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Beyond Decent Work The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia
ISBN: PB: 9783593506449, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones, 3 tables
"Beyond Decent Work" explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative...
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£36,00
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Leading with the Brain The 7 Neurobiological Factors to Boost Employee Satisfaction and Business Results
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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£36,00
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Extraordinary Ordinariness Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015
ISBN: PB: 9783593506173, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
294 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 25 halftones
Everyday heroes and heroines – ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats – have received only scant attention in heroism scholarship. While scholars have devoted thousands of pages to war heroes, heroic leaders, a...
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£36,00
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Law Beyond the State Pasts and Futures
ISBN: PB: 9783593506500, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Law beyond the State" brings together contributions by renowned experts on international and European Union law to celebrate the centennial of Goethe?Universitat Frankfurt. The essays explore Frankfurt's contribution to the development of internatio...
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£33,00
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Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps
States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...
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£28,50
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Cities as Multiple Landscapes Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans
ISBN: PB: 9783593506470, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
529 pp., 20.9x14 cm, 60 halftones, 15 colour plates, 20 line drawings, 4 maps
Cities are composed of a combination of urban and rural spaces, buildings and boundaries, and human bodies engaged in political, social, and cultural discourses. Together, these combine to create what the contributors to this volume call multiple lan...
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£55,00
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Negotiated Reform The Multilevel Governance of Financial Regulation
ISBN: PB: 9783593505510, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
193 pp., 21.4x14 cm, 9 tables
Multilevel structures are becoming increasingly characteristic of the world in which we live. This book is a unique study of policy making in a multilevel political system extending from the national to the international level. Taking as its subject...
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£33,00
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Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse
ISBN: PB: 9783593505701, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 100 tables
How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods...
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£40,50
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Strategy for Managing Complex Systems A Contribution to Management Cybernetics for Evolutionary Systems
ISBN: HB: 9783593505398, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones, 22 tables
"Strategy for Managing Complex Systems" demonstrates that management and management theory have strong foundations in systems science, and most specifically in the cybernetics of truly complex – organismic, self-organizing, and evolving – systems. As...
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£64,00
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Quest for Stable Money Central Banking in Austria, 1816-2016
ISBN: HB: 9783593505350, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 40 colour plates
Caught up in the costly Napoleonic wars, Austria went into sovereign default in 1811. Five years later, the public authorities founded a national bank to be financed and run by private shareholders, the idea being that an independent bank would help...
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£32,00
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