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…
Emily Dickinson’s poetry is apt for lockdown when most of us might be craving for the succour of a natural world, which at least for now remains off-limits. “Hope” is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without the words- And never stops- at all- And sweetest- in…
Forty of the new devices have been delivered to ULCH and to three other London hospitals, as it goes on trials. If the trials go well 1000 of the CPAP machines can be produced per day by Mercedes-AMG-HPP beginning in a week’s time. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has already given the…
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…