Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The divine right of capital	Marjorie Kelly	"Wealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms - the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says Business Ethics magazine cofounder Marjorie Kelly, is…	OL16061438W
Die Tarnkappe	Markus Orths	Unsichtbar sein. Sehen können, ohne selber gesehen zu werden. Dinge tun, ohne Konsequenzen fürchten zu müssen: Jeder hat sich das schon einmal gewünscht. Simon Bloch, Mitte vierzig, erhält eine …	OL16625250W
Gestatten	Julia Friedrichs	"Es gibt Menschen, sagte er, die sind oben; das sind Gewinner. Und Menschen, die sind unten; die Verlierer." Und wenn man sich weigert, das zu akzeptieren? "Dann", sagte der Coach, "hei©t es ganz sch…	OL16978288W
Leadership and power	S. K. Chakraborty,Pradip Bhattacharya	Contributed articles.	OL17875326W
Hitler (Profiles in Power)	Ian Kershaw	Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimat…	OL1924195W
The 48 Laws of Power	Joost Elffers,Robert Greene	Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it…	OL1968368W
Balance	R. Glenn Hubbard	A quarter century after Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane present a bold, sweeping account of why powerful nations and civilizations break down under th…	OL19969873W
How to Do Things with International Law	Ian Hurd	1 online resource (ix, 187 pages)	OL20228256W
Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts	Vaughan Hart	Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art, in the context of the first Stuart Court. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' Divine Right, and late…	OL2415054W
Geschiedenis van het persoonlijk leven	Georges Duby	Aspecten van het persoonlijk leven in Frankrijk en Italië vanaf het jaar 1000 tot aan de vooravond van de renaissance.	OL24670327W
Die Perlmutterfarbe	Anna Maria Jokl	Die Geschichte eines Diebstahls wider Willen. (Erstausg.: 1948).	OL24754495W
Powerful Talk	Joanna Thornborrow	Joanna Thornborrow examines discourse, power and ideology by introducing new perspectives on the relationship between social structures of power and interaction.	OL2685329W
Power/knowledge	Michel Foucault	"Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Mad…	OL26866W
The power elite and the state	G. William Domhoff	"This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C. Wright Mills are far more accurate views about power in America than those of Mills's opponents. Dr. Domhoff s…	OL2704101W
Organizational power politics	Gilbert W. Fairholm	In 1993, when it named the first edition of Organizational Power Politics: Tactics in Organizational Leadership an Outstanding Academic Book, Choice said, "It contributes to the analysis and discussi…	OL2746919W
Disturbing the universe	Roberta Seelinger Trites	"Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an out-growth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of in…	OL3360481W
A different sense of power	Thomas Fink	"This study analyzes the work of social poets who hail from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and geographical locations in the United States. These figures, who emerged as poets in the last two …	OL4128889W
Bible-Carrying Christians	David Harrington Watt	"Today in the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of Protestant churches whose members habitually carry their Bibles with them. These churches - often referred to as "evangelical" or "fund…	OL4461157W
The power elite	C. Wright Mills	>In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills published the classic book The Power Elite, which looked at how a narrow segment of the population with high positions in different institutions (legislators, co…	OL9008648W