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Años de guerra

Vasili Grossman fue corresponsal de guerra en el frente de Stalingrado cuando la perla del Volga padeció la feroz ofensiva de los ejércitos alemanes. Nadie como el autor de la memorable Vida y destino supo plasmar el impresionante fresco de una batalla que marcó el ...

Patrimonio Industrial Agroalimentario

testimonios cotidianos del diálogo intercultural

Incluye las Actas de las X Jornadas Internacionales de Patrimonio Industrial organizadas por INCUNA y celebradas en Gijón en octubre del año 2008. Los temas expuestos tratan a grandes rasgos sobre el patrimonio agroalimentario y el paisaje enfatizando los usos en el territorio. De igual ...

Security analysis

principios y técnica

Prólogo de Warren E. Buffet.Se trata de la obra más ambiciosa de Benjamin Graham. Publicada por primera vez en 1934, en ella Graham explica con profundidad los distintos tipos de valores de inversión, sus caracteríasticas, ventajas y desventajas, para permitir a pequeños y grandes ...

Modern public economics

Includes coverage of global public goods and highlights the issue of environmental taxation.

Money and banking

an international text

Focuses on the core issues in money and banking. This book provides students with a background in how financial markets work, how banks as businesses function, how central banks make decisions, and how monetary policy affects the global economy.

Crash proff 2.0

how to profit from the economic collapse

This is a fully updated follow-up to Peter Schiff's bestselling financial survival guide - "Crash Proof", which described the U.S. economy as a house of cards on the verge of collapse, with over 80 pages of new material. The economic and monetary disaster which ...

Mythematics

solving the 12 labors of Hercules

How might Hercules, the most famous of the Greek heroes, have used mathematics to complete his astonishing Twelve Labors? From conquering the Nemean Lion and cleaning out the Augean Stables, to capturing the Erymanthean Boar and entering the Underworld to defeat the three-headed dog Cerberus ...

Mathletics

how gamblers, managers, and sports enthusiasts use mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football

"Mathletics" is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade ...

Political competition, partisanship, and policy making in Latin American public utilities

This book studies policymaking in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors. Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of electoral competition and the partisan composition of the government were crucial in resolving policymakers' tension between the ...

An introduction to statistical methods and data analysis

Ott and Longnecker's "An Introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis, 6th Edition, International Edition" provides a broad overview of statistical methods for advanced undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of disciplines who have little or no prior course work in statistics. The ...

The theory and empirics of exchange rates

Exchange rate economics is an important field of investigation for academics, professionals and policy-makers. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the theory of and empirical evidence on the determination and effects of exchange rates. The exposition utilizes both diagrammatic and mathematical representation of the ...

The making of economics

Volume II. The modern superstructure

"Volume II in The Making of Economics, 4th Edition" series fills a major gap in the literature of economics, providing in brief fashion a complete treatment of high theory in economics. Like Volume I, the book is accessible to the intelligent reader, be they advanced ...

L´Italia dei guelfi e dei ghibellini

#Maledette parti# stigmatizzate come esempio di intolleranza, lacerazioni insanabili e guerra civile, guelfi e ghibellini sono prima di tutto realtà storiche entrate nell#immaginario collettivo come metafora di contrapposizioni ideali e di passione politica, capaci di conservare ancora oggi la loro carica universalmente simbolica. Attraverso ...

Handbook of international commercial arbitration

This handbook will assist the practitioner, whether lawyer, counsel or arbitrator, in some of the practical minefields of international commercial arbitration. It considers the typical course of an international commercial arbitral proceeding, from deciding what claims may be arbitrated to calculating damages and the contents ...

Artificial economics

the generative method in economics

Eds. Cesáreo Hernández...[et.al]. Simulation is used in economics to solve large econometric models, for large-scale micro simulations, and to obtain numerical solutions for policy design in top-down established models. But these applications fail to take advantage of the methods offered by artificial economics ...

Dynamic general equilibrium modeling

computational methods and applications

Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models. In order to solve these models, economists need to use many mathematical tools. This book presents various methods in order to compute the dynamics of general equilibrium models. In part I, the ...

Modern actuarial risk theory

using R

Auts. Rob Kaas...[et.al]. Modern Actuarial Risk Theory contains what every actuary needs to know about non-life insurance mathematics. It starts with the standard material like utility theory, individual and collective model and basic ruin theory. Other topics are risk measures and premium principles ...

The concept of capitalism

A single system of economic governance # capitalism # prevails in the world today, both in theory and in practice. Yet there is neither a standard definition of capitalism nor a theory of how it works. Moreover, the most common conception of capitalism is that of a ...

Comment tremble la main invisible

incertitude et marchés

La crise amorcée en 2007 a révélé une faille des systèmes de gestion des risques financiers et une démesure des interventions spéculatives. L#originalité de ce livre est de proposer une approche des marchés fondée sur la distinction entre la modélisation de l#incertitude des ...

Nietzsche y la hermenéutica

(Revista Estudios Nietzsche,Nº9, año 2009) Dir., Luis E. de Santiago Guervós. Todavía hoy en día se sigue discutiendo sobre la oportunidad de incorporar el pensamiento de F. Nietzsche a la hermenéutica filosófica. ¿Hay que enmendar el olvido de la aportación nietzscheana en la mayoría ...