Libros de

The presidency in the era of 24-hour news

"The Presidency in the Era of 24-Hour News" examines how changes in the news media since the golden age of television - when three major networks held a near monopoly on the news people saw in the United States - have altered the way presidents communicate with ...

Law and economics

Contro l'etica della verità

«Contro l#etica della verità significa a favore di un#etica del dubbio. Al di là delle apparenze, il dubbio non è affatto il contrario della verità. Ne è la riaffermazione, è un omaggio alla verità, ma una verità che ha sempre e di nuovo ...

Financial services in Europe

an introductory overview

This very useful volume provides a ground up survey, from a business law point of view, of the concept of finance as a vital component of the economic structure of the European Communities. In deeply informed detail it describes the architecture of the financial system ...

Economía para un planeta abarrotado

Jeffrey Sachs abre una puerta a un futuro diferente, en donde el desarrollo llega a todos los rincones de la Tierra .Estamos atrapados en una batalla entre ideologías rivales, en un mundo aquejado de disparidades entre ricos y pobres, de presiones sobre el medio ambiente ...

El clima

el calentamiento global y el futuro del planeta

Tsunamis, huracanes, inundaciones, deshielo... Nadie permanece ajeno a estos fenómenos, nadie niega que cada verano aprieta más el calor, aunque en la mayoría de los casos no sepamos a qué obedecen estos cambios. El autor responde con gran claridad a los interrogantes que suscitan estos ...

Ejercicios resueltos y comentados del nuevo PGC

Guía del Impuesto sobre Sociedades 2008

Conozca el alcance y consecuencias de todos los cambios fiscales, contables y mercantiles que está experimentando el Impuesto sobre Sociedades. Exhaustivo análisis del impacto fiscal de la reforma contable, así como las sucesivas modificaciones que la Ley 43/1995 ha ido sufriendo hasta la configuración ...

Essai sur les privilèges et autres textes

La vanité qui pour l'ordinaire est individuelle, et se plaît à s'isoler, se transforme ici promptement en un esprit de corps indomptable. Un privilégié vient- il à éprouver la moindre difficulté de la part de la classe qu'il méprise, d'abord il ...

The economics of banking

"The Economics of Banking" describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to ...

Accounting information systems

controls and processes

Master the technological tools of today's accounting profession. In your grandfather's day, the ledger book was the accountant's bible. Today, technology is king. From simple programs such as UBS and MYOB to complex enterprise-level systems, accounting systems play a critical function in ...

The econometrics of panel data

fundamentals and recent developments in theory and practice

This completely restructured, updated third edition of "The Econometrics of Panel Data", first published in 1992, provides a general overview of the econometrics of panel data, both from a theoretical and from an applied viewpoint. Since the pioneering papers by Kuh, Mundlak, Hoch and Balestra ...

La sonrisa urgente

lo más divertido de la historia de la Agencia EFE

El periodista estaba allí. Y supo verlo y contarlo. La realidad a veces es juguetona y se descoloca. Muestra entonces su cara más divertida y surreal. Son apenas unas décimas de segundo que convierten una situación solemne o cotidiana en un chispazo irónico. Y el ...

Archaeology as political action

This book develops a theory and framework to describe how archaeology can contribute to a more humane world. Recognizing that archaeology is an inherently political activity, Randall H. McGuire builds on the history of archaeological theory and Marxist dialectical theory to point out how archaeologists ...

Opening the doors of wonder

reflections on religious rites of passage

This bold, pioneering book explores rites of passage in America by sifting through the accounts of influential thinkers who experienced them. Arthur J. Magida explains the underlying theologies, evolution, and actual practice of Jewish bar and bat mitzvahs, Christian confirmations, Hindu sacred thread ceremonies, Muslim ...

Intimacies

love + sex across cultures

No culture is ever completely successful or satisfied with its synthesis of romantic love, companionship, and sexual desire. Whether the setting is a busy metropolis or a quiet farming village, a tension always exists between a community's sexual habits and customs and what it ...

Catalunya contra Napoleón

la Guerra del Francés, 1808-1814

Aquest llibre està pensat per donar una visió més real de la guerra del Francès i fer intel·ligible el conflicte a qualsevol lector interessat a descobrir aquesta època tan important de la nostra història. Té un caràcter de divulgació i està escrit amb el ...

The best book on the market

how to stop worrying and love the dree economy

The free market makes the world go around. Maybe it's time we all tried to understand it a little better. Luckily Eamonn Butler is the ideal teacher to get us all up to speed. Markets are everywhere. But how many of us understand how ...

Small loans, big dreams

how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and microfinance are changing the world

Micro-financing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. It can be implemented on the massive scale necessary to respond to the urgent needs of the world's poorest. And now, in "Small Loans, Big Changes", author Alex Counts ...

Stochastic claims reserving methods in insurance

This book presents theory and practice for actuaries required to estimate the variability of outstanding claims. It covers all the theory and practical advice that actuaries need in order to determine the claims reserves for non-life insurance. It describes all the mathematical methods that can ...