The Gift in the Economy and Society. Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences, Paperback - ***

Recognising the gift as an example of social practice underpinned by social institutions, this book moves beyond the utilitarian approach of mainst...

The world's financial landscape is transforming as economies become increasingly interdependent. In Regulating the Financial Sector in the Era of G...

This book highlights approaches taken by researchers in the Learning Sciences to support teacher learning. It features international perspectives t...

This book offers a path forward, for the growing collaboration in social studies education between Global North and South educators, practitioners,...

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This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies - as structu...

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Dave Elder-Vass argues that dominant approaches to the economy miss much of what happens in real economies and that the rise of the digital economy...

This book links financialization and income inequality and studies the dynamic of financialization in OIC countries empirically. Readers learn how ...

Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much ...

Reducere. The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more freque...

This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, inc...

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

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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 ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susan DuFresneThe History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools is a book intended to challenge the authority of t...

This volume sheds light on 'alternative realities' of transitional justice. The expertise and work of scholars, activists and legal practitioners i...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Number of pages: 344Collection: Io SeriesPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperback...

Phillip Y. Lipscy explains how countries renegotiate international institutions when rising powers such as Japan and China challenge the existing o...

Presents new research into the provision of care in past societies as revealed by archaeological, historical, bioarchaeological, faunal and philoso...

Contributor(s): Editor: Genevieve VaughanThe idea of a free gift economy has become important in the movement for alternative economics, however th...

Movements and parties have given rise to two largely separates specialties in the social sciences. This Element is an effort to link the two litera...

This book clarifies decolonial efforts to transform higher education from its anti-Black foundation, offering hope from universities across the con...

This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. Many of the chapters explicitly l...

Publisher: PM PressNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kirk HellikerRede...

This book analyses institutional reforms implemented by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, under his second administration from 2012 to 2020. Also...

Originally published as a special issue of Christian Higher Education, this volume showcases diverse forms of community engagement work carried out...

Reducere. Today, high-end inequality in America and peer countries is at Gilded Age levels. These matters are too important and complicated to be left just t...

Reducere. Ann Richards--now the subject of the Broadway play Ann--tells her life story in her own trademark candor and spicy humor. Straight from the Heart i...

'It is always a worthwhile ambition to get through a project like this without being punched.'Writer and urban explorer Attlee reads the signs and ...

Drawing on twenty years of research and observations on bribery and corruption in countries with weak institutional environments, Li offers a novel...

The roots of our modern world lie in this early civilisation, which saw the first urban society and the invention of writing. Postgate uses both hi...

Publisher: HAU Society Of Ethnographic TheoryAuthor(s): Marion FourcadeNumber of pages: 474Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 38Cover ty...

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one ...

Reducere. Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what ...

Contributor(s): Author: Susan DuFresneThe History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools is a book intended to challenge the authority of t...

Takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent "the economic" by situating them within traditions of classical p...

With thinking around the foundational economy becoming increasingly influential, this interdisciplinary collection sets out its role in renewing ci...

Florida's famous swamps--from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell--serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. May...

Reducere. In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of...