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Un planeta de gordos y hambrientos

la industria alimentaria al desnudo

Vivimos en una gran paradoja: medio mundo se muere de hambre y el otro medio padece problemas de sobrepeso. ¿Qué falla en el mercado mundial de alimentos para que se produzca esta situación? ¿Qué parte de culpa tienen los grandes consorcios alimentarios y sus competitivas ...

Fundamentals of risk management for accountants and managers

tools and techniques

Both financial and non-financial managers with accountability for performance at either a strategic level or for a business unit have responsibility for risk management, in terms of failing to achieve organisational objectives. "Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management" is structured around four parts and 26 self-contained ...

Ikea

un modelo desmontable

Temible comunicadora, la multinacional del prêt-à-habiter difunde infinitos mensajes de empresaética y de dimensión humana. Pero es esta cantinela, bien orquestada, se descubren profundas grietas durante los últimos años. -IKEA ha explotado a los niños del sur. -IKEA ha desarrollado productos contaminantes. -IKEA incita al ...

Recht als normatives system

die prinzipientheorie des rechts

Auf der Grundlage der Konzeption der Abwägung normativer Argumente werden eine Theorie autonomer Normbegründung sowie eine Theorie des Rechts entwickelt, die dessen normativen Charakter und die Notwendigkeit der Rechtfertigung des Rechts aufgrund der Idee individueller Autonomie ernst nimmt. Kritisiert werden kognitive Konzeptionen moralischer Autonomie wie ...

Directrices sobre el sistema de vigilancia de productos sanitarios

guía para la aplicación de la legislación de productos sanitarios

Elaborado por el Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Acompaña CD-ROM. Monografía que contiene la traducción española de la revisión número 5 del documento MED/DEV de "Directrices sobre el Sistema de Vigilancia de Productos Sanitarios".

Planificación financiera aplicada

El trabajo con hojas de cálculo forma parte de la actividad cotidiana de todos aquellos encargados de tomar decisiones en el ámbito empresarial, o de suministrar la información oportuna para que otros las tomen. En este texto hemos pretendido ejemplificar el uso de esta herramienta ...

Strategy on the United States Supreme Court

To what extent do the justices on the Supreme Court behave strategically? In Strategy on the United States Supreme Court, Saul Brenner and Joseph M. Whitmeyer investigate the answers to this question and reveal that justices are substantially less strategic than many Supreme Court scholars ...

Kapitalgesellschaftsrecht

Wilhelm, Kapitalgesellschaftsrecht, kommt in der dritten Auflage mit dem MoMiG. Das Buch führt durch das Recht der Kapitalgesellschaften und das Kapitalmarktrecht. Nach den Grundbegriffen werden die immer zahlreicheren Gesetzgebungsschritte im nationalen und europäischen Recht vorgestellt. Berücksichtigt sind insbesondere die Societas Europaea und der Verordnungsentwurf zu ...

Media and political engagement

citizens, communication, and democracy

One of the most difficult problems facing Western democracy today is the decline in citizens' political engagement. There are many elements that contribute to this, including fundamental socio-cultural changes. The book summarizes these contexts and situates itself within them, while focusing on the media's ...

Cognitive variations

reflections on the unity and diversity of the Human Mind

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd presents a cross-disciplinary study of the problems posed by the unity and diversity of the human mind. On the one hand, as humans we all share broadly the same anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and certain psychological capabilities#the capacity to learn a language ...

National reports on the transfer of movables in Europe. Vol. 2

England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Cyprus

Eds. Wolfgang Faber, Brigitta Lurger. This is the second volume of a series of national reports on basic issues concerning the acquisition and loss of ownership of movable assets. The series is planned to cover 27 European legal systems, distributed over six volumes. Starting with ...

Meltdown

a free-market look at why the stock market collapsed, the economy tanked, and government bailouts will make things worse

The media tells us that "deregulation" and "unfettered free markets" have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation. But the real blame lies elsewhere. In Meltdown, bestselling author Thomas E. Woods Jr. unearths the real ...

International Law on peacekeeping

a study of article 40 of the UN charter

This book explores the potential of the UN peacekeeping power, placing Article 40 of the UN Charter at the centre of the legal regime governing peacekeeping measures. It traces the origins of peacekeeping measures primarily in the experience of the League of Nations and identifies ...

The new introduction to geographical economics

'Geographical economics is a broad field which encompasses or connects with the economics of region, cities, location, trade, development, and growth. Academic research in these areas has gone in many directions and made lots of progress in recent years. The first accomplishment of this New ...

Constitutional Rights in two worlds

South Africa and the United States

The South African Constitutional Court has issued internationally prominent decisions abolishing the death penalty, enforcing socio- economic rights, allowing gay marriage and promoting equality. These decisions are striking given the country's Apartheid past and the absence of a grand human rights tradition. By contrast ...

Militarization and violence against women in conflict zones in the Middle East

a Palestinian case-study

This book examines and discusses the ordeals that women face as violence is perpetrated against them in politically conflicted and militarized areas. In conflict zones, every act is affected by, dependent on and mobilised by militaristic values. The militarization of both the private and public ...

A handbook on reading WTO goods and services schedules

This is a detailed guide on how to read WTO Schedules of Commitments for Goods and Services. The Schedules are part of the Legal Texts of the WTO Uruguay Round Agreements. They comprise about 27,000 pages of specific commitments by 153 members of the ...

The victorian taxpayer and the Law

a study in constitutional conflict

The central element of the taxpayer's relationship with the law was the protection it afforded to ensure only the correct amount of tax was paid, that it was legally levied and justly administered. These legal safeguards consisted of the fundamental constitutional provision that all ...

Buena práctica clínica y normativa de referencia en España

Elaborado por el Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Acompaña CD-ROM. El objetivo de esta guía de (BPC) de la Conferencia Internacional de Armonización (International Conference on Harmonisation, ICH) es proporcionar una norma única para la Unión Europea, Japón y los Estados Unidos, facilitando de este ...

Normas de la buena práctica clínica

Elaborado por el Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Los ensayos clínicos constituyen un elemento esencial para la autorización de medicamentos en el cual se entrecruzan, como en pocas actividades, la actividad científica y los principios éticos. Ello llevó a plasmar en importante documento de consenso ...