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Catherine the Great and the culture of celebrity in the eighteenth century

This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant ...

The Jesuits

a history

The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus-more commonly known as the Jesuits-has played a critical role in the events of modern ...

Shadow empires

an alternative imperial history

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them ...

Contraofensiva

Actuar y resistir la complejidad

Occidente forjó tres siglos de un modo de actuar marcado por el esquema binario cartesiano, por el cual toda situación debe abordarse como problema/solución. La fe en el progreso ilimitado y el cientificismo llevó al Antropoceno, una mutación provocada por el humano sobre el ...

Russia's war against Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia's war against Ukraine, a war ...

Attention hacking

the power of social media selling in insurance and finance

A guide for insurance and other industries to staying on customers' radars Attention Hacking: The Power of Social Media Selling in Insurance and Finance shows how you can make insurance go viral on social media. It might sound too good to be true, but think ...

Just price in the markets

a history

A concise history of "just price," from Aristotle to the present day The question of what constitutes a fair price has been at the center of market interactions since the time of Aristotle. Should a seller sell to the highest bidder, or is there some ...

The ecology of nations

American democracy in a fragile world order

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor-and why democracies are losing It is well known, and much discussed, that liberal democracy is in trouble worldwide. Much of this discussion focuses on conditions within individual countries: their inequalities of wealth, political ...

The globalization myth

why regions matter

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad, they increasingly looked regionally rather than globally ...

Supreme hubris

how overconfidence is destroying the court, and how we can fix it

How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices’ partisan leanings rather than on ...

Circle of stars

a history of the EU and the people who made it

A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today The European Union is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organizations ever created. Decisions made in Brussels shape the lives ...

The globe

how the Earth became round

The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to ...

Games people played

a global history of sport

Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a reason to cheer-and to think. Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how sports have been practiced, experienced, and made meaningful by players ...

The return of inflation

money and capital in the 21st century

Both a history and a contemporary analysis, an illuminating investigation of the defining economic concern of our time. The last year has seen the return of inflation as a preoccupation of political decision-makers, economists, and the general public. After two decades of wondering why inflation ...

Statistical thinking

analyzing data in an uncertain world

An essential introduction to statistics for students of psychology and the social sciences Statistical thinking is increasingly essential to understanding our complex world and making informed decisions based on uncertain data. This incisive undergraduate textbook introduces students to the main ideas of statistics in a ...

Shame

the politics and power of an emotion

The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violence Today, we are caught in a shame spiral-a vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media. We are shamed for ...

Corporate crime and punishment

the politics of negotiated justice in global markets

The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countries Over the past decade, many of the world's biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations. Corporations ...

How to interpret the Constitution

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted The U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today-about voting rights, affirmative action, gun ...

The wealth of a nation

institutional foundations of English capitalism

How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world's first capitalist country Modern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in the Industrial Revolution, though scholars have long debated why. Some attribute the causes to technological change ...

The civic bargain

how democracy survives

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it to Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is ...