Business Statistics of the United States is a comprehensive and practical collection of data from as early as 1913 that reflects the nation's economic performance. The text provides a rich and deep picture of the American economy and contains approximately 3,500 time series.
La invasión de robots ofrece respuestas y nos invita a repensar el mundo en el que vivimos. Martín muestra cómo algunos fenómenos económicos aparentemente incomprensibles pueden entenderse si se analizan con rigor, profundidad y amplitud.
A history of the insurance business and the regulation of that business in the United States. It describes the early days of life, fire, and casualty insurance and the development of state regulation in the late nineteenth century.
Explores tuition costs for both public and private schools, and explains how to search for financial aid, scholarships, and grants. Features include worksheets, key takeaways, a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index.
This book reveals how cable TV created new possibilities for anti-establishment voices - and opened a pathway to political prominence for seemingly unlikely figures like Donald Trump - by playing to narrow audiences and cultivating division instead of common ground.
This book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, traditionally focused on the destination experience.
Huerta is one of the great contributors to American history, labor history, women's history, and the history of activism, social justice, and human rights. Here, her story is told in a way that captures the full span of her life and achievements.
This book tells the story of this irreplaceable engineering tool that has helped cities accommodate continuous rise in traffic from the 1950s on. Beginning with UTDM's origins as a method to help plan new infrastructure,
Examines the biggest change in modern financial industry - the Fintech revolution - that denotes the close interaction between the financial services industry and latest information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, blockchain, and artificial intelligence.
Blending economic sociology with business, labor, and social history, this book shows how social stratification shaped credit markets, with enduring consequences for class, race, and gender inequality
With detailed examples across industries - including retail, health care, banking, B2B, technology, fashion, and travel-this book will help executives learn how to put personalization at the center of their strategy, accelerate growth, and capture their share of the $2 trillion personalization prize.
Taking seriously the theological perspective of the "preferential option for the poor," this work contends that to avoid relegating poor people to nonhuman status, we must be willing to put aside the fantasy that AI is "intelligent" and focus rather on the all-too-human embodied reality of the poor.
En este libro, el criminólogo y periodista Enrique Zúñiga analiza el peso específico que tienen las cárceles dentro del vasto sistema criminal de México y revela la guerra oculta —y los inmensos beneficios— que se obtienen.
An accessible, interdisciplinary account of the constraints and pressures on judges in our polarized world. Drawing on law, political science, psychology, and philosophy, Oldfather examines how they have changed over time and interpretive methodologies that have gained traction in response.
Los jóvenes son considerados los principales usuarios de las redes sociales desde muy temprana edad. La investigación tiene como objetivo proponer nuevas medidas de protección regulatoria para salvaguardar específicamente los datos personales de los menores.
This book outlines reforms to improve adaptability and reminds us about the bigger picture: in a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security. Canada's challenge is to show how political systems built to respect diversity and human rights can also respond to existential threats.
The definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women's suffrage. Born Equal is a vital new portrait of America's winding road toward equality.
Adversaries consolidating power. Allies drifting away. Wars raging. Climate change accelerating. Biden's foreign policy team struggled to restore America's global influence after Trump. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and decide the course of its global future.
Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams discusses the history of the founding fathers of the United States. Patriot Presidents focuses on the incumbencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams.
Zelizer and Greenberg bring together the nation's top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars to examine how the lack of stability and integrity of the electoral process has become a threat to national security.
An entertaining synthesis of Native American legal history across more than 100 years, reflecting on race, power, and sovereignty along the way. Embracing the subtle, winking wisdom of trickster stories, and centering on the Indigenous perspective, we can imagine a future that is more just and equitable.
Beyond explaining the unique nature of China's rise, this book provides insights into the next 25 years of Chinese power as well as policy guidance on how the U.S. can maintain a competitive edge in this new era of great power competition.
The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. However, this vision of free movement was hedged by alarm about foreign migrants.
The unfamiliar phenomenon of ungoverning threatens us all regardless of partisanship or ideological leaning. Ungoverning will not be limited to Donald Trump's moment on the political stage. To resist this threat requires that we first recognize what ungoverning is and what it portends.
