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Control Science - How Management Made The Modern World

by Henry Snow

~~13,25€~~ 11,93€ 10% OFF

 What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives? Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seventeenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so. Ideas of control perfected on the factory floor have expanded to dictate our personal lives, political rights, national policy, and the global economy. Seventeenth-century intellectuals such as William Petty and John Locke argued that human beings were selfish machines who had to be controlled for their own good. A century later, Jeremy and Samuel Bentham tried to do exactly that with their infamous Panopticon prison. When nineteenth-century Japanese elites imported European factory technologies, they came up with new theories of political control to justify this development. After the Second World War, the General Electric Corporation created an internal propaganda department to fight unions, then pitched that propaganda to the country with the help of an actor, the future President Ronald Reagan. Extending these practices, billionaires today dream of extending the algorithmic control of Amazon warehouses into every corner of our lives. Blending intellectual, economic, and labor history, Control Science is a thrilling and lucid work of history. Henry Snow reveals how common sense about work, the economy, and human nature was fabricated and must now be challenged.
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Cultural Marxism Conspiracy - Why The Right Blames The Frankfurt School For The Decline Of The West

by A.J.A. Woods

~~13,25€~~ 11,93€ 10% OFF

 The definitive history of a dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory
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Problem Of Personhood - Giving Rights To Trees, Corporations And Robots

by Lisa Siraganian

~~13,25€~~ 11,93€ 10% OFF

 SHOULD NONHUMANS HAVE RIGHTS IN LAW AND POLITICS?
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Story Of Capital - What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

by David Harvey

~~19,88€~~ 17,89€ 10% OFF

 The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx's masterwork
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General Theory Of Employment, Interest And Money - A Reader'S Companion

by Geoff Mann

~~9,94€~~ 8,95€ 10% OFF

 John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money revolutionized economics. But it can be dense and cryptic, an intimidating work for the uninitiated. This companion volume approaches the argument methodically and with clarity, explaining obscure terms and breaking down Keynes's ideas and their significance for his time and ours. Award-winning economist and author Geoff Mann allows readers to comprehend why the word "Keynesian" has become so contentious today - and so important.
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Choice Of Civil War - Neoliberal Strategy And The Politics Of The Enemy

by Christian Laval, Haud Gueguen, Pierre Dardot e Pierre Sauvêtre

~~13,25€~~ 11,93€ 10% OFF

 TURNING CITIZENS INTO ENEMIES, NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTS HAMSTRING DEMOCRACY
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What Happened To Liberal Democracy? - Remaking A Politics Of Shared Prosperity - From The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Economics

by Daron Acemoglu

~~25,92€~~ 23,33€ 10% OFF

 A new theory of liberal democracy from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Why Nations Fail
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End - Marx, Darwin, And The Natural History Of The Climate Crisis

by Joel Wainwright

~~13,25€~~ 11,93€ 10% OFF

 How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin
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Alexandre Kojeve - An Intellectual Biography

by Boris Groys

~~13,25€~~ 11,93€ 10% OFF

 Unravelling the mystery of Alexandre KojÃ¨ve
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Your Party - The Return Of The Left

by Oliver Eagleton

~~6,63€~~ 5,97€ 10% OFF

 From Verso: The first book about Your Party sees leading figures make the case for the new party and debate the big issues it faces
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Bigness Complex - Industry, Labor, And Government In The American Economy, Second Edition

by James W. Brock e Walter Adams

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, this book demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges.
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Balance Of Power - Theory And Practice In The 21st Century

38,41€ + 10% CARD

 This volume examines the present and future of balance of power dynamics in international politics and examines theoretical and historical criticisms of balance of power theory while empirically assessing its validity at both global and regional levels. Italso looks at systemic factors favoring or hindering a return to balance of power politics.
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Enshittification - Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse And What To Do About It

by Cory Doctorow

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 It’s not your imagination. Life online really does get worse by the day, and that is by intent Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the monopolists who dominate online - X, TikTok, Amazon, Meta, Apple - this is all part of the playbook. The process is what leading tech critic Cory Doctorow has dubbed enshittification. First, the platform attracts users with some bait, such as free access; then the activity is monetized, bringing in the business customers and degrading the user experience; then, once everyone is trapped and competitors eradicated, the platform wrings out all the value and transfers it to their executives and shareholders. As a result, online public squares have become places of torment, and online retailers are hellish dumpster fires. The virtual gathering places where we once imagined the world’s problems might be resolved are now a sewer of hatred and abuse - thoroughly enshittified. Doctorow enumerates the symptoms, lays out the diagnosis, and identifies the best responses to these diseased platforms: the monopolies online must be shattered. Companies too big to fail or to jail - and much too big to care - must be cut down to size. Only an attack on corporate power will permit effective regulation and real privacy. Tech unions must protect the workers who should, in turn, defend us against their bosses’ sadism and greed.

