John wiley sons dez 2007 (89 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for My Life as a Quant'My Life as a Quant, by Emanuel Derman is, indeed, a perfect memoir, as Derman, a South African-born physicist turned financial engineer, is a perfect memoirist.' --Grant's Interest Rate Observer'That sense of being an intruder in outlaw territory lends an intriguing mood to Derman's My Life as a Quant, a literate and entertaining memoir.'--BusinessWeek'Derman's memoir of his transition from mathematical physicist to expert finance whiz at Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers reads like a novel, but tells a lot about brains applied to making money grow.'--Paul A. Samuelson, MIT, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 1970'Elegantly written by a gifted observer who was a pioneering member of the new profession of financial engineering with an evident affection both for finance as a science and for the scientists who practice it. Derman's portrait of how the academics brought their new financial science to the world of business and his descriptions of the late and extraordinary genius Fischer Black who became his mentor, reveal a surprising humanity where it might be least expected.'--Stephen Ross, Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics, Sloan School, MIT' a deep and elegant exploration by a thinker who moved from the hardest of all sciences (physics) to the softest of the soft (finance). Derman is a different class of thinker I know of no other book that bridges the two cultures.'--Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Starting & Running a Restaurant For Dummies will offer aspiring restaurateurs advice and guidance on this highly competitive industry - from attracting investors to your cause, to developing a food and beverages menu, to interior design and pricing issues - to help you keep your business venture afloat and enjoyable at the same time. If you already own a restaurant, inside you'll find unbeatable tips and advice to keep bringing in those customers. Read this book, and help make your dream a reality! Starting & Running a Restaurant For Dummies covers: - Basics of the restaurant business - Researching the marketplace and deciding what kind of restaurant to run - Writing a business plan and finding financing - Choosing a location - Legalities - Composing a menu - Setting up and hiring staff - Buying and managing supplies - Marketing your restaurant - Health and safety.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Southern Theory Raewyn Connell presents the case for a new 'world social science' - one that is inclusive of many voices - by arguing for a more democratic global recognition of social theory from societies outside the dominant European and North American metropole. Intellectual production of the majority 'southern' world does in fact include theory, though its contribution is often marginalised and intellectually discredited by the metropole. Connell shows how social theory about the modern world from peripheral societies is equal in intellectual rigour and is often of greater political relevance to our changing world. Beginning with an examination of the hidden assumptions of modern general theory, Southern Theory looks to the 'southern' social experience and the theories that have emerged from Australia, Indigenous peoples, Latin America, India, Africa, Islam and other post-colonial societies, as sources of important and vital contributions to world social science. These myriad theories offer valuable perspectives so crucial to the application of social theory in the contemporary world, having the power to transform the influence of the metropolitan hegemony on social thought by mutual regard and interaction. Southern Theory is a major new work in social theory, drawing on anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, economics and cultural studies, with wide-ranging implications for the social sciences in the 21st century.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; whether there is anything that all women have in common; and the nature of birth and its centrality to human existence. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy shows how feminist thinking on these and related topics has developed since the 1960s. The book also explains how feminist philosophy relates to the many forms of feminist politics.The book provides clear, succinct and readable accounts of key feminist thinkers including de Beauvoir, Butler, Gilligan, Irigaray, and MacKinnon. The book also introduces other thinkers who have influenced feminist philosophy including Arendt, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan. Accessible in approach, this book is ideal for students and researchers interested in feminist philosophy, feminist theory, womens studies, and political theory. It will also appeal to the general reader. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separation and urban abandonment. In European cities, by contrast, the spread of districts of 'exclusion' does not herald the formation of ghettos. It stems from the decomposition of working-class territories under the press of mass unemployment, the casualization of work and the ethnic mixing of populations hitherto segregated, spawning urban formations akin to 'anti-ghettos'. Comparing the US 'Black Belt' with the French 'Red Belt' demonstrates that state structures and policies play a decisive role in the articulation of class, race and place on both sides of the Atlantic. It also reveals the crystallization of a new regime of marginality fuelled by the fragmentation of wage labour, the retrenchment of the social state and the concentration of dispossessed categories in stigmatized areas bereft of a collective idiom of identity and claims-making. These defamed districts are not just the residual 'sinkholes' of a bygone economic era, but also the incubators of the precarious proletariat emerging under neoliberal capitalism. Urban Outcasts sheds new light on the explosive mix of mounting misery, stupendous affluence and festering street violence resurging in the big cities of the First World. By specifying the different causal paths and experiential forms assumed by relegation in the American and the French metropolis, this book offers indispensable tools for rethinking urban marginality and for reinvigorating the public debate over social inequality and citizenship at century's dawn.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you work in a small business, you have to know how to sell. Full stop. But selling as most people know it doesn't work anymore. It's relationships that count.Real selling is about understanding customers' goals and helping them to buy, not topping off a template presentation with a pushy attitude. So how do you put relationships first and still get results Sales Therapy smashes the age-old sales model with an effective new approach grounded in behavioural psychology. It is natural and effortless to use because it mirrors the way people actually interact with each other. And it really works.Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy, describes it as 'One of the finest pieces of content on how to sell better in the 21st Century.'At last, you can commit those terrible 'closing techniques' to the recycle bin. Sales Therapy will help you build great relationships with your customers while making the art of selling fun and effective and helping your business to grow.PRAISE FOR SALES THERAPY'This is one of the finest pieces of content on how to sell better in the 21st Century. Grant you are absolutely right with your judgment' Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Co-Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom is a practical hands-on guide that explains how to implement co-teaching programs in mixed-ability classrooms. Based on the authors' award-winning model, this important guide shows how special education teachers can pair with general education teachers to improve classroom functioning while promoting high achievement for all students. The book provides tested frameworks and tools for teacher collaboration on lesson planning, student grouping, assessment, and discipline. It also offers guidance on managing overcrowded classrooms and on designing and implementing differentiated lessons and assignments, and includes advice for administrators.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave-trading to global terrorism, from global warming to teleworking, issues of 'mobility' are centre-stage upon many academic and policy agendas. These topics and issues are increasingly analysed as part of a concern with 'mobility' which this wide-ranging book both describes and seeks to develop.John Urry has been at the centre of these debates and he draws upon an extensive array of new research and material to develop what he calls the 'new mobilities paradigm' for the social sciences. He shows how this paradigm makes comprehensible social phenomena which were previously opaque. He examines how 'mobilities' each presuppose a 'system' that permits predictable and relatively risk-free repetition. The book outlines various such systems and then analyses their intersecting implications for social inequality, for social networks and meetings, for the nature of places and for alternative mobility futures.Mobilities is thus both an analysis of different mobilities historically and in the present and an argument that the social world will be analysed quite differently once peoples' lives, organisations, states and global institutions are seen to be dealing with extensive and hugely contested mobility processes. This book rewrites social science through a mobilities paradigm.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Fifty years after the birth of corporate computing, IT today is still characterized by 50-70% project failure rates. Which is pretty scary when you come to think of it: either a goblin has cast a spell on a whole profession - or that profession is doing something fundamentally wrong'.IT Success! challenges the widespread assumption that an IT department is like a building contractor whose project managers, architects and engineers (all construction industry terms.) are supposed to deliver systems on schedule, within budget and to spec. Michael Gentle explains why this is not possible, and turns conventional wisdom on its head by showing that:\* you cannot define an IT project in terms of contractual budgets and schedules\* anything can change during the life of a project\* what is eventually delivered can never be what is actually neededHe proposes a new model for IT in which the traditional client/vendor relationship, with its contractual commitments, is replaced by a shared risk/reward partnership geared towards workable results over time. Using real-world examples and a case study, the author walks you through the end-to-end processes of an IT department, covering subjects like demand management, investment planning, agile development and managing production applications.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Television. Love it or hate it, it is still the most popular pastime ever. It reflects and shapes our knowledge of contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, and yet TV is still among the most criticized phenomena of modern life. Everyone watches it, but everyone's also a critic.This engaging book, written by one of television's best known experts, invites us to explore television's most controversial coverage and fascinating formats: TV citizenship, live TV, 'plebiscitary' shows, reality TV, synchronized sports and TV's own history. At a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plans, Hartley explores television's evolving place and transforming role in our knowledge-based society.