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Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced. From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or...- $26.00
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Development: A Very Short Introduction
What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development...- $12.99
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Divided Nations: Why Global Governance Is Failing, and What We Can Do about It
With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that...- $15.99
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Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
The past, present, and future role of global migration Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before,...- $27.95
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Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. Covid-19 left us at a crossroads: should we go back to 'normal', or use the lessons learned during the pandemic to shape a new society?...- $17.99
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Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years
'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees 'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps 'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the...- $55.00
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
How to better manage systemic risks--from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change--in a globalized world The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of...- $23.95
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
How to better manage systemic risks--from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change--in a globalized world The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of...- $42.00
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The Shortest History of Migration: When, Why, and How Humans Move - From the Prehistoric Peopling of the Planet to Today's Refugee Crisis
For hundreds of thousands of years, the ability of Homo sapiens to travel across vast distances and adapt to new environments has been key to our survival as a species. Yet this deep migratory impulse is being tested as never before. The number of...- $16.95
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