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From Dominance To Parity - America'S Political Parties And The New Era Of Electoral Instability

by Brett Parker e David W. Brady

~~68,89€~~ 62,00€ 10% OFF

 At the time Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th president of the United States, the Democratic Party had been enjoying a half-century of sustained electoral advantage. It had long controlled Congress and dominated measures of party identification. When Carter defeated Gerald Ford in 1976, 40 percent of Americans called themselves Democrats and another 12 percent told survey takers they leaned towards the party. To win the election of 1976, Carter just needed to hold the voters that started out on his side. Nearly fifty years later, American politics has inverted itself. Close electoral competition is the norm, and politics are at a stalemate. Brady and Parker call the existing deadlock the era of party parity, an age of division unseen since the late-nineteenth century. This book explains this profound shift in electoral politics. Drawing on fresh datasets and long-running surveys, the authors trace the decline of the Democratic majority and consider how this decline differed from past realignments. They show why modern American presidential elections are always close and argue that the rise of Donald Trump largely reinforced preexisting trends. Their work represents a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on party identification and realignment.
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Anthropocene Communism - Land And Capital In The Age Of Disaster

by Paul Guillibert

~~13,25€~~ 11,93€ 10% OFF

 How communism can inform the ecological revolution
Henry Harrison Brown: Dollars Want Me - The New Road To Opulence: The Ultimate Treatise On Financial Success

by Henry Harrison Brown

~~4,95€~~ 4,46€ 10% OFF

 As a member of the "New Thought" movement, Henry Harrison Brown (1840 - 1918) founded the periodical "NOW". In this magazine, he first published his most famous essay "Dollars want me!" Brown presented positive affirmations which inevitably attract money and financial independence. Easy, concise, to the point: Brown states that without man, money is nothing. Therefore, money seeks man to fulfill its duty. All man needs to do is to prepare mentally - and financial freedom will be the result. Extremely interesting and highly entertaining!
Euroshock - How The Largest Debt Restructuring In History Helped Save Greece And Preserve The Eurozone

by Charles H. Dallara

~~40,99€~~ 36,89€ 10% OFF

 In the fall of 2009, the world economy was beginning to recover from the global financial crisis that had shaken global markets and had led to a sharp recession. At the same time, Europe was entering a new phase of economic stress. By the spring of 2011, the European economy had exploded into a full-blown crisis with Greece at the center. The euro, a currency just over a decade old, was under severe pressure and there was growing speculation about Greece leaving the Eurozone and thereby fracturing the common currency, leading potentially to an unraveling of the euro. Against this backdrop, urgent negotiations were launched to pull Greece and Europe back from the brink of disaster. This is the inside story of those negotiations.
From Nuclear Weapons To Global Security - 75 Years Of Research And Development At Sandia National Laboratories

by Justin Quinn Olmstead e Leland Johnson

~~32,99€~~ 29,69€ 10% OFF

 Sandia National Laboratories is one of the primary providers of the science, technology, and engineering capabilities needed to ensure both US and global security. Its mandate has moved far beyond its original weapons-centered mission—the development of nuclear weapons—and now encompasses complex economic, energy, environmental, and nonproliferation issues. From Nuclear Weapons to Global Security chronicles the history of Sandia, from its origins during World War II to its current multifaceted role at the forefront of innovation.
Politics, But Better - An A-Z Guide To Creating A More Hopeful Future

