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Biotechnology and agricultural development

transgenic cotton, rural institutions and resource-poor farmers

Ed. Robert Tripp. This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it offers one of the best hopes for increasing agricultural production and reducing rural poverty, while opponents see it ...

Unravelling the credit crunch

Offering insight into how the financial system works and how the credit crisis arose, this book provides a comprehensive account of the credit crunch that is easily understandable to non-specialists. It explains how the financial system was drawn into the crunch and the issues that ...

A handbook of statistical analyses using R

A guide to data analysis using the R system for statistical computing. It contains chapters on generalized additive models, and simultaneous inference as well as a section on generalized linear mixed models that completes the discussion on the analysis of longitudinal data where the response ...

Understanding Law and society

This textbook on the sociology of law is organised according to the theoretical traditions of sociology, and oriented towards providing an accessible, but sophisticated, introduction to, and overview of, the central themes, problems and debates in this field. The book employs an international range of ...

English Law

Whether you are a engaged in the study of law, considering studying law either at university, a business professional or generally want to find out more about the law, Slapper and Kelly's "English Law" offers a clear, lively and reliable point of entry to ...

Derecho a la sexualidad

Coordinador/Compilador Mario Silvio Gerlero. ÍNDICE: PRIMERA PARTE: GRIETAS EN EL DERECHO HEGEMÓNICO Capítulo I. El pluralismo jurídico y la diversidad sexual, por Mario S. Gerlero. Capítulo II. Reparo de la identidad de gays-lesbianas-trans (GLT) en el área jurídica, por Odile Pedrido. Capítulo III. La ...

La deconstrucción del Derecho administrativo argentino

el Derecho administrativo como técnica de ordenamiento social

La obra, tal como lo comentamos en nuestra introducción, intenta ser un disparador para replantearnos qué entendemos por "derecho" y por "derecho administrativo", en particular. En tal sentido, transcurrimos materias incómodas para todos los abogados y, en especial, para ciertos sectores conservadores del conocimiento jurídico ...

Arte poética

Edición y traducción de Mª del Carmen Bobes Naves. En la segunda mital del siglo XVI la Poética de Aristóteles, por motivos literarios, políticos y religiosos, despierta un enorme interés en la Italia renacentista. Autores como Segni, Maggi, Scalígero, Minturno, Castelvetro, y muchos otros, traducen ...

Communication power

We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The media have become the space where power strategies are played out. In the current technological context mass communication goes beyond traditional media ...

Managing financial risks

from global to local

Eds. Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H.B. Monk. Recent market turmoil, bank runs, global equities sell-off, and the 'credit crunch' have demonstrated the sophisticated and interconnected nature of financial markets today - seemingly localized problems have quickly spread, putting at risk the solvency ...

The future of public employee retirement systems

Eds. Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary Anderson. People covered by public pensions are often the subject of 'pension envy:' that is, their benefits might seem more generous and their contributions lower than those offered by the private sector. Yet this book points out that such judgments ...

Real options in theory and practice

It accompanies CD-ROM. Decision makers in business and economics face a staggering array of problems. Managers of growing firms have to decide which growth options will expand their business. Governments have to decide which infrastructure investments to undertake. Managers of oil firms must decide how ...

Development and growth in the mexican economy

a historical perspective

This book provides an overview of Mexico's economic development since Independence identifying its binding constraints in different periods and the ways in which they have been tried to be removed by economic policies. It gives special attention to developments since 1940 and presents a ...

Competition policy in EU

fifty years on from the Treaty of Rome

Ed. Xavier Vives. A volume that takes stock and looks ahead on the development and implementation of competition policy in the European Union fifty years after the Treaty of Rome. Competition policy has emerged as a key policy in the EU with competition acting as ...

David Hume

moral and political theorist

Russell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume's moral and political theory. With Hume, he holds that our normative views can be scientifically explained but they cannot be justified as true. Hume argued for the psychological basis of such views. In particular, he ...

On Human Rights

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international ...

Laws and lawmarkers

science, metaphysics, and the laws of nature

Laws of nature have long puzzled philosophers. What distinguishes laws from facts about the world that do not rise to the level of laws? How can laws be contingent and nevertheless necessary? In this brief, accessible study, Lange offers provocative and original answers to these ...

Intergovernmental cooperation

rational choices in federal systems and beyond

Over the past decades, governments have increasingly been confronted with problems that transcend their boundaries. A multitude of policy fields are affected, including environment, trade and security. Responding to the challenges triggered by Europeanization and globalization, governments increasingly interact across different spheres of authority. Both ...

The Oxford handbook of the american presidency

Eds. George C. Edwards III, William G. Howell. The Oxford d Handbooks of American Politics is a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field ...

When the people speak

deliberative democracy and public consultation

It accompanies DVD. All over the world democratic reforms have brought power to the people-but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. Do we want a democracy inspired by Madison or by Madison Avenue? A democracy ...