The Economy of Nature

Makes an intervention in debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan. It is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakista...

Reducere. The Liberty Fund edition is a modernized translation of Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en g n ral (1755) with a new introducti...

A reconsideration of socialism in the post-Soviet era based on the theoretical achievements of Japanese Marxist political economy. The book further...

Reducere. Starting with Marx and Freud, scholars have attempted to identify the primary ethical challenge of capitalism. They have named injustice, inequalit...

DescriptionRevolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economyAdam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to u...

Reducere. Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it...

Reducere. The Wealth of Nature proposes a new model of economics based on the integral value of ecology. Building on the foundations of E.F. Schumacher's rev...

Reducere. After everything that's happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over vot...

DescriptionThe blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.Humanity is in a race with ...

Reducere. We cannot imagine a world without plastics. Plastic products make our daily life safe, healthy and convenient. Besides all the benefits, the curren...

An insider's guide for anyone thinking of entering the sharing economy and looking to profit from the upheavals ahead.

How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and mone...

Reducere. DescriptionWith its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and s...

The Economic Crisis has refocused attention on the central nature of the real economy. Industry is once more seen as an opportunity for the future.

Reducere. Author of }Adults In The Room{ Yanis Varoufakis uses personal stories and famous myths to explain the nature of contemporary economics and the pote...

Ann draws many insights into the nature of prayer from her love of birdwatching, and images from the natural world and from scripture permeate her ...

Reducere. As machines are trained to "think, " many tasks that previously required human intelligence are becoming automated through artificial intelligence....

Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our ...

Reducere. DescriptionFocusing on the Connecticut River Valley--New England's longest river and largest watershed-- Strother Roberts traces the local, regiona...

Written by three career experts, An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, providing a complete guide that will allow wo...

Innovation is the main engine of competitiveness. However, in a world in which everything goes faster, the inherent nature of the innovation proces...

Reducere. As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their econom...

"Twenty years of hindsight prove how deeply Tapscott understood the impact the Internet would have on the way we live, work, play and learn. This i...

New York Times bestseller Stimulus plans: good or bad? Free markets: How free are they? Jobs: Can we afford them? Occupy Wall Street . . . worldwid...

Reducere. The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our livesIn this ...

In Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic. For Russon,...

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and...

This book examines poverty in the context of the economy, society and the political community, considering how states can respond to issues of ineq...

Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat ...

Reducere. What determines why some countries succeed and others fall behind? Economists have long debated the sources of economic growth, resulting in confli...

Reducere. Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's s...

Reducere. F. A. Hayek, a prominent 20th-century political economist in the Austrian tradition, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 for his pioneering wo...

How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contest...

DescriptionThis short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing eco...

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nati...

Reducere. Dr. Thomas Stockmann's personal and professional life is attacked after he declares a town's water supply is contaminated, which threatens the succ...

Reducere. The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man an...

Reducere. Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market ...

DescriptionDuring the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most coun...

Managing Flow is a classic and influential text from the revered Professor Ikujiro Nonaka. It was published at a time when there was a great shift ...

This book describes how environmental destruction and extreme inequality are the result of the human economy becoming ultrasocial: a society dedica...

A positive solution to climate destruction that recognizes the need to integrate natural and social sciences and business. This thorough guide will...

Reducere. A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth. The Yukon river is 2, 000 miles long, the longest stretch...

Reducere. With a new preface by the author Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against...

Reducere. In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a str...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: G. D. H. ColeJean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chai...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prosp...

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.Growth has been bo...

Reducere. Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities....

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as we...

DescriptionOur urban spaces today struggle to thrive in the face corporate greed, increasing privatization, and rising inequality. Unlocking Sustai...

"I regard him as right and compassionate on nearly every major issue." -- Stephen Jay Gould A radical argument about the root causes of climate cha...

DescriptionThe marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scal...

Reducere. Why do the words "little house" go straight to the heart, as Sir John Summerson observed? Clearly, something beyond economy is at work. For centuri...

Reducere. The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Ap...

Reducere. DescriptionIs it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our childr...

Description Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trob...

Reducere. Cedar City was first settled on November 11, 1851, with the arrival of a group of 35 men to establish an ironworks. Beginning with the demise of th...

Reducere. Henry George (1839-1897) was an American political economist and the most influential proponent of the "Single Tax" on land, also known as the land...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ludwig Von MisesThe Theory of Money and Credit integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the f...

Reducere. During the early to mid-1800s, the railroad changed the transportation industry and dramatically impacted the nature of the American economy. Entir...

With protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism on the rise, international trade and how it is governed is at the heart of some of the most i...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Reducere. The Communist Manifesto of 1848-the blueprint for modern totalitarian government-promises utopia but delivers dictatorship, poverty and misery ever...

Reducere. "Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture p...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated de...

DescriptionKentucky's rich archaeological heritage spans thousands of years, and the Commonwealth remains fertile ground for study of the people wh...

Reducere. DescriptionExcerpt from The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts; Containing the Economy of Vegetation and the Loves of the Plants; With Philosophi...

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology ...

Reducere. Throughout the long and colorful history of Galveston, no name has embodied the "Spirit of the Island" quite like the name Maceo. Two penniless Sic...