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China shifts gears

automakers, oil, pollution, and development

Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled every two and a half years through the 1990s and continues to grow. In "China Shifts Gears ...

Who controls the Internet?

illusions of a borderless world

Will cyberanarchy rule the net? And if we do find a way to regulate our cyberlife, will national borders dissolve as the Internet becomes the first global state? In this provocative new work, Jack L. Goldsmith and Tim Wu dismiss the fashionable talk of both ...

Economic development and environmental sustainability

new policy options

Economic growth, as we know it today, cannot persist indefinitely if it entails continuous degradation of natural resources and the environment. While in a few countries around the world, it appears that environmental degradation has been the result of rapid economic growth, in the vast ...

Motivation, agency, and public policy

of knights and knaves, pawns and queens

Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? And how should patients, parents, and pupils behave - as grateful recipients or active consumers? This book provides new answers to these questions - a milestone ...

Future electricity technologies and systems

Where will our electricity come from in the future, and how will we use it? The UK is aiming for a 60% reduction of 1990 carbon dioxide emission levels by 2050, yet the electricity industry and patterns of electricity use must change radically if this ...

Fundamental papers in Wavelet Theory

This book traces the prehistory and initial development of wavelet theory, a discipline that has had a profound impact on mathematics, physics, and engineering. Interchanges between these fields during the last fifteen years have led to a number of advances in applications such as image ...

Medieval schools

from roman Britain to renaissance England

Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their history from the Romans to the Renaissance, showing how they developed, what they taught ...

The roman stoics

self, responsibility, and affection

Roman Stoics of the imperial period developed a distinctive model of social ethics, one which adapted the ideal philosophical life to existing communities and everyday societal values. Gretchen Reydams- Schils's innovative book shows how these Romans - including such philosophers as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Hierocles ...

Mergers and acquisitions

the innovation impact

#The volume provides provocative new insights into the dynamic relationship between two of the most strategic priorities for 21st century firms: technological innovation and M&As. It does so by bringing together in a novel way the literature on these two different areas of firm ...

Adventures of a bystander

Peter Drucker's lively and thoughtful memoirs are now available in paperback with a new introduction by the author. He writes with wit and spirit about people he has encountered in a long and varied life, inluding Sigmung Freud, Henry Luce, Alfred Sloan, John L ...

Strategic issues in international retailing

As retail becomes a globalized sector, the existing concepts and theories of international business fit uneasily with it. This significant book takes a strategic approach to this topic, examining in-depth studies of several retailers, and marrying theory with practice to clearly present material for students ...

Key Rradings in crisis management

systems and structures for prevention and recovery

One of the first books of its kind in the subject area, this groundbreaking text brings together seminal papers in the area of crisis management and organizational theory. Covering the field from both a theoretical and practical perspective, it features important contributions from Karl Weick ...

Rumi

el conocimiento y el secreto

El sufismo, movimiento ascético islámico que tuvo su periodo de auge a partir del siglo IX de nuestra era, es la vía para la contemplación de la belleza divina a través de las cosas sensibles. El samá o danza sufí de los derviches giradores emana ...

Biblioteca de al-Andalus

de Ibn al-Labbana a Ibn al-Ruyuli

Se biografía a 276 autores comprendidos alfabéticamente entre los nombres de Ibn al-Labbana e Ibn al-Ruyuli y que eran originarios de un gran número de localidades andalusíes Se catalogan unas 1500 obras y se ofrecen referencias sobre su conservación, edición y contenido, que tratan sobre ...

Los reinos del ser

Es ésta la obra cumbre de George Santayana. El sistema aquí expuesto no es, según suautor, sino reflexión ordinaria bien encauzada, disciplina del corazón, verdadera religiónlaica. Al extender el escepticismo hasta sus límites razonables, Santayana llega a laexistencia del reino de la materia como fundamento ...

La encendida memoria

aproximación a Thomas Merton

INDICE: Introducción. Abreviaturas de obras de Thomas Merton por orden alfabético. Cronología del autor y su obra. Breve semblanza de Thomas Merton. Soledad en sociedad. Soledad. Sociedad. Sociedad en soledad. Conclusión. Bibliografía.

Semblanza de Indalecio Prieto

INDICE: Prólogo. Estudio introductorio. Apuntes históricos: semblanza de Indalecio Prieto. Figuras del socialismo español: Indalecio Prieto Tuero. Prieto, hombre de acción. Prieto, en Madrid. Prieto y el plebiscito. El pesimismo de Prieto. Prieto y Camba. Prieto y March. March en Carranza, 20. España en África ...

Política socioeconómica en la Unión Europea

Los países europeos han venido mostrado una importante evolución desde diferentes aspectos: económico, político, sociológico, etc. con el objetivo de crear una Europa unida que pudiera hacer frente a la competencia que se está produciendo. Por otro lado, la complejidad de la realidad de las ...

El procedimiento legislativo ordinario en las Cortes Generales

INDICE: Prólogo. Presentación. I. Introducción. El procedimiento legislativo. II. El procedimiento legislativo en las Cortes Generales. III. El procedimiento legislativo ordinario en el Congreso de los Diputados. Admisión a trámite de la iniciativa legislativa. IV. Toma en consideración de las proposiciones de ley. V. Retirada ...

Estudios completos de propiedad intelectual. Volumen 2

Dieciseis estudios del prestigioso Catedrático Rogel Vide en los que aborda desde la óptica de la propiedad intelectual temas como: internet, la copia privada, la obra multimedia en soporte material, las nuevas tecnologías, programación televisiva, directores de escena, depósito legal, obras plásticas y derecho de ...