Politics of the world economy

Empire, Political Economy, and the Diffusion of Chocolate in the Atlantic World

This book follows the red thread of cocoa / chocolate through geographically dispersed social and economic networks within the Spanish empire to inves

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Work in the Gig Economy

Throughout the last decade, the ‘gig economy’ has emerged as one of the most significant developments in the world of work.

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Transformation, Agency and the Economy

This book outlines the contours of economics grounded in real-world phenomena and experiences by outlining the foundations of a Grounded Economics. Th

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Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World

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Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade presents the most up-to-date review of scholarship in this field.

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On Politics and Stuff

Join resident ABC-TV 7.30 satirists Mark Humphries and Evan Williams as they show you the world of politics as you've never seen it before.

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Politics of Order in Informal Markets

This is a book for political scientists and economists interested in the political economy of development and private governance, along with anyone in

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Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia

Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares Ott

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Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

Experts from around the world review the complex and rapidly changing politics and policies of austerity in this comprehensive collection of essays. T

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Politics of Abortion in Latin America

With Latin America home to some of the most draconian bans on abortion in the world, abortion rights is one of the most controversial and hotly-contes

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Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions

This book interrogates when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, a period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting beh

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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent temporality in the modern world in which contemporary time wi

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Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture

The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in scale and character. Volume Three of The Cambridge History of th

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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (000842294X)

Kniha - autor Alex Ross, 784 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics?an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty...

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Rethinking Power, Institutions and Ideas in World Politics

In this collection of work by renowned scholar Amitav Acharya, Acharya draws on extensive research from throughout his career and examines the dominan

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Avalon Hill desková hra Axis a Allies 1942 2nd Edition english

It's spring 1942, and the world is at war. Five major powers struggle for supremacy!Controlling one of the Axis or Allied powers, players will command both their country's military forces and its war-time economy, with the chance to plan attacks, marshal forces into embattled territories, and resolve conflicts. Victory will go to the side that conquers its opponents on th...

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Avalon Hill desková hra Axis a Allies 1941 english

It is 1941. Five major powers struggle for supremacy. The Axis has great momentum and is expanding its conquests in both Europe and Asia.Controlling one of the Axis or Allied powers, you will command both your country's military forces and its war-time economy. Show that you are a brilliant military strategist by planning your attacks, marshaling your forces into embattle...

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New Social Street Economy

A New Social Street Economy: An Effect of The COVID-19 Pandemic explores the impact of the Corona crisis on the capitalist world and how it contribute

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Artists Remake the World

An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism

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A Short History of the World in 50 Places - neuveden

Anotace: Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world.From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where remains of some of our earliest tool-using ancestors were found, to the CERN laboratory, where revolutionar...

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Velvet Rope Economy

A gripping expose of the way inequality is built into our everyday world - and who profits.

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Policy Agendas in British Politics

Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crim

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Exploring the Future of Russia's Economy and Markets

Based on the 2017 conference "'New Reality' and Russian Markets" held at Harvard University, this book brings together world-renowned thinkers to offe

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Rural Enterprise Economy

This book offers comprehensive answers to the question of what makes up the rural enterprise economy in the contemporary business world. It addresses

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Rural Enterprise Economy

This book offers comprehensive answers to the question of what makes up the rural enterprise economy in the contemporary business world. It addresses

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Exhausted of Earth, Politics in a Burning World Watkins Media Limited

Marrying the scientific and political sides of the climate crisis issue, this is a hopeful call to arms about how we can overcome climate change....

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Politics: A Very Short Introduction

In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prom

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Fictional Television and American Politics

This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Dona

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The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Tim Marshall

<p>AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating and crucial insight into how, even as humanity moves upwards into the final frontier, we'll be influenced by the geographies of space. Marshall has done it again!' Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy in...

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Boosting Shared Prosperity in Chad

Chad's economy has contracted since 2015, preventing poverty reduction and the improvement of development outcomes. This Systematic Country Diagnostic

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Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy

Comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy. Covers the whole of the Greek world from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with separat

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Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy

Comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy. Covers the whole of the Greek world from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with separat

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Crisis of Culture, Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

A brilliant analysis of identity politics by world-renowned thinker Olivier Roy....

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Geopolitics and Geoculture

This is the third volume of Immanuel Wallerstein's essays to appear in Studies in Modern Capitalism, following the immensely successful collections The Politics of the World Economy and The Capitalist World Economy. Written between 1982 and 1989, these pieces offer Wallerstein's perspective on the events of this period, and the background to his interpretation of the mome...

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Art of War

Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, Art of War is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the history and theory of war in the West. Christopher Lynch's fluid tran...

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Analysis of Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation

'Politics as a Vocation' examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action on modern societies. On one level, it summarizes the political scholarship of one of the founding fathers of social science. On another, it reflects practical concerns about the future of Germany after its defeat in World War I.

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The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World - THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Marshall Tim

Anotace: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and The Power of GeographySpy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes.This isn`t sc...

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The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World - THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Tim Marshall

<p>THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023 Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This ...

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Assam Politics in Post-Congress Era

This book focuses on the how the uniqueness of Assam, in terms of its location, geography, social plurality and economy, as well as its history, have

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Power, Politics and Influence at Work

Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issue

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Caesarism in the 21st Century

The profound turbulence in global politics is the result of digital information technologies changing the structure and makeup of world order. As thes

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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy (1784705756)

Kniha - autor Yanis Varoufakis, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales – from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix – Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times. In answering his daughter’s decepti...

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World as I See it

The most advanced and celebrated mind of the 20th Century, without a doubt, is attributed to Albert Einstein. This interesting book allows us to explore his beliefs, philosophical ideas, and opinions on many subjects. Subjects include politics, religion, education, the meaning of life, Jewish issues, the world economy, peace and pacifism.

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World Society

This analytical interdisciplinary approach to the study of behaviour in world society attempts to make relatively advanced material intelligible to those without the background of political science which has hitherto been necessary. Dr Burton, viewing world society as a total environment in which the behaviour of individuals, groups, nations and states occurs, describes e...

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Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World - Chang Ha-Joon

Anotace: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arr...

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Old World

Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?   Marry for politics, raise your heirs, and manage your relationship with the families of your kingdom. In the fast and furious world...

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The Power of Strangers : The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World - Joe Keohane

<p>When was the last time you spoke to a stranger? In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we carefully curate who we interact with. In our politics, we are increasingly consumed by a fear of people we've never met. But what if strangers, long believed to be the cause of many of our proble...

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The Power of Geography : Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World - Marshall Tim

Anotace: *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*`I can`t imagine reading a better book this year´ Daily MirrorTim Marshall`s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation´s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn´t changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are se...

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Nonviolent Resistances in the Contemporary World

This volume studies nonviolent movements as instruments of change in contemporary global politics. It presents case studies of civilian-led nonviolent

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Nonviolent Resistances in the Contemporary World

This volume studies nonviolent movements as instruments of change in contemporary global politics. It presents case studies of civilian-led nonviolent

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On My Country and the World

Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subje

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Attention Economy and How Media Works

This book offers a considered voice on the advertising chaos that colours our rapidly changing media environment in a world of fake news, fast facts a

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State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe

Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer whose main contribution to social science - the

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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nationÂ’s demise as a world power, this study

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World in a Selfie

A spirited critique of the cultural politics of sightseeing. Or, why we are all tourists who hate tourists

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Down to Earth : Politics in the New Climatic Regime - Latour Bruno

Anotace: The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people.What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, th...

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Down to Earth : Politics in the New Climatic Regime - Bruno Latour

<p>The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, th...

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Making History: The First World War

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...

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Making History: The First World War (PC)

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It&rsquo;s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...

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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin

<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...

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