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  • Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain

    by David Pretel ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context. The Spanish case is particularly interesting because of this country’s location on the so-called European periphery and also because of the centrality of its colonial dimension. Pretel gauges the political regulation and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Human Systems

    Creating Economic Value with Impact for Good

    by Manel Pretel-Wilson ...
    Series series Systems Thinking
    Addressing major social and ecological issues, this book establishes the field of ethics as a fundamental science that cannot be separated from economics and business. In particular, it redefines the nature of good investments which, besides being profitable, have to realize values as opposed to reinforcing the countervalues that are destroying our world.The book develops a universal morality ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization

    A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000

    Edited by Carlos Marichal, David Pretel ...
    This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times. From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise of the textile industry and consumption in Europe, the United States and Latin America. In doing so, it sheds new light ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Multidisciplinary Approach of Musculoskeletal Metastasis

    Current Trends and Future Directions

    Edited by Juan Pretell-Mazzini, Santiago A. Lozano Calderón ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Cancer care has changed dramatically with the development of new treatments. Overall survival, as well as disease free survival and progression free survival, has been changing in favor of prolonged times making surgical approaches different when musculoskeletal metastasis developed and allowing the development of new technologies as well.This book brings together current evidence-based approaches ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy

    Circuits of trade, money and knowledge, 1650-1914

    Edited by Adrian Leonard, D. Pretel ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Technology and Globalisation

    Networks of Experts in World History

    Edited by David Pretel, Lino Camprubí ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts have acted as globalising agents, providing many of the materials and institutional means for world economic and technical integration. Focusing on the study of international connections, Technology and Globalisation ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Utopics

    The Unification of Human Science

    by Manel Pretel-Wilson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby’s cybernetics. In particular, it shows how Einstein’s misgivings about quantum mechanics boil down to his persistence in defending the principle of contiguity at the root of the modern cosmology and, in relation to neo-cybernetics, the book ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Second Conquest of Latin America

    Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930

    Edited by Steven C. Topik, Allen Wells ...
    Series series LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
    Between 1850 and 1930, Latin America's integration into the world economy through the export of raw materials transformed the region. This encounter was nearly as dramatic as the conquistadors' epic confrontation with Native American civilizations centuries before. An emphasis on foreign markets and capital replaced protectionism and self-sufficiency as the hemisphere's guiding principles. In many ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Tiny Engines of Abundance

    A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression

    by Jim Handy ...
    Series Book 7 - Critical Development Studies
    This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A New Stoicism

    Revised Edition

    by Lawrence C. Becker ...
    What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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