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Spatial econometrics

statistical foundations and applications to regional convergence

The new economic geography and the debate on regional economic convergence have drawn increasingly the interest of economists in the empirical analysis of regional and spatial data. However, even if the methodology for the econometric treatment of spatial data is well developed, there does not ...

Land-use and land-cover change

local processes and global impacts

This book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest, cropland and pasture. Among the causative mechanisms behind land change, synergetic factor combinations are found to be more common than single key factor explanations. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts ...

Demographic transition theory

The demographic transition is the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. Death is now less capricious and most people live long lives. Women no longer average six or seven births but in most economically ...

Carbon and its domestication

Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its biogeochemical cycle has been a mainstay of development. This domestication is characterized by a number of thresholds: control of ...

Handbook of population

"The Handbook of Population" is organized for classroom as well as reference use. It is divided into four sections - Population Structure, Population Processes, Population and the Social Sciences, and Applied Demography - and includes both an Introduction and an Epilogue by the editors. Part I, Population ...

Conversación con el Sr. de Saci

Blas Pascal (1623-1662) está considerado uno de los grandes pensadores del siglo XVII. En «Conversación con el Sr. de Saci» aborda, desde una perspectiva a la vez filosófica y cristiana, el carácter contradictorio del hombre. Usando la forma del diálogo, Pascal se apoya primeramente en ...

Habermas y la sociedad contemporánea

Es imposible delinear el panorama de la teoría política de nuestro tiempo sin atender a la voz de Jürgen Habermas, una de las figuras más importantes del pensamiento occidental contemporáneo, que durante las últimas cuatro décadas ha forjado una teoría innovadora y muy discutida sobre ...

Estudios sobre el estatuto jurídico de las lenguas en España

La obra "Estudios sobre el Estatuto Jurídico de las Lenguas en España" nace con la vocación de contribuir a la reflexión acerca de la convivencia y la supervivencia del patrimonio lingüístico en el conjunto del Estado, en un momento en que, por efecto de la ...

Locura filosofal

Aquellos que acuden a la filosofía para que les guíe en su proyecto vital deben ser advertidos: sin duda el saber filosófico puede iluminar y hacer que la persona mejore, pero también puede desorientar, confundir y, a la postre, aniquilar. Ya lo dijo Descartes: «Las ...

La Banca Centrale Europea

la politica monetaria nell'area dell'Euro

Questa terza edizione presenta un quadro dei primi quattro anni di attività della BCE, discute i principali provvedimenti di politica monetaria adottati nel periodo e si sofferma su alcuni aspetti delle modalità di gestione della politica monetaria che si sono rivelati particolarmente critici. Sono analizzate ...

Leadership and motivation

the fifty-fifty rule and the eight key principles of motivating others

What motivates people is an important consideration for captains of industry, commerce and the public sector - in fact anyone who works with other people - since people are central to the success of organizations. "Leadership and Motivation" explores the subject in depth. Leadership guru, John Adair ...

El imperio y la resistencia

conversaciones con Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los más reputados pensadores políticos de la actualidad, cuyo potente discurso se enfrenta con contundencia al imperialismo, al fundamentalismo religioso y, en los últimos tiempos, a la funesta guerra anglo-estadounidense con tra el terror, en la ...

Mapping the markets

a guide to stockmarket analysis

This book is about how to analyse the way markets are likely to behave and it combines the two approaches used by market analysts: technical analysis, which is based on the belief that price reflects everything that is known about a particular market; and fundamental ...

Marketing in the public sector

a roadmap for improved performance

"Professionally, as an academic turned politician, this book - if published a few years earlier - would have made my life much simpler. This book lays out, in detail with concrete examples, how to conduct a grand plan for change. Particularly impressive is the application of different ...

Geografías del desorden

migración, alteridad y nueva esfera social

Geografias de Desorden pretende ser un espacio de trabajo en el que sumar la contribución de autores que desde sus ámbitos de conocimiento e investigación analizan el fenómeno migratorio a través de las distintas ramas de estudio de la geografía humana así como desde otras ...

Survey of Subsaharan Africa

a regional geography

"Survey of Sub-Saharan Africa" is the most comprehensive and up-to-date text available on African geography. It features both "systematic" chapters (looking thematically at Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole) followed by regional chapters (usually covering individual countries). The systematic chapters are organized to cover the geography ...

The new american militarism

how americans are seduced by war

In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology - of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American ...

African development report 2006

Aid, Debt relief and Development in Africa

"The African Development Report 2006" is the eighteenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the state of the African economy, examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent. The African Development Bank Group ...

A vanished world

muslims, christians, and jews in medieval Spain

Are Muslims, Christians, and Jews forever locked in a cycle of violence and resentment? This work answers this question by chronicling medieval Spain's impossibly panoramic history.

Naval engagements

patriotism, cultural politics, and the royal navy 1793-1815

The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in "Naval Engagements", looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural ...