What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching ...
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brou ...
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Gordon (Emeritus Professor and Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester) Campbell
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh ...
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The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Economists are widely reviled and their influence ...
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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the ...
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Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific w ...
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Saifedean (Lebanese American University, Columbia University, London School of Economics) Ammous
A comprehensive and authoritative exploration of Bitcoin and its place in monetary history When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash ...
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Ellena (Sessional tutor and lecturer, RMIT University / PhD Candidate, Monash University) Savage
‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.’Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explo ...
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The first European edition of Francis DK Ching’s classic visual guide to the basics of building construction. For nearly four decades, the US publication Buildi ...
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This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig ...
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Mark (Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Political Economy, Brown University) Blyth
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless ...
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David (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York) Harvey
Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought ...
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according t ...
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Becoming a critical thinker is a straight-forward, reassuring, and complete guide to critical thinking - one that helps you to understand critical thinking and ...
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Daniel (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Exeter) Ogden
An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through historyHow did the dragon get its wings? Everyone in the modern West has a clear idea ...
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How did the start-up dating app, CLikD, quickly rise to become an award-winning competitor to Tinder and Bumble? How should organizations incorporate social med ...
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David (Professor of Genetics, Professor of Genetics, Harvard University) Reich
The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genom ...
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Calculus is the key to much of modern science and engineering. It is the mathematical method for the analysis of things that change, and since in the natural wo ...
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Best Books of 2022: Financial Times Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022: De Tijd Shortlisted for Financial Times Best Business Book of the YearThe most sweeping acco ...
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This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big quest ...
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The book considers the importance of plants in Tolkien's conception of Middle-earth. It develops the theme that Middle-earth is our own world - and will awaken ...
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A university without its own publishing house is like a cathedral without an organ: wild-growing and silent. Masaryk University has got its publishing house, wh ...
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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers ...
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An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge "A rallying cry in favor ...
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