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Syriza in Power "Reflections of a Reluctant Politician "
Douzinas, Costas
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509511587
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.21,00 €
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Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the ...
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Will Chinas Economy Collapse?
Lee, Ann
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509520145
- Páginas: 168
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
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The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown. Is it possible that the second largest ...
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Energy Security
Dannreuther, Roland
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9780745661919
- Páginas: 204
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,45 €
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Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure ...
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The Great Regression
Geiselberger, Heinrich
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509522361
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.17,95 €
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We are living through a period of dramatic political change - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted ...
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Sharing "Crime Against Capitalism"
David, Matthew
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509513239
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,95 €
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Today's economic system premised on the sale of physical goods does not fit the information age we live in. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential ...
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Ethnic Conflict "Causes, Consequences, Responses"
Cordell, Karl Wolff, Stefan
Polity Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780745639314
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.32,30 €
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Why does ethnic conflict remain one of the major security challenges in today's world? Can we avoid another Rwanda in the future? How was it possible, after almost four decades, to achieve a lasting settlement ...
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The Antiquity of Nations
Smith, Anthony D.
Polity Press (2004)
- EAN: 9780745627465
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.27,95 €
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In The Antiquity of Nations, Anthony Smith provides a fresh interpretation of the character of modern nations. Departing from conventional wisdom, he argues the case for a deeper understanding of their character, based on an ...
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Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and ...
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Will Robots Take Your Job?
Cameron, Nigel M. De S.
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509509560
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
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The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. ...
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The Ascendancy of Finance
Vogl, Joseph
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509509300
- Páginas: 202
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.23,85 €
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The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. ...
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Oil
Bridge, Gavin Le Billon, Philippe
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509511730
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.21,00 €
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Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, ...
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Organizations and Identity
Gill, Rebecca Larson, Kerry
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9780745653631
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,45 €
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The question who am I? represents one of the key challenges of contemporary life in a globalized world. For most of us, organizations play a key role in answering that question.
In this book, ... -
Uberworked and Underpaid "How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy "
Scholz, Trebor
Polity Press (2016)
- EAN: 9780745653570
- Páginas: 242
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.23,85 €
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This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz chronicles the work of workers in ...
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China and India "Asia's Emergent Great Powers"
Odgen, Chris
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9780745689876
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.23,85 €
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China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and behave like major Western entities or ...
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Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
Keen, Steve
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509513734
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
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The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been ...
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Another Economy is Possible "Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis"
Castells, Manuel
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509517213
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.25,30 €
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Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the ...
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The World After GDP "Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era "
Fioramonti, Lorenzo
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509511358
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,45 €
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GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social ...
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What is Migration History? "What is History Series"
Gabbacia, Donna R. Harzig, Christiane Hoerder, Dirk
Polity Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780745643366
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.23,50 €
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The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers ...
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Platform Capitalism
Srnicek, Nick
Polity Press (2016)
- EAN: 9781509504879
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.14,95 €
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What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation ...
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The Sociology of Globalization
Martell, Luke
Polity Press (2016)
- EAN: 9780745689777
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.29,95 €
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The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural, political and economic dimensions of globalization, the book ...