by Tatton Spiller

16,55€ + 10% CARD

 From the founder of Simple Politics comes a guide to rediscovering the heart of our democracy, reshaping our political system and making the UK a better place for all. Strikes across the country. A prime minister resigning after just forty-four days. Accusations of bullying in the House of Commons. Our politics and our democracy appear to be fundamentally broken. But that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost. Things can get better. There are solutions out there to the complex web of failure in which we’re currently entangled. Politics, But Better will look at the very fabric of our system and what improvements can be made. Exploring twenty-six issues in UK politics, from A to Z - including censorship, elections, insults and U-turns - it clearly lays out the problems and challenges we face, and puts forward possible solutions. Looking at a variety of ideas and real-world examples, it will encourage us to rethink the fundamental ways we do things, to question the status quo, and to chart a path towards a more hopeful future. Respect and understanding are at the heart of this book, promoting open debate, tolerance and compassion as the cornerstones of a reformed political landscape. Politics is about improving the world - and we can do better.
The Power Of Geography - Ten Maps That Reveal The Future Of Our World - The Much-Anticipated Sequel To The Global Bestseller Prisoners Of Geography

by Tim Marshall

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 *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'I can't imagine reading a better book this year’ Daily Mirror Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space. Find out why Europe’s next refugee crisis is closer than it thinks as trouble brews in the Sahel; why the Middle East must look beyond oil and sand to secure its future; why the eastern Mediterranean is one of the most volatile flashpoints of the twenty-first century; and why the Earth’s atmosphere is set to become the world’s next battleground. Delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is a lucid and gripping exploration of the power of geography to shape humanity’s past, present - and future. ‘Another outstanding guide to the modern world. Marshall is a master at explaining what you need to know and why.’ Peter Frankopan AS READ BY THE AUTHOR Includes pdf with maps.
Stealth Invasion

by Leo Hohmann

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 Americans are shocked by ongoing news reports chronicling growing chaos in Europe, where massive Muslim migration is wreaking havoc on the continent including horrendous acts of mass terrorism, an epidemic of rape and sexual assault against European women, and large, jihadist-rich enclaves where even police are hesitant to enter. Yet, few realize that America is heading down the same suicidal path. As veteran investigative journalist Leo Hohmann documents in Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad, an international network of mostly Muslim Brotherhood-linked activists has been building its ranks within the United States for more than three decades, aided by a U.S. immigration system seemingly obsessed with welcoming as many unassimilable migrants with anti-Western values as possible. As a result, largely secret plans for major population changes in hundreds of U.S. cities and towns are already being implemented. As Stealth Invasion reveals, the Muslim Brotherhood has a well-defined strategy for conquering America, not necessarily with violent jihadist attacks although we should expect those to increase but through more subtle means collectively called "civilization jihad." According to the Brotherhood's own documents seized by the FBI, "civilization jihad" involves infiltrating and conquering Western democracies from within. Very simply, civilization jihad calls for changing a nation by changing its people and its values gradually, over time. Meanwhile, the world is undergoing a historic shift of populations out of the Middle East and Africa, and into Europe, Canada and the United States. Stealth Invasion connects the dots between the problems of growing violence and unrest that have plagued Europe and what is now unfolding across America and blows the lid off a corrupt, fraudulent program that has been secretly dumping Third World refugees, many of them radical, on American cities for three decades. Readers will meet the people and groups behind this shadowy resettlement network, which starts at the United Nations and includes the White House, the U.S. State Department, some surprising church groups, and corporate honchos involved in everything from investment banking and meatpacking, to Florida vacations and yogurt manufacturing. In Stealth Invasion, Leo Hohmann reveals how Congress has turned a blind eye to the program since President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Refugee Act of 1980, allowing the United Nations not American officials to select the refugees sent to our cities. As a result, those selected are increasingly coming from hotbeds of Sunni radicalism like Syria, Iraq, and Somalia while a growing population of persecuted Christians are left behind. The government uses a network of private agencies, most with churchy names tied to Lutherans, Catholics, Episcopalians, Jews and even evangelicals, to do the resettlement work, but the public is shut out of the process from beginning to end. No public hearings, no public notices in the local newspaper asking for their input. Americans have been kept largely in the dark about the radical plans to permanently transform their nation. Until now.In Stealth Invasion, Leo Hohmann shows that the breakdown is no coincidence and it hasn't manifested overnight. It's been brewing since the 1980s, but is now reaching the point where it is about to metastasize and overtake us all unless it is stopped now. 595 Minutes
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Animals Of The Savannah

