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The Power of Market Fundamentalism(2016) BLOCK, FRED,SOMERS, MARGARET R.What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and financial crises? The Power of Market Fundamentalism extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain whyVezava: Mehka35,32 € -
Causation in Psychology(2020) CAMPBELL, JOHNPhilosopher John Campbell argues that humans are unique in our ability to imagine singular causation. While robots and nonhuman animals rely on general axioms concerning what causes what, humans can imagine the specific causes of specific outcomes. This sVezava: Trda56,76 € -
We the People(1993) ACKERMAN, BRUCEIntegrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts popular sovereignty in America. Rejecting arguments of judicial activists, proceduralists, and neoconservatives, Ackerman’s new model of judicial interpreVezava: Mehka47,63 € -
New Literary History of Modern China(2017)Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors, this landmark volume, edited by David Der-wei Wang, explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres, emphasizes Chinese authors’ influence on foreign writers as well as China’s receptiviVezava: Trda68,82 € -
We Have Never Been Modern(1993) LATOUR, BRUNOWith the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an aVezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Literary Criticism(2017) NORTH, JOSEPHSince the global turn to neoliberalism in the 1970s, movements in literary studies have been diagnostic rather than interventionist: scholars have developed techniques for analyzing culture but have retreated from attempts to transform it. For Joseph NortVezava: Trda59,94 € -
Working Space(1986) STELLA, FRANKHere is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world’s foremost abstract painters. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time.Vezava: Mehka39,94 € -
Wisdom of the Hive(1996) SEELEY, THOMAS D.This book describes and illustrates the results of more than 15 years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research offer the clearest, most deVezava: Trda159,54 € -
Women on the Margins(1997) DAVIS, NATALIE ZEMONDavis retrieves three women’s lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l’Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian were living “on the margins” in 17th-century Europe, North America, and SVezava: Mehka43,02 € -
Value-Focused Thinking(1996) KEENEY, RALPH L.Rather than placing emphasis on mechanics and fixed solutions, Keeney argues, we should focus on the bottom-line objectives that give decisionmaking its meaning: through recognizing and articulating fundamental values, we can better identify decision oppoVezava: Mehka38,40 € -
Visible Hand(1993) CHANDLER, ALFRED D.The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (1850s–1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big businessVezava: Mehka64,33 € -
Neutron Stars(2020) MOSKVITCH, KATIANeutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of exploded stellar giants, are among the most fascinating objects in the cosmos. Katia Moskvitch introduces readers to their astonishing qualities and follows the scientists who are discovering what neutron stars cVezava: Trda41,48 € -
Equity for Women in Science(2023) SUGIMOTO, CASSIDY R.,LARIVIERE, VINCENTEquity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global gender gap in science. Analyzing millions of scientific papers, the authors show that women are undervalued for their labor in science as measured through publications andVezava: Trda47,63 € -
Art of Classic Planning(2020) BURAS, NIR HAIMNearly everything we treasure in the world’s most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Yet the ideas and practices underlying these achievements have been abandoned. Nir Buras documents the humane design methods that held sway before the reign oVezava: Trda114,70 € -
Marking Time(2020) FLEETWOOD, NICOLE R.Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded, incarcerated artists produce bold works that testify to the economic and racial injustice of American punishment. These pieces, many publisVezava: Trda53,79 € -
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