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Mastering Trading Stress'Ari Kiev helps traders master the internal pressures that skew perception and decision making. A concise and readable guide, this book effectively utilizes case studies to illustrate the varied manifestations of stress and what to do about them.'--Brett N. Steenbarger, PhD, author, The Psychology of Trading and Enhancing Trader Performance'In this groundbreaking book, Kiev undertakes a unique exploration of the impact of emotion and psychology on the trader and his or her investment strategy. The lessons of this book--supported with hallmark Kiev case studies--will resonate with any market participant.'--Matthew S. Grossman, Chief Investment Officer, CR Intrinsic Investors LLC, a division of SAC Capital'Ari Kiev has a tremendous ability to deliver solutions for managing trading stress. This book will benefit aspiring and established traders much as they have benefited me and others who have learned from him directly. I highly recommend this book.'--Wayne Holman, founder and CEO, Ridgeback Capital Management LLC'Put me in, coach! Kiev tells real-life stories from the front line--peeling back the cover on the role of psychology and emotion in trading. His insights and paradigmatic narratives are practical and powerful--enough to get any trader off the sidelines and back in the game.'--Ciaran O'Kelley, Co-Head of Global Equities, Bank of America'Ari Kiev has researched the biggest impediment to trading success: human psychology. His readers will learn to transcend their current boundaries and achieve greater success. Demanding and forthright, Ari's insights challenge us to raise our game in an original and compelling way.'--Quintin Price, CIO, EMEA Pacific Equities, BlackRock.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, body and sexuality. - - Showcases the centrality of gender in the formation of modern China - Demonstrates the extent to which translated feminisms - whatever they mean - have transformed the terms in which modern Chinese understand their own subjectivities and histories.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. - - Provides an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism - Places various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts - Offers close readings of some of the major critical texts of the period - Explores the works of a diverse group of 20th-century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt - Covers formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, reader-response criticism, historicism, gender studies, cultural studies, and film theory.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since it was first published almost twenty years ago, Developing Technical Training has been a reliable resource for both new and seasoned training specialists. The third edition of this classic book outlines a systematic approach called the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process that shows how to teach technical content defined as facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles. Whether you teach 'hard' or 'soft' skills, or design lessons for workbooks or computers, you will find the best training methods in this book. Using these techniques, you can create learning environments that will lead to the most efficient and effective acquisition of new knowledge and skills. Throughout the book, Clark defines each content type and illustrates how to implement the best instructional methods for delivery in either print or e-learning media.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'What is a Brand ' by Stephen King was one of the most influential pieces of work ever and has had a lasting influence on the way in which I think about brands. A few years ago I had the extraordinary experience of re-visiting the video of it made by Stephen and Jeremy Bullmore and the stunning thing was how prescient they had been some thirty years previously. Indeed, the only thing they had not foreseen was the internet - everything else they got right.--Hamish Pringle, Director General, IPAMartin Mayer, the well-known investigative journalist, has described the present-day American advertising business more accurately than any other writer. He did this in his book Whatever Happened to Madison Avenue Advertising in the '90s. I quote from page 191: 'Thompson in London had become what Ogilvy was the first to call 'a teaching hospital,' where the researcher Stephen King developed philosophies of branding that were carried to America by John Philip Jones and Timothy Joyce.'There is very little doubt today that branding is at the top of most marketing professionals' minds in the United States. But 'top of mind' is not quite the same as 'in the bloodstream.' Packaged goods advertisers in the United States are currently forced to spend three timesas much money below the line on price cutting, as above the line on brand-building media advertising. It is to be hoped that the book of Stephen's papers will inject a powerful serum into the bloodstream of American marketers, to help them develop a strategic response to the power of the retail trade which is at the moment debilitating and even emasculating many American brands.--John Philip Jones, Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, New York, USAKing's relentless thirst to understand, rigour of questioning and breadth of learning remain an inspiration. A profoundly rewarding, and rather humbling read.