The Deal: Churchill, Truman, and Stalin Remake the World

For two weeks in the summer of 1945, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Josef Stalin gathered to reconstruct the world out of the ruins of World War II. They

An incisive collection of essays from an author who is consistently ahead of the curve.

In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus

From the acclaimed author of The Jungle: The first in a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical saga about the son of an American arms dealer during WWI. Lanning â€

This comprehensive five-volume set contains readable essays that describe and interpret the most important global events since the European Renaissance, some ac

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense

In China's Disruptors, Edward Tse takes an unprecedented inside look at rapidly emerging Chinese entrepreneurs and their game-changing impact on both China and

As globalization and market liberalization march forward unabated the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pace. In this global p

Tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, this book demonstrates how those utopias have become increasingly literary. Discussing how

This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently less