Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy

The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

Already a classic in its first year of publication, this landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom.

Prisoners of Geography

Prisoners of Geography covers the geopolitical contexts and situations in several vital regions of the world. These include: Russia, China, the United States, Europe, the Arab World, South Asia (mainly focusing on the geopolitical anomalies of India and Pakistan), Africa, Japan and Korea, Latin America, and the Arctic Ocean (mainly to cover the geopolitics of the Arctic resources race).

Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind

Starting from this provocative idea, Sapiens goes on to retell the history of our species from a completely fresh perspective. It explains that money is the most pluralistic system of mutual trust ever devised; that capitalism is the most successful religion ever invented; that the treatment of animals in modern agriculture is probably the worst crime in history; and that even though we are far…

আমার দেখা রাজনীতির পঞ্চাশ বছর

বাংলাদেশের রাজনৈতিক ইতিহাস জানার জন্য একটি মূল্যবান বই আমার দেখা রাজনীতির পঞ্চাশ বছর। এতে আবুল মনসুর আহমদ আজকের বাংলাদেশ নামে পরিচিত ভূখণ্ডটির ১৯২০…

জাতীয়তাবাদ, সম্প্রদায়িকতা ও �…

বইটিতে লেখক ১৯০৫ সালের বঙ্গভঙ্গ থেকে ১৯৪৭-এর দেশভাগের মধ্যবর্তী বিয়াল্লিশ বছরের সময়প্রবাহে জাতীয়তাবাদী আন্দোলনে ব্যক্তির ভূমিকাকে আলোচনায় এন�…

The country of First Boys

Sen's deeply informed and humane writing connects history, culture, literature, economics, and politics. Several of the essays are concerned particularly with India--its historical traditions and the issues it faces today; many--such as his address to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2004--engage with global concerns. All are written with a passion and conviction, a gently persuasi…

Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions

Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the head…

World Civilizations

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Guns, germs And Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by the American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author Jared Diamond.