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Energy in nature and society

general energetics of complex systems

This is a comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization and its environmental consequences."Energy in Nature and Society" is a systematic and exhaustive analysis of all the major ...

Implementing models in quantitative finance

methods and cases

This book puts numerical methods into action for the purpose of solving concrete problems arising in quantitative finance. Part one develops a comprehensive toolkit including Monte Carlo simulation, numerical schemes for partial differential equations, stochastic optimization in discrete time, copula functions, transform-based methods and quadrature ...

Regionalisation, growth, and economic integration

The purpose of this book is to analyse the process of regionalisation and to plot its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits we attribute to it ...

Standards and thresholds for impact assesment

Standards and Thresholds play an important role in many stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. They can be legally-binding or guidance values and are linked to environmental data. This publication provides a comprehensive collection of standards and thresholds, their derivation and application in ...

Financial economics

Whilst many undergraduate finance textbooks are largely descriptive in nature, the economic analysis in most graduate texts is too advanced for latter year undergraduates. This book bridges the gap between these two extremes, offering a textbook that studies economic activity in financial markets, focusing on ...

World powerty and Human Rights

Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 ...

Global issues

an introduction

"Global Issues, Third Edition" is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life. The book covers a range of perspectives on a variety of societies, both developed and developing. Author John L. Seitz writes clearly and ...

East Asian regionalism

East Asia is a region that holds much fascination for many people. It is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Such a ...

Innocence abroad

the dutch imagination and the New World, 1570-1670.

Innocence Abroad explores the process of encounter that took place between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The 'discovery' of America coincided with the foundation of the Dutch Republic, a correspondence of much significance for the Netherlands. From the ...

Corporate governance

In a business environment that is increasingly volatile, now more than ever, business students must understand the relationships between managers, boards of directors, shareholders, and investors. The new edition of this acclaimed text offers an indispensable guide to the key concepts of corporate governance every ...

Corporate risk management

More than 30 leading scholars and finance practitioners discuss the theory and practice of using enterprise-risk management (ERM) to increase corporate values. ERM is the corporate-wide effort to manage the right-hand side of the balance sheet - a firm's total liability structure - in ways that ...

Nuevas perspectivas de la política criminal europea en materia ambiental

Pese a la ausencia de atribuciones expresas en materia penal a las instituciones comunitarias, la presente obra se dedica a demostrar que a estas alturas de integración europea no hay duda de la existencia de una auténtica #política criminal europea en materia ambiental#. Además, los ...

Cómo nos venden la moto

La propaganda es a la democracia lo que la cachiporra al estado totalitario. Chomsky nos muestra, tomando casos concretos, qué son las técnicas de persuasión, cómo y quién las aplica, con qué intenciones y cómo actúan sobre nosotros. Ramonet da un paso más. Examina, e ...

The Oxford handbook of business history

This Handbook provides a state-of- the-art survey of research in business history. Business historians study the historical evolution of business systems, entrepreneurs and firms, as well as their interaction with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in ...

El control en la empresa

cómo investigar legalmente a la competencia y a los empleados

Este libro constituye un auténtico manual de gestión de las crisis empresariales y de lo que se conoce como guerra del conocimiento. Pero es, al mismo tiempo, una obra sobre las lealtades y sobre cómo evitar las deslealtades, los chantajes, el espionaje industrial o las ...

El mito de la Cruzada de Franco

Herbert R. Southworth hizo en esta obra una recopilación exhaustiva de toda la bibliografía que existía sobre la guerra civil española, tarea a la que dedicó más de veinte años. Citando autores de izquierda silenciados, a historiógrafos extranjeros y sacando a la luz la manipulación ...

Teaching Confucianism

Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East ...

La defensa frente a la contaminación acústica y otras inmisiones

Esta obra tiene la pretensión de ser un tratado completo del estudio de la normativa y jurisprudencia, en relación a la defensa del particular frente al ruido y la contaminación medioambiental. En primer lugar, por ofrecer unos comentarios a la normativa reguladora del ruido, tanto ...

Otra forma de vivir

paradojas de la vida monástica

La vida de los monjes nos produce, a los que no lo somos, cierta curiosidad y perplejidad debido, en gran parte, a desconocimiento. Enzo Bianchi contesta a las preguntas de G. Caramore y nos expone las características de esta otra forma de vivir, llena de ...

El almirante Blas de Lezo

el vasco que salvó al Imperio español

Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta (Pasajes, Guipúzcoa, 3 de febrero de 1689 # Cartagena de Indias, 7 de septiembre de 1741), almirante español conocido como Patapalo, o más tarde como Mediohombre, por las muchas heridas sufridas a lo largo de su vida militar, fue uno de ...