3845 results for '"Loader, Ian'

"Before prehistoric humans began to cultivate grain, they had three main methods of acquiring food: hunting, gathering, and fishing. Hunting and gathering are no longer economically important, having...

Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were...

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an extraordinary fictional portrait of the relentlessly fascinating Russian musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich...

The highly anticipated graphic novel adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune comes to an epic conclusion in DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet. Be transported to the Dune universe with this...

In this highly readable book, Brian Skyrms, a recognized authority on game and decision theory, investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Game theory...

A hauntingly beautiful and radically disorienting tale by the International Booker Prize-nominated author of Eurotrash. Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands,...

How political incivility broadcast in close-up by the media affects public opinion Americans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all...

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic...

"Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed though the lens of modern psychology, they can even look like...

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries,...

New perspectives on American political history from one of its leading writersIn recent years, the study of American political history has experienced a remarkable renaissance. After decades during...

A hallucinatory thriller about a failing demon’s search for a new host in post-dictatorship Santo DomingoAsmodeus, a millennia-old demon, has inhabited Rudy, a once-legendary Dominican rock star, for...

A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers For long standing admirers of Modiano's luminous writing as well as those readers...

Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory―why is...

From a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed "China's most controversial novelist" by the New Yorker, a gripping and biting story of ambition and betrayal, following two young communist...

Photographer Adrian Buckmaster is a master of the human form capturing a cross section of humanity in all of its glorious diversity from the ordinary to the extraordinary and everything in between...

"An intimate and profound exploration of the life and teachings of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso"-- Provided by publisher.

Concealed behind digital platforms, a vast, dispersed, and largely invisible workforce quietly generates and annotates the data that powers today’s AI boom. In Platform Extractivism, information...

"A profound, heartfelt, and inspiring exploration into living a meaningful life, filled with passion, joy, gratitude, and peace"-- Provided by publisher.