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  • Cybernetic Revolution and Global Aging

    Humankind on the Way to Cybernetic Society, or the Next Hundred Years

    by Leonid Grinin, Anton Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day. Looking at a potential future for all of this century and the beginning of the next, the book explores how society is changing as a result of the two most powerful trends: technological advances and global aging. It studies the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Navigating Complexity in Big History

    Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions

    Edited by David J. LePoire, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores periodization in Big History against the background of complexity growth across the Universe, on our planet, and in biological, social, and cultural systems. It traces the accelerating rise in complexity throughout history and the major historical transformations involved in the evolution of life, humans, and civilization. It draws on concepts from physics and evolutionary ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Reconsidering the Limits to Growth

    A Report to the Russian Association of the Club of Rome

    Edited by Viktor Sadovnichy, Askar Akaev, Ilya Ilyin, Sergey Malkov, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and understanding of these limits have significantly changed. This book highlights that the evolution of the World System has approached a new ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century

    The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change

    Edited by Jack A. Goldstone, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The 21st century has witnessed a considerable and increasing number of political revolutions around the world. This contradicts the popular belief of many experts in the 1970s that revolutions occurred mainly in monarchies and empires. Instead, the revolutions of this century have several new characteristics, which call for a renewed analysis of the subject.This handbook offers a comparative ... Read more

    $260.09 USD

  • A Big History of Globalization

    The Emergence of a Global World System

    by Julia Zinkina, David Christian, Leonid Grinin, Ilya Ilyin, Alexey Andreev, Ivan Aleshkovski, Sergey Shulgin, Andrey Korotayev ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History. Departing from the traditional historic discourse, in which communities, cities, and states serve as the main units of analysis, the authors instead trace the historical emergence, growth, interconnection, and merging of various types of networks that have gradually encompassed the globe. They ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery

    by Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, Arno Tausch ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving relationships between the global center and its periphery as well as current worldwide economic upheavals and potential future ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy

    World System and World Values Perspectives

    by Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, Arno Tausch ...
    Series series Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
    This book provides an in-depth analysis of public opinion patterns among Muslims, particularly in the Arab world. On the basis of data from the World Values Survey, the Arab Barometer Project and the Arab Opinion Index, it compares the dynamics of Muslim opinion structures with global publics and arrives at social scientific predictions of value changes in the region. Using country factor scores ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Great Divergence and Great Convergence

    A Global Perspective

    by Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European nations to outpace the early dominance of Asia--in historical context over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful Great Convergence, the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    by Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Exhausted of the Earth

    Politics in a Burning World

    by Ajay Singh Chaudhary ...
    **Marrying the scientific and political sides of the climate crisis issue, this is a hopeful call to arms about how we can overcome climate change.Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?**To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • When Science Meets Power

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied.Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding authority of science, which sometimes helps politics but often ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Ecological Economics

    Sustainability in Practice

    by Stanislav E. Shmelev ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional economic systems. An elegant guide, the book offers a range of cutting edge methods used in sustainability research including multicriteria decision aid (MCDA), input-output analysis, and life cycle ... Read more

    $58.49 USD