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An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind
Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather ...
"A great iconoclast. . . Taleb, a Wall Street trader turned essayist, is a thinker touched by genius" Matthew Syed, author of Black Box Thinking
Why should ...
The groundbreaking idea that some systems actually benefit from shocks, and how to expose ourselves to them - now in paperback
In The Black Swan Taleb ...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
"Charming and brilliant." -Times Literary Supplement
"Provocative, stimulating, wise-the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read ...
'Brilliantly illustrates how multilingual mothers are disproportionately tasked with preserving linguistic heritage on one hand and preparing children for public society on the other - all ...
From the author of Orientalism, a searching examination of western culture and the roots of imperialism, now with a foreword by Hari Kunzru
'Readers accustomed ...
By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted ...
A Radio 4 Book of the Week
'Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion' - Telegraph
'Jaw-droppingly illuminating' - inews
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An authoritative and accessible guide to the world's most influential force - the contemporary media
Our lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in ...
Is a patrimony something we inherit or something we create? Does it mark the continuation of the past or its disappearance?
Combining elements of criticism ...
How did disenchantment lead to climate change? The States of the Earth argues that European empires have become secular as they were entering the age ...
By 1950, an estimated 50,000 people had been deemed 'defective' by the government and detained for life under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Their ...
Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in ...
Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the ...
Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all ...
