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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-62892-558-6
EAN 9781628925586
Get to know the most ubiquitous, persistent, and hybrid trace of things whence you came and whither you shall return!Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours ...
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The Great Acceleration
How the world is getting faster
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4008-5
EAN 9781408840085
A revelatory account of how our society is speeding up and why we should embrace the acceleration,The Great Accelerationis a fascinating insight into the science and promise of the modern world from a brilliant new writer.
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-0740-9
EAN 9781501307409
popular, personal, historical take on a singular garment and its myriad associations with death, violence, and identity.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and ...
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- Granta Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-581-4
EAN 9781846275814
Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time. Here, campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to a host of pioneers, including a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; ...
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Is Shame Necessary?
New Uses for an Old Tool
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96185-8
EAN 9780241961858
In Is Shame Necessary? rising star Jennifer Jacquet shows that we have to use shame if we want to bring about political change and hold the powerful to account. In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is seen as the cornerstone of conscience yet it proves impotent in the face of corrupt corporate policies. Jennifer ...
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Culture Clash
The Killing of the Creative Class
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21693-6
EAN 9780300216936
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible to earn a living. A persistent economic recession, social shifts, and technological change have combined ...
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The Culture Map
Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
- Public Affairs, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-276-1
EAN 9781610392761
Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected ...
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
Consuming Austerity
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-075-3
EAN 9781784780753
Why should we have to Keep Calm and Carry On ?In this sharp, witty polemic, award-winning critic Owen Hatherley questions the many ways we have adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty: from ubiquitous Keep Calm and Carry On posters, the commercialization of thrift, the added value of the artisanal, and the selling of a make ...
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- Pan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-49229-4
EAN 9780330492294
From Jon Ronson, the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, this is a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.'Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-74390-8
EAN 9780674743908
Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane OMara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9100-8
EAN 9780745691008
The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. The scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, and the French Revolution, ...
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- Icon Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-023-3
EAN 9781785780233
A hugely enjoyable romp through the pleasures and pitfalls of setting up home in a foreign land' PD Smith, GuardianWhen she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 39,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50457-8
EAN 9780674504578
Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. Bernard Harcourt offers a powerful critique of what he calls the expository society, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care.
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-343-6
EAN 9781782393436
In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives.By tracing the history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the waves of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21680-6
EAN 9780300216806
This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologically, the volume re-creates the experience of Thoreau's readers as they followed his developing ideas over time.Jeffrey ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-1-137-33596-8
EAN 9781137335968
What is the relevance of the concept of human rights in an age of increasing global interconnectivity, complexity and uncertainty? This provocative study connects the sociology of human rights with the field of global studies to explore what each can offer the other. Its thorough theoretical focus is informed by a broad range of controversial ...
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Why we Need the Humanities
Life Science, Law and the Common Good
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 198 páginas
ISBN 978-1-137-49746-8
EAN 9781137497468
An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance for public policy decisions, and challenges scholars to consider how best to fulfil their role in serving the common good.
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The Work of the Dead
A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 45,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15778-8
EAN 9780691157788
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture ...
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Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59420-555-2
EAN 9781594205552
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity'and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been ...
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- Mariner Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-544-56962-1
EAN 9780544569621
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