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This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist co

Argues that becoming an influential Christian and a force for good in the world often means being different and doing unfashionable things with regard to money,

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, d

When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth were flabbergasted. And so

Widely regarded as the standard text on development geography, this volume examines the nature and causes of global inequality and critically analyzes contempor