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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15327-0
EAN 9780231153270
Understanding the origins of business is fundamental to grasping modern life, yet most historians look only to the nineteenth century to build their narratives. While the industrial revolution profoundly remade business practice and established much of the corporate organization we recognize today, the sweep of business history actually begins much earlier, with the initial cities ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 35,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16880-9
EAN 9780231168809
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16957-8
EAN 9780231169578
Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Jonathan Franzens eloquent rumination in National Geographic on the damage we continue to inflict on the environment and its long-lasting consequences; William T. Vollmans blackly comic reflections in Harpers magazine on being the target of an extensive FBI investigation into whether ...
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A breakout success, our anthology of the years best business investigative writing includes provocative essays on the ongoing collapse of American middle-class jobs under the weight of maximizing shareholder values (Washington Post); the underground networks of financial exchange that insulate Russia from diplomatic consequences and real economic pain (New York Times); the shady practices and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 35,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16448-1
EAN 9780231164481
Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific'and sometimes religious'heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists and many in the public ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16792-5
EAN 9780231167925
Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day. Applying Darwins theory of 'unconscious artificial selection' to the evolution of linguistic conventions, Daniel Cloud suggests a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 410 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16259-3
EAN 9780231162593
Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal of brutal dictators while also eloquently championing love which, he insisted, was nothing if it did not involve joyful contact with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16053-7
EAN 9780231160537
William Duggans 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help individuals and organizations put that same method to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 35,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16868-7
EAN 9780231168687
Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context. In an effort to convince ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,05 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15201-3
EAN 9780231152013
The idea of "culture" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becoming an indispensible part of moral and political critique. Additionally, the meaning of culture has expanded beyond its earlier, anthropological meaning to include issues of ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16954-7
EAN 9780231169547
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and-finally-the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 26,80 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15823-7
EAN 9780231158237
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Greenwald, Bruce C.; Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15214-3
EAN 9780231152143
It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 120 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15902-9
EAN 9780231159029
The history of financial markets is full of moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value. These events are commonly called bubbles, and in this book, José A. Scheinkman and other top economists offer new explanations for this phenomenon.Scheinkman discusses some stylized facts concerning bubbles, such as high trading volume and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16378-1
EAN 9780231163781
The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam's transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun to trade them. Soon the public was engaging in a variety of complex transactions, including forwards, futures, options, and bear ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17019-2
EAN 9780231170192
We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15818-3
EAN 9780231158183
In this sweeping, incisive study, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Dividing journalism into two competing approaches -- access reporting and accountability reporting -- he connects the financial collapse to what happens when the former overwhelms the ...
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Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-11135-5
EAN 9780231111355
In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities----unanticipated truths----often spring from mistaken ideas. Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-0-231-16670-6
EAN 9780231166706
Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which ...
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