The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World (New in Paper)

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThere are over 4.5 million notaries in the United States - public servants appointed by their states to ensure the authenticity and inte...

Reducere. "A cogent, timely warning about the fragility of American democracy." -- Kirkus Reviews What will a conservative Supreme Court do with its power? F...

Reducere. A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successes Crushing student debt, rapidly e...

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

Reducere. Is there evidence of a joint alien-military plot to control humankind? Has a secret cabal of the planet's movers and shakers made an unholy allianc...

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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...

Publisher: Gallic BooksNumber of pages: 1392Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 58Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Stephane Ger...

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

Peter Russell argues that global communications and the internet are helping to link the minds of humanity together to form a single, global brain ...

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...

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the e...

DescriptionCultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for ...

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Reducere. Can an innocent bit of garlic be responsible for your allergies, skin issues, anxiety, digestive problems or hot flashes? Garlic, kale, and other f...

The system that governs how money works, with its brokers and middlemen, has stayed roughly the same for centuries. Now there’s an alternative, and...

Reducere. DescriptionThere's no such thing as a "natural leader." Great leaders have a set of abilities essential to working with and inspiring others, inclu...

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

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 20Cov...

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What will the schools of the future look like? FutureSchool offers research-based design principles upon which the evolution of schools might be ba...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave...

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Reducere. Today, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, pr...

Examines how the technical and conceptual advances that occurred during World War I transformed Australian society. It traces the evolving role of ...

Reducere. A Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it. The curren...

Reducere. ``Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement.``--Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black...

Can food heal some of the most complex medical conditions? My Unremarkable Brain: A Fat-Fueled Adventure into the World of Epilepsy and the Ketogen...

In How Your Brain Works leading neuroscientists and New Scientist introduce the evolution and anatomy of the brain viewed through traits such as: m...

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

Building upon extensive research in Africa, this book analyses the challenges of designing organizations for socioeconomic development. Leveraging ...