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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,40 €
ISBN 978-1-137-40485-5
EAN 9781137404855
Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? From ancient curses carved on tablets to modern-day affirmations, supernatural language is used in an attempt to predict the future, diagnose and cure disease, attract good ...
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Crisis Without End?
The Unravelling of Western Prosperity
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-230-36708-1
EAN 9780230367081
This authoritative and comprehensive text addresses the causes and consequences of the 2007-8 financial crisis and the fundamental unresolved issues that continue to threaten the liberal global orderThis major re-assessment by a leading political economist shows that the 2008 financial crash was no ordinary crisis, but the harbinger of a much deeper convulsion comparable to ...
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Work with Me
The 8 Blind Spots between Men and Women in Business
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-1-137-27911-8
EAN 9781137279118
Work with Me is the timely collaboration of two of the worlds foremost authorities on gender relations - Barbara Annis and John Gray. Here they team up to resolve the most stressful and confusing challenges facing men and women at work, revealing, for the first time, survey results of over 100,000 in-depth interviews of men ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-137-34060-3
EAN 9781137340603
ContentsList of Maps1. Introduction PART I: BEFORE IMPERIALISM2. Prehistory and the first Indian Civilizations3. The Development of Indian Culture: Hinduism and Buddhism4. Early South-East Asia: The Ships from India5. China: The Eternal Nation6. Early Japan and the Tang Dynasty in China7. The Awakening of Europe and the Challenge of Islam8. Floodtide in China: The Song, ...
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Bringing Down the Banking System
Lessons from Iceland
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 268 páginas
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-1-137-45557-4
EAN 9781137455574
The combined collapse of Iceland's three largest banks in 2008 is the third largest bankruptcy in history and the largest banking system collapse suffered by any country in modern economic history, relative to GDP. How could tiny Iceland build a banking system in less than a decade that proportionally exceeded Switzerland's? Why did the bankers ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 38,10 €
ISBN 978-1-137-32056-8
EAN 9781137320568
Borderlands have loomed large in modern world history. Industrialization, the development of the modern city, faster means of communication, the spread of imperialism and the rise of the modern nation-state have meant that borderlands came to encompass and divide more people than ever before. Borderlands were worldwide phenomena in which various authoritative institutional presences many ...
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Nice Companies Finish First
Why Cutthroat Management Is Over--and Collaboration Is In
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-137-27915-6
EAN 9781137279156
"Looks at how treating customers really well can bring huge dividendsin the era when customers can share information instantly on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, its more important than ever for companies to keep them happy."'Forbes.comThe era of authoritarian cowboy CEOs like Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca is over. In an age of ...
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Attracting and Retaining Talent
Becoming an Employer of Choice
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-137-41173-0
EAN 9781137411730
Many companies are adopting an 'employer of choice' strategy, offering a variety of employee benefits in an attempt to attract and retain quality staff. However, most are adopting this strategy in a superficial way. Attracting and Retaining Talent offers a practical roadmap for developing a new, more productive workplace culture; one that examines the employment ...
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China Goes West
Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Companies Going Global
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
ISBN 978-1-137-41012-2
EAN 9781137410122
China's corporate champions have arrived. Western consumers are typing on Lenovo computers, storing their food in Haier refrigerators and speaking on Huawei mobile phones. But how did these high-end Chinese companies enter our lives? China Goes West presents an unrivalled perspective into the inner-workings of Chinese corporations and their expansion plans for international markets. Through ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-1-137-29392-3
EAN 9781137293923
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 286 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-137-35319-1
EAN 9781137353191
China is the world's biggest consumer story, but foreign businesses are still getting it wrong due to lack of knowledge and understanding. Myth-Busting China's Numbers provides a unique and insightful critique of China's economic data, analysing what businesses need to be aware of when interpreting this data and why. From GDP down to micro-markets, demographics ...
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Social Constructionisms
Approaches to the Study of the Human World
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4039-4000-1
EAN 9781403940001
Social constructionism is one of the key ideas in the social sciences, offering different frameworks for understanding the human world. But what does it mean when we say that something is 'socially constructed'? What exactly do we construct in our social interaction? And what actually 'does' the constructing? This dynamic text invites critical reflection on ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-1-137-27846-3
EAN 9781137278463
The capitalist era is passing - not quickly, but inevitably. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Ironically, capitalisms demise is not coming at the hands of hostile external forces. Rather, The Zero Marginal Cost Society argues, capitalism is a victim of its own ...
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Birmingham, Lucy; McNeill, David
Strong in the Rain
Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-137-27894-4
EAN 9781137278944
Intrinsically gripping an important contribution to remembering the tsunami and its aftermath. --Publishers Weekly In March of 2011, a 9.0 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan, unleashing a tsunami onto the densely populated coast. Over 19,000 people would be left dead, or missing, and the disaster triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since ...
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The Big Truck that Went By
How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-137-27897-5
EAN 9781137278975
A critical look at how Haiti has fared after the catastrophic earthquake, blending together history, politics, and the dramatic struggles of the Haitian peopleIn the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, there was an outpouring of support and aid from countries around the world. Yet, two years after the quake, ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 55,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4039-3708-7
EAN 9781403937087
What is a dialect? How are dialects represented in film and literature? How can they be analysed? In the first textbook to cover dialect representation in both film and literature, Jane Hodson explores why and how different varieties of English are used. In order to link the concepts to actual usage, illustrative examples of popular ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 348 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-0-230-36033-4
EAN 9780230360334
This innovative textbook places Italy at the heart of modern European history, tracing the often difficult relationship between Italians, the State and the Nation. A breeding-ground for radical political and social organisations, Italy saw the emergence of the first Fascist movements seen on the world stage after the First World War. Later, the country produced ...
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The Great Prostate Hoax
How Big Medicine Hijacked the Psa Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,65 €
ISBN 978-1-137-27874-6
EAN 9781137278746
Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-1-137-01794-9
EAN 9781137017949
What is legal language and where is it found? What does a forensic linguist do? How can linguistic skills help legal professionals?We are constantly surrounded by legal language, but sometimes it is almost impossible to understand. Providing extracts from real-life legal cases, this highly usable and accessible textbook brims with helpful examples and activities that ...
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Economics for the Curious
Inside the Mind of 12 Nobel Laureates
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-137-38358-7
EAN 9781137383587
Alfred Marshall, the founder of modern economics, once described economics as 'the study of mankind in the ordinary business of earning a living'. In Economics for the Curious, 12 Nobel Laureates show that 'the ordinary business of earning a living' covers a wide range of activities, as they take readers on an engaging tour of ...
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