Libros de

Organizational behavior

Alcaldes en lucha

el Grupo de Bergara en la Transición, 1975-1979

Este libro recoge el testimonio directo de un grupo de alcaldes comprometidos que trabajaron denodadamente por conseguir que las aspiraciones del pueblo, al que representaban provisionalmente, fueran escuchadas durante los años cruciales tras el franquismo. Asumiendo una responsabilidad política que ninguna institución estaba dispuesta a ...

Reforma financiera en América Latina

El presente libro analiza los cambios de la dinámica económica de las finanzas globalizadas en el contexto regional y mundial. América Latina no es la excepción: participa como tributaria del enorme crecimiento el mundo rentista que no ha encontrado límites en los movimientos sociales ni ...

La corte de Carlos III el Noble, rey de Navarra

espacio doméstico y escenario del poder, 1376-1415

Esta obra aborda la materia cortesana tomando como base la corte de los reyes navarros Carlos III El Noble y Leonor de Trastámara, a partir del rico fondo documental de la Cámara de Comptos de Navarra; el estudio abarca el período comprendido entre 1376 y ...

Principles of macroeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics has been thoroughly revised, simplified, and updated for the Fourth Edition. Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the leading monetary economists in the field, Principles of Macroeconomics ...

Principles of statistical infere

In this definitive book, D. R. Cox gives a comprehensive and balanced appraisal of statistical inference. He develops the key concepts, describing and comparing the main ideas and controversies over foundational issues that have been keenly argued for more than two- hundred years. Continuing a ...

Law in time of crisis

emergency powers in theory and practice

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ensuing 'war on terror' have focused attention on issues that have previously lurked in a dark corner at the edge of the legal universe. This book presents the first systematic and comprehensive attempt by legal scholars ...

Fray Marcos de Herrera Prior y superintendente de la redificación del Monasterio del Escorial después del gran incendio de 1671

La correspondencia entre Felipe V y Luis XIV (I)

Estudio histórico , informático y traductológico

Entre las series documentales que más datos pueden proporcionar a un investigador sobre épocas y personajes de la historia figuran las cartas. La correspondencia entre personajes del pasado tiene un sugerente atractivo del que es imposible sustraerse. Si el lector se acerca a quien tomó ...

Visca el rei i la religió!

la Primera Guerra Civil de la Catalunya contemporània (1820-1823)

La confrontació entre revolució i contrarevolució va marcar la vida política, econòmica, social i cultural europea durant la primera meitat del segle XIX. A Catalunya, aquesta lluita, iniciada durant la guerra del Francès, arribà a la màxima expressió durant el Trienni Liberal (1820-1823). L'enfrontament ...

Words fail me

This lively and informative new title was originally inspired by the author's Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen is ...

Aproximación a la cultura japonesa

Ante los ojos del visitante casual, Japón se dibuja como un escenario tremendamente caótico. Basta con una mirada panorámica a la distribución urbanística de sus ciudades para quedar atónito ante la implacable extensión de terreno que ocupan casas sin fin, adosadas o separadas, de madera ...

Economía efectiva

miscelánea en homenaje a José Jané Solá

Este importante libro nace a propósito del homenaje a José Jané Solà, gran profesor de Economía que ha marcado a varias generaciones de economistas españoles. En esta obra podemos encontrar los artículos y las reflexiones de personalidades del mundo económico, político e intelectual como Federico ...

Families and the European Union

Law, politics and pluralism

In the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of family law in the European Union, McGlynn argues that a traditional concept of 'family' which has many adverse effects - on individuals, on families (in all their diverse forms), and indeed on the economic ambitions of ...

The future of Europe

reform or decline

This work presents a provocative argument that unless Europe takes serious action soon, its economic and political decline is unavoidable, and a clear statement of the steps Europe must take before it's too late. Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political ...

John Maynard Keynes and international relations

economics paths to war and peace

Sixty years after his death, the life and thought of the economist, John Maynard Keynes, continues to be a subject of the greatest interest to scholars. Yet, one of the most significant areas of Keynes' thinking has been strangely overlooked - international relations, a subject that ...

Humans and other animals

John Dupre explores the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans, and comes to surprisingly radical conclusions. He opposes the idea that there is only one legitimate way of classifying things in the natural world, the 'scientific' way. The lesson we should learn from ...

Kant, science, and human nature

Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences' - relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. Hanna's earlier book, "Kant and the Foundations of ...

Selling women short

gender and money on Wall Street

Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. "Selling Women Short" is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under ...

Louis Bachelier's theory of Sseculation

the origins of modern finance

March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Theorie de la Speculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away ...