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The political brain

the role of emotion in deciding the fate of the Nation

This book presents a groundbreaking and surprising scientific investigation into how the mind works, how the brain works and what this means for why candidates win and lose elections. Since the 18th century, the idea of mind that has captured the imagination of philosophers, cognitive ...

Diccionario Akal de historia del siglo XIX

Entre finales del siglo XVIII y los albores del XX se desarrolla una etapa fundamental en la historia de la humanidad. Convulso, complejo y revolucionario, este periodo será la auténtica bisagra entre la modernidad y el mundo contemporáneo, estableciendo los cimientos de nuestro presente. Con ...

Making globalization work

Why isn't globalization benefitting as many people as it should? Joe Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work. Stiglitz examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years, proposing solutions ...

Introduction to the theory of cooperative games

This book systematically presents the main solutions of cooperative games: the core, bargaining set, kernel, nucleolus, and the Shapley value of TU games, and the core, the Shapley value, and the ordinal bargaining set of NTU games. To each solution the authors devote a separate ...

Introduction to modern time series analysis

This book presents modern developments in time series econometrics that are applied to macroeconomic and financial time series. It attempts to bridge the gap between methods and realistic applications. This book contains the most important approaches to analyse time series which may be stationary or ...

Money and payments in theory and practice

International in scope and written by a leading young Post-Keynesian economist, this book focuses on the working of money and payments in a multi-bank settlement system within which banks and non-bank financial institutions have been expanding their operations outside their countries of incorporation. Departing from ...

The future of globalization

explorations in light of recent turbulence

Contemporary globalization has been severely jeopardized by recent turmoil. The end of the economic expansion of 1990s, the 9/11 tragedy and the war in Iraq have shocked the international system to an extent not seen in years. Not only has the fairness and adequacy ...

Principles of water Law and administration

national and international

A multidisciplinary resource, Principles of Water Law and Administration, Second Edition explores the general issues and principles of water law and administration at national and international level, highlighting current legal and institutional aspects of water resources management. The new edition emphasizes areas of growing topical ...

Interpretation of contracts

current controversies in Law

In this volume Mitchell examines case law, academic debate and the resurgence of interest in formalist contract interpretation in the US to explore the meaning of contextual interpretation, arguments for and against it and suggestions on how parties may influence the interpretation methods applied to ...

Critical company Law

Multi-disciplinary in approach, this comprehensive volume examines English company law from both a socio-legal and black letter perspective. Using a contextual and critical framework; drawing on the influence of American law and legal scholarship and a case study of mutual building societies' march to the ...

The WTO after Hong Kong

progress in, and prospects for, the Doha Development Agenda

After the World Trade Organization's (WTO) critical December 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, negotiations to implement the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) broke down completely in the summer of 2006. This book offers a detailed and critical evaluation of how and why the negotiations arrived ...

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

This book examines the development and evolution of the organization of security and cooperation in Europe (formerly the CSCE) during and after the Cold War. During the Cold War, the two global superpowers were able to come together to resolve many issues of transparency and ...

Green political thought

This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published. Andrew Dobson describes and assesses the political ...

Rebels rising

cities and the American Revolution

The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work ...

Christ as mediator

a study of the Theologies of Eusebius of Caesarea, Marcellus of Ancyra and Athanasius of Alexandria

A detailed study of one theological concept (divine mediation) that was central to the Christological controversy of the early fourth century. By analysing the views of three participants at the Council of Nicaea (325), Jon M. Robertson demonstrates the variety of perspectives in a way ...

Biblioteca pública y desarrollo económico

En los últimos años, se ha desarrollado un debate cada vez más intenso sobre el nuevo modelo de biblioteca pública que requiere la sociedad contemporánea. Tanto en los foros internacionales como nacionales, se viene intentando definir la función de la biblioteca pública en la Sociedad ...

Between war and politics

international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt

This is the first book length study of war in the thought of one of the twentieth-century's most important and original political thinkers. Hannah Arendt's writing was fundamentally rooted in her understanding of war and its political significance. But this element of her ...

Biblioteca digital

conceptos, recursos y estándares

Este trabajo comienza con una breve revisión teórica de los conceptos que giran en torno a la biblioteca digital actual, los que permiten no sólo mostrar y ofrecer los conocimientos para entender, acceder y manejar las colecciones electrónicas, sino también generar información de actualidad en ...

Rusia dinamitada

tramas secretas y terrorismo de Estado en la Federación Rusa

El libro "Rusia dinamitada", escrito por Yuri Felshtinski con las informaciones que le dio el ex agente Alexander Litvinenko antes de ser envenenado, desvela los manejos de los servicios secretos rusos y su uso del terrorismo de Estado para hacerse con el poder.

Isabel II

imágenes de una reina

No hay otro personaje femenino contemporáneo español cuya imagen haya provocado tanta lucha política como el de Isabel II. Los liberales de 1830 crearon la de una reina ligada a la libertad, que se perdió durante su reinado efectivo. La corte y los políticos jugaron ...