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Corey Keyes
Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential.”—Adam Grant , #1 New York Times bestsell...
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Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity
People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art a...
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Delia Perlov
Cosmology for the Curious
This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. Our universe originated in a great explosion – the big bang. For nearly a century cosmologists have studied the aftermath of this explosion: how the universe expanded and cooled down, and how galaxi...
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Jeremy Bates
Mountain of the Dead (World's Scariest Places)
Are you a fan of Stephen King and Dean Koontz? If you're looking for something fresh and new, join the millions of readers who have already taken the journey to the World's Scariest Places. The greatest unsolved mystery of the 20th century—until now. Fact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in...
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Shirley Lindenbaum
Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
Perhaps the best-documented epidemic in the history of medicine, kuru has been studied for more than fifty years by international investigators from medicine and the human sciences. This significantly revised edition of the landmark anthropological classic Kuru Sorcery brings up to date the anthropo...
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Jon Pierre
Governance, Politics and the State (Political Analysis, 31)
Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational and global politics. The long-awaited second edition of this textbook takes into account the signif...
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Quentin Skinner
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to earl...
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E.H. Carr
Nationalism and After: With a new Introduction from Michael Cox
Published in 1945, Nationalism and After was a best-selling classic in its own time which sparked intense debate when it first appeared and has continued to do so ever since. Authored in a moment of hope, E.H. Carr’s uncompromising critique of nationalism and plea for a more rational internation...
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Rahul Mukherjee
Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India—what he calls radiant infrastructures—creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opin...
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Noah L. Nathan
The Scarce State (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions where the state is otherwise scarce can have outsize, long-lasting effects on society. The Scarce State reframes our understanding of the political econ...
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Joeri Van Den Bergh
How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generations Y and Z
WINNER: Berry-AMA Book Award 2012 (1st edition) WINNER: Expert Marketing Magazine's Marketing Book of the Year Award 2011 (1st edition) How Cool Brands Stay Hot analyses Generations Y and Z, the most marketing savvy and advertising-critical generations yet. It reveals how millennials think, fe...
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Daniel Estulin PhD
In the Shadows of a Presidency
On November 8, 2016, the seemingly impossible became real: Donald Trump—billionaire tycoon with fundamentally xenophobic, savage, and populist speech—won the presidency and began endangering values like democracy and world peace. Author Daniel Estulin argues that nothing about this situation wa...
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Pedro Uria-Recio
How AI Will Shape Our Future: Understand Artificial Intelligence and Stay Ahead. Machine Learning. Generative AI. Robots. Quantum AI. Super
The global AI bestseller inspiring US and UK readers. Written by the Chief Data & AI Officer in one of the largest banks in Asia, an ex-Mckinsey consultant, who served at Forbes Technology Council. “A unique perspective that combines technology, economics, geopolitics, and history.” —PAS...
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Anne Gerritsen
Writing Material Culture History (Writing History)
Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical n...
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Dilshad Dayani
Confrontation 9: Taking on the Challenges of Work, Family and Purpose
In confrontation 9, Dilshad Dayani makes a persuasive case on how culture can fog the idea of meaningful success and the amazing potential within you. We all want to achieve our highest dreams and find our place in this world, but who has time to pursue all that? More often than not, our busy lives ...
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Rosemary Foot
China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image
Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) embrace of the UN, and what does its engagement mean in larger terms? This study focuses directly on Beijing's involvement in one of the ...
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Jinying Li
Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai
Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures Why has anime, a “low-tech” medium from last century, suddenly become the cultural “new cool” in the information age? Through the lens of anime and its transnational fandom, Jinying Li explores the meanings and logics of “gee...
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Hein de Haas
How Migration Really Works: The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of  The Identity Trap ​). As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering...
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Dorothy Maxwell
Valuing Natural Capital: Future Proofing Business and Finance (DoShorts)
Companies that will succeed in the long-term are integrating natural and social capital into their business model now. Natural capital, the resources and critical support services nature provides, underpins our entire global economy. Yet despite its vast social and economic value, the many benefits ...
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Jonathan Holslag
World Politics since 1989
1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides of global politics from t...
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