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Make it Stick
The authors' basic argument is that while learning is an essential and lifelong activity, people frequently use exactly the wrong strategies and fail to appreciate or understand what turn out to be the most effective ones
36,50 €
Four Walls and a Roof
Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes,...
39,00 €
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved...
28,00 €
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why...
23,00 €
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
'Do Muslim Women Need Saving ' is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the...
26,50 €
Mostly Straight
A growing number of young men today say they are 'mostly straight¿ and yet feel a slight but enduring desire for men. Ritch Savin-Williams explores the stories of 40 mostly straight young men to help us understand the biological,...
31,50 €
Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of...
21,50 €
China's Good War
Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the 'victory'-a key foundation of China's rising nationalism. For most of its history, the People's Republic of...
31,50 €
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
'It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year--and maybe of the decade.'--Paul Krugman, New York Times'The...
26,50 €
Leadership Without Easy Answers
The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list...
51,50 €
The Economics of Inequality
An introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic equality over time, by the author of 'Capital In The Twenty-First Century'.
30,50 €
Creating Capabilities
This is a primer on the Capabilities Approach, Martha Nussbaum's innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues that much humanitarian policy today violates basic human values; instead, she offers a unique means of redirecting...
23,00 €
New Laws of Robotics
AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them-but only through wise regulation. Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can do what you...
31,50 €
Evolution of the Human Head
An exhaustive history of the human cranium and a guide to how each part of it functions.
60,50 €
Basic Income
Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world's most widely...
24,00 €
The Case against Perfection
What is wrong with re-engineering genetics In this work, Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. He contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers...
24,00 €
The Origin of Others
What is race and why does it matter Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid America's foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for...
25,50 €
Theory of the Gimmick
Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises of saving labor and increasing value that we distrust but also find attractive. Exploring...
42,00 €
Unsustainable Inequalities
A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa. Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment...
35,50 €
War by Other Means
Nations carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Yet America often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. Robert Blackwill and Jennifer Harris show that if U.S. policies are left uncorrected, the...
26,50 €
The Fateful Triangle
'Hall's main argument rests on the notion that the greatest problem of the 21st century is living with and understanding differences.' -Times Higher Education 'In this long-awaited work, Stuart Hall...bracingly confronts the persistence...
20,50 €
A Short History of European Law
Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the...
24,00 €
Conquering Peace
A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace. Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella...
45,50 €
The Shenzhen Experiment
A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to...
39,00 €
The Future of Money
New technologies are shaking the foundations of traditional finance. Leading economist Eswar Prasad foresees the end of cash, as central banks develop their own digital currencies to compete with Bitcoin and Facebook's Diem. Money and...
38,00 €
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
In his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with anti-authoritarianism, arguing that because there is no authority we can rely on to ascertain truth, we can only...
31,50 €
The Cosmopolitan Tradition
The cosmopolitan political tradition defines people not according to nationality, family, or class but as equally worthy citizens of the world. Martha Nussbaum pursues this 'noble but flawed vision, confronting its inherent tensions over...
24,00 €
Capitalism, Alone
For the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and...
24,00 €
Six Faces of Globalization
Does globalization help everyone or just the rich Is it the enemy of sustainability or the only hope against climate change Rival camps are dug in, but Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp find points of agreement. Isolating the value...
40,50 €
The Wolf at the Door
Americans face economic hardship but respond with fantastical solutions, from tax-cut magic to the end of capitalism. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro focus on what truly worries people: their own insecurity. The authors propose concrete...
22,00 €
A Natural History of Human Thinking
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his...
25,50 €
What Works
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, an exploration of gender equality as not only a moral but a business imperative, set to benefit the businesses as well as the lives of many if enacted...
23,00 €
The Guests of Ants
A fascinating examination of socially parasitic invaders, from butterflies to bacteria, that survive and thrive by exploiting the communication systems of ant colonies.
76,50 €
The Burnout Challenge
Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed Try therapy or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces, not workers. Drawing on decades of research, Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter show...
31,50 €
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