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  • Jazz Matters

    Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop

    de David Ake ...
    What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Jazz/Not Jazz

    The Music and Its Boundaries

    Edición de David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Ira Goldmark ...
    What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Time, Space and Capital

    de Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson ...
    Series series New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics series
    In this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can consequently be classed as capital. Thus, capital rather than labor is the real source of creativity, innovation, and accumulation. But capital is also a phenomenon in ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth

    Edición de Lauri J. J Pesonen, Johanna Salminen, Sten-Ake Elming, David A.D. A.D. Evans, Toni Veikkolainen ...
    Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth offers a systematic examination of Precambrian cratons and supercontinents. Through detailed maps of drift histories and paleogeography of each continent, this book examines topics related to Earth's tectonic evolution prior to Pangea, including plate kinematics, orogenic development, and paleoenvironments. Additionally, this book discusses ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Vem faan bryr sig om Åke? : en tragikomisk historia med mycket humor och ironi

    de Kristina Velander ...
    Narrado por David Zetterstad ...

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    4 hora 33 minutos

    Vem fan bryr sig om Åke? av Kristina Velander är en gripande och humoristisk skildring av livet med multipel skleros. När MS plötsligt flyttade in i tillvaron, förvandlades hennes värld till en surrealistisk följetong. Förlusten av självständighet och mötet med Åke, namnet författaren har gett den påträngande och egoistiska sjukdomen, gestaltas med humor och ironi.Kristina kämpar mot Åke, den ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Economics Rules

    The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

    de Dani Rodrik ...
    “A hugely valuable contribution. . . . In setting out a defence of the best in economics, Rodrik has also provided a goal for the discipline as a whole.” —Martin Sandbu, Financial TimesIn the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Economyths

    How the Science of Complex Systems is Transforming Economic Thought

    de David Orrell ...
    From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, "Economyths" reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction was for an eleven per cent gain. But by the end of the year, the Standard and Poor's 500 index - a key ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Soulful Science

    What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition

    de Diane Coyle ...
    For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Beyond Growth

    The Economics of Sustainable Development

    de Herman E. Daly ...
    "Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the earth and its diminishing natural resources at the center of the field . . . a kind of reverse Copernican revolution in economics."--Utne Reader"Considered by most to be the dean of ecological economics, Herman E. Daly elegantly topples many shibboleths in Beyond Growth. Daly challenges the conventional notion that growth is always good, and he ... Leer más

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  • Regional Economics

    de Roberta Capello ...
    Series series Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
    The second edition of Regional Economics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of regional economics. This fully revised edition includes key theoretical developments of the last ten years.Topics included span from the earliest location theories to the most recent regional growth theories. It is also is also enriched by the recent debate on smart specialization strategies recently ... Leer más

    $111.99 USD

  • Lawlessness and Economics

    Alternative Modes of Governance

    de Avinash K. Dixit ...
    Series series The Gorman Lectures in Economics
    How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state.In much of the world and through much ... Leer más

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  • Economic Thought

    A Brief History

    Traducido por Jeremiah Riemer ...
    de Heinz Kurz ...
    In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such as Paul Samuelson and Kenneth J. Arrow. With a keen eye for how economic insights are acquired, lost, and ... Leer más

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