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The late age of print

everyday book culture from consumerism to control

Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and ...

Monetary economics

policy and its theoretical basis

The second edition of this successful textbook closely links discussion of theory and real world policy, providing students with a comprehensive and practical grounding of monetary economics. This successful and popular textbook incorporates current issues in monetary economics. Clear and balanced discussion of both theory ...

Economics. An A-Z guide

Economics is the 'study of how society uses its scarce resources' or, more snappily, 'the science of choices' that helps people make decisions about how to use such scarce things as land, labour, raw materials, capital, entrepreneurial spirit and time. An understanding of economics can ...

Investment. An A-Z guide

Stockmarkets have soared and slumped, highlighting the risks of different kinds of investments. Everyone wants to buy low and sell high - and get a healthy stream of income in between. But it is not easy to do so. Any strategy for investment requires an essential ...

Negotiation. An A-Z guide

Almost every aspect of business - and indeed human life - involves negotiating skills, whether you are striking a deal, organising a team working on a project, seeking a pay rise or a pay-off, or simply settling such important matters as who is going to do the ...

Directors. An A-Z guide

Recent years have seen a number of scandals that have revealed sometimes shockingly poor standards of corporate governance in well- known companies - and exposed some directors who had regard only to their own interests while others were hopelessly ineffective. Managers may run a company but ...

Living Law

reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich

Ed. Marc Hertogh. Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology of law. Although the importance of his work (including his concept of 'living law ...

Metamanagement

cómo hacer de su vida profesional una obra de arte

Contiene: 1. Principios -- 2. Aplicaciones -- 3. Filosofía. Metamanagement es una obra fundamental que ofrece un conjunto de herramientas únicas para integrar formas de vida honorables con organizaciones innovadoras. Metamanagement: "Principios" presenta un modelo de aprendizaje que permite a las personas, los equipos y las organizaciones ...

International economics

Thought-provoking and clearly explained, the new edition provides students of international economics and international business with a rigorous explanation of global economic theory and policy, both current trends and historic developments. It explores key models through case studies and review questions, enabling students to challenge ...

Costituzionalismo

percorsi della storia e tendenze attuali

Il costituzionalismo è un movimento di pensiero orientato sin dalle proprie origini a finalità politiche concrete, come la limitazione dei poteri pubblici e l#affermazione di sfere di autonomia normativamente garantite. Sul piano storico, esso conduce a movimenti di resistenza, ma anche di partecipazione: difende ...

Diritto costituzionale comparato

A cura di Paolo Carrozza, Alfonso Di Giovine, Giuseppe F. Ferrari. In una trattazione sistematica, le esperienze costituzionali contemporanee dalle forme #classiche# di costituzionalismo # dal Regno Unito agli Usa, dal Belgio al Giappone # alle democrazie #incerte# o di recente costituzione, come molti Paesi dell#America ...

Technology

a world history

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment#a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ...

How to castrate a Bull

unexpected lessons on risk, growth, and success in business

Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn't set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even a billionaire. But he became all three. It turns out that business is a mosaic of interesting puzzles like managing risk, developing ...

Arab economies in the twenty-first century

This book examines the relationship between demographic growth and economic development in eight Arab countries. Despite a slowdown in demographic growth, as a result of the change in the age structure of the population, the labour force is increasing rapidly. In other parts of the ...

Why we disagree about climate change

understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity

Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international ...

The microstructure of Financial markets

The analysis of the microstructure of financial markets has been one of the most important areas of research in finance and has allowed scholars and practitioners alike to have a much more sophisticated understanding of the dynamics of price formation in financial markets. Frank de ...

Sustainable development in practice

sustainomics methodolgy and applications

This book provides a rigorous and practical analysis of sustainable development prospects today by applying the innovative sustainomics framework. Developed by the eminent environmental scientist Mohan Munasinghe, sustainomics explores the practical steps in making the transition from the risky business-as-usual scenario to a safe and ...

El gatopardo

la trasformación y el abismo

Este libro sobre El Gatopardo representa en la buena prosa ensayística del autor la unión fervorosa de dos caminos: por una parte asistimos a una íntima y compleja lectura de lo que la película (Palma de Oro en el Festival de Cannes 1963) fue y ...

Free trade nation

One of Britain's defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how the doctrine of Free Trade contributed to the growth of a democratic culture in Britain ...

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics

Eds. Harold Kincaid, Don Ross. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is a cutting-edge reference work to philosophical issues in the practice of economics. It is motivated by the view that there is more to economics than general equilibrium theory, and that the philosophy ...