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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A look at the fundamental trends that are changing the world, from the experts at The Economist "Megatrends" are great forces in societal development that have profound impacts on states, markets, and civil society in the now and for the years to come. They can effectively be employed as a starting point for analyzing our world. Megachange: The World in 2050 looks at these sweeping, fundamental trends that are changing the world faster than at any time in human history. Including chapters on approximately twenty of these "megatrends," each elegantly outlined by contributors from The Economist, and rich in supporting facts and graphics, the book is a compelling read as well as a valuable research and reference tool. Groups the "megatrends" that are shaping our world into several categories: People, Life and Death, Economy and Business, and Knowledge Each trend is covered in a concise but detailed chapter written by an expert from The Economist Edited by Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor of The Economist Packed with important information about the forces that shape our world, Megachange is a fascinating new look to the future from the experts at The Economist. -- Publisher description.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Here is a definitive text on branding, from the renowned marketing guru and bestselling author of "Positioning" and "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketin g". 30-50 illustrations. National ads/media.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies fi gured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators an ything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech com panies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying it s creators anything. In the 1990s, Adeline drew a successful comic book series that ended up mak ing her kind-of famous. In 2013, Adeline aired some unfashionable opinions that made their way onto the Internet. The reaction of the Internet, being a tool for making millions in advertising revenue from online abuse, was pr edictable. The reaction of the Internet, being part of a culture that hates women, was to send Adeline messages like 'Drp slut . hope u get gang rap e.' Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism and an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of our Internet Age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The new edition of this annual bestseller has been completely updated and expanded. It contains extensive information about the world today - on subjects as diverse as geography, business, transport, finance, the environment, and crime.'.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that p eople first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world be came susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a w ide-ranging exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 BC to the en d of the first century. Survival, honour and wellbeing were the chief preoccupations of Jews and po lytheists alike. In both cases, the author shows, people turned first to su pernatural powers. According to need, season and place polytheists consulte d and placated vast constellations of gods, while the Jews worshipped and c ontended with one almighty and jealous deity. Professor Knapp considers why any Jew or polytheist would voluntarily dispense with a well-tried way of dealing with the supernatural and trade it in for a new model. What was it about the new religion that led people to change beliefs they had held for millennia and which in turn, within four centuries of the birth of its messiah, led it to transform the western world? His conclusions are as convincing as they are sometimes surprising.

Condition: Good. When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying po wer. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting all of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK h as vividly shown. This insularity, together with increased inequality of in come and wealth threatens the future role of the West as a font of stabilit y, prosperity and security. Part of the problem is that the principles of l iberal democracy upon which the success of the West has been built have bee n suborned, with special interest groups such as bankers accruing too much power and too great a share of the economic cake. So how is this threat to be countered? States such as Sweden in the 1990s, California at different t imes or Britain under Thatcher all halted stagnation by clearing away the p owers of interest groups and restoring their societies' ability to evolve. To survive, the West needs to be porous, open and flexible. From reinventin g welfare systems to redefining the working age, from reimagining education to embracing automation, Emmott lays out the changes the West must make to revive itself in the moment and avoid a deathly rigid future.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year sto ry of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Sev erus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, on e after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually ha ve? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? She tracks down the empero r at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. She int roduces his wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers --and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hands. Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact, not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. Winner of the Moore Prize 2020 In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah a nd records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the houses, and the businesses that were and now are cornerstones of the city and his c ommunity. This is, in many ways, an elegy. Green spaces - gardens and hills crowned w ith olive trees - have been replaced by tower blocks and concrete lots; the occupation and the settlements have further entrenched themselves in every aspect of movement-from the roads that can and cannot be used to the burea ucratic barriers that prevent people leaving the West Bank. The culture of the city has also shifted with Islam taking a more prominent role in people 's everyday and political lives and the geography of the city. As he grapples with ageing and the failures of the resistance, Shehadeh not es the ways that the past still invades the presence from the ruins of the compound that was Yasser Arafat's home to the power of emigrated families t o reshape neighbourhoods by selling their long-abandoned homes. This is perhaps Raja Shehadeh's most painfully visceral book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. "In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit-at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future--if we let it."--Dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. This Book is in English.