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El Reglamento 1/2003 y la finalización del procedimiento de defensa de la competencia ante la Comisión Europea

La presente obra realiza un estudio del procedimiento de defensa de la competencia comunitario y, en concreto de su finalización, con el análisis del Reglamento 1/2003 y la legislación de desarrollo del mismo, como instrumentos que da un giro a este procedimiento en el ...

El plan maestro

arqueología fantástica al servicio del régimen nazi

En 1935 Heinrich Himmler, uno de los jerarcas nazis más poderosos, creó el Ahnenerbe, un instituto de investigación que producía pruebas arqueológicas con fines políticos. Himmler reunió una peculiar combinación de aventureros, místicos y respetables profesores para que le ayudaran a reescribir la historia de ...

The starfish and the spider

the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations

After five years of groundbreaking research, Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom share some gripping stories. The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional "spiders," which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership, and revolutionary "starfish," which rely on the ...

Educación del príncipe cristiano

Esta obra fue escrita por Erasmo para responder al encargo que el Canciller de Brabante, preceptor del príncipe Carlos, le había hecho en la primavera de 1515 al tiempo que le nombra consejero del futuro emperador. Ante ello, siente la necesidad de orientar al gobernante ...

Teoría de la naturaleza

Trad. Diego Sánchez Meca Los ensayos científicos de Goethe son mucho menos conocidos que sus obras de literatura, pero suscitan un interés fundamental no sólo por la valoración que la crítica científica contemporánea ha hecho sobre ellos, sino también porque evidencian analogías esenciales con el ...

Theory of legal principles

This book intends to help understand and apply principles and rules better. Its target is to keep the distinction between principles and rules whereas structuring it on different foundations than those jurisprudence ordinarily employs. The first object of investigation is the phenomenon of interpretation in ...

Procedimiento básico para la certificación de eficiencia energética de los edificios de nueva construcción

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A thousand barrels a second

the coming oil break ponit and the challenges facing an energy dependent world

Peter Tertzakian's message resonates across political and economic lines-since the book's hardcover publication, the author has been featured on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg.com, Air America, and NPR and in U.S. News and World Report. Tertzakian ...

Contemporary financial intermediation

Stuart Greenbaum and Anjan Thakor bring a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking in this completely revised and updated new edition. They expand the scope of the typical bank management course by addressing all types of deposit-type financial institutions and by ...

The Law of international watercourses

The Law of International Watercourses examines the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international watercourses. The continued growth of the world's population places increasing demands on Earth's finite supplies of fresh water. Because two or more states share ...

Utility regulation in competitive markets

problems and progress

"Utility Regulation in Competitive Markets" is the latest book in the annual series published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically reviews the state of utility regulation and competition policy. This significant new volume contains incisive chapters ...

The New NASDAQ marketplace

The Nasdaq Stock Market has been reengineered in recent years from a competitive dealer market to a modern hybrid. The broader Nasdaq marketplace, including ECNs and ATSs, has also experienced substantial growth and development. This conference brought together leading buy- side and sell-side participants and ...

Barnaby Conrad

una pasión española

En 1944, con tan sólo veinticuatro años, Barnaby Conrad llegó a Sevilla como vicecónsul de los Estados Unidos. Un destino que iba a cambiar su vida y que convertiría España en el referente de su posterior obra literaria y artística. Entusiasmado desde muy pronto con ...

The new industrial State

With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in "The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies ...

Living together, living apart

rethinking jewish-christian relations in the Middle Ages

This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel ...

What democracy is for

on freedom and moral government

In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals - the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according ...

Democracies in development

politics and reform in Latin America

The advance of democracy in Latin America over the past quarter century has contributed significantly to ensuring respect for fundamental political freedoms, civil liberties, and human rights. "Democracies in Development" highlights how an effective democracy is also essential for sustainable economic and social development. The ...

Brewing justice

fair trade coffe, sustainability, and survival

Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But is it working? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental ...

Studies on the hospitallers after 1306

Rhodes and the west

This is the fifth collection of studies on the "Hospitallers of Rhodes" by Anthony Luttrell to appear in the "Variorum Collected Studies Series". In these 24 studies, the emphasis is on the 14th century, on the central Convent facing the Turks, on the hinterland in ...

Cómo cortar un pastel

y otros rompecabezas matemáticos

Ian Stewart, uno de los matemáticos más populares del mundo, autor de increíbles best-sellers como Locos por las matemáticas (Crítica, 20...), vuelve a intrigarnos y a divertirnos con este libro maravilloso que nos descubre un paisaje matemático que ni habríamos imaginado. A lo largo de ...