Editorial Dilema – June 2024
The Athos peninsula, in northern Greece, is one of the great holy places of Orthodox Christianity and was already revered in ancient Greece. Drawing on his own journey, the author traces its history — from the Persian invasions to Byzantium, Ottoman rule and Greek independence — as well as its medieval monasteries, its art and its unique status as an autonomous territory.
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Editorial Dilema – October 2018
What makes human beings happy? Philosophy has asked this question for centuries, but only recently has it been possible to analyse it scientifically. Today we know the six factors that explain human happiness and the three that most distance us from it. When applied to Spain, the results can be surprising.
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Acción empresarial – November 2009
Winner of the 2009 everis Foundation essay prize, this book analyses the patterns of economic cycles in order to understand, from their roots, the causes, effects and consequences of the crisis. It is of particular interest to scholars and to decision-makers who want to learn from it and avoid making the same mistakes again.
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Palgrave Macmillan UK – November 2008
Worldcom, Enron, Parmalat…a succession of financial scandals has made front page news throughout the world in recent times. In this book the author investigates the origin of creative accounting and explains how and why some companies use these shortcuts to cover different needs. Written in a clear, enjoyable style with a wealth of case studies.
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Acción Empresarial – December 2006
Worldcom, Enron, Parmalat… scandals that made creative accounting and financial engineering fashionable. Drawing on his experience as an equity analyst at two European banks and as a professor of forensic accounting, the author explains simply and clearly the origin of these and many other accounting distortions, and how some companies use such shortcuts, with numerous case studies from public bodies and companies such as Ahold, Nortel and Xerox.
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Dilema editorial – February 2006
The foundations of Islamic religion and thought, the divisions throughout its history and the origin, development and potential of today’s Islamist movements, explained in a clear and engaging way with the utmost rigour and historical accuracy.
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Dilema editorial – March 2004
The result of long research into documents on Templar financial operations in the 12th and 13th centuries. It explains why the Templars entered banking from their beginnings and how these activities were a key piece in the genesis of medieval banking, and estimates the size of the Order’s treasure in the light of the monetary fiasco of Philip IV’s France around 1307.
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