Editorial Columbia
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Losing Control?
Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-10609-2
EAN 9780231106092
Examining the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, Saskia Sassen argues that sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, but that it is no longer confined to the nation-state. Yet a profound transformation is taking place, a partial de-nationalizing ...
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The China Threat
Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 26,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15925-8
EAN 9780231159258
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What is Relativity?
An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas and Why they Matter
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16726-0
EAN 9780231167260
It is common knowledge that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet as bestselling author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in hand, Bennett begins an entertaining introduction to Einstein's theories, describing ...
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Beyond News
The Future of Journalism
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15938-8
EAN 9780231159388
For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devices -- fast, abundant, and mostly free -- that era is ending. Our best journalists, Mitchell Stephens argues, instead must ...
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- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16567-9
EAN 9780231165679
How can people of diverse religious, historical, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? Western civilization has long understood this dilemma as a question of toleration, yet the logic of toleration and the logic of multicultural rights entrenchment are two very different things.In this volume, ...
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Islam through Western Eyes
From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15895-4
EAN 9780231158954
Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated ...
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- Columbia, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16225-8
EAN 9780231162258
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Arvidsson, Adam; Peitersen, Nicolai
The Ethical Economy
Rebuilding Value after the Crisis
- Columbia, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 32,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15264-8
EAN 9780231152648
A shifting global economy now offers the opportunity for a more ethical system to take root, one that rectifies the crisis spots of our current downturn while balancing the injustices of extreme poverty and wealth. Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen, a scholar and an entrepreneur, outline the shape such an economy would take, identifying its ...
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- Columbia, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16075-9
EAN 9780231160759
An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called riveting and indispensable, The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year's selections include John Markoff (New York Times) on innovations in robot technology and the decline of the factory worker; Evgeny Morozov (New Republic) on the questionable value ...
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Business Secrets of the Trappists Monks
One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
- Columbia, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16062-9
EAN 9780231160629
In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and consultant, for the last sixteen years August Turak worked alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, watching firsthand as they undertook new enterprises and sustained an incredibly successful business practice.Service and selflessness are at the heart of this 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success, ...
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Kaldor, Mary; Stiglitz, Joseph E.
The Quest for Security
Protection without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance
- Columbia, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 40,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15686-8
EAN 9780231156868
The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising out of the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing to the growth of insecurity. While earlier studies have ...
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- Columbia, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16284-5
EAN 9780231162845
Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to general readers. In this edition, Marks's wisdom is joined by the comments, insights, and counterpoints of four renowned investors and investment educators: Christopher C. Davis ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16223-4
EAN 9780231162234
Chosen from the nominees and winners of the 2012 National Magazine Awards, this year's anthology covers a range of developments in culture, commerce, society, and politics, from the passing of Steve Jobs to the controversy over breast cancer research funding, from the ongoing trauma of battle-scarred soldiers to the resurgence of issues concerning women's safety ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15319-5
EAN 9780231153195
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 605 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15731-5
EAN 9780231157315
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 632 páginas
PVP: 45,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15921-0
EAN 9780231159210
An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's written ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13182-7
EAN 9780231131827
While the security of the state affects the security of women, does it also hold that the security of women help determine the security of states? Provocatively affirming this claim, Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, proving the situation of women to be a vital variable in ...
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The Philosopher's Touch
Sartre, Nietzsche and Barthes at the Piano
- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15394-2
EAN 9780231153942
Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium. Though piano playing was a crucial art for these thinkers, their musings on the subject are largely scant, implicit, or discordant with each ...
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- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15940-1
EAN 9780231159401
The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 will be one of our richest collections to date, full of award-winning pieces covering the year's most intriguing events. Some essays for the anthology created their own controversies, such as Michael Hastings's The Runaway General, which forced the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal within days of its being published ...
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- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 39,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15856-5
EAN 9780231158565
At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote an essay on Vladimir Nabokov that the author called "brilliant." In 1991, after gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, that has become standard reading. This collection features essays written ...
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