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  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    Series Book 114 - The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • AMIPCI Estudio de redes sociales en México y Latinoamérica 2011

    Series series Estudios AMIPCI 2011
    La Asociación Mexicana de Internet (AMIPCI) presenta su Primer Estudio sobre redes sociales en México.Para ello, se incluyeron los principales indicadores sobre redes sociales en México, como universos, perfiles y los principales hábitos de los internautas de nuestro país, para mostrar una representatividad nacional.Adicionalmente, se ha integrado una serie de preguntas sobre los principales ... Read more

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  • The Big Sort

    Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

    by Bill Bishop ...
    The award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrates how Americans have spent decades sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities—not by region or by state, but by city and neighborhood. With ever-increasing specificity, we choose the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AMIPCI Estudio de comercio electrónico en México 2011

    Series series Estudios AMIPCI 2011
    La Asociación Mexicana de Internet (AMIPCI) integra a las empresas que representan una influencia en el desarrollo de la Industria de Internet en México. Año con año, la AMIPCI asume la labor de elaborar estudios sobre el uso de internet en México que orienten y favorezcan el crecimiento del mismo.La AMIPCI, consciente de que es necesario conocer y analizar los aspectos que pueden afectar al ... Read more

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  • Lights Out

    Islam, free speech and the twilight of the west

    by Mark Steyn ...
    Roaming from America to Europe to Australia, Lights Out is a trenchant examination of the tensions between a resurgent Islam and a fainthearted west - and of the implications for liberty in the years ahead. In 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress brought three suits against Maclean's, Canada's biggest-selling newsweekly, for running an excerpt from Steyn's bestselling book America Alone, plus other ... Read more

    $9.96 USD

  • Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • AMIPCI Estudio de protección de datos personales entre usuarios y empresas

    Series series Estudios AMIPCI 2011
    La Asociación Mexicana de Internet (AMIPCI) presenta su Primer estudio sobre protección de datos personales entre usuarios y empresas en México.El estudio nos servirá como referencia para conocer la percepción de los usuarios y de las empresas mexicanas respecto de la protección de datos personales y la privacidad. ... Read more

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  • If Venice Dies

    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    “This powerful book of cultural criticism” by the renowned art historian “shines a harsh light on” a historic city’s destruction in the name of profit (The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AMIPCI Estudio de banca electrónica 2011

    Series series Estudios AMIPCI 2011
    El objetivo del presente estudio es conocer la situación actual de la banca por Internet en México, y proveer un documento que unifique y facilite el entendimiento de la relación entre la banca en línea y los internautas mexicanos.Se diseño una encuesta en línea sobre el uso y los hábitos de productos bancarios en Internet. La encuesta fue aplicada a 1, 194 personas adultas que pertenecen al panel ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Inequality

    How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

    A “powerful and provocative” inquiry into the relationship between societies’ inequality and their citizens’ health, happiness and well-being (Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health).Comparing the United States with other market democracies, and one American state with another, this book presents irrefutable evidence that inequality is a driver of poor health, social conflict, and violence. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lone Star Suburbs

    Life on the Texas Metropolitan Frontier

    How is it that nearly 90 percent of the Texan population currently lives in metropolitan regions, but many Texans still embrace and promote a vision of their state’s nineteenth-century rural identity? This is one of the questions the editors and contributors to Lone Star Suburbs confront. One answer, they contend, may be the long shadow cast by a Texas myth that has served the dominant culture ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Real Indians

    Identity and the Survival of Native America

    by Eva Garroutte ...
    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Who Are We Now?

    Interpreting the Pew Study on Jewish Identity in America Today

    Who is a Jew in 21st century America? Is membership in “the tribe” defined by shared religious beliefs? Common ethnic backgrounds? Familiar holiday practices? Similar tastes in culture and cuisine? And what do the widely varying answers to those questions mean for the future of the American Jewish community? In 2013, at the suggestion of Jewish Daily Forward editor Jane Eisner, the Pew Research ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation

    How to Succeed in a Society That Blames You for Everything Gone Wrong

    A success guide for millennials that debunks the negative stereotypes and champions their unique strength as a generational force to be reckoned with.We’ve all seen the headlines: Millennials aren’t buying diamonds or saving for retirement. They’re killing the housing market because they eat too many avocados. They all want cushy jobs with foosball tables and nap pods. The truth is, millennials ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fragmented Democracy

    Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics

    Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration — both legal and illegal — to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Summary of The Divide

    by Matt Taibbi | Includes Analysis

    Summary of The Divide: by Matt Taibbi | Includes AnalysisPreview:The Divide by Matt Taibbi approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories and rarely heard cases revealed in court proceedings.In the US, bankers and financial officials whose unethical and illegal behavior contributed to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of an Elder Culture

    Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation

    The author of The Making of a Counter Culture delves into how the baby boomers can take on the unfinished business of their rebellious youth.The Summer of Love. Vietnam. Woodstock. These are the milestones of the baby boomer generation Theodore Roszak chronicled in his 1969 breakthrough book The Making of a Counter Culture. Part of an unprecedented longevity revolution, those boomers form the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diversity Explosion

    How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America

    Greater racial diversity is good news for America's futureRace is once again a contentious topic in America, as shown by the divisive rise of Donald Trump and the activism of groups like Black Lives Matter. Yet Diversity Explosion argues that the current period of profound racial change will lead to a less-divided nation than today's older whites or younger minorities fear. Prominent demographer ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Una mirada al futuro demográfico de México (Coedición)

    Series series Grandes problemas
    Esta obra presenta los problemas sociales que se derivarán de la dinámica demográfica futura. El libro aborda el pasado y el presente demográfico de México, buscando identificar las medidas que deberán tomarse de cara al futuro. Profundiza en los efectos del cambio demográfico en el terreno educativo, en la vivienda y en la salud, entre otros aspectos.Colección: "Grandes problemas", coeditada por ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant

    the best of Joe Bageant

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Fundamentos de la geopolitica

    Conceptos geopolíticos universales

    Series Book 4 - Geopolítica internacional
    Según Karl Haushofer"La geopolítica es la conciencia geográfica del Estado. Ella proporciona la materia prima de donde el hombre de Estado, de espíritu creador, obtiene su obra de arte".La geopolítica es una ciencia nueva. Apareció co-mo algo concreto en 1916 y sólo ahora, después de guerras y tormentosos movimientos políticos, ha surgido como algo real e importante luego de haber tenido que ir ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World

    A provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformation.As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of population and resources. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology

    by Hal Caswell ...
    Series series Demographic Research Monographs
    This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified, stage-classified, and multistate population models. Methods are presented for linear and nonlinear, deterministic and stochastic, and ... Read more

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