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Prosperity without Greed How to Save Ourselves from Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9783593507583, University of Chicago Press, 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...
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£28,50
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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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Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, 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...
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£37,50
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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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"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York
ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, 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...
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£36,00
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Navigating into the Unknown A New Way for Management, Governance, and Leadership
ISBN: HB: 9783593505824, University of Chicago Press, 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...
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£34,00
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Counternarrative Possibilities Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns
ISBN: PB: 9783593505541, University of Chicago Press, 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...
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£36,00
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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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Secessionist Rule Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority
ISBN: PB: 9783593506296, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
425 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 3 maps, 7 tables
In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only parti...
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£36,00
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Strategy Navigating the Complexity of the New World
ISBN: PB: 9783593398105, ISBN: HB: 9783593506111, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
400 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 117 colour illus.
In "Strategy", Fredmund Malik once again offers executives in the business world the tools they need to lead their companies. Exploring the technological innovations that have revolutionized business, Malik outlines the problems confronting companies...
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£40,00
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£43,50
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