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Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The
Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous centre of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs,...
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
' Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves' SUNDAY TIMES 'If Orwell were with us today, he'd be writing books like this' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'Breath-taking and jaw-dropping'...
The Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
Author: Zahaan Bharmal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
In this groundbreaking study, S. Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German business leaders remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. He...
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600
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Why did Italy produce so much art in the Renaissance? In this book, historian Richard Goldthwaite finds new answers to this question by focusing on the demand for art as...
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and
An urgent follow-up to international bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading...
The Big Fail: How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most
A damning indictment of American capitalism, as exposed through the failures of the government, private sector and overall economic resilience throughout the COVID pandemic. From the author of the modern...
The Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
Author: Zahaan Bharmal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A...
Every Body Counts: Money, lies, and the hidden trade in human lives
Author: Barbie Latza Nadeau Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Property: The myth that built the world
Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of...
Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to
Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine. 'Absolutely fascinating and totally absorbing' JAMES HOLLAND 'A brilliant book'...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and
'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and
'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind
Six Plants That Transformed Mankind: A classic of historical commentary, this new edition includes a new chapter on the coca plant. Henry Hobhouse takes six commercial plants - sugar, tea,...
The Voltage Effect
The definitive guide to the science of scalability- how to make good ideas great, and great ideas scale Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take...
Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to
Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine. 'Absolutely fascinating and totally absorbing' JAMES HOLLAND 'A brilliant book'...
The Gambling Animal: Humanity's Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How
Evolution is a series of bets and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes....
The Gambling Animal: Humanity's Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How
Evolution is a series of bets and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes....
Femonomics: The Life-Changing, Data-Driven Guide to Making Better
*This book is published in the USA with the title HAVING IT ALL* 'Empowering' FINANCIAL TIMES ' Life-changing.' LUCY MANGAN 'Revelatory...rigorous...exhilarating' IRISH TIMES IT'S NOT IN YOUR HEAD. IT'S IN...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution
An account of Russia's second revolution - the country's wrenching transition from Communist central planning to a market economy - told by interweaving high politics with glimpses of the revolution's...
Extreme Money: the Masters of the Universe and the cult of risk
Epic in its scope, Extreme Money reveals how we have all become slaves to our own illusory, unsustainable creation- global finance. The bestselling author on how money and finance enslaved...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...
The Decline of the Age of Oil: Petrol Politics: Australia's Road ahead
The book titled The Decline of the Age of Oil: Petrol Politics: Australia's Road ahead by the author Brian J. Fleay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of...
Leadership Presence: Dramatic Techniques to Reach out Motivate and
BRING THE TECHNIQUES OF THE STAGE TO THE BOARDROOM. For more than a decade, Belle Linda Halpern and Kathy Lubar have applied the lessons and expertise they have learned as...
Spiritual Capital - Wealth We Can Live By
Our capitalist culture and the business practices that operate within it are in crisis. Capitalism as we know it today-an amoral culture of short-term self-interest, profit maximization, emphasis on shareholder...
The New Realities
While this book is not futuristic it does attempt to define the concerns, the issues and the controversies that will be realities in years to come. The author contends that...
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875
The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic...
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition)
We're getting richer but we're not getting any happier - why? In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart...
More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
In this fully revised and updated Sunday Times bestseller, Steve Hilton shows that we can create a more local, more accountable, more human way of living that will make us...
Golden State: The Making of California
From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this...
Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis- and Europe - Can Be Fixed
The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency has brought...
Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet
Global warming has been described as the biggest environmental threat facing humanity. From drought to hurricanes, global warming has various effects on our lives, some positive but most are negative....
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First
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None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who...
The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better
The real world is messy, circular and aggressive. It's full of 'wicked problems' that are not easy to solve in the neat, theoretical ways that game theory or chess challenges...
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The"Irish Economic...
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into...
Barbarians of Oil: How the World's Oil Addiction Threatens Global
An engaging look at the global oil industry and how to navigate the price volatility and new policies associated with it Oil is a constantly changing industry, and with the...
Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty...
China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are
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The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role...
Banksters
1929... On Wall Street, during the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, the word Banksters was coined to describe those ruthless individuals who had gambled away the country...
Age of Greed: the Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970
A vividly told history of how greed bred America's economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. As Jeff Madrick makes clear in...
After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and
Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" the British economy was transformed....