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Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest develo...

Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest develo...

This ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia – in particular Cosa Nostra – as a distinct form of politics. Marco Sant...

This ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia – in particular Cosa Nostra – as a distinct form of politics. Marco Sant...

The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology and medicine, a...

The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology and medicine, a...

The “software” that structures our financial system and, through it, our broader economy is made up of certain basic concepts that guide how we thi...

Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out th...

Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out th...

For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to ...

For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to ...

This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from...

This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from...

SECOND UPDATED EDITION, WITH THREE ALL-NEW CHAPTERS The first edition of Making is Connecting struck a chord with crafters, YouTubers, makers, mus...

SECOND UPDATED EDITION, WITH THREE ALL-NEW CHAPTERS The first edition of Making is Connecting struck a chord with crafters, YouTubers, makers, mus...

Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisu...

Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisu...

Is money precious and scarce, necessitating iron fiscal discipline? Must the government always balance the books or risk ruin? Or is money, in fact...

Is money precious and scarce, necessitating iron fiscal discipline? Must the government always balance the books or risk ruin? Or is money, in fact...

In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. On the basis of seventeen conceptual inn...

In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. On the basis of seventeen conceptual inn...

Mark Considine's new book explores the nature of public policy-making in a world undergoing cataclysmic change. Running through the text is the cor...

Mark Considine's new book explores the nature of public policy-making in a world undergoing cataclysmic change. Running through the text is the cor...

Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intellige...