From the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Material World, a story that will take you from ancient civilizations, empire and globalisation through to the most influential geopolitical issue of our times.
During a visit to Jordan Nicholas Hagger stood on Mount Nebo where the prophet Moses stood, and looked down on the Promised Land of Canaan that Moses saw shortly before he died.
In The Fall of the West Nicholas Hagger examined the evidence for the origin of Covid and whether it has been used as a bio-weapon between West and East.
A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first centurywith essential lessons for todayIn The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the world's current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective.
A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first centurywith essential lessons for todayIn The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the world's current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective.
El libro ofrece un análisis integral sobre la configuración territorial de la región orinoquense colombiana en el marco de las transformaciones sociales, políticas, económicas y ambientales de los últimos cincuenta años.
Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state.
Recent years have seen a growing number of activists, scholars, and even policymakers claiming that the global economy is unfair and unjust, particularly to developing countries and the poor within them.
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North AmericaHigher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal arts are outmoded and irrelevant.
Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North AmericaHigher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal arts are outmoded and irrelevant.
*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize* A fascinating exploration of the linkages between ancestral inheritance, diasporic belonging, and our climate future.
A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive usJust as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life.
A lively, engaging and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe, and what Michelle Obama referred to as 'the flimsy difference between success and failure'.
En los diferentes ensayos que componen este libro, Zygmunt Bauman -uno de los pensadores más audaces e influyentes de nuestro tiempo- explora la íntima afinidad e interacción entre el crecimiento de la desigualdad social y el aumento de los "daños colaterales" a los pobres y marginalizados, privados de oportunidades y derechos que se convierten en los candidatos naturales a estos daños de una economía y una política orientadas por el consumo.
Development, Democracy, and Dependency is a sweeping and intellectually rigorous exploration of one of the most enduring questions in modern political economy: why do some nations achieve prosperity, institutional stability, and broad social progress, while others remain trapped in poverty, inequality, fragile democracy, and structural dependence?
Procesos transnacionales como la globalización política, económica y cultural enfrentan a las ciencias sociales con una serie de desafíos teóricos y metodológicos, que surgen debido a que lo global (ya sea una institución, un proceso, una práctica discursiva o un imaginario) trasciende el marco exclusivo del Estado-nación y al mismo tiempo habita parcialmente los territorios y las instituciones nacionales.
En esta inteligente obra, Seyla Benhabib propone concebir la identidad cultural como un proceso de negociacion dinamica, en la esfera no solo publica sino tambien privada.
Book DescriptionPersonalist Diplomacy: Tech Moguls as Shadow Diplomats in a Post-Multilateral WorldIn January 2025, a striking tableau at Donald Trump's inauguration captured a seismic shift in American power: technology billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg sat in seats of honor before the president's own cabinet nominees.
Firing the Cloud: How Humanity Survived and Accelerated is a sweeping, provocative journey through 15,000 years of human history, tracing how we evolved from small, fire-lit bands of hunter-gatherers to a globally networked civilisation living inside a digital cloud.
