confiées à des informateurs privilégiés, la pratique de l#enquête directe en population générale ...

An introduction to investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity

the new paradigm

This description of the symbiotic relationships among investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms shows students how firms simultaneously compete and cooperate. The author has captured the ways these firms are reinventing themselves in the post-crash regulatory environment and, through ten extensive cases, the ...

Cornered

the new monopoly capitalism and the economics of destruction

Regular "Harper"'s and "Financial Times" contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector ...

The big short

inside the Doomsday machine

Truth really is stranger than fiction. Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker to explain how the event we were told was impossible - the free fall of the American economy - finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously ...

Jimmy Stewart is dead

ending the world's ongoing financial plague with limited purpose banking

Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs. Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life", is ...

Taxation and red tape

the cost to british business of complying with the UK tax system

Successive governments have promised to reduce business red tape, whilst doing nothing about it. In fact, with regard to the tax system, ever-greater numbers of taxes and ever-greater complexity have increased burdens on business. This trend has been exacerbated by the tendency of governments to ...

The cosmopolitan imagination

the renewal of critical social theory

Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which offers a solution to one of the weaknesses in the critical theory ...

Biografía de la Gran Vía

los primeros cien años de una calle universal

Toda gran ciudad tiene una calle emblemática cuyas aceras recogen su historia: Londres tiene Oxford Street, Nueva York tiene la Quinta Avenida y Madrid tiene la Gran Vía, que ahora cumple cien años. Su historia no es sólo la de la capital de España, sino ...

Venecias

Pról. Rafael Reig; Trad. Monique Planes. El mejor libro escrito nunca sobre la ciudad de Venecia. Una reflexión literaria y humana. La ciudad de Venecia vista por los ojos de un gran escritor francés. Se trata de un libro clásico, leído por generaciones y generaciones ...

Understanding Religious Ethics

This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three #Abrahamic# religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. - Draws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death ...

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. - A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond - Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars - Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth ...

Nacidos digitales

una generación frente a las pantallas

Coords. Xavier Bringué, Charo Sádaba.La generalización de las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC), y su especial relación con niños y jóvenes, generan inquietudes y preocupaciones en los responsables de su educación. Padres, profesores y educadores se enfrentan a nuevos modos ...