by Kidschoice

~~9,99€~~ 8,99€ 10% OFF

 KidsChoice: World knowledge for Children is an engaging audiobook series that takes young listeners on a fascinating journey to explore and understand the world around them. Aimed at curious children aged 7 to 99, this series dives into a variety of topics in science, society, and culture, making complex ideas accessible and exciting. Each episode brings a unique theme to life—whether exploring the mysteries of space, uncovering the secrets of the human body, or discovering the diversity of cultures and traditions worldwide. With lively narration, interesting facts, and interactive elements, the series guides young listeners on an adventure full of discovery, encouraging them to ask questions and expand their understanding in a fun way. In the scientific world of KidsChoice, children learn about the wonders of nature and the universe. Concepts like the solar system, animal behavior, the human body, and Earth's various ecosystems are explained in a way that is easy for kids to grasp and find fascinating. Exciting analogies and vivid examples help spark curiosity, turning learning into an adventure. Societal topics also have a special place in the series. KidsChoice introduces young listeners to the basics of community, compassion, and making a positive impact. Children learn what it means to be a good citizen and how they can make small, meaningful contributions to their communities. Additionally, KidsChoice opens a window to the vibrant world of global cultures. Through a virtual journey around the globe, children discover how people in other countries live, the customs and traditions they follow, the languages they speak, and the foods they enjoy. This fosters understanding and respect for diverse ways of life, celebrating the richness of human experience as a beautiful, valuable part of the world. With its vivid language and captivating soundscapes, "KidsChoice: World knowledge for Children" turns learning into an exciting experience, sparking a lifelong curiosity and a deeper understanding of the world around them.
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Shadows On The Gulf - A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland

by Rowan Jacobsen

~~18,99€~~ 17,09€ 10% OFF

 Bloomsbury presents Shadows on the Gulf by Rowan Jacobsen, read by Kevin Young While other books play the blame game of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon and who is responsible, Shadows on the Gulf offers a surprising, harder truth: As bad as the oil spill was, it doesn't touch the damage done to the Gulf every year by what one expert in the book calls "a 100-year catastrophe." Readers who believe they know the story will find their thinking changed by Rowan Jacobsen's surprising perspective: At the height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each day merely equaled the amount of dispersant that washes down the Mississippi from the Heartland's dishwashers and washing machines. The Gulf's shrimpers have damaged the region's ecology as much as BP has. The acres of marsh destroyed by oil slicks can't compare to the amount that disappears in every hurricane, thanks to the work of the Army Corp of Engineers. And even if we save every mile of beach and wetland from the oil spill, the entire Mississippi Delta will still be lost in the next forty years, and New Orleans will sink beneath the waves, an American Atlantis. Shadows on the Gulf reveals the key players in this catastrophe and explains why it will affect quality of life for us all. In doing so, it celebrates the little-recognized global wonder in our backyard. Not only are the Gulf's wetlands the best oyster reefs and fish nurseries in the world, they also provide critical habitat to most of America's migratory songbirds and waterfowl, as well as a home base for the energy and shipping industries. If the Gulf is allowed to fail, the effects will ripple across America. And fail it will, unless a national effort is made to save it.
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Smart City & Urban Operations Excellence: Lean Frameworks For Reliability, Safety, And Flow

by Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

~~17,99€~~ 16,19€ 10% OFF

 A Practical Framework for Reliable, Safe, and Efficient Urban Systems Modern cities face rising complexity — more infrastructure, more data, more expectations. Yet, true urban excellence doesn't begin with technology. It begins with discipline, visibility, and flow. In this groundbreaking volume, Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman applies Toyota's Lean philosophy to the world of city management, security, and operations — offering a clear roadmap for designing and sustaining cities that run smoothly, respond quickly, and continuously improve. What You'll Learn How to map urban value streams and eliminate waste in services, safety, and mobility. How to apply Hoshin Kanri and Standard Work to align city departments around shared goals. How to build reliable maintenance systems using Lean and TPM principles. How to redesign infrastructure for operability, accessibility, and flow. How to embed Kaizen and Hansei (reflection) into daily urban operations. How to make cities resilient to crises through Jidoka ("stop and fix") thinking. Who This Book Is For Urban planners and developers designing maintainable, resilient cities. Facility management and utilities leaders managing complex infrastructure. Security, operations, and maintenance directors in gated or mixed-use communities. Policy makers and consultants bridging governance with operational excellence. Why This Book Matters Smart cities are not defined by sensors — they are defined by how easily they learn from experience. This book shows how to build cities that can see problems, act immediately, and improve continuously — cities that respect people's time, safety, and trust. "A Lean city is not built once — it is rebuilt every day through small improvements."
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