--Adam Morgan, author of Eat the Big Fish, and The Pirate InsideIn a world of greasers and drama queens, Stephen King was the still small voice of reason. Ever polite and ever intelligent, his analysis provided real insights. We all learned from him and this book should enable many more to do so.--Tim Ambler, MA (Oxford) SM (MIT), Senior Fellow, Marketing, LBSStephen was a great interpreter of research and a great judge of when to use specific methodologies whether they were qualitative or quantitative. He was comfortable with both. He was and remains a very great inspiration to market researchers in companies and in research and ad agencies. Dr Liz Nelson OBEKing writes of our industry, at its best, representing 'Creative imagination subjected to critical control.' He could have been describing his own mind and approach, which have inspired generations of brand managers and planners and remain deeply relevant today. This book should be required reading for everyone entering the business, and serve as a reminder to the rest of us that however high we think we have set our standards, they are probably not high enough.--Jon Steel, Planning Director, WPP.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field. - Offers an analytical assessment of the various thematic discourses and provides guidance in pulling together those discrete themes into a larger, more comprehensive framework - Identifies the four broadly conceived themes that shape the many discourses on contemporary citizenship - inclusion, erosion, withdrawal, and expansion - Includes a thorough introduction to the subject.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in democratic governance at home and abroad. - Covers a broad range of topics, from disputes over public art, copyright, and obscenity, to the operations of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Cold War - Highlights detailed and at times shocking debates over the role of the rebellious artist within society.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Jossey-Bass Reader onthe Brain and Learning'The potentials of brain science for education are indeed enormous. But realizing them requires building a new interdisciplinary science that explicitly links brain science and education . . . educators need to know about brain science, and scientists need to know about education.'-Kurt Fischer and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, from the IntroductionThis comprehensive reader presents an accessible overview of recent brain research and contains valuable insights into how students learn and how we should teach them. It includes articles from the top thinkers in both the brain science and K-12 education fields, such as Joseph LeDoux, Howard Gardner, Sally Shaywitz, and John Bransford. This rich and varied volume offers myriad perspectives on the brain, mind, and education, and features twenty-six chapters in seven primary areas of interest:\*An overview of the brain\*The brain-based learning debate\*Memory, cognition, and intelligence\*Emotional and social foundations\*Language, reading, and math\*The arts\*When the brain works differentlyThe authors base their findings on cutting-edge research and real-world experience-sharing practical lessons and strategies for the school or classroom. From the scholar to the practitioner, The Jossey-Bass Reader on the Brain and Learning is an invaluable resource for every educator interested in how children think and learn.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and Middlemarch, it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. The book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian novel is somehow old fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures of the Victorian writers' strenuous efforts both to entertain and to teach; to create serious 'art' and to appeal to wide audiences; to respond both to the demands of publishing and also to their own rich imaginative engagement with a world heading into modernity at full speed. Broad in its scope, the text surveys a wide variety of literary types and explores the cultural and historical developments of the novel form itself. The book also poses a series of 'big questions' pertaining to money, capitalism, industry, race, gender, and, at the same time, to formal issues, such as plotting, perspective, and realist representation. In addition, it locates the qualities that give to the great variety of Victorian novels a 'family resemblance,' the material conditions of their production, their tendency to multiply plots, their obsession with class and money, their problematic handling of gender questions, and their commitment to realist representation. How to Read the Victorian Novel challenges our comfortable expectations of the genre in order to explore intensively a burgeoning and changing literary form which mirrors a burgeoning and changing society. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first book of its kind to introduce a model to help you create conversations about money with your clients, Money and Meaning provides a framework and tools to provide a safe environment in which to have conversations and resolve conflicts. Written by a respected expert in business, financial, and relational issues, Money and Meaning is filled with useful case studies and helps you open the door to thoughtful conversations that explore and resolve money's multiple meanings.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England's M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. - A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway - An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography - Contains 38 high quality illustrations - Based on extensive, original archive work.