Libros de: California U.P.

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  • Capitalism "The Future of an Illusion"

    Block, Fred L.

    California U.P. (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780520283237
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Virtually everyone'left, right, and center'believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit ...

  • The World in the Long Twentieth Century "An Interpretive History"

    Dickinson, Edward Ross

    California U.P. (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780520285552
    • Páginas: 392
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have ...

  • Why Latin American Nations Fail "Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century "

    Pérez Caldentey, Esteban Vernengo, Matias

    California U.P. (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780520290303
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem ...

  • Changing Energy "The Transition to a Sustainable Future"

    Perkins, John H.

    California U.P. (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780520287792
    • Páginas: 340
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    Changing Energy outlines how humanity established the current energy economy through three previous transitions, and how we now stand poised for a necessary fourth transition. Human societies around the globe have received immense benefits from ...

  • Principles of Data Management and Presentation

    Hoffmann, John P.

    California U.P. (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780520289949
    • Páginas: 266
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.39,25 €

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    The world is saturated with data. We are regularly presented with data in words, tables, and graphics. Students from many academic fields are now expected to be educated about data in one form or another. ...

  • Critical Thinking "Tools for Evaluating Research "

    Nardi, Peter M.

    California U.P. (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780520291843
    • Páginas: 155
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.33,95 €

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    Critical Thinking prepares students to thoughtfully interpret information and develop a sophisticated understanding of our increasingly complex and multi-mediated world. Peter M. Nardi's approach helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills and improve their analytical ...

  • The Spanish Seaborne Empire

    Parry, John Horace

    California U.P. (1990)

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    • EAN: 9780520071407
    • Páginas: 417
    • Fecha de edición: 1990

    pvp.42,95 €

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    The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard ...

  • Ethnic Groups in Conflict

    Horowitz, Donald

    California U.P. (2001)

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    • EAN: 9780520227064
    • Páginas: 716
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.44,85 €

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    Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, this text constructs a theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination.

  • Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences "The Fundamentals "

    Shin, Youseop

    California U.P. (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780520293175
    • Páginas: 248
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    Times Series Analysis in the Social Sciences is a practical and highly readable introduction written exclusively for students and researchers whose mathematical background is limited to basic algebra. The book focuses on fundamental elements of ...

  • Essentials of Applied Econometrics

    Smith, Aaron D. Taylor, J. Edward

    California U.P. (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780520288331
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.56,95 €

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    Essentials of Applied Econometrics prepares students for a world in which more data surround us every day and in which econometric tools are put to diverse uses. Written for students in economics and for professionals ...

  • Public Debt, Inequality, and Power "The Making of a Modern Debt State"

    Hager, Sandy Brian

    California U.P. (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780520284661
    • Páginas: 174
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

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    Who are the dominant owners of U.S. public debt? Is it widely held, or concentrated in the hands of a few? Does ownership of public debt give these bondholders power over our government? What do ...

  • Creating a Common Polity "Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon"

    Mackil, Emily Maureen

    California U.P. (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780520290839
    • Páginas: 624
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.37,95 €

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    In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city - state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city - states had surrendered part of ...

  • Encountering Poverty "Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World"

    Negron-Gonzales, Genevieve Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku Roy, Ananya Talwalker, Clare

    California U.P. (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780520277915
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege ...

  • Migrating into Financial Markets "How Remittances Became a Development Tool"

    Bakker, Matt

    California U.P. (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780520285460
    • Páginas: 296
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.37,70 €

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    We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these ...

  • Discrimination at Work "Comparing European, French, and American Law"

    Mercat-Bruns, Marie

    California U.P. (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780520283800
    • Páginas: 386
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.42,15 €

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    Do the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws concerning discrimination? Marie Mercat-Bruns, a Franco-American scholar, examines the differences in how the two countries approach discrimination. Bringing together prominent ...

  • Spanish Legacies "The Coming of Age of the Second Generation"

    Aparicio Gómez, Rosa Haller, William Portes, Alejandro

    California U.P. (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780520286290
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.67,80 €

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    Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands ...

  • The Comparative Method

    Ragin, Charles C.

    California U.P. (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780520280038
    • Páginas: 185
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.33,75 €

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    Charles C. Ragin's The Comparative Method proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative sociology. Elegantly accessible and germane to the work of ...

  • Food Politics "How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health"

    Nestle, Marion

    California U.P. (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780520275966
    • Páginas: 534
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.26,95 €

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    We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how ...

  • Economy and Society "2 Vol. Set."

    Weber, Max

    California U.P. (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780520280021
    • Páginas: 1712
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.83,95 €

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    Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the greatest sociological treatises of the 20th century, as well as a foundational text of the modern ...

  • Cumin, Camels, and Caravans "A Spice Odyssey"

    Nabhan, Gary Paul

    California U.P. (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780520267206
    • Páginas: 292
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.27,95 €

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    Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's ...