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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Poor Economics

FULLY UPDATED EDITION WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERSFrom the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in EconomicsWhy would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in Ind…

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Kati L Griffith, Shannon Gleeson, Patricia Campos-Medina, Dubuisson Darlene
Legalized Inequalities

Beyond unlivable wages and a lack of upward mobility, low-wage work in the United States is rife with danger and degrading treatment. Immigrants and people of color are overrepresented in these "bad …

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Norifumi Daito
Sugar and the Indian Ocean World

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular…

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Becky Holmes
The Future of Fraud

FRAUD IS A BIG BUSINESS: Discover the ways fraudsters target us, what future technological threats await us---and how we can protect ourselves. The latest edition in the FUTURES series takes you inside th…

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Disease Control Priorities, Fourth Edition (Volume 1)

DCP4 works with low- and lower-middle-income countries to improve health outcomes by using economic evidence for better priority setting in healthcare. Volume 1 shares lessons from country led processes i…

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Encounters at the Counter

"This volume focuses on interactions in shops, exploring the dynamics of conversation between sellers and customers. Beginning with the emergence of a 'need' for a product before the request to a sel…

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Murray Carpenter
Sweet and Deadly

How Coca-Cola makes Americans sick---and makes sure we don't know it.If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The Coc…

lieferbar ab 24.2.2026.

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Cory Doctorow
Enshittification

Enshittification: it's not just you-the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it.We're living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services t…

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Geert Reuten
Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society

What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detai…

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The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History

The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History offers a critical survey of the development of the field that unites historical scholarship along thematic lines and uses examples from diverse places to examine a w…

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Debra Whitman
The Second Fifty

As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Debra Whitman, a globally recognized expert on aging, wanted to delve deeper into why so many Americans struggled to live well as they aged. And she began to wonde…

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Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism

As the nature of work is rapidly changing with advances in technologies of automation, the essays in this volume examine the ethics and politics of meaningful labour under digital capitalism.

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Thibauld Marcesse
The Accommodation of Democracy

In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse documents the implementation of the world's largest publics works program--called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS--in India's mo…

lieferbar ab 22.12.2025.

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Inequality Around the World

This authoritative two-volume set explores and explains the extent and roots of socioeconomic inequality both within and across nations. Both volumes focus on examining factors that shape the dimensions a…

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Simon Pare-Poupart,
Trash!

A Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears" . . .This fascinating no-bullshit accoun…

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Mardi Reardon-Smith
Making Do

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used f…

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Mardi Reardon-Smith
Making Do

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used f…

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Wine Tourism and Sustainability

As climate change continues to threaten the viability of wine regions, sustainable practices have become essential for the survival of the sector. In this context, wine tourism must minimize cultural and …

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Michael M Grynbaum
Empire of the Elite

"From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condâe Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s thro…

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Kristin Collier
What Debt Demands

A powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America's broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives.At 22 years old, Kristin Co…

lieferbar ab 18.11.2025.

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