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  • Why Travel?

    Understanding our Need to Move and How it Shapes our Lives

    by Terry Hill, Tom Greenall, Deborah Saunt, Glenn Lyons, Emily Thomas, Hazel Andrews, Tom Selwyn, Alison Kuznets, Roger Hall, Kris Beuret, Alexander Jan1, Tony Hiss2, Charles Pasternak3 ...
    Supported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charityWhy travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences?Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading experts to provide insights from multiple viewpoints across the sciences, arts and humanities. Together, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    by Alice Procter ...
    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Wonderbox: Curious histories of how to live

    Curious histories of how to live

    by Roman Krznaric ...
    There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be surprisingly powerful. Showing the lessons that can be learned from the past, cultural historian Roman Krznaric explores twelve universal topics, from work and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    by Alison Page, Paul Memmott ...
    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • How to Reform Capitalism

    by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    Series series Essay Books
    A hopeful, revolutionary blueprint for a better kind of capitalism.When faced with the sorrows and frustrations of modern capitalism, it can often seemlike alternatives are utopian and out of reach. But capitalism is inherently designed to be altered and improved upon. The problems of capitalism, this book argues, stem not from money, law, and politics, but rather from human psychology.In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Long View

    Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time

    by Richard Fisher ...
    A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species. Yet modern-day technology and capitalism have supercharged our short-termist tendencies and trapped us in the present, at the mercy of reactive politics, quarterly business targets and 24-hour ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Urban Design Reader

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Company of Strangers

    A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition

    by Paul Seabright ...
    The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the financial crisis that succeeded it.Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, history, psychology, ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Good Value

    Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World

    by Stephen Green ...
    "An unusual and thoughtful disquisition on how to conduct oneself in a world of high finance and ambition." — The Wall Street JournalA Financial Times Book of the YearCan one be both an ethical person and an effective businessperson? As an ordained priest and former bank chairman, Stephen Green thinks so.In Good Value, Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edited by Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • How Should We Live?

    Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life

    by Roman Krznaric ...
    How Should We Live? explores twelve universal topics-including love, family, and empathy; work, time, and money-and shows what history can teach us about the art of living. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD