Libros de

Nova escola para aprender a ler, efcrever, e contar

Ed., facs.

Libro dela cosmographia

Ed., facs. Obra de Pedro Apiano que trata de la descripción del mundo.

Quiromancia

estudio sobre la mano, el cráneo y la cara

Ed., facs. El lector encontrará recopiladas en este libro todas las bases y leyes del ocultismo, y dejamos a su buen sentido y a su criterio el deducir de estos estudios y de estos preceptos el concepto que ellos merecen. De la introducción.

Idea del cuerpo en Occidente y Oriente

A la doctora Electra Peluffo (quien en esta misma colección ya ha publicado sus Apuntes de Medicina China) le sorprendió, durante sus años de estudio en el campo de la Acupuntura realizados en Pekín (1964-1967 y 1982), la concepción y consecuente descripción del cuerpo humano ...

Informe Comunidades Autónomas 2008

Elaborado por el Instituto de Derecho Público. Desde 1989, el Informe Comunidades Autónomas es una publicación anual del IDP que analiza el sistema jurídico y la actividad institucional de las 17 Comunidades Autónomas españolas, examinando no sólo sus normas sino también el derecho que les ...

Anuario de Derecho Municipal, Nº2, año 2008

ÍNDICE: Reformas en el Derecho local: Qué y quién. El ejercicio de funciones públicas por entidades privadas colaboradoras de la Administración. La policía local y la política de la Comunidad de Madrid en materia de seguridad pública. La necesaria revisión del sistema tributario municipal. La ...

Derecho de sucesiones

un estudio de los problemas sucesorios a través del Código Civil y del Código de Sucesiones por causa de muerte en Cataluña

La solución a los problemas jurídicos derivados de la muerte de una persona y de la consiguiente transmisión de sus bienes ha sido enmarcada desde el Derecho Romano dentro del llamado Derecho de sucesiones. Todos los ordenamientos jurídico-civiles del Estado español se basan, en mayor ...

Practical financial optimization

a library of GAMS models

In "Practical Financial Optimization: A Library of GAMS Models", the authors provide a diverse set of models for portfolio optimization, based on the General Algebraic Modelling System. 'GAMS' consists of a language which allows a high-level, algebraic representation of mathematical models and a set of ...

Credit derivatives and structured credit trading

With CD-ROM. Credit derivatives as a financial tool has been growing exponentially from almost nothing more than seven years ago to approximately US$5 trillion deals completed by end of 2005. This indicates the growing importance of credit derivatives in the financial sector and how ...

The advertising handbook

Aut. Helen Powell...[et al]. "The Advertising Handbook" is a critical introduction to the practices and perspectives of advertising. It explores the industry and those who work in it and examines the reasons why companies and organizations advertise; how they research their markets; where they ...

Investment performance measurement

evaluating and presenting results

Eds. Philip Lawton, Todd Jankowski. With the growth of capital market data services, the development of quantitative analytical techniques, and the widespread acceptance of the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS), performance analysis has emerged as a central component of effective asset management and become a ...

Understanding Common Law Legislation

drafting and interpretation

Many countries use and apply the common law. The common law world largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic legislature. These statutes are drafted and interpreted according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common ...

How do you know?

the economics of ordinary knowledge

How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally - against my interest or my purpose - until you realize that ...

Beyond western economics

remembering other economic cultures

This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case studies of ...

Violencia machista contra las mujeres en la sociedad de la información

tratamiento pluridisciplinar del fenómeno y defensa de sus víctimas

A pesar de que las mujeres conforman alrededor de la mitad de la población mundial, el fenómeno de la violencia de género machista sigue cobrándose víctimas cada día en la Sociedad democrática de la Información. Muchas mujeres siguen sufriendo violencia y padecen lesiones irreversibles e ...

Derecho individual del trabajo

El ciudadano ante las instituciones públicas

(mundiales, europeas y nacionales)

INDCIE: El Ciudadano ante las Instituciones Públicas. Explicación breve y descriptiva de distintas instituciones públicas (UNESCO, Cortes Generales, Parlamento Europeo, Monarquía, etc.).

Reforming the World Bank

twenty years of trial-and error

In the many studies of the World Bank a critical issue has been missed. While writers have looked at the bank's political economy, lending, conditions, advice, ownership and accounting for issues such as the environment, this study looks at the bank as an organization ...

Getting started in real estate investing

This is a must-read guide to real estate investing during turbulent times. In this updated edition, author Michael Thomsett begins by cautioning readers that real estate is not always alluring. Markets go through cycles, and the down phase of the cycle from 2006 onward has ...

A Dictionary of Geography

Containing over 6,400 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography, this best-selling dictionary is the most comprehensive single-volume reference work of its kind. It includes coverage of cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and development, as well as up-to-date treatment ...