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Milagros de vida

una autobiografía

Hijo de ingleses expatriados, Ballard nació en Shangai en 1930. Pasó su infancia en un asentamiento internacional, rodeado de criados chinos y niñeras rusas, y pendiente de los actos sociales de la comunidad occidental. La invasión de China por parte de los japoneses y el ...

Lugares sagrados

espacios de espiritualidad y fe

Un recorrido por sesenta de los lugares de espiritualidad más bellos y fascinantes del mundo Lugares sagrados nos conduce en una peregrinación a través del planeta, de América a Asia y el lejano Oriente, de África a Europa, en un recorrido por sesenta de los ...

Historia general de América Latina

T.VII: Los proyectos nacionales latinoamericanos: sus instrumentos y su articulación, 1870-1930

En 1870 la mayoría de los países de América Latina llevaban casi medio siglo de vida independiente. Según se acercaba el final del siglo XIX, en un escenario internacional cambiante, se dieron rápidas e importantes transformaciones, que significaron no sólo una mayor definición de los ...

The subprime solution

how today´s global financial crisis happened, and what to do about it

The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and ...

Social and economic networks

Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network ...

Civil passions

moral sentiment and democratic deliberation

Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In "Civil ...

World out of balance

international relations and the challenge of american primacy

"World Out of Balance" is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the constraints on the United States' use of power in pursuit of its security interests. Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth overturn conventional wisdom by showing that in a unipolar system, where the United ...

El lenguaje del trabajo

cómo desenvolverse en un entorno profesional

En esta obra Almut Koester examina cómo se emplea el lenguaje en el mundo de la empresa y en el lugar de trabajo, estudiando diversas situaciones y datos, y explora las imágenes del trabajo que se presentan en la publicidad, en las revistas especializadas en ...

Aprender a motivar

La motivación es un elemento clave en el entorno laboral. Aprender a motivar nos muestra, desde un enfoque práctico, las técnicas que nos ayudarán a incrementar la motivación en el trabajo. Los lectores acompañarán al equipo directivo de la empresa textil Ríos & Co. A través ...

Sinclair on warranties and indemnities on share and asset sales

CONTENTS: Table of Cases Table of Statutes Table of Statutory Instruments Table of European Legislation 1 History and Function of Warranties and Indemnities 2 Parties 3 Rights and Liabilities 4 General Points Relating to Warranties 5 Taxation Warranties 6 Property Warranties 7 Typical Long Commercial ...

Lo que decimos, se hace

sobre el poder de Estados Unidos en un mundo en cambio: conversaciones con David Barsamian

La política exterior de EE. UU. tiene demasiados frentes abiertos. Las últimas administraciones, ligadas a grupos de presión y al complejo tecnológico-militar, han llevado al mundo al caos. Irán, Corea del Norte, el conflicto de Oriente Medio, el Líbano, las guerras en Afganistán e Irak ...

Justification defenses and just convictions

This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defences that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. Criminal law is defined here as the institutional representation of the underlying principles of political morality in a liberal society. The ...

The Birth of the Euro

Today, 318 million people in 15 countries use the Euro, which now rivals the importance of the US Dollar in the world economy. This is an outcome that few would have predicted with confidence when the Euro was launched. How can we explain this success ...

Prospectus for the public offering of securities in Europe. Vol.I

European and national legislation in the Member States of the european economic area

The Prospectus Directive of 4 November 2003 sets the rules on the publication of a prospectus in the event that securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a stock exchange in the European Union. These rules apply in all 30 member ...

The prisoners' dilemma

political economy and punishment in contemporary democracies

Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' competence. New and worrying developments, such as the inexorable rise of the US prison ...

Making people illegal

what globalization means for migration and Law

This book examines the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under the pressures of globalizing forces, migration law is transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal migration and informs the shape this crackdown is taking. It also means ...

Individual criminal responsibility for core international crimes

selected pertinent issues

The concept of individual criminal responsibility for core international crimes is, by now, a well-established principle in international criminal law. However, while the general principle behind the concept is by and large unproblematic, its practical application underscores its complexity. The aim of this book is ...

Kosovo

what everyone needs to know

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the ...

Anécdotas de secretarias

el jefe está reunido...¿o no?

Hace cien años que la mujer irrumpió en el mundo del secretariado copado hasta entonces únicamente por hombres. En un siglo la mujer, las secretarias, han revolucionado esta profesión que revalorizan constantemente no sin dificultades. La secretaria de hoy ?conocida también como personal assistant o ...

De 8 a 3

anécdotas de funcionarios

Cada día más, los ciudadanos ven la administración pública como un lugar inaccesible e incomprensible. La percepción creciente es la de que se trata de un espacio donde los ciudadanos, en vez de ser tratados como clientes, en muchas ocasiones suelen ser considerados como un ...