Purpose: We analyze how countries are similar and different in terms of cultures and institutions and the extent to which they can be grouped into civilizations. This is based on Huntington's (1993,1996) framework that states there are major cultural and institutional differences between...

Purpose: We analyze how countries are similar and different in terms of cultures and institutions and the extent to which they can be grouped into civilizations. This is based on Huntington's (1993,1996) framework that states there are major cultural and institutional differences between...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Excerpts from Reviews of Sergey Bodrunov's Noonomy -- About the Author -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword to the English Edition -- Scientific Editor's Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Methodology -- 1. The Role of Material...

In March 1999, a small number of Californians discovered a new world called Norrath, populated by an exotic but industrious people. About 12,000 people call this place their permanent home, although some 60,000 are present there at any given time. The nominal hourly wage is about USD 3.42 per...

"The theory of noonomy is one of very few attempts to provide a holistic, theoretically grounded perspective on the socioeconomic development of human civilization. For that reason, this theory, whose premises and content have already been articulated by the author in a series of articles and...

"The story of civilization from an entirely new vantage point-the six raw materials that have shaped and will continue to shape humanity's destiny. Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium: The struggle for these fundamental materials has created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our...

"What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four 'grand transitions' of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that...

Over the past fifty years of independence in Africa and in the Middle East, no event has captured the minds and imaginations of activists, scholars, policymakers, and challenged the conscience of the global community like violence and its related outcomes, including poverty. The 20th century was...

Abstract The term “civilization,” articulated in eighteenth century Europe, has been widely used in many languages from the nineteenth century to the present. It refers both to widespread societies governed by powerful states in modern times and to prestigious urban and monumental...

The main objective of this paper is to identify cultural aspects of sustainable development, by examining the interdependence of selected cultural characteristics and the index of sustainable development. Accordingly, the hypothesis of this article is that: Sustainable development achieves...

The main objective of this paper is to identify cultural aspects of sustainable development, by examining the interdependence of selected cultural characteristics and the index of sustainable development. Accordingly, the hypothesis of this article is that: Sustainable development achieves...

"Modernization is a complex phenomenon in the world, and is termed as a development goal in some countries and regions. This book, the first of its kind, discusses how a country can become modernized. It takes a new approach to addressing core issues in the era of globalization from a Chinese...

Eindrücklich wie nie zuvor klärt Chomsky über die existenziellen Bedrohungen durch Atomwaffen und den Klimawandel auf. Er stellt diese Bedrohungen in den Kontext einer nie dagewesenen Macht der Konzerne und einer zunehmend global vernetzten rechten Elite von der Republikanischen Partei bis...

"The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured-and transformed-the world's imagination. The Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We've all fallen in love with one or another of Japan's pop-culture creations, from the techy...

"Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide cornucopia but produced few grateful beneficiaries. Indeed, the market's creative destruction and individualist autonomy have become a challenge to capitalism's legitimacy. Even a sensitive person like Pope Francis called...

The morning twilight of China's marine culture--the significance of Hemudu culture on the exploration of the origin of the maritime Silk Road -- On the rise and fall of the Silk Road and the shift from the overland route to the sea route -- On the maritime Silk Road -- The role of ancient...

"Europe's boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. In this context, this volume outlines the transformation of Europe's boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization and explores, among other...

The rise of civilizations involved the dual emergence of economies that could produce surplus ("prosperity") and states that could protect surplus ("security"). But the joint achievement of security and prosperity had to escape a paradox: prosperity attracts predation, and higher insecurity...

The rise of civilizations involved the dual emergence of economies that could produce surplus (“prosperity”) and states that could protect surplus (“security”). But the joint achievement of security and prosperity had to escape a paradox: prosperity attracts predation, and higher...

"With human civilization hurtling closer and closer to the brink of collapse, big-picture solutions are needed. Fast. In Civilization Critical, Darrin Qualman argues that in order to understand our present situation and our possible futures, we must focus on material and energy flows. The...

The autumn of humanity -- Part I. Automation: The case for technological unemployment -- Why you should hate your job -- Giving techno-pessimism its due -- Part II. Utopia: In search of utopia -- The cyborg utopia -- The virtual utopia -- The unending quest.

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World-the world’s first “global economy”-from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on...

The concept of the circular economy is still poorly communicated and understood. A comparative analysis of the conditions in France and in China in which the concept has been communicated explains the diverse semantic, technical, psychological and behavio

В статье рассмотрены современные аспекты проявления геостратегической гегемонии в контексте ее экологических и безопасных атрибутов, которые обуславливают...

В статье на основе обобщения обширного теоретического и эмпирического материала отечественных и зарубежных исследователей авторы классифицировали теории...

Global catastrophes, such as nuclear war, pandemics and ecological collapse threaten the sustainability of human civilization. To date, most work on global catastrophes has focused on preventing the catastrophes, neglecting what happens to any catastrophe survivors. To address this gap in the...

The subject matter of this article is the terminology which is used in contemporary law and sociological jurisprudence to denote changes in legal regulation. Among the most fashionable terms are those of globalization and pluralism. In the author’s opinion, these two terms indicate diverse...

This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites-from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as...

Intro -- Teil I -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Gesundheit - das gefährdete Gut -- 3. Ursachen von Krankheiten -- 3.1 Organische Ursachen -- 3.1.1 Moderne Epidemien -- 3.1.2 Resistenzbildung bei Antibiotika -- 3.2 Zivilisationskrankheiten -- 4. Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen -- 4.1 Medizinische Ursachen...

"In the Methodological Prologue to this book, I mention that Political Economy of Modernism takes its place in relation to my earlier books, Modernism and Time, which examined cultural modernism in relation to intellectual institutions of the sciences, mathematics, and aesthetics in the early...