Jaime: 707 books

Policies affecting resource allocation across tradable sectors and those affecting the incentives to produce tradable activities are key determinants of macroeconomic balance and growth. Computable general equilibrium models have made significant contributions to both types of policies. With advancements...

Differences in the choices of trade and macro policies, both by developing countries and by developed countries towards developing countries, have been critical in determining the overall performance of developing countries. All too often, the performance of developing countries has not been assessed...

This book reviews the fundamentals of screw theory concerned with velocity analysis of rigid-bodies, confirmed with detailed and explicit proofs. The author additionally investigates acceleration, jerk, and hyper-jerk analyses of rigid-bodies following the trend of the velocity analysis. With the...

Los sistemas de previsión social giran en nuestro ordenamiento en torno a dos ejes o pilares. Un eje hasta ahora central, la Seguridad Social, que constituye un sistema de previsión social obligatorio básico y de carácter público, necesario para garantizar el Estado de bienestar ante determinadas...

En el siglo de la información es fundamental entender lo que ésta representa en múltiples escenarios y para muchas personas; en el ámbito empresarial esto es especialmente significativo, pues aquí se utiliza la tecnología como elemento fundamental en el progreso y desarrollo de las organizaciones...

This is the second edition of this best selling problem book for students, now containing over 400 completely solved exercises on differentiable manifolds, Lie theory, fibre bundles and Riemannian manifolds. The exercises go from elementary computations to rather sophisticated tools. Many of...

La independencia de la América española no fue un movimiento anticolonial; fue parte tanto de la revolución del mundo hispánico y la desintegración de la monarquía como resultado de la invasión francesa de la Península. La tradición liberal del gobierno constitucional y representativo que...

The study of M-matrices, their inverses and discrete potential theory is now a well-established part of linear algebra and the theory of Markov chains. The main focus of this monograph is the so-called inverse M-matrix problem, which asks for a characterization of nonnegative matrices whose inverses...

The purpose of the book is to advance in the understanding of brain function by defining a general framework for representation based on category theory. The idea is to bring this mathematical formalism into the domain of neural representation of physical spaces, setting the basis for a theory of...

The first major global economic contraction of the 21st century, or the "Great Recession", as it is more commonly known, began in December of 2007, and would prove to be one of the most catastrophic economic events in postmodern history. The bursting of the American housing bubble and the...

Engenheiro, escritor e conferencista com mais de 10 livros publicados, o autor discute temas institucionais e sócio-econômicos, como representação política, reformas no Judiciário, sistema educacional, agricultura e irrigação, Amazônia e soberania nacional, o panorama energético brasileiro na virada do século e a globalização.

La entrevista en las organizaciones, 3ª ed. busca ser un apoyo para psicólogos del trabajo y demás especialistas en la selección de personal ya que, por lo general, los textos sobre este tema son escasos. Es necesario conocer las bases teóricas que sustentan los diferentes tipos de entrevista...

A Crash Course on How to Get Rid of Hornets Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps; some species can reach up to 5.5 cm (2.2 in) in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex (part of the head behind the eyes), which...

The Valley of the Seven Forest is a heart-warming story about a little squirrel's journey to find the purpose of life. It is a moving tale that would remind us of how sometimes, we do not even realize some of the things we look so hard for in life... is something that we already have.