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Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillanc...

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life...

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life...

Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our acti...

Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our acti...

On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around...

On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around...

The dynamic that currently underlies global social change is the product of forces that are not of a single type or origin. As a consequence, that ...

The dynamic that currently underlies global social change is the product of forces that are not of a single type or origin. As a consequence, that ...

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual f...

We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and else...

We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and else...

The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks...

The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided...

The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it’s ‘Kalashnikov’. The reason for this is ...

The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it’s ‘Kalashnikov’. The reason for this is ...

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, a...

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, a...

When we speak of global governance today, we no longer mean simply state-to-state diplomacy, international treaties, or intergovernmental organizat...

When we speak of global governance today, we no longer mean simply state-to-state diplomacy, international treaties, or intergovernmental organizat...

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century Euro...

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century Euro...