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Have you ever questioned why, despite the avalanche of self-help books and optimization hacks, we remain embroiled in multiple global health crises? Populations worldwide are gaining life-shortening excess weight (even in poorer countries), and water contamination is...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-06-12
ePub
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14,99€
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What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-06-10
ePub
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17,99€
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What are the facts that the Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise our democracies; that terrorism has struck France, not for what it does, but...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2023-11-14
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Given the growing success of this book, first published in 2009 and then updated in 2014, this third edition has been fully revised and updated by the author, incorporating the latest expressions of social chaos, instrumentalized by the powers that be for the past eight...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2023-07-04
ePub
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A fundamental challenge plagues the global peacebuilding community. How can technocratic approaches to peacebuilding that are rooted in short-term, project-based execution of activities, further the longer-term transformative outcomes like altering young people's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-08
ePub
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A fundamental challenge plagues the global peacebuilding community. How can technocratic approaches to peacebuilding that are rooted in short-term, project-based execution of activities, further the longer-term transformative outcomes like altering young people's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-08
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Long on the margins of both scholarly and policy concerns, the countries of the West African Sahel have recently attracted world attention, primarily as a key battleground in the global 'war on terror'. This book moves beyond this narrow focus, providing a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-15
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Long on the margins of both scholarly and policy concerns, the countries of the West African Sahel have recently attracted world attention, primarily as a key battleground in the global 'war on terror'. This book moves beyond this narrow focus, providing a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-15
ePub
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Introducing the new ‘How To…’ series from #Merky Books: unlock your potential with our short, practical pocket-sized guides._______________________________________________________How to Change It: your indispensable guide to activismIs it possible to create real change?...
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Merky Books Digital
Parution :
2020-10-15
ePub
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An urgent and informed look at the challenges Britain and world governments will face in a post-Covid-19 world.The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a...
Editeur :
Short Books
Parution :
2020-09-03
ePub
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How do certain ideas and practices become socially valued in particular times and places? Why do we see some countries as having better governance or leadership than others? In Global Leadership Talk, Zane Goebel addresses these questions through a study of leadership...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-28
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'Superbly explained' Washington PostEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the...
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John Murray
Parution :
2019-01-10
ePub
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**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019**THE OLD GODS ARE DYING.Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet.NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR PLACE. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2018-08-23
ePub
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'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel KahnemanIn this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-26
ePub
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Although Argentina's use of genetically modified (GM) soybean seeds has spurred a major agricultural boom, it has also had a negative impact on many communities. In Soybeans and Power, Pablo Lapegna explores the ways in which these communities have coped with GM soybean...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-21
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A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986).Harold Macmillan was a figure of paradox. Outwardly, it was Edwardian elegance and civilised urbanity. Inwardly, it was emotional damage from his wife's open...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-08-16
ePub
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As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging.As God is Back shows, for better or for worse, faith is on the increase - fuelled by an American-style model of personal,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-10-06
ePub
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The Quest continues the riveting story Daniel Yergin began twenty years ago with his No.1 International BestsellerThe Prize, revealing the on-going quest to meet the world's energy needs - and the power and riches that come with it.A master story teller as well as our...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-09-20
ePub
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'Thought provoking and important ... read Zakaria to know what has, should and will happen' ObserverThe growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya is generating a new landscape. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, highest-grossing...
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Penguin
Parution :
2009-06-04
ePub
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At the end of the Cold War, we found ourselves living in a world with one superpower, the United States. Now, at the start of the twenty-first century, Parag Khanna argues powerfully that the moment of American supremacy is over, brought about by the increasing...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-30
ePub
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