The Economy of Nature

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The communication role in organizations has changed, just as the nature of organizations has changed in response to the explosion of new communicat...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressAuthor(s): Mara Jill GoldmanIllustration(s): 23 b&w illustrations, 6 maps, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 304Collec...

DescriptionUrban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and ...

Few figures are more crucial to understanding the upheavals of our contemporary era than Karl Polanyi. In a world riven by social and economic cris...

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The Bible is rich with complex and diverse material on the topic of money and possessions. Indeed, a close look at many scriptural texts reveals th...

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When econ...

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Reducere. Nature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open...

Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexua...

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International Relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosophic foundations draw on centuries...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Grigori GrabovoiGrigori Grabovoi is the author of the teaching "Deliverance and Harmonious Development, " which has receive...

Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and we...

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report th...

Reducere. Amadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third, or Communist, International. His formidable body of writings remains energizing, instr...

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...

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Description Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition t...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

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Reducere. Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan's role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the drop...

Description9 lectures, Oxford, England, August 16-29, 1922 (CW 305) These lectures follow from those presented in Soul Economy. Given during a conf...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edmund S. MorganA classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the ma...

Reducere. Winner at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards A magical tale about nature that reminds us of the power of stories to bring out our very best ...

Contributor(s): Author: Adam SmithEditor: R. H. CampbellEditor: A. S. SkinnerFirst published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution off...

Contributor(s): Author: Adam SmithEditor: R. H. CampbellEditor: A. S. SkinnerFirst published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution off...

Theology of Money is a philosophical inquiry into the nature and role of money in the contemporary world. Philip Goodchild reveals the significance...

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In 1966, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy published Monopoly Capital, a monumental work of economic theory and social criticism that sought to reveal the...

DescriptionA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"An intellectual excursion of a kind rarely offered by modern economics."--Foreign AffairsThomas ...

"A fascinating book about how platform internet companies (Amazon, Facebook, and so on) are changing the norms of economic competition."--Fast Comp...

Reducere. The acclaimed NYU business professor's tour-de-force on the true nature of technology's titans, and what happens next in their struggle to dominate...

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part...

This informative and thought-provoking account of civilization's complete dependence on copper, and what extracting it from the earth really means ...

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Current, authoritative, and produced by the expert cartographers at National Geographic, this best-selling United States atlas is newly updated wit...

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Reducere. First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith's Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In ...

Reducere. New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of glob...

Japan's impact on the modern world has been enormous. It occupies just one 300th of the planet's land area, yet came to wield one sixth of the worl...

Tough Times can be brought on by any number of factors: a down economy, Mother Nature, shifts in customers' needs, national tragedy--the list goes ...

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Reducere. In this revelatory, uplifting, and practical book, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must--and how we can--make the world safer, fair...