The Great Transformation

The Great Transformation
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Publisher : Penguin Classics
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0241685559
ISBN-13 : 9780241685556
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Transformation by : Karl Polanyi

'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written. ... A must-read' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets. Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards, he shows that there has been nothing 'natural' about the market state. Instead of reducing human relations and our environment to mere commodities, the economy must always be embedded in civil society. Describing the 'avalanche of social dislocation' of his time, Polanyi's hugely influential work is a passionate call to protect our common humanity. 'Polanyi's vision for an alternative economy re-embedded in politics and social relations offers a refreshing alternative' Guardian 'Polanyi exposes the myth of the free market' Joseph Stiglitz With a new introduction by Gareth Dale

The New Public Diplomacy

The New Public Diplomacy
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780230554931
ISBN-13 : 0230554938
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Public Diplomacy by : J. Melissen

After 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate how public diplomacy can be successfully used to support foreign policy.

History of the Persian Empire

History of the Persian Empire
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 671
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ISBN-10 : 9780226826332
ISBN-13 : 0226826333
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis History of the Persian Empire by : A. T. Olmstead

Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff

The Digital Person

The Digital Person
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9780814740378
ISBN-13 : 0814740375
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Digital Person by : Daniel J Solove

Daniel Solove presents a startling revelation of how digital dossiers are created, usually without the knowledge of the subject, & argues that we must rethink our understanding of what privacy is & what it means in the digital age before addressing the need to reform the laws that regulate it.

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 890
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B234632
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Synopsis Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History by : Association of American Law Schools

A Passion for Performance

A Passion for Performance
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9780892365579
ISBN-13 : 0892365579
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis A Passion for Performance by : Shelley Bennett

A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.

Science as a Way of Knowing

Science as a Way of Knowing
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 0674794826
ISBN-13 : 9780674794825
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Science as a Way of Knowing by : John Alexander Moore

This book makes Moore's wisdom available to students in a lively, richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing rhetoric strategies including case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative, it provides both a cultural history of biology and an introduction to the procedures and values of science.