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Women Studies

Women vs Capitalism Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy

Pryce Vicky

ISBN: HB: 9781787381742, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky Pryce urgently calls for feminists to focus...

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Business & Economics

Health & Wellbeing

Buddha at Work Finding Purpose, Balance and Happiness at Your Workplace

Pandit Geetanjali

ISBN: PB: 9781760790547, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
288 pp., 21x13.5 cm

How can you bring your best and most successful self to work every day? Told in a series of conversations with Gautam, and interspersed with tales from the Buddha's life – along with real-life stories from people who've faced challenging situations i...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Billionaires and Stealth Politics

Page Benjamin I., Seawright Jason, Lacombe Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables

In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...

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Business & Economics

Last Resort The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Posner Eric A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226420066, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair – and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars...

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Business & Economics

Noise Living and Trading in Electronic Finance

Preda Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226427485, ISBN: HB: 9780226427348, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though – the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make t...

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Business & Economics

Leading with the Brain The 7 Neurobiological Factors to Boost Employee Satisfaction and Business Results

Purps-Pardigol Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593506685, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
207 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

How do business leaders inspire their employees so deeply that employees strive to surpass their own best work, helping managers and their staff to achieve mutual success? Sebastian Purps-Pardigol has figured it out – and the answer starts with the b...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2014 Volume 29

Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226268736, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2015
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-ninth edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual continues its tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. Two papers in this year's issue deal with recent economic performance...

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Business & Economics

Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Pachirat Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...

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Business & Economics

Wealth and Poverty of Regions Why Cities Matter

Polese Mario

ISBN: PB: 9780226673165, ISBN: HB: 9780226673158, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 halftones, 23 line illus.

As the world becomes more interconnected through travel and electronic communication, many believe that physical places will become less important. But as Mario Polese argues in "The Wealth and Poverty of Regions", geography will matter more than eve...

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Business & Economics

Law and Happiness

Posner Eric A., Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676012, ISBN: HB: 9780226676005, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm

Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness – or "hedonics" – has developed into a formal field of inquiry,...

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