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Russian renewable energy

the potential for international cooperation

What is Russia's potential as a partner in the global race towards a low-carbon economy? This book provides a balanced analysis of Russia's impressive, understudied and sometimes surprising strengths in the renewable energy sector. The work is a first of its kind, exploring ...

Sobre el alma de la toga

Coord. Diego Muñoz-Cobo González. El libro que tienes en tus manos, se suma a otros esfuerzos que el ICAV, ha venido realizando durante el presente año 2009, para conmemorar la efeméride del 250 aniversario de la fundación colegial. En el caso, la contribución se aporta ...

The meeting of civilizations

muslim, christian, and jewish

The horrific acts of anti-Western and anti-Jewish terrorism carried out by Muslim fanatics during the last decades have been labelled by politicians, religious leaders and scholars as a #Clash of Civilizations#. However, as the contributors to this book set out to explain, these acts cannot ...

Anticipating correlations

a new paradigm for risk management

Financial markets respond to information virtually instantaneously. Each new piece of information influences the prices of assets and their correlations with each other, and as the system rapidly changes, so too do correlation forecasts. This fast-evolving environment presents econometricians with the challenge of forecasting dynamic ...

Images of the multinational firm

This volume addresses commonly held beliefs and misconceptions about the nature and role of multi-national enterprises. It presents a range of perspectives by leading academics, focusing on core themes and illustrating these themes with current business practices. This work: examines the evolution of multinational firms ...

Six pixels of separation

everyone is connected. Connecte your business to everyone

A digital marketing maven who parlayed a podcast into a thriving career, Joel extends the notion of human interconnectedness by six degrees to the virtual world. With abundant Internet social networking sites and mobile texting, we are all intrinsically connected, he argues in this accessible ...

Cálculo, análisis y gestión de costes

guía práctica para su aplicación en la empresa

Coord. José Luis García Suárez. Acompaña CD-ROM. La experiencia, la intuición y el buen juicio, son elementos necesarios para poder desarrollar una buena gestión en los negocios. Sin embargo, a medida que los entornos donde se desempeña la actividad se vuelven más complejos y cambiantes ...

The economics of foreign exchange and global finance

This book presents all major subjects in international monetary theory, foreign exchange markets, international financial management and investment analysis. It is relevant to real world problems in the sense that it provides guidance on how to solve policy issues as well as practical management tasks ...

Predictably rational?

in search defenses for rational behavior in economics

Mainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM#s Big Blue, and exercise the will power of ...

Intelectuales

Trad., Daniel Aldea Rossell El racionalismo ilustrado del siglo XVIII engendró una minoría, los llamados 'filósofos', cuya denominación más exacta sería la de 'intelectuales'. El filósofo o intelectual no restringía su mirada a la filosofía, pues debía saber y criticarlo todo, acabar con el protagonista ...

Cómo mejorar la relación auditor/auditado

Un buen clima de diálogo entre auditor y auditado favorece el proceso de auditoría, se obtiene una mejor perspectiva de los problemas y se acogen con más entusiasmo las diferentes sugerencias. Esta guía práctica le ofrece todos los trucos para ser un buen auditor y ...

Resistencias globales

de Seattle a la crisis de Wall Street

La #batalla de Seattle#, en noviembre de 1999, inauguró un periodo de auge del movimiento #antiglobalización#. Desde entonces, se han sucedido múltiples protestas en motivo de las cumbres internacionales del G8, el Banco Mundial, la Unión Europea, el G20... entre las que cabe destacar las ...

The murder of Lehman brothers

an insider's look at the global meltdown

To me, as a multi-decade, veteran Lehman investment banker, the breathtaking death of my firm appeared impossible as little as three days ahead of the bankruptcy filing. Not only did I consider our 'master of the universe' firm invincible, but, like my colleagues, when it ...

Diccionario politécnico de las lenguas española e inglesa=Polytechnic dictionary of spanish and english languages. Vol. 1

Inglés-Español=English-Spanish

Este Diccionario Politécnico de las lenguas Española e Inglesa es la obra del doctor Ingeniero y lexicógrafo Federico Beigbeder, brillante profesional que supo guardar, ordenar, revisar y actualizar la gran cantidad de información tecnológica recogida durante más de una década. .En esta tercera edición del ...

Inmigration Policy and Security

u.s., European, and Commonwealth Perspectives

Eds., Terri E. Givens, Gary P. Freeman, and David L. Leal Immigration policy in the United States, Europe, and the Commonwealth went under the microscope after the terror attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent events in London, Madrid, and elsewhere. We have since seen ...

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, remains controversial to this day ...

Triumph at midnight of the century

a critical biography of Arturo Barea: explaining the roots of the Spanish Civil War

Contents fotography Arturo Barea (1897#1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write concretely and sensuously: about himself in order to understand his mid-life nervous breakdown; and about his generation as ...

Civilización y barbarie en la Europa del siglo XX

Contiene ilustraciones. Cualquier persona sensible que reflexione sobre la Europa del siglo XX, se verá inmediatamente perturbada por una pregunta inquietante: ¿por qué en el siglo pasado los europeos fuimos capaces de conseguir las mayores metas científicas y artísticas, y, al mismo tiempo, desencadenar la ...

Las ciudades medias o intermedias en un mundo globalizado = As cidades médias ou intermédiárias em num mundo globalizado

Editoras, Carmen Bellet Sanfeliu y Encarnaçao Beltrâo Sposito. Índice: 7. Presentación 11. Introducción 21/161. Reestructuración de redes y nodos. Nuevos roles para las ciudades intermedias 161/265. Versiones locales de un mundo globalizado: el espacio intraurbano y las prácticas socioespaciales. 265/389. Políticas y ...

Fat economics

nutrition, health, and economic policy

The obesity epidemic and the growing debate about what, if any, public health policy should be adopted is the subject of endless debates within the media and in governments around the world. Whilst much has been written on the subject, this book takes a unique ...