Judith Flanders, a New York Times-bestselling historian, in her latest book “A Place For Everything” is the story of how the alphabet order our world from the library of Alexandria in the third century BCE, to Wikipedia and Google, reveals what a bizarre, improbable creation of the alphabet is as writing has been invented…
Would you believe coffee, the world’s most popular drug is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world – one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism? In1896 March, an American graduate did a strange contraption – “ glass cage” in fact a copper chamber, seven…
Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Dexter Roberts in The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, reveals many of the social tensions now threatening to explode in China can be traced to the hukou – a small red passbook that records where a family is officially is registered as living and what benefits it is entitled to. The result is…
The Human Factor a penetrating detailed analysis of the role of political leadership in the cold war’s ending by Emeritus professor of politics Archie Brown. From March 1985 to December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev helped to transform Russia into a society freer than at any time in its 1000-year-old history, by putting relations between Moscow and…
Samsung the South Korean electronics group dynasty overtook Apple as the biggest profit generator in the second quarter of 2017 as Economist and Wall Street JOunrl Journalist, Geoffrey Cain highlights part of genius of Samsung’s business model” and reveals an explosive expose of one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, as Samsung…
Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, in her new book, tackles money laundering and the state of Britain today in this vibrant novel. Political divergences are central to the rift as George Pantis 79-year-old retired lecturer married for 35 years with a fondness for poetry and a roving eye, after…
Two eminent economists, Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner, Angus Deaton documents how the flaws in capitalism and the epidemic that is sweeping the US, taking the lives of America’s working-class on an unprecedented scale and threatening the future of the world’s biggest economy. This is not coronavirus but is likely to blow over with…
The Dragons do an expose of why state militaries even conventional armed forces of the US, the former Soviet Union and China are ill-suited to modern forms of warfare. Snake, bands of terrorists, are the characters who succeeded in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and are smarter than the dragons who try to…
America’s opioid epidemic has hit the society’s elite, previously associated with the lower class living in trailer parks and other centres of deprivation. Ellene Zimmerman’s husband Peter was a lawyer who, as a partner at a top San Diego intellectual property firm, earned well in excess of $1m a year. He was also a drug…
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty contains fascinating descriptions of unknown historical uprisings against inequality such as Haitian revolution and describes societal system through the ages – slavery, serfdom, feudalism, communism, hypercapitalism, colonialism and caste, class collectively as “Inequality regimes” shaping the lives of billions and uses historical sources to chart the distribution of incomes…