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  • Political Influence

    Edición de Edward Banfield ...
    In government, influence denotes one's ability to get others to act, think, or feel as one intends. A mayor who persuades voters to approve a bond issue exercises influence. A businessman whose promises of support induce a mayor to take action exercises influence. In Political Influence, Edward C. Banfield examines the structures and dynamics of influence in determining who actually makes the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Political Pilgrims

    Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society

    de Edward Banfield ...
    Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba appear at one time as both successful modernizing societies and the fulfillments of the boldest dreams of social ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Here the People Rule

    Selected Essays

    de Edward Banfield ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in scholarly journals or in books edited by others. A few are published here for the first time. None has been taken from one of my books. A would-be reader would have to go to much trouble to find them; that is the reason for bringing them together. Collections of essays are frequently miscellanies. This one is not. Except for the final two chapters ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Critique of Political Economy, Surplus Value, Labor Exploitation, and Industrial Capitalism

    de Karl Marx, Daphne Ulwick ...
    Traducido por Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling ...
    Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production is Marx's monumental critique of political economy and the first volume of his analysis of capitalism's inner laws. Moving from the commodity and money to surplus value, machinery, accumulation, and primitive accumulation, the book combines rigorous economic argument, historical inquiry, philosophical dialectic, and biting literary satire. Written ... Leer más

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  • The Man Who Loved Dogs

    A Novel

    de Leonardo Padura ...
    Traducido por Anna Kushner ...
    "In this ambitious, at times gripping work of historical fiction, Padura re-creates the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico." ― Foreign AffairsIn The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.The story revolves around Iván ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Nordic Theory of Everything

    In Search of a Better Life

    de Anu Partanen ...
    “In her careful, evenhanded series of thoughtful essays, Partanen, who just became an American citizen, parses the recipe for Nordic success that even the self-congratulatory ‘exceptional’ American may want to ponder and adapt. . . . An earnest, well-written work worth heeding, especially in our current toxic political climate.” — Kirkus ReviewsA Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Light

    de Trish Saunders ...
    What is it about another person that sometimes makes friendship instantaneous? Despite differences in both age and background Bella and Evelyn meet and when Evelyn announces, ‘What I’d like is to be buried naturally straight in the earth with a tree planted on my grave,’ they find they are able to discuss some of life’s big issues. Evelyn’s husband Earl has been cremated and is apparently “waiting ... Leer más

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  • Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation

    de Thomas Henfry, Gil Penha-Lopes ...
    Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement present in over 100 countries.For decades, permaculture practitioners have devised creative responses to changes in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have developed a collective knowledge and experience invaluable to global efforts to address climate change.This book seeks to ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • America at War with Itself

    de Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    From poisoned water and police violence in our cities, to gun massacres and hate-mongering on the presidential campaign trail, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand the forces at work in order to prevent conditions from getting worse. Henry A. Giroux offers a powerful, far-reaching critique of ... Leer más

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  • The Anthrobscene

    de Jussi Parikka ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Hard Oiler!

    The Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad

    de Gary May ...
    A hard-luck Yankee fortune seeker. A Hamilton wagon maker hoping to sell cars to the new railways. A howling swamp so isolated and foul that pioneer farmers had steered it a wide miss. An unlikely trio indeed. And yet these three seemingly unconnected elements came together at just the right moment in time, to create one of the great but little known stories of Canada's early years.Hard Oiler! is ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Ingenuity Gap

    de Thomas Homer-Dixon ...
    As crises multiply, ingenuity lags. This prescient classic explains why societies falter when problems outpace solutions—and offers a roadmap to close the gap before risks from climate shocks, pandemics, inequality, and AI spiral beyond control.First published at the turn of the millennium, The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon anticipated the turbulent world we now inhabit: pandemics, climate ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD