ISBN: PB: 9783593398099,
Campus Verlag,
November 2018
250 pp.,
21.5x14 cm, 100 halftones
This volume takes a novel approach to strategy in the corporate sector: how can understanding the ephemeral seasons of the business life cycle help leaders manage their companies? Businesses all naturally go through cycles of birth, growth, and decay...
ISBN: PB: 9783593507842,
Campus Verlag,
May 2018
226 pp.,
21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables, 2 figures
In today's world, interstate wars are fairly rare – but when they happen, they tend to be more complicated than in the past, combining regional causes with the involvement of external actors as well. This book looks at that problem in the wake of the...
ISBN: PB: 9783593507583,
Campus Verlag,
February 2018
256 pp.,
21.6x13.9 cm
It is time to leave capitalism behind. In "Prosperity without Greed", Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has nothing to do with a free market economy, where the innovations we require to solve myriad important...
ISBN: PB: 9783593506975,
Campus Verlag,
October 2017
420 pp.,
21.6x13.9 cm
Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...
ISBN: HB: 9783593507057,
Campus Verlag,
September 2017
400 pp.,
21.6x13.8 cm
Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...
ISBN: HB: 9783593506692,
Campus Verlag,
September 2017
200 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Although digitalization or smart manufacturing might be considered a driving factor behind Procurement 4.0 – the latest conceptualization of how modern companies procure goods and services – it is far too shortsighted to view Procurement 4.0 as simpl...
ISBN: PB: 9783593506272,
Campus Verlag,
April 2017
237 pp.,
21.6x14 cm
Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...
ISBN: HB: 9783593505824,
Campus Verlag,
March 2017
152 pp.,
17.5x11 cm, 2 colour plates
As we face times of rapid social and technological change, the future may seem like a horizon approaching too quickly. In a few years, almost everything will be different: what we do, how we do it, and why we do it; how we produce and consume; how we...
ISBN: PB: 9783593505541,
Campus Verlag,
March 2017
360 pp.,
21.4x14 cm
"Counternarrative Possibilities" reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin land (from the 1950s) and homeland (after 9/11). Looking at McCarthy's westerns in the context of Ame...
ISBN: HB: 9783593505978,
Campus Verlag,
February 2017
224 pp.,
21.6x13.4 cm, 6 line drawings
Immense advances in the life sciences have deepened our understanding of the connection between nutrition and health, revealing that we can effectively improve our health and quality of life by redesigning our diet on a scientific basis. In "Nutritio...