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  • Tracking Capital
    Michael Niblett / Sharae Deckard / Stephen Shapiro
    Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.Tracking Capital introduces new ways to understand the entanglement of cultural forms and practices in economic, social, and ecological crises and struggles. Building on the fundamental insights of world-systems analysis, the book offers readers a series of rubrics, keywords, and concepts-such as ...
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    43,63 €

  • Roebuck’s Prize
    Michael R. Shapiro
    In a world where the economy is collapsing and legitimate businesses are failing to meet people’s needs, Raf finds himself out of a job and struggling to keep his head above water. His once-loving wife has turned her attention elsewhere, leaving him feeling lost and alone. But Raf refuses to give up. Armed with his education, skills, and resourcefulness, he ventures into the un...
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    12,65 €

  • The Phenomenology of Religious Belief
    Michael J. Shapiro
    In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art - and in particular literature and film - can impact upon both traditional interpretations and critical studies of religious beliefs and experiences. In doing so, he examines the work of prolific and award-winning writers such as Toni Morrison, Philip K. Dick and Robert C...
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    51,21 €

  • The Logic of Language
    Michael Shapiro
    This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare--for students, scholars and advanced readers alike--the lineaments of an understanding of what makes lan...
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    47,53 €

  • Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Primary Prevention
    Michael D. Shapiro
    This book is the first comprehensive text dedicated to risk assessment in the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. It provides an overview of current evidence regarding approaches to risk assessment, traditional and emerging risk factors, and atherosclerosis imaging for refinement of risk estimation. The volume seeks to provide an essential resource for...
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    46,70 €

  • Writing Politics
    Michael J Shapiro
    Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry through a series of violence-themed inquiries that emphasize forms of writing as the vehicles for politically attuned historiography. ...
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    74,84 €

  • Inner Lights
    MICHAEL ALAN SHAPIRO
    Paul Gebhart returned from a one year tour of duty in Vietnam with an un-diagnosed case of post-traumatic stress disorder. His solution was to self-medicate but that decision turned out to be disastrous for his marriage. His wife of ten years will no longer put up with his behavior. She forces him out of their house and begins seeing new people, in search of a new husband.As of...
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    26,35 €

  • On Thunder Road
    MICHAEL ALAN SHAPIRO
    At the apex of the Civil Rights movement in America a young man from New Jersey was deployed to fight in our nation’s first fully integrated war. Assigned to the 1st Infantry Division from October 1967 to October 1968, he shared the experience of combat with young men from all ethnic and economic backgrounds. Embracing their differences, they used their diverse backgrounds to ...
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    24,61 €

  • Raman Shah
    Michael Alan Shapiro
    In the year 1160 a young man named Raman travels to Morocco to join the Sect of Shah where he is to become their head horse trainer. Raman is introduced to the practice of meditating on a special 'Magic' carpet whose intricate, colorful patterns induce the user into seeing ever changing patterns and scenes within their minds. In his interactions with other members of the sect h...
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    26,81 €

  • Femeron
    MICHAEL ALAN SHAPIRO
    Cars propelled with magnetism. Hologram images of past and present movie stars projected into the room for you to dance with and talk to. Waterless showers. All part of life in Femeron by the end of the century. This humorous scifi satire is a tale that takes the Battle of the Sexes to new heights. We are in the year 2090, the United States long ago allowed California and the ...
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    20,24 €

  • Soldier Of Fortune
    Mark Shapiro / Michael Frizell / Darren G. Davis / Darren GDavis
    When the bad guys don't play by the rules... the good guys need the equalizer. STEALTH: Big Guns. Big Attitude. Shoot first and ask questions later. In the tradition of GI Joe, Sgt. Fury and The Howling Commandos, and Sgt. Rock comes the new mercenaries for a new world. ...
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    20,34 €

  • The Political Sublime
    Michael J. Shapiro / Michael JShapiro
    In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant’s analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière to show how incomprehensible events and dilemmas provide openings ...
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    42,56 €

  • The Speaking Self
    Michael Shapiro
    This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore blog.Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contempora...
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    145,00 €

  • Deforming American Political Thought
    Michael J. Shapiro
    The highly anticipated new edition of Michael J. Shapiro’s Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to American historical imagination from the founding to the present using disparate disciplines and genres. ...
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    74,67 €

  • Bicomplex Holomorphic Functions
    Daniele C. Struppa / Daniele CStruppa / M. Elena Luna-Elizarrarás / MElena Luna-Elizarrarás / Michael Shapiro
    The purpose of this book is to develop the foundations of the theory of holomorphicity on the ring of bicomplex numbers. Accordingly, the main focus is on expressing the similarities with, and differences from, the classical theory of one complex variable. The result is an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to the algebra, geometry and analysis of bicomplex numbers.Aroun...
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    74,61 €

  • Basics of Functional Analysis with Bicomplex Scalars, and Bicomplex Schur Analysis
    Daniel Alpay / Maria Elena Luna-Elizarrarás / Michael Shapiro
    This book provides the foundations for a rigorous theory of functional analysis with bicomplex scalars. It begins with a detailed study of bicomplex and hyperbolic numbers and then defines the notion of bicomplex modules. After introducing a number of norms and inner products on such modules (some of which appear in this volume for the first time), the authors develop the theor...
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    68,04 €

  • Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method
    Michael J. Shapiro
    This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how 'method' can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways. Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and methodological theory as well as a wide variety of artistic sources from fine art to cin...
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    94,99 €

  • The Time of the City
    Michael J Shapiro
    The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban theory rather than traditional forms of official city politics. Deriving their me...
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    90,94 €

  • Bottom of the Ninth
    Michael Shapiro
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    19,95 €

  • Cinematic Geopolitics
    Michael J. Shapiro
    In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America’s foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the 'geopolitical aesthetic' that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and ...
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    84,33 €

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts
    Ian Shapiro / Michael Graetz / Michael J. Graetz / Michael JGraetz
    This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead ...
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    49,65 €

  • Let Us Break Bread Together
    Michael A Smith / Rami Shapiro
    Jews have been celebrating the Passover through a special meal, called a seder, for millenia. Jesus himself celebrated the Passover feast with his disciples in what we refer to as The Last Supper.In this special book, co-authored by a rabbi and a pastor, we have the unique opportunity to experience an authentic Jewish Passover seder, from a distinctively Christian perspective. ...
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    13,66 €

  • BREAKING-GROUND
    BEATRICE MICHAEL SHAPIRO
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    18,24 €

  • Methods and Nations
    Michael J. Shapiro
    Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been 'nation-building' in the 'Third World,' often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, unable to resist the 'cognitive imperialism' of a state-centric social science, hav...
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    87,98 €

  • Japan
    Michael Shapiro
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    13,31 €