Editorial Columbia
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18404-5
EAN 9780231184045
In this passionate and powerful book-part manifesto, part plan of action-the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes economic, social, and environmental objectives in shaping policy.In focusing too much on economic ...
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The People's Money
How China is Building a Local Currency
- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 41,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17346-9
EAN 9780231173469
Many of the world's major economies boast dominant international currencies. Not so for China. Its renminbi has lagged far behind the pound, the euro, and the dollar in global circulation'and for good reason. China has long privileged economic policies that have fueled development at the expense of the renminbi's growth, and it has become clear ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17979-9
EAN 9780231179799
In A Theory of Imperialism, the economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the tropical and subtropical countries of the global South and ...
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Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. ...
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The Populist Explosion
How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
What's happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, in a stunning rebuke; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican Party; ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 32,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16881-6
EAN 9780231168816
In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17786-3
EAN 9780231177863
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect ...
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What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Pascal Engel ...
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There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood...On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.-Descartes Language is more like a ...
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Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias and prejudices, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves ...
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In this concise and strategic history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray the growth of the field and how economic insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. His timeline focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke the combination ...
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Honneth, Axel; Rancière, Jacques
Recognition or Disagreement : A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity
Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Ranci re has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary societies.In a rare dialogue, these two philosophers explore ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 34,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17782-5
EAN 9780231177825
Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive role literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and strategies of representation critical details about how and ...
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Badiou, Alain; Bourdieu, Pierre; Butler, Judith; Didi-Huberman, Georges; Rancière, Jacques
What is a People?
These outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17589-0
EAN 9780231175890
"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view ...
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted ...
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Blanton, Ward; Crockett, Clayton; Robbins, Jeffrey W.
An Insurrectionist Manifesto : Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics
An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and dominant philosophical theories, they offer a cooperative, world-affirming political theology that promotes new life through not resurrection but insurrection. The insurrection in these gospels unfolds as a series of ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17068-0
EAN 9780231170680
On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own ...
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Being insulated by two immense oceans makes it hard for Americans to appreciate the concerns of more exposed countries. American democracy's rapid rise also fools many into thinking the same liberal system can flourish anywhere, and having populated a vast continent with relative ease impedes Americans' understanding of conflicts between different peoples over other lands. ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16696-6
EAN 9780231166966
We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, ...
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