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"Trade allows us to sell what we produce at home and purchase what we don't. It lowers prices and gives us greater variety and innovation. Yet understanding our place in the global trade network is rarely so simple, and today's workers are wary of being taken advantage of. Trade has become an easy excuse for struggling economies, a scapegoat for our failures to adapt to a changing world, and--for many Americans on both the right and the left--nothing...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 67
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Anthony Trollope's 1875 novel, "The Way We Live Now", is a biting satire of the wealthy and powerful in Victorian England. Augustus Melmotte, a wealthy financier moves to London and begins to gather investors for an American railway venture. When his daughter Marie takes up with the dissolute gold-digging aristocrat Felix Carbury, Melmotte steps in to block the union. Multiple subplots involving schemes to move up in society and thwart others from...
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Para la OMPI (Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual) la propiedad intelectual engloba tanto los derechos de propiedad industrial (marcas, patentes, diseño industrial, denominaciones de origen) como los derechos de propiedad intelectual (derechos de autor y derechos conexos).
Este libro comprende la redacción tomada de la Ley 23/2006, de 7 de julio, por la que se modifica el texto refundido de la Ley de la Propiedad Intelectual, aprobado...
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Una Sociedad Limitada, también llamada sociedad de responsabilidad limitada, es un tipo de asociación empresarial muy común, en España.
La Ley de las sociedades limitadas españolas regula los derechos y deberes de este tipo de empresas en el territorio español. Si has decidido constituir una Sociedad Limitada (S.L.) en dicho país es importante conocer el proceso de su creación y las leyes que la rigen.
Entre otros temas, este libro define...
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La publicación congrega a reconocidos abogados de Perú que son especialistas vinculados al Derecho de las Obligaciones. Los temas desarrollados por los autores del libro cuentan con una posición propia respecto a las modalidades, efectos e inejecución del Derecho de las Obligaciones, lo cual enriquece a esta obra, dividida en tres partes, por las distintas perspectivas sobre temas puntuales del ámbito profesional y académico. La primera parte...
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El presente libro describe los antecedentes y las perspectivas actuales del derecho de consumo en relación con el comercio electrónico, como fenómeno global de transacciones e inversiones y la protección de los consumidores que se ven inmiscuidos en dicho escenario, determinando las figuras centrales, sus antecedentes, características e implicaciones jurídicas en Colombia.
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El propósito de este libro es describir, de manera introductoria, el derecho de la publicidad en el ordenamiento jurídico peruano, identificando sus principales categorías e instituciones. En tal sentido, se aborda el ámbito general sobre la materia, las líneas directrices de la actividad publicitaria y el marco regulatorio de los actos de competencia desleal relativos a la publicidad, subrayando la relación entre esta y la concurrencia en el...
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Este volumen recoge un conjunto de trabajos, en su mayor parte inéditos empresariales o publicados en fuentes de muy difícil acceso, que estudian el tratamiento jurídico de las redes, y constituyen piezas clave del derecho de redes empresariales. Los trabajos aquí recopilados fueron presentados en varios simposios y convenios internacionales celebrados en la Universidad de Valencia en los últimos años. Se trata de un conjunto de elaboraciones...
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Économie numérique et territorialité semblent être des expressions antinomiques. Pourtant, le droit fiscal tente d'appréhender les revenus issus du digital, rattachés à des acteurs nomades, en arguant de frontières physiques qu'ils ignorent. Dans ce contexte, les administrations fiscales ne sont plus à même de remplir leur rle de perceptrice de l'impt d'autant plus lorsqu'elles sont confrontées aux puissants géants du numérique en position...
11) Lost and found
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The author of Smoke in Mirrors and Soft Focus presents a sexy, irresistible story of two people searching for secrets-and finding each other . . .
Cady Briggs is useful to Mack Easton. Her expertise in art and antiques helps his low-profile company, Lost and Found, find missing treasures for high-paying clients. But Cady knows that being useful to a client is one thing-and being used is another. So no matter how alluring she finds Mack, she plans...
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"Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they'll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. Today. With the grand opening of her new gallery and a fairytale wedding months away, Sera James appears to have a charmed life. But in an instant, the prospect of a devastating legal battle surrounding her fiancé threatens to tear her dreams apart. Sera and William rush to marry and are thrust...
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Consumer reports buying guide volume 85, no. 13
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[2021]
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Features ratings and recommendations for more than 2,000 brand-name products, including electronics, home appliances, garden supplies, and even supermarket items. Also includes brand repair histories and shopping strategies to help make the most informed buying decisions wherever you go.
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"Swissair 1-1-1 is declaring Pan Pan Pan. We have smoke in the cockpit." Seventeen minutes after the co-pilot's distress call, the Geneva-bound jet crashed into the Atlantic off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia just over an hour after leaving New York on September 2, 1998, killing all 229 people on board. Acclaimed journalist Stephen Kimber tells the moving story of the crash and its far-reaching human consequences. Kimber introduces us to a wide variety...
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This riveting series goes beyond the news clips and investigates the most harrowing and inexplicable plane crashes from 2001-2003. Appearing for the first time in a bundle, this book contains thirty-three incidents and accidents from the series so far. Please note that this is a compilation of the existing three books and does not include new content.
Every chapter features a detailed walk-through of a real-life air emergency. The author combines...
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With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has already generated more excitement--and more orders--than any commercial airplane in the company's history. This book offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the first all-new airplane developed by Boeing since its 1990 launch of the 777. With hundreds...
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Dangerous Lessons and Guardian Angels is an action packed true adventure book that spans thirty-five years of airline flying. Stories about transporting guns to Biafra, flying cargo up and down the Berlin corridor during the cold war, and flying sensitive missions, deep into Russia. Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for exciting, sometimes funny, and ocassionally death defying true aviation stories. Many of the stories in this book will put you on...
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Air travel is one of the safest modes of travel when we take into account the distances and freedom that it allows us. And yet, we still remain obsessed with aviation disasters. What caused these accidents? Whose fault was it? In her series of books, Why Planes Crash, Sylvia Wrigley investigates the worst aviation disasters of the twenty first century.
Why Planes Crash: 2001 is the first of the series. Wrigley has put together eleven of the most...
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Poised for takeoff on that hot morning in April 2005, the Airbus A380 had the purposeful, powerful presence of a giant predatory bird. With its enormous gulled wings, imperiously tall tail, and broad, domed forepeak, it looked ready to take on the world. And along the way, it has had plenty of supporters-and critics. No civil airliner since the supersonic Concorde has aroused such emotion, such fascination, and such cause célèbre. To a confident...
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Comprehensive history of how a swampland at the estuary of the river Shannon was transformed into a vital link for transatlantic aviation. We trace developments from the golden age of the Flying-boats to the TWA Clippers all the way to modern jumbo jets. There are also sections on the initiatives in tourism and industrial development which depended on the airport, and on the historical events in which it featured.
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