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The Wisdom of Frugality
Why Less Is More - More or Less
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15508-1
EAN 9780691155081
From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be ...
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Executing Freedom
The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
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PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-06669-1
EAN 9780226066691
In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That ...
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PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39283-7
EAN 9780226392837
Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book asks how we might ensure the latter while avoiding the former.Looking past the ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-9416-4
EAN 9781474294164
First published in 2011 The Precariat is the hugely influential first account of an emerging class of people facing insecurity, moving in and out of precarious work that gives little meaning to their lives. Standing warns that the growth of the precariat is producing instabilities in society. Its internal divisions have led to the villainization ...
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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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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-6937-7
EAN 9781474269377
A radical re-writing of Sophocles' classic play Antigone by one of the world's most famous and controversial philosophers. While it is common practice in contemporary theatre to re-contextualise a piece of work, the riskier - and Slavoj i ek would argue more faithful - approach might be to change the actual story itself. i ek's ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4742-9745-5
EAN 9781474297455
Roland Barthes - the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess ...
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A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, memoir (or memorabile), folk tale and joke: these are the nine simple forms which, according to Jolles, structure language before a word is uttered, reflecting fundamental ways in which humans engage with their environment and one another.Long ...
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The classic work of Afrofuturism, from jazz to jungleMore Brilliant Than the Sun is one of the most extraordinary books on music ever written. Part manifesto for a militant posthumanism, part journey through the unacknowledged traditions of diasporic science fiction and part conceptual toolkit for the uses of alienation, this book finds the future shock ...
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Law's Abnegation
From Law's Empire to the Administrative State
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 250 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97144-8
EAN 9780674971448
Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working ...
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Let my People Go Surfing
The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Including 10 More Years of Business as Usual
- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310967-9
EAN 9780143109679
As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved to Southern California with little English and less money. Today his company, Patagonia, earns more than 600 million a year and is a beacon and benchmark for sustainable capitalism. This is the amazing story of a young man who found escape by scaling the world's highest peaks, of an ...
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What is evil personhood? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Peter Barry uses evil' characters from a wide range of renowned author's works, including the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 170 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54513-7
EAN 9780674545137
The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empires conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity describes how canonical scripture was established and how scriptural interpretation ...
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- Ohio University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8040-1166-2
EAN 9780804011662
More than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival. With renewed interest in pragmatism and its implications for democracy in an age of mass communication, bureaucracy, and ever-increasing social complexities, Dewey's The Public and Its Problems, first published in 1927, remains vital to any discussion of today's political issues. ...
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On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today? In this short book the influential philosopher Alain ...
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Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way. In this incisive analysis, top Russian foreign and security policy analyst ...
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New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now Paris D the list of Western cities targeted by radical Islamic terrorists waging global jihad continues to grow. Does this extreme violence committed in the name of Islam point to a fundamental enmity between the Muslim faith and the West? In this compelling essay, leading scholar of Islam ...
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An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians ...
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The Despot's Accomplice
How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-687-9
EAN 9781849046879
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington, London and Brussels chase pyrrhic short-term economic and security victories.Friendly fire ...
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PVP: 45,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-870890-2
EAN 9780198708902
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