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The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...
How Democracy Ends
'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' - ObserverDemocracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world....
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
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Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas
'Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read' - Guardian 'Incredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' - Irish Times Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' ObserverIn...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' ObserverIn...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States
'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
* THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 * 'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' - The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
* THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 * 'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' - The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and...
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics ''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion' The triumph of the First Crusade...
The Fall Of Constantinople 1453
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the 29th of May 1453, the ancient walls of Constantinople finally gave way to the Ottoman cannons of Sultan Mehmed II, extinguishing the...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
'Brilliant, mind-altering...Everyone should read this astonishing book' David Runciman, Guardian Contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? The...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
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If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future
Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlisted for the National...
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future
Author: Jill Lepore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey...
Glyndebourne: Building a Vision
The Glyndebourne Opera Festival is one of the highlights of the musical year. Since its single-handed creation in the 1930s by John Christie, a determined music lover with the means...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Paul Stephenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times Long before Rome fell...
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future
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David Copperfield
'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show' Dickens's epic, exuberant...