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Marx Today
Selected Works and Recent Debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This book provides, in one volume, primary sources by Marx and critical commentary which relates Marxism to contemporary social and political topics. It includes six brief works by Marx and ten articles by scholars, sympathetic to, but critical of, Marxism. For example, the author includes the classic...
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part 1 Influences from Mises to Bartley
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
This is the first collaborative biography of Hayek. Some of the world's most distinguished scholars will integrate the archival evidence with Hayek's published writings to illuminate the process by which Hayek changed the direction of world history.
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part IV, England, the Ordinal Revolution and the Road to Serfdom, 1931-50
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This fourth volume examines his time in Vienna and Chicago (1931-1950), when Hayek held the prestigious University of London Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics. Between Vienna and Chicago (1931-1950), although his business cycle work was apparently defeated, this study takes a closer look at Hayek's successes.
Who Runs the Economy?
The Role of Power in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of...
Michał Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography
Volume I Rendezvous in Cambridge 1899-1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This volume of intellectual biography takes the Polish economist Micha Kalecki (1899-1970) from the shattering of his prosperous childhood, in Tsarist Łódź in the 1905 Revolution, to Cambridge and the failure of his co-operative research with John Maynard Keynes's supporters in Cambridge.
by G. Brooks, A. Aleem, M. Button
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing.
Doing Business With China
Avoiding the Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
This book is about understanding the differences and risks, ownership, culture and management practices when investing, managing or working with Chinese companies. It explores the progression of overseas listing of Chinese companies and the reasons behind theattitude shifts towards overseas Chinese stocks.
Marketing to the 90s Generation
Global Data on Society, Consumption, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Marketing to the 90s Generation is based on original research conducted by sociologists and psychologists on generational cohorts, how they come about, what defines them and what it means to society, its institutions and companies.
Customers at Work
New Perspectives on Interactive Service Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active contribution to virtually all aspects and stages of the production process. This volume illuminates social relations and interaction between customers and service providers as well as between the users of web-based services.
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.
America’s First Regional Theatre
The Cleveland Play House and Its Search for a Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.
South Africa's Renegade Reels
The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko Modisane delves into the public...
Stray Dog of Anime
The Films of Mamoru Oshii
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .
Wittgenstein and Plato
Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought.