Consuming the Romantic Utopia. Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Paperback - Eva Illouz

A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the ex...

Reducere. With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism--and the culture it create...

Reducere. DescriptionWorking mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to be...

It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts wit...

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, bein...

From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, this book tells the story of the erotic romanc...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingAuthor(s): Selen YanmazNumber of pages: 140Collection: Critical Development StudiesPublication date: 2021Dime...

Reducere. Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its...

Offering an in-depth analysis of the theory of the firm, this book argues that the theory of the firm has no validity in law. It corrects the mista...

Reducere. Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since...

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and povert...

The past several years have brought staggering advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence. And Marxist analysis has to keep up: while machine...

Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, this remarkable volume holds its own as one ...

Reducere. "Read The Economic Singularity if you want to think intelligently about the future."Aubrey de GreyArtificial intelligence (AI) is overtaking our hu...

Traces the revolution in statistics that gave rise to artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism.Publishe...

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Mike Davis...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values -- KOPublisher: Pluto PressNumber of...

Reducere. Against a backdrop of seven hundred years of bourgeois struggle, eminent lawyer and educator, Michael E. Tigar, develops a Marxist theory of law an...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Benjamin M. FriedmanIllustration(s): 30 photographs in textNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2022Dime...

Focusing on the differences he observed in economic behavior between Catholics and Protestants, Weber's seminal 1905 work examines the role that mo...

When our desires become the product of tech giants, what ways are there left for us to dream?Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Jacob Johans...

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides an authoritative reference on the spread and impact of capitalism across the worl...

The third sizzling romance in the new Brotherhood by Fire series from Jaci Burton - perfect for fans of Chicago Fire.

Conventional wisdom maintains that regime type, open economy politics, and subnational geographical characteristics shape government-business relat...

DescriptionA fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat's...

DescriptionCreation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues ...

Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.

This book analyses the power structure of the Hollywood film business and its general modes of behaviour. More specifically, the work analyses how ...

Reducere. "An extraordinarily impressive achievement and must reading for all serious students of law, economics, and organization."--Paul L. Joskow, Profess...

Reducere. Lenin's Imperialism is one of the most significant books of the twentieth century.// Its significance arises not so much from the data it provides;...

Reducere. Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ``postmodernism.`` Jameson's inquiry looks at the po...

DescriptionKeywords: The New Language of Capitalism chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. From Silicon Valley to the...

Reducere. The Stages In The Social History Of Capitalism This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and ...

Publisher: Regnery PublishingAuthor(s): George GilderNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 217 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

In Lenin's now classic work Imperialism, he accounts for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The concept of imp...

Reducere. Description"This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important - if not the most important - phenomena of modern capital...

A non-Eurocentric, sweeping look at the material conditions and events that created capitalism

Reducere. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperialist ...

Revisiting Marx's seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.

Reducere. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from impe...

This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, and presents a radical critique of the current state of t...

Reducere. Rareori, motivul lumii ca vis a capatat in literatura universala o orchestratie atat de intinsa, nuantata si diversa. Adam este visat de el insusi,...