Libros de

Introduction to quantum computing for business

How will businesses use quantum technology in the future? What problems will a quantum computer solve? How long will it take before these devices become commercially relevant? With the first generation of quantum computers on the horizon, understanding their impact is more relevant than ever ...

Data strategy

how to use data and artificial intelligence to transform your business

Is your business equipped with a data strategy that drives real impact? Data Strategy is an essential guide for business leaders who want to use data to build a competitive, future-ready organization. Written by bestselling author and futurist Bernard Marr, this book shows how to ...

In our interest

how democracies can make immigration popular

The economic benefits of increased immigration are potentially massive, many experts say. The United States and other wealthy countries, however, have put up barriers against even the highest-skilled foreign workers. Such choices reflect public opinion, which typically favors stringent restrictions. Under what conditions do voters ...

Iran's grand strategy

a political history

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats-external aggression and internal dissolution Iran ...

Digital finance and metaverse in banking

decoding a virtual reality towards financial inclusion and sustainable development

Digital Finance and Metaverse in Banking explores how emerging technologies can revolutionize banking services, enhance financial inclusion, and contribute to sustainable development goals. With contributions from a range of experts, coverage includes the evolution of digital finance, the integration of metaverse technologies in banking, and ...

Terror in France

the rise of Jihad in the West

The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer ...

America in the Arctic

foreign policy and competition in the melting North

As climate change accelerates, the Arctic has become a frontline of global competition. Melting ice, rising temperatures, and swelling seas have made remote regions at once newly accessible and rife with new dangers. Vladimir Putin's Russia has embarked on a substantial military buildup in ...

Memory lane

the perfectly imperfect ways we remember

An illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories-and how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thrive We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct ...

The national interest

politics after globalization

Globalization is over. With US president Donald Trump pursuing an 'America First' agenda in trade and foreign policy, everyone now recognises the urgency of defending their own country's national interest. But what is the national interest and why did it disappear from the political ...

My tax dollars

the morality of taxpaying in America

When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance In My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than ...

Radical abundance

how to win a green democratic future

'Rigorously argued and radically hopeful' - Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism 'Indispensable ... resets the terms of left debate' - Jodi Dean, author of Capital's Grave Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and ...

Attention, shoppers!

American retail capitalism and the origins of the Amazon economy

How large American retailers outgrew the capacity of government to regulate them The United States is widely recognized as the quintessential consumer society, one where huge companies like Walmart and Amazon are famous for enticing customers with cheap goods and speedy delivery. Attention, Shoppers! traces ...

On truth in politics

why democracy demands it

The "philosopher of truth" (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value-and how it can be strengthened Do any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? Should we? In a world of big lies, denialism, and ...

The economic experience

an introduction through experiments

An innovative introduction to economic behavior that uses interactive experiments to promote experience-based discovery This book presents a unique active-learning approach to economic thinking, providing a behavioral perspective on basic economic concepts ranging from trust to trade. Each chapter features a classroom experiment where students ...

Valuation

measuring and managing the value of companies

The #1 best-selling guide to business valuation, newly updated and revised Valuation, University Edition, Eighth Edition: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies is filled with the expert guidance from McKinsey & Company that students and professors have come to rely on for more than 30 ...

Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions

An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to guarantee peace and stability ...

Delicioso

a history of food in Spain

Spanish cuisine, a rich tapestry of cultures, flavours and ingredients, has been shaped by Greek, Roman, Jewish, Moorish and Middle Eastern influences. The diverse climate and geography of Spain have fostered a variety of regional food traditions, including Basque, Galician, Castilian, Andalusian and Catalan. Over ...

The Minoans

lost civilizations

Bronze Age Crete stands as one the most extensively explored parts of the world archaeologically, yet the island maintains an air of labyrinthian mystery. This book offers an authoritative introduction to the world of the Minoans, the first 'modern' civilization on European soil. With its ...

The long shadow of extraction

the origins of indigenous autonomy demands

From the onset of colonialism, Indigenous communities have faced seizure of their land, labor, and resources by non-Indigenous actors. In The Long Shadow of Extraction, Christopher Carter argues that the native groups' resistance to extraction took distinct forms, and that this variation explains why some ...

Classicism and other phobias

A provocative case for why immortalizing Greek and Roman culture as "classical" marginalizes and devalues Black life Greek and Roman antiquity has been enshrined in disciplines and curricula at all levels of education, perpetuating what the historian of political thought J.G.A. Pocock has ...