Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions.
Co-designing Infrastructures tells the story of a research programme designed to bring the power of engineering and technology into the hands of grassroots community groups, to create bottom-up solutions to global crises.
Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level.
This book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation.
In an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its consequences, Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt draws together current thinking on how to solve debt crises and promote inclusive prosperity.
The Magna Carta, or "e;The Great Charter of the Liberties"e; is one of the most important historical documents in English history and serves as a philosophical basis for democratic monarchy and civil liberties.
Fast’s powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain’s fight for freedom from governmental oppressionHoward Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain.
Leviathan concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.
Edward Bellamy's 'Looking Backward: Dystopian Classic' is a thought-provoking novel set in a utopian future society of the year 2000, where all social and economic problems have been resolved through a centralized system.
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In this controversial and thought-provoking bestseller that has sold more than 125,000 copies, America's fastest-growing syndicated columnist explains how we have lost sight of the things that matter most.
The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home.
President Obama ran on promises of bipartisanship and centrism, but he's delivered something else: unprecedented government borrowing and spending, unsustainable debt, and audacious attempts to usher in a colossal, overbearing government, the likes of which we've never seen.
