Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century (Meister Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century (Meister Robert)(Pevná vazba)

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out 'too big to fail' banks, but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has

Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century (Meister Robert)(Paperback)

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out 'too big to fail' banks, but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has

Democratic Failure: Nomos LXIII (Schwartzberg Melissa)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the challenges facing democracies in the twenty-first century In Democratic Failure, Melissa Schwartzberg and Daniel Viehoff bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the key questions and challenges facing

The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty-First Century (Pryor Robert)(Paperback)

The Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years. This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the

A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent (Rajan Sudhir Chella)(Pevná vazba)

A social theory of grand corruption from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestations are bribery and extortion,

The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland: From the First Century to the Twenty-First (Bray Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

The history of Britain and Ireland is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Christian faith that has shaped it. Introduced when the nations of these islands were still in their infancy, Christianity has provided the framework for their development from the beginning. Gerald Bray's

Raising Keynes: A Twenty-First-Century General Theory (Marglin Stephen a.)(Pevná vazba)

Back to the future: a heterodox economist rewrites Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money to serve as the basis for a macroeconomics for the twenty-first century.John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money was the most influential economic idea of the

An Analysis of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Broten Nick)(Paperback)

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (Hill Fiona)(Pevná vazba)

Constructing Foucault's Ethics: A Poststructuralist Moral Theory for the Twenty-First Century (Olssen Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Seeking to construct an ethics consistent with Foucault's core postulates, this study advances the concept of 'life continuance', an approach it contrasts with a

An Introduction to Real Estate Finance (Glickman Edward)(Pevná vazba)

An Introduction to Real Estate Finance serves as the core of knowledge for a single-semester first course in real estate finance. Unlike other real estate finance textbooks, with their encyclopedic but often stale details, it combines a short traditional text with a living website. The book gives

A Theory of Justice: Original Edition (Rawls John)(Paperback)

John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the

Drone and Apocalypse: An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World (DeMers Joanna)(Paperback)

Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these

Virgin Monologues - Confessions of a Christian Girl in a Twenty-First-Century World (Lloyd Carrie)(Pevná vazba)

An insightful, inspirational, amusing and honest guide to relationships for the modern single Christian

The Age of Football - The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century (Goldblatt David)(Pevná vazba)

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first

The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right (Traverso Enzo)(Pevná vazba)

What is fascism in the twenty first century? What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images

Everyone Leads (Schmitz Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Praise for Everyone Leads 'If America is going to continue to thrive in the twenty-first century, we must strengthen our sense of community. In Everyone Leads, Schmitz lays out the challenges for those of us who have a passion to make a difference and, more important, the strategies to spark

The Theory of Corporate Finance (Tirole Jean)(Pevná vazba)

The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations--equity, debt, and valuation--today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management,

Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White (Sullivan Patricia)(Pevná vazba)

A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time. History, race, and politics converged in the 1960s in ways that indelibly changed

Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism (Beswick Danielle)(Pevná vazba)

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour

Control Theory for Physicists (Bechhoefer John)(Pevná vazba)

Control theory, an interdisciplinary concept dealing with the behaviour of dynamical systems, is an important but often overlooked aspect of physics. This is the first broad and complete treatment of the topic tailored for physicists, one which goes from the basics right through to the most recent

Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (Wark McKenzie)(Paperback)

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other. Wark explores the implications

Challenge of Change - Perspective for Our Twenty-First Century (Moffitt Leonard Caum)(Pevná vazba)

Makes an eye-opening global exploration of human organisation in a tumultuous world. It suggests needed innovation for America's educational system, dissects the evolution of political and economic systems up to modern times as influenced by the world's diversity of cultures and religions, and

God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty (Broocks Rice)(Paperback)

The evidence behind the hit movie! God's Not Dead is apologetics for the twenty-first century, presented in clear and easy-to-follow terms. Learn to defend your faith in a world that's determined to tear it down.The goal of God's Not Dead is straightforward: to help readers develop a faith that is