art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Sort and filter the results:
Slowdown The End of the Great Acceleration – and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
ISBN: HB: 9780300243406, Yale University Press, April 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 67 black&white illus.
Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per...
HB:
£18,99
QTY:
Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...
HB:
£20,00
QTY:
What's Wrong with Economics? A Primer for the Perplexed
ISBN: HB: 9780300249873, Yale University Press, March 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 5 black&white illus.
This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which base policy decisions on the...
HB:
£16,99
QTY:
First Responders Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780300244441, Yale University Press, March 2020
624 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 85 black&white illus.
In 2008, the world's financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an unprecedented crisis when the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a global panic. Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression, t...
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Ending Book Hunger Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300226003, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Worldwide, billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languages. Lea Shaver argues that this is an educational crisis: the most reliable predictor of children's achievement is...
HB:
£27,50
QTY:
Economists
ISBN: HB: 9780300249972, Yale University Press, February 2020
200 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 90 black&white illus.
Providing illuminating profiles of ninety of the world's most prominent economists – from Nobel Prize winners and former Federal Reserve chairs to young scholars charting the future of the field – this stunning volume pairs full-page portraits by acc...
HB:
£30,00
QTY:
Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France
ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...
PB:
£10,99
QTY:
HB:
£18,99
QTY:
Willful How We Choose What We Do
ISBN: HB: 9780300246438, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Why do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conformi...
HB:
£20,00
QTY:
Artist as Economist Art and Capitalism in the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9780300232707, Yale University Press, November 2019
244 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstract...
HB:
£50,00
QTY:
Leading with Dignity How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People
ISBN: PB: 9780300248456, Yale University Press, November 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
This landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Extending the reach of her award-winning book "Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict", Donna Hick...
PB:
£12,99
QTY: