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What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, an...
It is not unusual for nations recovering from wars to incentivize their populations to raise their birthrates. The post-World War II Soviet pronatalism campaign attempted ...
War has been conceptualised from a military perspective, but also from ethical, legal, and philosophical viewpoints. These different analytical perspectives are all necess...
An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy.
One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experie...
Working in the Dark focuses on the authors’ understanding of an individual’s pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special at...
The Politics of Aristocratic Empires is a study of a political order that prevailed throughout much of the world for many centuries without any major social conflict or ch...
The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour, from how clothing can affect our c...
Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West...
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which p...
Every year, millions of students in the United States and around the world graduate from high school and college. Commencement speakers―often distilling the hopes of paren...
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always re...
From Trump's backward-looking promise to "make America great again" to the hipster's fondness for a pre-industrial age of craft, nostalgia saturates our world. Gandini's b...
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.
In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostal...
"A true master of the moral imagination, Esolen breaks through the sentimental surface of nostalgia to reveal its hidden metaphysical depths in the human heart. Homescikn...
Это чрезвычайно проницательная и увлекательная книга о том, что же такое успех в современном мире.
Считается, что успеха достигают трудолюбивые, энергичные и талантливы...
Книга посвящена тем, кого мы привыкли называть оригиналами. Нонконформистам, предпочитающим не приспосабливаться к миру, а меняющим этот мир под себя. Тем людям, которые с...
Интеллект обычно рассматривается как способность думать и учиться, но в быстро меняющемся мире есть еще один набор когнитивных навыков, которые могут иметь большее значени...
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone ...
Автор концепции анти-тайм-менеджмента Ричи Нортон предлагает по-новому взглянуть на поиск баланса между работой и личной жизнью и вернуть контроль над своим временем.
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