The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, Paperback - Richard Sennett

This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by ...

Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. In this title, the author ...

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be plannedPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 20...

Reducere. The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults--both the young idealists and their...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. Jeremiah Barker practiced medicine in rural Maine up until his retirement in 1818. Throughout his practice of fifty years, he documented his consta...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (1990) - National Book Critics Circle Award - (General Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Shelby SteeleIn this controversial essay co...

The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Philip JonesNumber of pages: 144Publicatio...

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international sc...

A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continen...

"War and Health" explores medical consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Reducere. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaiss...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard SennettFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spa...

A compelling, lively expose revealing how the world's accountants are ruining the world for their own benefit.

Archetypes at Work (TM) is a new cutting-edge method to assess and develop people and organizations to become fit for the future. Archetypes are un...

Examining the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addressing them from the perspective of performance.

Reducere. Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibili...

This is the only book on hiring that blends the research on levels of work with the discipline of behavioral interviewing. Every role has a level o...

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Fun informative guides on how people in the past solved technological problems.

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

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of t...

DescriptionProtect yourself from the next financial meltdown with this game-changing primer on financial markets, the economy--and the meteoric ris...

How the logic of work has crept into everything we do, even as we articulate post-capitalist and post-work possibilities

Publisher: Beacon BooksAuthor(s): Munyaradzi Felix MuroveNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback ...

DescriptionFrom world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for ho...

His life just changed-for ever! In this New York Bachelors' Club story, when diagnostician Nicola is introduced as doctor Kaleb's new colleague, he...

Reducere. With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration""But what does it mean--...

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

Reducere. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both "a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster" and a "powerful challenge to economic orth...

Reducere. A manifesto for our times.--Thomas Frank, Wall Street JournalBarry C. Lynn, one of the most original and surprising students of the American econom...

Reducere. THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK IS SOMEWHAT DECEIVING. THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT THE COST OF LIVING, IT IS REALLY ABOUT THE COST OF NOT LIVING.

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