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Los perdedores de la Historia de España

Los protagonistas de la historia no siempre son seres extraordinarios, exitosos, fuertes y visionarios. La historia también está hecha de personas movilizadas por sus sueños y sus temores, equivocadas a veces, o víctimas de circunstancias que no pueden eludir, en definitiva, personas con las que ...

Alta sociedad

Con la excusa de los sentimientos despertados por la muerte de su madre, Begoña Aranguren nos ofrece en este nuevo libro una evocación crítica de las clases altas españolas de los años cincuenta a los sesenta. La autora recurre a su memoria para describir los ...

A practical approach to local government Law

"The Practical Approach" series is the perfect partner for practice work. Each title focuses on one field of the law and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject together with clear, practical advice and tips on issues likely to arise in practice. The books are ...

Lying, cheating and stealing

a moral theory of white-collar crime

Where should the line between serious criminal fraud and lawful 'puffing' be drawn? What constitutes tax evasion beyond mere 'tax avoidance'? What separates obstruction of justice from 'zealous advocacy', or insider trading from 'savvy investing'? Can we meaningfully distinguish bribery from 'campaign contributions', or perjury ...

Corporate governance in context

corporations, states and markets in Europe, Japan and US

Increased regulatory competition has sharpened the comparative awareness of advantages or disadvantages of different national models of political economy, economic organization, governance and regulation. Although institutional change is slow and subject to functional complementarities as well as social and cultural entrenchment, at least some features ...

The new german Law of obligations

historical and comparative perspectives

On 1 January 2000 the German Civil Code (BGB) became one hundred years old. It had been remarkably resilient throughout a century marked by catastrophic upheavals and a succession of fundamentally different political regimes. Two years later, however, the most sweeping individual reform ever to ...

The executiveand public Law

power and accountability in comparative perspective

For most of the past two hundred years or more - the grand era of national constitution-making - founding fathers and constitutional scholars alike seem to have focused more sharply on questions of legislative power than they have on executive power. Executive power, by contrast, they worried ...

Geography and economy

three lectures

This book focuses on the theme of the mutually constitutive relations between geographic space and the economic order. Three principle lines of investigation are identified and explored. First, Allen J. Scott sketches out the general theory of the division of labour and the ways in ...

The Welfare State in the European Union

economic and social perspectives

This book provides a balanced and rigorous account of the current functioning and performance of the welfare state in Europe. Its main feature is a basic trust in the various missions of the welfare state, particularly poverty alleviation. Accordingly, in an attempt at comparing different ...

The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of ...

Le contrôle juridictionnel de l'Administration

étude de Droit Administratif comparé

C'est à ce contrôle juridictionnel exercé sur l'activité administrative que la présente étude est consacrée. On s'y est proposé comme objet principal une recherche de droit administratif comparée dirigée du point de vue organique [...]. Mais il a paru que cette recherche de ...

The media contracts handbook

The new 3rd Edition of the "Media Contracts Handbook" has been substantially updated and revised and brings you over 70 ready to use contracts and precedents to be used in all sections of the media, including publishing, film, TV, DVD and video, Internet and electronic ...

Après la finitude

essai sur la nécessité de la contingence

La critique empiriste des prétentions universelles de la pensée humaine est-elle réellement fondée ? On sait que c'est le problème de Kant. Mais Quentin Meillassoux montre avec une force étonnante qu'une autre compréhension de cette critique, restée en quelque sorte dissimulée, bien que plus ...

El arca de las palabras

El arca de las palabras, último libro Andrés Trapiello, combina lo mejor de un diccionario con las posibilidades ilimitadas de una novela o un poema, esto es, la capacidad de seducirnos y sorprendernos de la A a la Z. Acompañada de buen número de ilustraciones ...

Making meaning

how successful businesses deliver meaningful customer experiences

A philosophy of gardens

Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that ...

23 F

la verdad

Las incógnitas que aún quedan por despejar, casi veinticinco años después del fallido golpe de estado acaecido en la incipiente transición política española, o el papel desempeñado por el flamante rey de España, siguen despertando preguntas de difícil respuesta. El reputado periodista Franciso Medina se ...

Differential treatment in International Environmental Law

The history of international environmental dialogue is a history of conflict between developing and industrial countries encompassing the framework, nature, and agenda of international environmental law. The conflict is focused on who should take responsibility, in what measure, and under what conditions to contain global ...

State constitutions for the Twenty-first century.Vol.1: The politics of State constitutional reform

Through illuminating case studies of reform efforts in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and Virginia, this book#the first of three volumes#provides the first systematic analysis of the political obstacles to state constitutional reform. For those seeking constitutional reform, this useful resource can ...

The regulation of international financial markets

perspectives for reform

International financial relations have become increasingly important for the development of global and national economies. At present these relations are primarily governed by market forces, with little regulatory interference at the international level. In the light of numerous financial crises, this abstinence must be seriously ...