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A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
An acclaimed author and celebrated journalist breaks down the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment.Global demand for power is doubling...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' - Guardian What explains the spreading backlash against the global...
Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution
Author: Parag Khanna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V....
A Liveable Future is Possible
A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of...
Can Europe Survive?: The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World
A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and Russia Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing,...