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Money in the Twenty-First Century "Cheap, Mobile, and Digital"
Holden, Richard
California U.P. (2024)
- EAN: 9780520395268
- Páginas: 215
- Fecha de edición: 2024
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An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what "money" means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like.
Money is increasingly cheap, digital, and mobile. In Money ... -
Busting the Bankers' Club "Finance for the Rest of Us"
Epstein, Gerald
California U.P. (2024)
- EAN: 9780520385641
- Páginas: 365
- Fecha de edición: 2024
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An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.
Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in ... -
Powering Empire "How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization"
Barak, On
California U.P. (2020)
- EAN: 9780520310728
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha de edición: 2020
pvp.39,95 €
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The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East'as an idea'was made by coal. Coals imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that wreaks carnage today, as carbonization threatens our very climate. ...
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A Brief History of Fascist Lies
Finchelstein, Federico
California U.P. (2020)
- EAN: 9780520346710
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers ...
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Ultimate Price "The Value We Place on Life"
Friedman, Howard Steven
California U.P. (2020)
- EAN: 9780520343221
- Páginas: 222
- Fecha de edición: 2020
pvp.31,95 €
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How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence ...
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II Vol.I
Braudel, Fernand
California U.P. (1996)
- EAN: 9780520203082
- Páginas: 642
- Fecha de edición: 1996
pvp.52,95 €
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The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, ...
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The Mediterranean: And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II Vol.II
Braudel, Fernand
California U.P. (1996)
- EAN: 9780520203303
- Páginas: 732
- Fecha de edición: 1996
pvp.52,95 €
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The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, ...
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Making Global MBAs "The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture"
Orta, Andrew
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520325401
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.35,10 €
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A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In Making Global MBAs, Andrew Orta examines the culture of contemporary business education, and the ...
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To Repair the World "Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation "
Farmer, Paul
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520321151
- Páginas: 260
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.18,95 €
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Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, ...
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A Global History of Runaways "Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850"
Chakraborty, Titas Rediker, Marcus Van Rossum, Matthias
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520304369
- Páginas: 262
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.39,95 €
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During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited ...
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Uberland "How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work "
Rosenblat, Alex
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520324800
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.22,95 €
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template ...
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From Fascism to Populism in History
Finchelstein, Federico
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520309357
- Páginas: 376
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.27,95 €
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What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or ...
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The Making of the Modern Mediterranean "Views from the South"
Tucker, Judith E.
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520304604
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.36,95 €
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Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of ...
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Counter-Cola "A Multinational History of the Global Corporation"
Ciafone, Amanda
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520299023
- Páginas: 424
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.29,95 €
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Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the worlds most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central ...
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Renovating Democracy "Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism"
Berggruen, Nicolas Gardels, Nathan
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520303607
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.29,95 €
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The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work'and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is ...
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Potosí "The Silver City That Changed the World"
Lane, Kris
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520280847
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.36,50 €
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In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa ...
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Hustle and Gig "Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy"
Ravenelle, Alexandrea J.
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520300569
- Páginas: 275
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.32,40 €
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Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalism. Supporters argue that ...
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Geodesic Math and How to Use It
Kenner, Hugh
California U.P. (2003)
- EAN: 9780520239319
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.37,90 €
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It was 1976-twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, Geodesic Math and How to Use ...
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Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy "Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe "
Tanimoto, Masayuki Wong, R. Bin
California U.P. (2019)
- EAN: 9780520303652
- Páginas: 332
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.36,95 €
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Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able ...
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Deceit and Denial "The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution"
Markovitz, Gerald Rosner, David
California U.P. (2013)
- EAN: 9780520275829
- Páginas: 446
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.37,90 €
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Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued ...
