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A flight manual for leveraging advanced technology in long-term investing.

"Trading Life investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade in Cairo, Egypt, based on interviews with organ sellers and brokers"--

This book relates a society's prospects for economic and political development to basic types of collective action problems that correspond to particular configurations of institutional systems.

This book is a riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in service of family and work in our daily life.

This is a study of higher education in the world's four largest developing economies-Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Already important players globally, by mid-century, they are likely to be economic powerhouses. But whether they reach that level of development will depend in part on how successfully they create quality higher education that puts their labor forces at the cutting edge of the information society.Using an empirical, comparative approach, this book develops a broad picture of the higher education system in each country in the context of both global and local forces. The authors offer insights into how differing socioeconomic and historic patterns of change and political contexts influence developments in higher education. In asking why each state takes the approach that it does, this work situates a discussion of university expansion and quality in the context of governments' educational policies and reflects on the larger struggles over social goals and the distribution of national resources.

What is meant by being human? What are the grounds on which to justify a human being's claim to being human? Is it not conceivable that our entire civilization is built upon a misinterpretation of man? Or that the tragedy of man is due to the fact that he is a being who has forgotten the question: Who is Man? This book deals with these questions.

Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long after the transatlantic slave trade had been abolished, Spain continued to smuggle thousands of Africans annually to Cuba to work the sugar plantations. Nearly a third of the royal income came from Cuban sugar, and these profits underwrote Spain's modernization even as they damaged its international standing.Surwillo analyzes a sampling of nineteenth-century Spanish literary works that reflected metropolitan fears of the hold that slave traders (and the slave economy more generally) had over the political, cultural, and financial networks of power. She also examines how the nineteenth-century empire and the role of the slave trader are commemorated in contemporary tourism and literature in various regions in Northern Spain. This is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of not just Cuba, but the illicit transatlantic slave trade to the cultural life of modern Spain.

This book uncovers how working the night shift at India's transnational call centers affects the lives of women workers.

At the time the Soviet Union broke apart, it possessed the largest scientific community in the world. The world's leading authority on Soviet science here examines how the Russian experience sheds light on the status and character of science and technology throughout the world.

Since the 1970s China has been undergoing economic transformation ushered in by the program of market-oriented economic reform. This is a study of these reforms - their political origins and impact, and the nature of the political forces which have conditioned their character and effectiveness.

"Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Creazione e anarchia: l'opera nell'etaa della religione capitalistica."

Gerhard Richter's book explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer.

Distinguished by its range of material and depth of coverage, this book offers sustained readings of some of the most important (and difficult) statements on language in modern European philosophy. Among its contributions to the literature on the authors treated is the single farthest-reaching interpretation available of Heidegger's On the Way to Language.

This work offers a new perspective on the process of Jewish integration in modern Europe. Heretofore, discussions of Jewish culture and politics in the 18th century have emphasized enlightenment in Berlin and emancipation in Paris.

This history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two questions: Why was the war fought? And What were the immediate and lasting results of the Communists' victory? It also shows how campaigns were mounted against changes in politics, society and culture.

A history of China's desperately unequal modern economic landscape that begins in the nation's remote Southwest but ends by providing new understandings of ethnic inequality and the origins of China's unique corporate organizations.

"Arguing that debates over legitimacy, political violence, freedom, and justice would benefit greatly from cross-tradition theorizing, this book shows how putting analytic and continental political theory in conversation would help us to overcome these intractable problems"--

Dying to Serve is a study of the affective relationships at the heart of war and violence.

Revisiting the history of Western religious thought and the role of nature and creation therein, this book paves the way for a new natural theology by bringing medieval theologian John the Scot Eriugena into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.