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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 26,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15925-8
EAN 9780231159258
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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 41,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16669-0
EAN 9780231166690
Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of the siege and ensuing massacres, providing insight into the military pressure experienced by the P.L.O., ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16225-8
EAN 9780231162258
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Arvidsson, Adam; Peitersen, Nicolai
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14269-4
EAN 9780231142694
How "Aha!" really happens.When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer "At night," or "In the shower," or "Stuck in traffic." You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. You connect the dots. You say to yourself, "Aha! I see what to do." Brain science now reveals how these ...
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15373-7
EAN 9780231153737
Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but ...
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Kaldor, Mary; Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15775-9
EAN 9780231157759
Widely translated and considered to be the most important philosopher of our time, Alain Badiou is also a novelist and the author of four celebrated comedies and two tragedies. The Incident at Antioch is the last of his plays to be published in French and the first to be published in English, introducing a side ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16258-6
EAN 9780231162586
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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Allen, Esther; Bernofsky, Susan
The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, and Jose Manuel Prieto. Discussing the process and possibilities of their art, they cast translation as a fine balance between ...
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At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). This collection features essays written by Boyd since completing ...
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While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really ...
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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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