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What Works
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, an exploration of gender equality as not only a moral but a business imperative, set to benefit the businesses as well as the lives of many if enacted...
23,00 €
The Guests of Ants
A fascinating examination of socially parasitic invaders, from butterflies to bacteria, that survive and thrive by exploiting the communication systems of ant colonies.
76,50 €
The Burnout Challenge
Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed Try therapy or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces, not workers. Drawing on decades of research, Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter show...
31,50 €
The Return of Inequality
A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling...
39,00 €
Suzuki
Shinichi Suzuki, of the eponymous Suzuki Method, debunked Western stereotypes about 'authentic classical performance while transforming music education globally. Yet as Eri Hotta shows, his movement was about much more than developing...
34,00 €
Minding the Climate
The human brain evolved to prioritize short-term rewards over long-term goals. But while this adaptation served our ancestors well, it is maladaptive in the face of a slow-moving climate crisis. Luckily, brains can adjust. Ann-Christine...
39,00 €
Democratizing Finance
Financial technology has made huge advances, allowing more people worldwide to gain access to and benefit from banking, insurance, and credit. But the democratization of finance is just starting. Marion Laboure and Nicolas Deffrennes...
39,00 €
The Magnificent Boat
Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of imperialism as the story of a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. Aly...
34,50 €
A New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In more than 200 original essays, this...
42,50 €
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms...
33,00 €
Deeply Responsible Business
Deeply Responsible Business profiles corporate leaders of the past two centuries who made social missions vital to their businesses. Geoffrey Jones explores the characters and motivations of fourteen such leaders and compares their deep...
42,50 €
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. It features essays on 21st century architecture by Catherine Ingraham, Lucia Allais, Stan Allen,...
66,50 €
Scarcity
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual history. Showing how ideologies of infinite desire and infinite growth came to dominate capitalist societies,...
38,00 €
Orations
Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We...
31,50 €
Empire, Incorporated
Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign...
38,00 €
Eli and the Octopus
Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical business. Then he died by suicide. How did it all go wrong Matt Garcia traces Black¿s own descent into corruption...
32,00 €
Never Again
What do Germans mean when they say 'never again Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda, showing how these events transformed the meaning of the Holocaust in Germany, inspired partial...
39,00 €
Wonder Confronts Certainty
Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contest between unyielding dogmatism...
42,50 €
Survival as Victory
Survival as Victory is the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Oksana Kis pulls from the written and oral histories of over 150 survivors to bring to...
102,50 €
Agents of Change
Ben Laurence argues for a political philosophy that unifies theory and practice in pursuit of change. He shows that the task of political philosophy is not complete until the political philosopher asks the question ¿What is to be done ¿...
40,50 €
The Rise of Central Banks
Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of financial crisis. Leon Wansleben offers novel explanations for the rise of central banks and the problematic...
47,50 €
The Gender of Capital
In countries with officially egalitarian property law, women still accumulate less wealth than men. Combining quantitative, ethnographic, and archival research, The Gender of Capital explains how and why women of all classes are...
44,00 €
Strategy
In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. He explores examples from ancient Rome to present day to reveal the...
38,00 €
Off the Mark
Schooling has become less about learning and more about the scramble for good grades, high test scores, and spotless transcripts. No one is happy about this, least of all students. But what can be done Off the Mark explains how we got...
34,50 €
The Meddlers
While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War I and its aftermath. The Meddlers explores the intense political struggles about...
44,00 €
A Myriad of Tongues
Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is...
30,50 €
The Joy of Consent
In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates sexual pleasure with the patriarchal erotics of silence and mystery. Manon...
30,50 €
The Rustic Style
Ernst Kris¿s The Rustic Style is a pioneering inquiry into the relationship between art and nature in early modern decorative arts and garden design that attempts to define the character of late sixteenth-century naturalism. In this...
42,50 €
Yesterday
Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of the present and future and thus worth careful thought. Yesterday argues that nostalgiäs critics defend an idea of...
38,00 €
Periphery
Moses Chao argues that activity in the peripheral nervous system predicts the onset of neurological and psychiatric conditions such as Parkinson¿s disease, autism, and dementia. Responsible for regulating a range of involuntary bodily...
34,00 €
Learning to Imagine
Imagination is thought to be the province of childhood¿the stuff of free play and unrestrained ideas. Then comes the dull routine of adulthood, stifling creativity. In fact, the opposite is true. Andrew Shtulman shows that imagination is...
38,00 €
Law Is a Moral Practice
What is law, and why does it matter Scott Hershovitz says that law is a moral practice¿a tool for adjusting our moral relations. This claim is simple on its face, but it has stark implications for the rule of law. At once erudite and...
44,00 €
The Tame and the Wild
Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She reveals that it was, above all, the encounters between European and Native American...
40,00 €
Who's Black and Why?
In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of...
21,50 €
Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law
Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as just one value to which democracies aspire, he embraces thoughtfulness rather than rote rule-following,...
50,00 €
The Op-Ed Novel
The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of El País. Their literary sensibility transformed opinion journalism, and their weekly columns changed their...
47,50 €
The Sentinel State
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party¿s political monopoly endures. How Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, Chinäs surveillance system is...
38,00 €
Alien Landscapes?
Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible Jonathan Glover tackles the hard cases¿violent criminals, people with delusions, autism, schizophreniäto answer...
35,50 €
The Wake of the Whale
Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in...
28,50 €
Mondegreen
Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine¿s Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in beautiful, experimental style, the novel shows how people¿and cities¿are capable of...
23,00 €
Ripe for Revolution
The Cold War¿era experiments of the Global South make clear that socialism is more than Stalinism. Jeremy Friedman looks to Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran to understand how socialism has worked in practice. Each state...
40,50 €
Equity for Women in Science
Equity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global gender gap in science. Analyzing millions of scientific papers, the authors show that women are undervalued for their labor in science as measured through...
39,00 €
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