The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century (Aguilera Rodrigo)(Paperback)

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century (Aguilera Rodrigo)(Paperback)

Is the world really getting so much better? Rodrigo Aguilera argues that, despite what some say about 'progress' in the twenty-first century, we are still falling far short of where we could be. Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, climate collapse, and the rise of the

Stagecoach in the Twenty-First Century (Jenkinson Keith A.)(Paperback)

Keith A. Jenkinson looks at the story of Stagecoach in the twenty-first century, with a array of rare and previously unpublished

Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century (Krieg Andreas)(Paperback)

This book explores the emerging phenomenon of 'surrogate warfare' in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it is fought en masse by one military versus the other state's military. But the reality today is that both state and non-state actors are increasingly looking to

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (Archer Neil)(Paperback)

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings

An Analysis of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Broten Nick)(Paperback)

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the

Glass Bead Game (Hesse Hermann)(Paperback / softback)

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as

Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century (Gilmartin Mary)(Paperback)

Considers migration to, from and within Ireland in the twenty-first century, covering the Celtic Tiger era of mass immigration to Ireland as well as the dramatic growth in levels of emigration that has occurred since the Irish economic

The Age of Football - The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century (Goldblatt David)(Pevná vazba)

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first

Merchants of Culture - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century (Thompson John B.)(Paperback / softback)

Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism (Beswick Danielle)(Pevná vazba)

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy (Haskel Jonathan)(Paperback)

Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the

In the New England Fashion (Kelly Catherine E.)(Paperback)

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E. Kelly

Emergency Kit(Paperback / softback)

It is the first book to identify a strain in the poetry of the last half-century which is characteristic of the 'strange times' we live in - an age when, as the editors note, scientific discovery itself has encouraged us to 'make free with the boundaries of

Splinters in Your Eye: Essays on the Frankfurt School (Jay Martin)(Paperback)

Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about

Upanisads (Olivelle Patrick)(Paperback)

In the first major English translation of the ancient Upanisads for over half a century, Olivelle's work incorporates the most recent historical and philological scholarship on these central scriptures of Hinduism. Composed at a time of great social, economic, and religious change, the Upanisads

Art + Science Now (Wilson Stephen)(Paperback)

In the twenty-first century, some of the most dynamic works of art are being produced not in the studio but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical, and social questions connected with cutting-edge scientific and technological research. Their work ranges across

A Cauldron of Anxiety: Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century (Briggs William)(Paperback)

The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastrophes of global conflict and of climate change, have a common cause. The inability of capitalism or the state to respond to existential crises and

The Oxford Handbook of War (Lindley-French Julian)(Paperback)

The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Moore Jason W.)(Paperback)

Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on

World is Flat - The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century (Friedman Thomas L.)(Paperback / softback)

Explores both the benefits and disadvantages of the developments in global communication. The author discusses the annoyance and dangers of BlackBerrys in meeting rooms, hands-free kits in conversation, and using a phone or iPod whilst

Wealth of Humans - Work and Its Absence in the Twenty-first Century (Avent Ryan)(Paperback / softback)

Aelfred's Britain - War and Peace in the Viking Age (Adams Max)(Paperback / softback)

A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in

The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty-First Century (Pryor Robert)(Paperback)

The Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years. This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (Brayshaw Teresa)(Paperback)

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners