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Varieties of Family Business Germany and the United States, Past and Present
ISBN: PB: 9783593512464, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 60 halftones, 30 tables, 20 figures
The idea of a business owned by a family and passed down from generation to generation sits firmly in our cultural imagination. And family businesses are of central importance in both Germany and in the United States. Still, there are significant dif...
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£40,00
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Cities Contested Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s
ISBN: PB: 9783593506975, University of Chicago Press, 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...
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£51,00
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Procurement 4.0 A Survival Guide in a Digital, Disruptive World
ISBN: HB: 9783593506692, University of Chicago Press, 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 sim...
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£56,50
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Nutrition for a Better Life A Journey from the Origins of Industrial Food Production to Nutrigenomics
ISBN: HB: 9783593505978, University of Chicago Press, 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...
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£22,50
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Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day
ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...
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£44,50
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Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures
ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm
Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...
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£45,00
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End of Cheap Labour? Industrial Transformation and "Social Upgrading" in China
ISBN: PB: 9783593501772, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
400 pp., 21x13.9 cm, 40 illus., 35 tables
The Chinese government and international observers argue that China's economy must overcome its excessive dependence on exports if substantial growth in domestic consumption is to be achieved and sustained in the future. But this shift can only occur...
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£45,00
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De-Stalinisation Reconsidered Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union
ISBN: PB: 9783593501666, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
276 pp., 21x13.9 cm
Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...
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£42,00
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Literary Life of Things Case Studies in American Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9783593500065, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2014
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 colour plates
Material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Contemplating the aesthetic and nar...
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£37,00
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Revisiting the Sixties Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade
ISBN: PB: 9783593399904, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
343 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 22 halftones
The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Summer of Love – the1960s were one of the most turbulent decades in US history. These years launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America", dividing...
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£40,00
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