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary. Despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term, Dews argues that we cannot do without it. Yet our intuitions about evil pull us in different directions. The centrality of the ideal of rational autonomy to our modern self-image makes it hard for us to accommodate deeply rooted and obscurely destructive motivations. Furthermore, once having recognized the reality of evil, we may find ourselves succumbing to moral paralysis, even despair.Dews shows that these concerns are not marginal to the European philosophical tradition. They have perturbed some of the greatest thinkers of the modern age, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno. Written with lucidity and verve, The Idea of Evil traces a struggle to translate religious insights into secular, philosophical terms - and to acknowledge the perverse impulse of human freedom, without abandoning hope for a more just and compassionate world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you are a first-time or an aspiring supervisor, the Stepping Up Participant Workbook will give you an accurate, real-life picture of what it means to be a supervisor. Stepping Up clearly explains the expectations for the position, the skills and knowledge you will need to be an effective supervisor, and offers a path to follow in order to successfully supervise others. The Stepping Up Participant Workbook is a dynamic step-by-step series of learning strategies. Once you complete the Stepping Up workshop, you will be able to: - Understand the role of supervisor. - Effectively deal with the challenges that new supervisors face. - Implement the steps needed to get started as a new supervisor. - Apply the principles to build credibility as a supervisor. - Employ performance components when supervising. - Prepare a personalized road map to develop your supervisory knowledge and skills. The Stepping Up Participant Workbook is your key to realizing your full potential.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and those embarking upon architectural conservation professionally. It is designed to give an understanding of the main principles, materials and problems in the field of conservation and it features a number of case studies.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history. - Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America - Short headnotes introduce each selection - Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research - Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM - Coordinated Management of Meaning - one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. - Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication - Defines the 'critical moments' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings - Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole. - Major work from one of the world's most distinguished literary and cultural theorists - Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia - Featured essays include 'Foucault and Najibullah,' 'Moving Devi,' 'Responsibility,' and 'Megacity' - Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent 'present' of the Caucasus - Essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, and devotees of Spivak's writing.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers a state-of-the-art review of terrestrial geochemical sedimentology by internationally recognised experts in the field, integrating their most current research with earlier work. For the first time, the full range of these sediments is reviewed in a single volume, from duricrusts (calcrete, laterite and silcrete) to deposits precipitated in various spring, lake, cave and near-coastal environments. Each chapter summarizes the main characteristics of the sediments: morphological, chemical and mineralogical. Distribution, mechanisms of formation or accumulation, paleo-environmental significance, and relationships to other terrestrial geochemical sediments are also addressed.Geochemical Sediments and Landscapes is unique in its currency and comprehensiveness. An introductory chapter provides an overview of the links between long-term landscape change and geochemical sedimentation. Understanding the origins of terrestrial geochemical sediments can provide insights into past environments, landform preservation and landscape erosion. One chapter is dedicated to the major investigative analytical techniques employed in research, and the final chapter identifies key themes and directions for future research.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. What were the causes The surviving documentation is extraordinarily rich: conquistadors, religious figures, administrators, officials, and merchants kept records, carried out inquiries, and issued edicts. The native world, for its part, has also left eloquent traces of events as well as direct testimony of its harsh subjugation at the hands of the Europeans. Drawing on these sources, Livi-Bacci shows how not only the 'imported' diseases but also a series of economic and social factors played a role in the disastrous decline of the native populations. He argues that the catastrophe was not the inevitable outcome of contact with Europeans but was a function of both the methods of the conquest and the characteristics of the subjugated societies. This gripping narrative recounts one of the greatest tragedies of human history, one whose protagonists include figures like Columbus, Montezuma, Atahuallpa, Pizarro, Corts and Tupac Amaru.…

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