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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -For the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn't going anywhere.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 287 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on competition. Thomas Philippon blames the unchecked efforts of corporate lobbyists. Instead of earning profits by investing and innovating, powerful firms use political pressure to secure their advantages. The result is less efficient markets, leading to higher prices and lower wages.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn't going anywhere.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A reissue of James T. Monroe's classic study on the cultural history of al-Andalus that establishes Spanish scholars on the forefront of European scholars confronting the Orientalism and colonialism at the heart of their national projects. A new foreword by Michelle M. Hamilton and David A. Wacks examines the impact of Monroe's pathbreaking study.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story of tobacco's fortunes seems simple: science triumphed over addiction and profit. Yet the reality is more complicated and more political. Historically it was not just bad habits but also the state that lifted the tobacco industry. What brought about change was not medical advice but organized pressure: a movement for nonsmoker's rights.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is tempting to believe that dehumanization is an excess of rhetoric-that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous. David Livingstone Smith argues otherwise, showing that when we dehumanize our enemies, we consider them both human and not. Dehumanization is a genuine psychological response to political manipulation, with harrowing consequences.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation¿s prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor¿s inefficiency as much as its inhumanity that finally convinced Washington to emancipate the men and women bonded to him.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia, yet it is unprepared for the global transition away from hydrocarbons. Thane Gustafson shows that as Russia's income shrinks, its economy will stagnate, even as global warming imposes growing costs on society. By mid-century its power will fade, reordering global politics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nineteenth-century ¿salvage anthropology¿ preserved millions of Indigenous objects, sources of knowledge invaluable to researchers and the public. But many of these objects were stolen, and for decades exhibited as proof of cultural evolution. Samuel Redman details the tangled history and explores how we might contend with such collections today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From 2010 to 2014, the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg set out to trace over two millennia of research on Greek particles within and beyond ancient Greek. Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse builds on this scholarship and analyzes particle use across five genres: epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, and historiography.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or cooperative-eventually receded, but the oppositional nature-nurture binary created in the course of the debate left a lasting legacy that would underpin subsequent discussions of human behavior.