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Alibaba Way: Unleashing Grass-Roots Entrepreneurship to Build the World's Most Innovative Internet Company
The ultimate e-commerce success story-a powerful new growth model for small business start-ups and grassroots entrepreneurs One of the world's fastest growing Internet companies, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma have inspired a generat...
Give People Money
Inequality is now the defining issue of our time - but the welfare system isn't working, the charity sector is out of touch, and the digital revolution is changing the economy faster than we know. GIVE PEOPLE MONEY is a radical, global look at the idea of Universal Basic Income - giving all citizens a basic income - and whether this old idea could change our modern world for good. As automation and technology change our working lives, the effects are not going to be limited to manual jobs but will increasingly reach all of us. So what if there's not enough work to go around? What if giving people money is actually a more cost-effective intervention than giving them services, benefits, and programs? This book is about why our current systems aren't working and what the future of welfare might look like in the new dawn of winner-takes-all tech capitalism and the changing role of governments in looking after people. Annie Lowrey journeys to poverty hack-a-thons in Silicon Valley, to startup basic income pilot programs in Kenya, to Switzerland, the Netherlands and Finland, to Corybn's Labour party and also deep into the economic realities of what basic income might mean for the labour markets of the world. It will talk to radicals on the left who see this as the solution to inequality, libertarians on the right who see this as the future of bloated government systems, feminists who see it as the way to recognise the economic value of `homemaking', and to philanthropists, artists, venture capitalists and labour leaders who are all trying to make it work. Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?
The Hunter and His Dog
The Hunter and His Dog
Where is the Poky Little Puppy?
Where is the Poky Little Puppy?
Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications
The field of psycholinguistics and the application of psycholinguistic theory to advertising and marketing communication has become a topic of great prominence in the field of consumer behavior. Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communicatio...
The Poky Little Puppy
The Poky Little Puppy
Poky Little Puppy
The Poky Little Puppy
Foclóiropedia
A visual introduction to Ireland's language for young and old - learn your first thousand words, discover your culture and enjoy the fabulous quirks and features of your native tongue! This is the third book from the bestselling father and daughte...
The French Historical Revolution
This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called the new hi...
Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion
This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little...
Break the Mould
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS - CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A lovely lesson in humanity for eager young humans' - Chris O'Dowd. 'This book made me feel proud to be different' - Rosie Jones. Break the Mould with Sinéad Burke...
Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe
In this magisterial study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 s...
Death and Return of the Author
For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Seán Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and ...
No Perfect People Allowed
How do we live out the message of Jesus in today's ever-changing culture? The church is facing its greatest challenge-and its greatest opportunity-in our postmodern, post-Christian world. God is drawing thousands of spiritually curious "imper...
Ethics of Writing
Beginning amidst the tombs of the 'dead' God, and the crematoria at Auschwitz, this book confronts the Nietzschean legacy through a Platonic focus. Plato argues in the Phaedrus that writing is dangerous because it can neither select its audience n...
The Pinball Effect
* Subtitle: HOW RENAISSANCE WATER GARDENS MADE THE CARBURETTOR POSSIBLE AND OTHER JOURNEYS THROUGH KNOWLEDGE. Phew!!
Imagine Heaven Devotional - 100 Reflections to Bring Heaven to Your Life Today
Scripture tells us to "Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth" (Col. 3:2 NLT). But how do we think about a place we've never seen? John Burke's New York Times bestselling book Imagine Heaven uncovers an exhilarating pi...
Social History of Knowledge
In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of differen...
The Fortunes of the Courtier
This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures
In a time of too many graduates for too few jobs, and in a context where applicants have similar levels of educational capital, what other factors influence graduate career trajectories? Based on the life history interviews of graduates and framed...
French Historical Revolution
This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called 'the new h...
What is the History of Knowledge?
What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, 'knowledges in the plural') and how it differs from the history of ...
Social History of Knowledge II
Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it off...
What is the History of Knowledge?
What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, 'knowledges in the plural') and how it differs from the history of ...
Spy Who Came In From the Co-op
A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood. On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman who betr...
Equitable Framework for Humanitarian Intervention
This book aims to resolve the dilemma regarding whether armed intervention as a response to gross human rights violations is ever legally justified without Security Council authorisation. Thus far, international lawyers have been caught between gi...
Uranium
Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is al...
Italian Renaissance
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and ...
Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence
In a world plagued by war and terror, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence sounds a warning: not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and respond to...
What is Cultural History?
What is Cultural History?¿has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible account of the past, prese...
Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa
Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe - a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher - looked with fresh eyes at a novel ...
British Detective Fiction 1891–1901
This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not be resurrected. This book introduces and showcases a range of Sherlock’s most fascinating successors, exploring the ways in which a huge range of popular magazines and newspapers clamoured to ensnare Sherlock’s bereft fans. The book’s case-study format examines a range of detective series-- created by L.T. Meade; C.L. Pirkis; Arthur Morrison; Fergus Hume; Richard Marsh; Kate and Vernon Hesketh-Prichard— that filled the pages of a variety of periodicals, from plush monthly magazines to cheap newspapers, in the years while Sherlock was dead. Readers will be introduced to an array of detectives—professional and amateur, male and female, oldand young;