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The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050

The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050

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Author: Daniel Franklin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still...
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

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Author: Richard Baldwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives quickly - but digital disruption goes much further than we realize. Richard...
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

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Author: Richard Baldwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives quickly - but digital disruption goes much further than we realize. Richard...
No Logo (Collins Modern Classics)

No Logo (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
The Age Of The Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What To Do About It

The Age Of The Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What To Do About It

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The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century

The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century

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Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization

Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization

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Author: Nadav Eyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will...
Can Globalization Succeed?

Can Globalization Succeed?

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Author: Dena Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies have delivered economic integration between countries and brought global inter-connectedness to individuals....
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

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Author: Bob Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace...
The Descent of Man

The Descent of Man

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Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

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Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism

The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism

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Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

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Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix

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Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 If you were given one trillion dollars, to be spent in a year, on science, what would you do? It's an...
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

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Author: Katrine Marcal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I am absurdly excited for this book' Caroline Criado Perez Why did it take us 5,000 years to attach...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

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Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World

Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World

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Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Do you know where your shoes come from? Do you know where they go when you're done with...
Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray

Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray

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Author: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 252 With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

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Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...