The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, Paperback - Ben Wildavsky

PROSEIn The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how internationa...

The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera...

The old world order is changing rapidly, with influence declining for leading global powers. As large countries from the USA to the UK struggle to ...

Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twen...

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Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World - Ronald F. Inglehart

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Offers examples - from Hewlett Packard to Microsoft to British Petroleum - of companies whose shareholders have wielded their control in ways that ...

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China is a growing threat to democracy and liberal values around the world

'Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times 'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian The Chinese Communi...

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The global boom in skyscrapers-why it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and peoplePublisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): S...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber PrizeIn Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a nove...

J. D. idolizes his older brother Tom, a.k.a. The Great Brain, a silver-tongued con artist with a genius for making a profit. No matter what the sit...

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Brainwashed is the explosive expose of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro, a recent UCLA gratudate, ...

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This Element provides an overview of the Reinventing Capitalism series, explains the background of its development and contains eight sections that...

A smart, gossipy, and very funny examination of celebrity culture from New York's premiere social columnist. Ben Widdicombe is the only writer to h...

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Reducere. ``Fascinating...a thought-provoking journey into emotion science.``--The Wall Street Journal ``The definitive field guide to feelings and the neuro...

Reducere. A powerful, hopeful critique of the unnecessary death spiral of higher education, The Great Mistake is essential reading for those who wonder why s...

The modern retail system has worked to dazzling effect. From the 19th century, store owners emerged from small beginnings to set in train an indust...

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A look into the LGBT+ community and their impact on the modern workforce

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Reducere. Hurston/Wright LEGACY AwardA 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery-...

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Count down your world with an amazing mix of numbers, facts and statistics

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, h...

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...