Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World, Hardcover - Daniel Bell

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are org...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Daniel A. BellIllustration(s): 2 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 14...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

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Reducere. Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit...

Asking the daring question: "Why can't the rest of the world get on with the French?", the book offers some illuminating answers and provides tools...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Daniel Q. GillionIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus. 7 tables.Number of pages: 224Collection: ...

Contracts in the Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter - Lawrence A. Cunningham

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Writing together for the first time, highly respected practitioners and trainers Louise Bomber and Dan Hughes believe that now is the critical time...

This is the story of a man caught in the middle of what he came to recognise as a huge American destabilizing operation, illustrating how he plotte...

A study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future.Publisher: Head of ZeusAu...

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For decades, the starting point of international relations (IR) scholars was the anarchic nature of international politics. Recent examples of poli...

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From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cul...

Reducere. The First Book to Explain China's Success Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom.The Coronavirus epidemic triggered a chang...

A new paperback reissue of the classic, internationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new forew...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Daniel JacksonIllustration(s): 84 b/w illus.Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

Three great cosmological worldviews--of the Latin West, ancient Greece, and the Hebrew/Syriac world--arose from a union of ancient and medieval tho...

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Paul Thurstons 25 Steps to Learning 2/1 was an instant bestseller, winning the 2003 American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year award. In...

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book ar...

Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

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Reducere. A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace In the classroom, Asian Americans, often singled out as so-called "model minori...

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This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state...

Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Br...

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This book compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the global econ...

The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya generates a fresh landscape. This book shows how the West must...

I know I m not a man . . . and I ve come to the conclusion that I m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we re living in a world t...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer M. SchmidtForeword by: Sean Barron"Let's create a class instead of the typical social skills programs " With this ...

A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory.

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Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against thos...

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When Frankie McGee visits the library, he has his sights set on borrowing a book about tractors--again Why? Let him tell you This laugh-out-loud pi...

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Reducere. Seller Mistakes-What you were Never Told about Selling your Home and Why it should Matter to you, is a powerful book that reveals what the real est...

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