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  • STRANGERS WITHIN:
    BETHENCOURT, F.
    A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Bethencourt es...
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    57,00 €

  • CORPORATE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    CORNELIA WOLL
    The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations. Corporations including Volkswagen, BP, and Credit Suisse have paid recor...
    Disponible en 2-3 semanas

    65,60 €

  • THE CIVIC BARGAIN
    BROOK MANVILLE / JOSIAH OBER
    A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country’s system of governance is being “tested” or is “under attack.” But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back ...
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    46,80 €

  • HOW TO INTERPRET THE CONSTITUTION
    CASS R. SUNSTEIN
    From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpretedThe U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today—about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane theories of constitutional interpretation are prof...
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    35,55 €

  • THE POWER OF ORGANIZATIONS
    HEATHER A. HAVEMAN
    How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for ...
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    52,42 €

  • THE PARTY AND THE PEOPLE
    DICKSON, B.
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    43,68 €

  • INSIDE THE MIND OF A VOTER
    BRUTER, M. /   / HARRISON, S.
    Could understanding whether elections make people happy and bring them closure matter more than who they vote for? What if people did not vote for what they want but for what they believe is right based on roles they implicitly assume? Do elections make people cry? This book invites readers on a unique journey inside the mind of a voter using unprecedented data from the United ...
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    39,52 €

  • POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURS
    DE VRIES, C. /   / HOBOLT, S.
    Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain. Like disruptive entrepreneurs, these parties offer new policies and defy the dominance of established party brands. In the face of these challenges and a more volatile electorate, mainstream ...
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    36,40 €

  • THE STORY OF SILVER
    WILLIAM L. S.
    "This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price o...
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    38,00 €

  • THE LOUD MINORITY
    GILLION, D.
    The “silent majority”—a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan—refers to the supposed wedge that exists between protestors in the street and the voters at home. The Loud Minority upends this view by demonstrating that voters are in fact directly informed and influenced by protest activism. C...
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    39,52 €

  • THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA
    KETTL, D.
    Federalism was James Madison’s great invention. An innovative system of power sharing that balanced national and state interests, federalism was the pragmatic compromise that brought the colonies together to form the United States. Yet, even beyond the question of slavery, inequality was built into the system because federalism by its very nature meant that many aspects of an A...
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    34,32 €

  • LET THE PEOPLE RULE
    MATSUSAKA, J.
    Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let the People Rule, this belief is based in fact. Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people...
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    39,52 €

  • DEMOCRATIC EQUALITY
    JAMES LINDLEY WILSON
    Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect one another as equals. But in today's divided public square, democracy is challenged by political thinkers who disagree about how democratic institutions should be organized, and by antidemocratic politicians who exploit uncertainties ...
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    53,04 €

  • MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS
    BASCOMPTE, J. / JORDANO, P.
    Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as opposed to broader mutual connections between communities of organisms. Mutualistic Networks is the first book to comprehensively explore this burgeoning field. Integrating different ...
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    67,60 €