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Delirios multitudinarios

la manía de los tulipanes y otras famosas burbujas financieras

Delirios multitudinarios incluye tres relatos sobre momentos de especulación desbocada en Inglaterra, Francia y Holanda entre 1635 y 1720. La posibilidad de comprar baratos bienes que se revalorizaban a velocidades increíbles sedujo a todos: en las tres ocasiones la manía fue tan extendida que alcanzó ...

Fabricado por mujeres

género, la industria de la confección global y el movimiento por los derechos de las trabajadoras

Eds. Nina Ascoly, Chantal Finney. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ De la introducción (Nina Ascoly) Cuando la Campaña Ropa Limpia (CRL) surgió en Europa a principios de los 90, uno de los factores que motivaban a los primeros activistas, principalmente mujeres, era su deseo de que la gente se diera ...

The ruin of the Roman Empire

a new history

The dream Alexander the Great and Juluis Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in a single cimmunity shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. It was a looking-glass world, where some Romans idealized the ...

The investigation of crime

The field of criminal investigation is constantly evolving based upon developments in technology and many other factors. Many crimes require specialized skills and procedures and author William T. Forbes guides the reader through many of those skills as he covers specific crimes including their unique ...

The principle of complementarity in international criminal Law

origin, development and practice

CONTENTS: Table of Cases Ch. I Development of the Law on Complementarity between 1919 and 1937 1 Peace Treaties during the 20th Century: The Treaty of Versailles 2 Other Peace Treaties: St Germain-En-Laye, Trianon, Neuilly-Sur-Seine, and Sevres 3 The 1920 Advisory Committee of Jurists 4 ...

Autonomy in the Law

Autonomy in the Law considers one of the most important benefits of the rule of law. Juxtaposing European and American conceptions of autonomy in the law of families, capital punishment and, criminal trials reveals the common values that justify all legal systems. Law protects the ...

Coercion and the State

A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this volume examine institutional coercion with the aim of trying to understand its nature, justification and limits. Included are essays that take a fresh look at perennial questions ...

La crisis financiera internacional y económica española

Hoy todos hablan de «la crisis». Pero pocos comprenden su origen, sus dimensiones reales y su alcance. En este pequeño libro, uno de los mayores expertos de nuestro país en crisis económicas y financieras nos presenta de manera precisa y a la vez comprensible las ...

Papeles de inteligencia

Papeles de Inteligencia es el resultado de los impulsos que han estimulado a sus autores, expuestos a una continua inspiración durante su desempeño cotidiano, en el complejo y fascinante mundo de la investigación y, en concreto, de la Inteligencia Competitiva. Los artículos aquí compilados han ...

La lengua del imperio

la retórica del imperialismo en Roma y la globalización

Si durante la Guerra Fría la consideración de Estados Unidos como un #imperio# era desdeñada por su estructura de poder como una acusación sin fundamento o una insidia soviética, después del 11-S la aceptación, primero, e incluso la reivindicación de la condición imperial de EE ...

Reward systems

does yours measure up?

Good execution depends on employees doing the right things at the right time. But poor execution isn't usually about people gone bad. According to Steve Kerr - who led the legendary leadership development centers Crotonville for General Electric and Pine Street for Goldman Sachs - it ...

The knowledge-creating company

How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability ...

Making decisions

expert solutions to everyday challenges

Global catastrophes and trends

the next fifty years

Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental ...

Tactics in M&A arbitration

Eds. Karl J.T. Wach, Frank Meckes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disputes regarding M&A transactions are often subject of arbitration proceedings. Their inherent flexibility creates scope for manoeuvre that, skilfully handled, can significantly contribute to the successful outcome of a dispute. The tactical opportunities of the arbitration process ...

Dirección de Recursos Humanos

El enfoque de este libro centra su atención en la capacidad que deben tener las empresas para: armonizar la planificación estratégica y la planificación de necesidades de sus RRHH; realizar un análisis y diseño de puestos de trabajo; desarrollar procesos de selección válidos; contratar, incorporar ...

Women, crime and social harm

towards a criminology for the Global Era

Eds. Maureen Cain, Adrian Howe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This book is by and about women. The book examines the harms and crimes to which women are subjected to as a result of global social processes, and their efforts to take control of their own futures.

Scandinavian politics today

This fully revised and updated second edition of "Scandinavian politics today" describes, analyzes and compares the contemporary politics and international relations of the five nation-states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the three Home Rule territories of Greenland, Faeroes and Aland that together ...

The crisis

In the winter of 1776, the American War of Independence, which had been declared months before, was in trouble. British troops had quickly advanced through New York to crush the rebellion, and the Continental army was in retreat and on the verge of disintegration. At ...

Leer el cine

la teoría literaria en la teoría cinematográfica

Se revisa la utilización que el discurso teórico en torno al cine ha hecho de algunas de las categorías teórico-literarias y repasa de manera rigurosa al tiempo que amena las aportaciones de al teoría de la literatura a la comprensión del hecho cinematográfico.