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The business school and the bottom line

In recent decades, business schools have become important components of higher education throughout the world. Yet, surprisingly, they have received little serious attention. This book provides a sober and evidence-based assessment, charting the history and character of business schools in the light of current debates ...

Political constitutionalism

a republican defence of the constitucionality of democracy

Richard Bellamy argues for a political rather than a legal view of the place of constitutions in democracies. He suggests that constitutions are products of political circumstances and cannot be regarded as fundamental. Without a suitable social and institutional environment, no legal constitution can preserve ...

The politics of the environment

ideas, activism, policy

The continuous rise in the profile of the environment in politics reflects growing concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis. The new edition of this highly acclaimed textbook surveys the politics of the environment, providing a comprehensive and comparative introduction to its ...

Evaluating campaign quality

can the electoral process be improved?

For a number of years, voters and academic observers have been dissatisfied with a number of elements of American campaigns. Contemporary races are seen as too negative, too superficial, and too unfair or misleading. Based on these complaints, a variety of reform organizations have targeted ...

Thomas Jefferson and executive power

By revisiting Thomas Jefferson's understanding of executive power this book offers a new understanding of the origins of presidential power. Before Jefferson was elected president, he arrived at a way to resolve the tension between constitutionalism and executive power. Because his solution would preserve ...

Party influence in Congress

Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of political parties in the U.S. Congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must reflect policy, electoral, and collective party goals. These goals call for flexible party organizations and leadership strategies. They ...

Toward a theory of Human Rights

religion, Law, courts

Neither the morality of human rights nor its relation to the law of human rights is well understood. In this book, Perry addresses three large issues: / There is undeniably a religious ground for the morality of human rights. But is there a nonreligious (secular) ground ...

Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin occupies a distinctive place in both public life and philosophy. In public life, he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and other widely read journals. In philosophy, he has written important and influential works on many of the ...

The business of TV production

The Business of TV Production provides an insider's view of television production, from initial concept to developing, creating and airing the final program. It outlines the main functions of each of the players involved and the key stages of the production process. Covering all ...

Las fuerzas de reserva en España

antecedentes, creación y viabilidad de un proyecto cívico-militar

Un nutrido grupo de oficiales de la Armada, muchos de ellos pertenecientes a la Reserva Voluntaria, han publicado un trabajo espléndido acerca de este nuevo Cuerpo y su semejanza con la Escala de Complemento a lo largo de la historia militar española, que no es ...

Un obispo vasco ante ETA

"La existencia de ETA es perjudicial para el País Vasco. De ella hay que decir que es un mal que debe desaparecer, incluso para buscar la justa solución al llamado "conflicto vasco". Ha de imponerse, por ello, la necesidad de actuar eficazmente para que deje ...

The tyranny of the market

why you can't always get what you want

Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any ...

Risk management in electronic banking

concepts and best practices

""Risk Management in Electronic Banking" is a comprehensive study of the concepts and best practices in electronic banking. It fills a badly needed global requirement for not only bankers but all users of electronic banking. This book gives an excellent review of the wide scope ...

Statistical arbitrage

algorithmic trading insights and techniques

While statistical arbitrage has faced some tough times as markets experienced dramatic changes in dynamics beginning in 2000 new developments in algorithmic trading have allowed it to rise from the ashes of that fire. Based on the results of author Andrew Pole's own research ...

Business valuation

an integrated theory

The first book to show business appraisers why they do, what they do and how everything is interrelated. Helping readers understand the why of business valuation, this book assembles the various valuation concepts into a theoretically and practically consistent whole. Now updated and revised, it ...

The little book that makes you rich

a proven market-beating formuls for growth investing

Profit from a powerful, proven investment strategy. "The Little Book That Makes You Rich" is the latest book in the popular "Little Book, Big Profits" series. Written by Louis Navellier - one of the most well- respected and successful growth investors of our day - this book ...

Guinness

the 250 year quest for the perfect pint

Ireland's most famous export, Guinnes Stout - and the people who have brewed it - hold a unique place in the history of beer, business and Ireland itself. Famed beer and beverage writer Bill Yenne talks to everyone from Guinness's master brewer to typical pubgoers ...

Comparative Law

a handbook

This innovative, refreshing, and reader- friendly book is aimed at enabling students to familiarise themselves with the challenges and controversies found in comparative law. At present, there is no book which clearly explains the contemporary debates and methodological innovations found in modern comparative law. This ...

La sombra de la teoría

ensayos de literatura hispánica del Cid a Cien años de soledad

Este libro recoge catorce ensayos sobre obras literarias en lengua española que abarcan desde la épica medieval a la novela sudamericana del siglo XX, pasando por la poesía amorosa y el diálogo renacentista, la narrativa picaresca, la poesía y la novela de la segunda mitad ...

Understanding islamic finance

In "Understanding Islamic Finance" Muhammad Ayub introduces all the essential elements of this growing market by providing an in-depth background to the subject and clear descriptions of all the major products and processes associated with Islamic finance.Key features of the book include: discussion of ...