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A monkey who trades stuff. That's us.Throughout economic history, barter has been man's faithful companion.And ingenuity her capital, with which she has shaped the economic system.In this knowledge-dense, entertaining and eye-opening book, the business…

From Mongol invasions to modern US-Russia relations--how global geopolitics shift in unforeseeable waysIt has been almost 30 years since Francis Fukuyama proposed that we were entering into an era of triumph for Western liberalism he called "the…

Not all artists’ oeuvre can, will, or deserve to be collected in a CatalogueRaisonné. But Hilma af Klint’s art not only deserves it — it demands it — since her oeuvre holds a message and reveals a philosophy.

Technology is at the heart of the human story. In an era of transformation, comprehending what drives these changes means understanding the history of man's relationship with technology. In this anthology of essays, world-leading historians, academics…

In 1950, at the age of twenty-seven, Henry Kissinger wrote The Meaning of History as his senior thesis at Harvard University. Now, more than 70 years later, it’s published for the first time.

A landmark publication in the history of consciousness science The study of consciousness is a scientific problem unlike any other, riddled with the difficulty of objectifying or quantifying any findings. Long buried by behaviorism and cognitive science,…

Historians and theorists explore the anthropology and history of war Originating from the Engelsberg Seminar of 2015, this anthology gathers texts from internationally renowned historians, journalists, researchers and authors exploring war as both a…