Social Sciences

The Disease of Boredom: From Ancient Philosophy to Modern Psychology

Boredom visits all of us at some point. Sometimes it is fleeting. Other times it is deep, lasting, o...

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€33.50

Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Make a Difference?

We often read history as the biographies of ‘great men’ who shaped the world. But are leaders, which...

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€29.70

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success (Updated With a New Afterword)

PRAISE FOR ADAM GRANT'One of my favourite thinkers' MALCOLM GLADWELL'One of the great social scienti...

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€15.70

The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition

During his lifetime, Benjamin Disraeli, the late-Victorian Conservative Prime Minister (and popular...

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€43.20

Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

A devastating critique of the forces propelling us beyond critical temperature limits, by the bestse...

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€18.90

A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements across the Americas

In A New World of Revolutions, Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, politics, and legacies of th...

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€42.30

The Baltic Sea: A Geopolitical History

A junction for economic and political relations in northern Europe The Baltic Sea is more than an i...

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€31.40

The Fall of Republics: A History from Ancient Carthage to the American Constitution

In this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the people, events, and factors...

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€36.70

Maps as Media

Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our...

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€18.90

Reading Riots

Riots and rioting are exceptional though not unusual social phenomena. Despite occurring irregularly...

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€22.00

On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom

A much-needed defense of liberalism—what it is, why it is under threat, and why we need it more than...

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€26.40

Setting Fire to Reason: The Ethics of Free Speech

The debate over free speech is often marked by two extremes: in one corner, those who think that the...

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€36.70

Broken China: How the Economic Miracle Shattered and What it Means for the World

Economic competition between the United States and China has been a defining issue of the twenty-fir...

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€30.40

America's Fatal Leap: 1991-2016

A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historians America's...

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€21.40

The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics and Power

The Secret History of Gold tells the epic tale of the world’s oldest, and most treasured, currency....

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€15.00

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