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From Old Regime to Industrial State A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I
ISBN: HB: 9780226725437, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 23 line drawings, 66 tables
In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead co...
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£60,00
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Deconstructing the Monolith The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act
ISBN: HB: 9780226603308, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 13 line drawings, 17 tables
The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was enacted by Congress in June of 1933 to assist the nation's recovery during the Great Depression. Its passage ushered in a unique experiment in US economic history: under the NIRA, the federal government...
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£42,00
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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300219036, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm
In his classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism", Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber's work, Kathryn Tanner provocative...
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£25,00
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Aisles Have Eyes How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300234695, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants t...
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£12,99
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Other People's Houses How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
ISBN: PB: 9780300212709, ISBN: HB: 9780300168983, Yale University Press, July 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded c...
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£36,00
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£20,00
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Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...
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£20,00
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£25,00
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Sixty to Zero An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors - and the Detroit Auto Industry
ISBN: PB: 9780300171518, Yale University Press, May 2011
254 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
The collapse of General Motors captured headlines in early 2009, but as Alex Taylor writes in this in-depth dissection of the car manufacturer's undoing, GM's was a meltdown forty years in the making. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience a...
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£14,99
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