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Guía de los puentes de Guadalajara

El arranque de Castilla y León

una necesidad política

Hiendelaencina y sus minas de Plata

trabajo de investigación documental

Los hospitales docentes de Guadalupe

la respuesta hospitalaria a la epidemia de bubas del Renacimiento (siglos XV y XVI)

Hedge funds

an analytic perspective

The hedge-fund industry has grown dramatically over the last two decades, with more than eight thousand funds now controlling close to two trillion dollars. Originally intended for the wealthy, these private investments have now attracted a much broader following that includes pension funds and retail ...

Information and learning in markets

the impact of market microestructure

The ways financial analysts, traders, and other specialists use information and learn from each other are of fundamental importance to understanding how markets work and prices are set. This graduate-level textbook analyzes how markets aggregate information and examines the impacts of specific market arrangements - or ...

Building a global bank

the transformation of Banco Santander

In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars - an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. Here, Mauro Guillen and Adrian Tschoegl tackle the question of ...

David Hume's political economy

Margaret Schabas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of two monographs, "A World Ruled by Number" (Princeton, 1990) and "The Natural Origins of Economics" (Chicago, 2005). She is also co-editor of "Oeconomies in the Age of Newton ...

Marriage and violence

the Early Modern legacy

Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what - or who - must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? In "Marriage and Violence", Frances E. Dolan reveals the contradiction that lies at the very heart of modern marriage. We ...

Territory, authority, rights

from medieval to global assemblages

Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In "Territory, Authority, Rights", one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it ...

Reinventing foreign aid

Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such ...

Incentives and choice in health care

Leading scholars in the field of health economics evaluate the role of incentives in health and health- care decision making from the perspectives of both supply and demand.A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by ...

Sustainability of public debt

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on how fiscal policies in Europe and the United States can avoid government bankruptcy.In recent decades, governments have built up substantial public debt, which is often accompanied by a growing public sector and fiscal policies that neglect ...

Innovation corrupted

the origins and legacy of Enron's collapse

Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron's board of directors have failed to detect ...

The race between education and tecnology

The Race between Education and Technology provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the ...

Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español. Tomo LXXVII (2007)

Igualdad de oportunidades y conciliación

una visión multidisciplinar

Derecho social de la región de Murcia

INDICE: Prólogo. Competencias de la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia en materias socio-laborales. La Administración laboral autonómica. Órganos consultivos. Políticas de empleo, formación y economía social. Seguridad y salud en el trabajo. Relaciones colectivas de trabajo. Políticas sociales. Servicios sociales de atención especializada ...

The Penguin dictionary of Judaism

"The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism" is a remarkable feat of Reference scholarship by renowned Cambridge professor and translator, Nicholas de Lange. With an approachable A-Z format the book covers everything from Jewish traditions and biographical entries on key historical figures to theology, religious law and ...

La investigación criminal

la psicología aplicada al descubrimiento, captura y condena de los criminales

Los investigadores del crimen del siglo XXI disponen de una nueva arma: la psicología de la investigación criminal, rama de la Psicología al servicio de la criminología forense. En esta obra los profesores y reconocidos especialistas Vicente Garrido y Jorge Sobralpresentan por vez primera en ...