Globalization
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
$18.00 Add to cartOne of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated
Cities can- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297709
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia: Multiculturalism and Prosperity: The Shared History of Two Southeast Asian Tigers
$18.99 Add to cartThe fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today!
Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with West–vital choke po- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Hale, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0804854203
- Language: English
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
$24.00 Add to cartIn their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire … [more below]
- Author: Hardt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035592
- Language: English
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Living in the End Times
$26.95 Add to cartThe celebrated political philosopher analyzes the end of global capitalism in this “part philosophical tightrope-walk, part performance-art marathon, part intellectual roller-coaster ride” (Observer) … [more below]
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 178663080X
- Language: English
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The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
$28.95 Add to cartToday’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a glo
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0231193742
- Language: English
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
$31.99 Add to cartWith the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk’s explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat’s … [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 24 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254424
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0, with a New Afterword)
$25.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller – Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Books to Read Now – One of Kirkus Reviews‘s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year – One of Publishers Weekly- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141222
- Language: English
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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
$18.99 Read moreBefore the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women’s rights to world peace
- Author: Zahra, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075201
- Language: English
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Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World
$5.00 Add to cartIn this essay, delivered as the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in February 2004, Charles Krauthammer examines four contending schools of American foreign policy: isolation… [more below]
- Series: Irving Kristol Lecture
- Author: Krauthammer, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 21
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0844713880
- Language: English
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Macroeconomics
$21.95 Add to cartThe non-economist’s accessible, pocket-sized refresher on the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies!
Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a … [more below]- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Larrain B., Felipe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538571
- Language: English
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Paradoxical Leadership: How to Make Complexity an Advantage
$49.27 Add to cartParadoxical Leadership reveals how to use tensions between seemingly contradictory perspectives as a driver for sustainable success and innovation.
- Author: Brughmans, Ivo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1487507631
- Language: English
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The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
$14.99 Read moreFrom the man who coined the term “net neutrality,” comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future.
We live in an age of ext- Author: Wu, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0999745468
- Language: English
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Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change
$17.95 Add to cartAs one of the founders of venture capital, which ushered in the Tech Revolution, Sir Ronald Cohen builds on his years of personal experience in IMPACT to deliver a compelling account of how impact inv… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Sir Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1631955144
- Language: English
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To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily str… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1982127260
- Language: English
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Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future
Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevita- Author: Levinson, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0691227098
- Language: English
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Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
$18.99 Read moreA sweeping case that a new age of economic localization will reunite place and prosperity, putting an end to the last half century of globalization–by one of the preeminent economic journalists writi… [more below]
- Author: Foroohar, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593240553
- Language: English
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Wine Wars II: The Global Battle for the Soul of Wine
$29.93 Add to cartWine is an art, a craft, a science, and a delicious part of life enjoyed by millions of people. But it is a global industry, too. In Wine Wars II economist Mike Veseth shows how globalization, commodi
- Author: Veseth, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1538163837
- Language: English
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The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization
$30.00 Add to cartA brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.
The world is at a turning point simi… [more below]- Author: O’Sullivan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724062
- Language: English
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Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth
$16.95 Add to cartReclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity a… [more below]
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0907791786
- Language: English
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Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
$18.99 Add to cartJoseph Nye coined the term “soft power” in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently–and often incorrectly–by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is soft po… [more below]
- Author: Nye, Joseph S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1586483064
- Language: English
