Editorial Columbia
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18512-7
EAN 9780231185127
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: the "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech-savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 36,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17777-1
EAN 9780231177771
Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economy closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christian treatment of economic knowledge and the effect of this interaction on ancient politics and philosophy. He ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17481-7
EAN 9780231174817
In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped to both unify the West in its ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16537-2
EAN 9780231165372
Leading jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State dominate through cooperation in the form of knowledge sharing, resource sharing, joint training exercises, and operational collaboration. They build alliances and lesser partnerships with other formal and informal terrorist actors to recruit foreign fighters and spread their message worldwide, raising the aggregate threat level for ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17705-4
EAN 9780231177054
Following his nation's defeat in the Pacific War, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth, struggles to return home to Japan from Manchuria. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Kyuzo finally makes his way back to Japan but finds himself unable to disembark. His nation remains inaccessible to him, and now ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17301-8
EAN 9780231173018
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17401-5
EAN 9780231174015
When Henry Luce announced in 1941 that we were living in the "American century," he believed that the international popularity of American culture made the world favorable to U.S. interests. Now, in the digital twenty-first century, the American century has been superseded, as American movies, music, video games, and television shows are received, understood, and ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 33,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17527-2
EAN 9780231175272
The great ideological cliche of our time, Cesar Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17680-4
EAN 9780231176804
Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense-first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith. Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has become so contentious in American politics. Focusing on the ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17842-6
EAN 9780231178426
For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology, specifically the genes, brain sciences, the concept of intelligence, and powerful new technologies. Reinforced through the ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18098-6
EAN 9780231180986
From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters working at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18182-2
EAN 9780231181822
Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India and asks: How do contemporary slaveholders rationalize the subjugation of other human beings, and how do they respond when their power is threatened? More than a billion dollars have been spent ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 760 páginas
PVP: 60,35 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18042-9
EAN 9780231180429
Soon after the American Revolution, the United States began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the ...
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Glosserman, Brad; Snyder, Scott
The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash : East Asian Security and the United States
- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17171-7
EAN 9780231171717
Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven a wedge between them. Drawing on decades of expertise, Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder investigate the roots of ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 33,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16419-1
EAN 9780231164191
Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13481-1
EAN 9780231134811
Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectives on the political, historical, military, and social issues that defined the war and its effect on the United States and Vietnam. Laying the chronological and critical foundations for the volume, David L. Anderson opens with an essay on the Vietnam ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14965-5
EAN 9780231149655
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17267-7
EAN 9780231172677
The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, ...
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Left-Wing Melancholia
Marxism, History and Memory
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13891-8
EAN 9780231138918
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