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The Oxford dictionary of music

"The Oxford Dictionary of Music" is the indispensable guide for all music lovers and performers, both amateur and professional. It brings together an unrivalled collection of entries - 12,500 in all - covering musical subjects of all kinds in an authoritative and accessible way. There are ...

Trayectorias nupciales, familias ocultas

(Buenos Aires, entresiglos)

Dentro de la familia contemporánea tienen lugar diversos tipos de intercambios: de bienes sexuales; de bienes afectivos; de bienes económicos; de obligaciones jurídicas. Desde esta perspectiva, constituye un lugar de ejercicio del poder (entre cónyuges; de los padres respecto a los hijos; del Estado respecto ...

Global regionalisation

core peripheral trends

Global Regionalization examines the astonishing political and economic changes that have completely reshaped the political geography of certain regions during the past fifteen years. It deals with the concept of global bloc formation, examining the impacts that changing political-economic conditions and relationships in and between ...

The Elgar Companion to public economics

empirical public economics

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students but ...

International competition policy

maintaining open markets in the global economy

The opening up of world markets, rapid growth of trade and foreign direct investment create manifold problems for competition policy. Thus, international mergers may have adverse effects on many countries, international cartels may carve up world markets and dominant firms may seek to maintain their ...

The production of knowledge

the challenge of social science research

Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades. In this book, he reflects on a number of challenges associated with management and social science research - the search for a 'behavioral science', the limits of rationality, the unreliability of many research ...

Sovereign debt at the crossroads

challenges and proposals for resolving the third world debt crisis

Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill ...

Strategic marketing

creating competitive advantage

"Strategic Marketing: Creating Competitive Advantage" is a 2-colour text that examines the key aspects of traditional marketing strategy topics and presents an assessment and synthesis of recent thinking within the field. Through a combination of theory and practice, within a unique conceptual framework, "Strategic Marketing ...

The legend of the Grail

The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown, yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales ...

La empresa moderna

En todo el mundo, las empresas están experimentando con nuevos diseños organizativos, cambiando sus arquitecturas, sus rutinas y procesos, así como su cultura de empresa con el fin de mejorar sus perspectivas de crecimiento y sus resultados. En este libro, John Roberts sostiene que para ...

Concesiones en infraestructura

cómo hacerlo bien

Este libro es una contribución fundamental para superar los errores cometidos y conseguir los beneficios potenciales de la participación privada en la construcción y gestión de las infraestructuras. Analiza más de 1.000 concesiones de infraestructuras, descubriendo una serie de hechos sorprendentes. Propone una nueva ...

Crime reduction partnerships

"The Blackstone's Practical Policing" series covers a range of topical subjects of vital importance in today's policing arena. Each practical guide contains clear and detailed explanations of the relevant legislation, accompanied by practical scenarios, illustrative diagrams and useful checklists. Packed with a wealth ...

Tourism marketing for cities and towns

using branding and events to attrack tourists

"Tourism Marketing for Cities and Towns" provides thorough and succinct coverage of marketing theory specific to the tourism industry. It focuses on developing the branded destination with special emphasis on promotional planning. In addition, it contains numerous international examples, discussion questions, and strategic planning worksheets.

Post-keynesian principles of economic policy

Post-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that ...

Monetary integration and dollarization

No Panacea

This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly, the book ...

Clusters in urban and regional development

Going beyond the celebrated 'hot- spots' of economic development, the book draws upon evidence from a broader range of cities and regions to help fill some important gaps in our knowledge of how clusters operate within the contemporary global economy. This book was previously published ...

Theories of international trade

Before his untimely death in 2000, the brilliant young Israeli economic historian Klug conducted a thorough survey into the different theories of international trade. The results of this are now available here for the first time with an introduction from Warren Young and Michael Bordo ...

Dictionary of international economics and finance terms

Financial World Publishing has developed a series of dictionaries on international banking and finance. As the publishing imprint of an educational institute that delivers and administers professional finance qualifications at a variety of levels around the world, they appreciate the need for and are able ...

La hora de iluminar lo negro

vientos sobre Julio Romero de Torres

Aunque Romero de Torres no haya sido el único artista español contemporáneo en basar su pintura en una representación folclórica de lo español, sí ha desempeñado el papel paradigmático a este respecto, y por tanto ha debido padecer la correspondiente función de chivo expiatorio, quizás ...

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