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Making AID work

This title offers an encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a ...

Los hombres de la dictadura

personal político franquista en Castilla-La Mancha, 1939-1945

Este es un trabajo desdicado al estudio de los individuos que, durante los años que median entre el final de la guerra civil española y el de la segunda guerra mundial, ocuparon responsabilidades políticas, administrativas, y también represivas, en las instituciones locales y provinciales de ...

How to map arguments in political science

To venture into explanation of political action we need some map of our basic options: what kinds of explanations are out there? Even advanced students and scholars can find the landscape difficult to chart. We confront a bewildering maze of partial typologies, contrasting uses of ...

Gold

the once and future money

This is a fresh look at the most important investment trend of the early 21st century. Many view the current bull market in gold as a flash in the pan, doomed to fizzle. "Au contraire," say bestselling author Addison Wiggin and award winning analyst Justice ...

Environmental protest in Western Europe

The rise of environmentalism has been one of the more remarkable developments in the politics of western societies in recent decades. However, as environmental awareness has become more generalized, the forms of expression of environmental concern have changed. Established environmental movement organizations have become embedded ...

Structured finance

the object oriented approach

"Object Oriented Programming for Structured Finance" supplies a product-driven treatment of the world of structured finance. It addresses the subject by following the production process of a structured product. Each issue met by the people involved in the process, namely the structurer, the pricer and ...

A byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine

the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica

How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables ...

Critique sociologique de l'économie

La sociologie économique connaît à l'heure actuelle un vif regain d'intérêt. Avec la place grandissante de l'activité économique dans le monde contemporain, avec le rôle de plus en plus grand du discours économique dans les prises de décisions et les débats publics ...

Wealth and welfare

an economic and social history of Britain, 1851-1951

Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in an increasingly ...

Comentarios al Código Penal

Comentarios al Código Penal es una obra colectiva en la que han participado, principalmente, Magistrados de la Sala Segunda del Tribunal Supremo. En ella se analiza, pormenorizadamente y desde una óptica muy práctica, la aplicación concreta de cada uno de los artículos del Código Penal ...

Análisis de coyuntura: instrumentos e interpretación

(Revista Papeles de Economía Española, Nº111, año 2007)

Turismo en los espacios litorales

9º Congreso de Turismo, Universidad y Empresa "Sol, playa y turismo residencial"

En los últimos años estamos asistiendo, en nuestros espacios litorales, a importantes cambios en el modelo turístico de "sol y playa", como consecuencia de las nuevas tendencias surgidas de los procesos de globalización. En la industria turística, se han reflejado: en la aplicación de las ...

The sociology of religion

Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious? This book, written by one of the leading figures in the field, works at two levels. First it sets out the agenda - covering the key questions in the sociology of religion today ...

God the failed hypothesis

how science shows that god does not exist

Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science ...

An ilusion of harmony

science and religion in Islam

Current discussions in the West on the relation of science and religion focus mainly on science's uneasy relationship with the traditional Judeo-Christian view of life. But a parallel controversy exists in the Muslim world regarding ways to integrate science with Islam. As physicist Taner ...

La protección de las personas dependientes

comentario a la Ley 39/2006, de Promoción de la Autonomía Personal y Atención a las personas en situación de dependencia

Teoría y práctica de la mediación familiar intrajudicial y extrajudicial en España

Monografía de carácter teórico y práctico, dirigida a mediadores, profesionales de diversas disciplinas y público en general interesados en la mediación como metodología alternativa o complementaria en la resolución y gestión de los conflictos surgidos en el ámbito familiar, y en especial los derivados de ...

The art of the deal in China

a practical guide to business etiquette and the 36 Martial strategies employed by chinese businessmen and officials in China

China has recently exploded into the world scene, and their presence is only getting bigger. The Chinese economy is rapidly expanding, inspiring many Western businesses to negotiate deals in and around China. But it has also been described as a 'minefield' in terms of corruption ...

Derecho penal

Parte Especial

INDICE: Delitos contra la vida. Lesiones. Homicidio o lesiones en riña. Duelo. Abuso de armas. Abandono de personas. Calumnias e injurias. Adulterio. Violación y estupro. Corrupción, abuso deshonesto y ultrajes al pudor. Rapto. Delitos contra el estado civil. Delitos contra la libertad individual. Violación de ...

What the arabs think of America

This work gives voice to ordinary Arabs with strong views on American involvement in the Middle East - frequently angry, sometimes admiring and always heart-felt. For hundreds of years, pilgrims to Mecca have paused in the narrow mountain pass known as Mina to cast stones at ...