Political Street Art: Communication, Culture and Resistance in Latin America
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Recent global events, including the 'Arab Spring' uprisings, Occupy movements and anti-austerity...
Post-Socialist Informalities: Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-Legalities from Bosnia to China
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This book is a comprehensive collection of key scholarship on informality from the whole...
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
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All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and...
Allotment and Garden Guide: A Monthly Guide to Better Wartime Gardening
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Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture, the "Allotment and Garden Guides" were issued monthly...
The Crafting of the 10, 000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-century China
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The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in...
The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom
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Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in...
The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea
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When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by...
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind
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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They...
The Map
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1613: Shimon Mendiluze, a Spanish Jewish alchemist fleeing the Inquisition, is found guilty of...