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...

"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...

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...

"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...

"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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This book applies an economic approach to examine the driving forces behind the dynamic behaviors of developing nations. Taking into account initial conditions and environmental and external factors often oversimplified by historians and anthropologists, Guo finds that the rise and fall of...

The present work aims at presenting the impact of the Anglo-Saxon Space over the complex process of globalization. The basic nucleus of this is Great Britain which, was successively, by colonial conquests, transformed into a vast Empire with a big hegemonic power. Its influence sphere was...

In a series of influential studies, Huntington (1993a, 1993b, 1998) argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post-Cold War world will not be primarily ideological or economic, but rather the great divisions among humankind. Given the fault lines between civilizations, the primary...

The structure of the present global capitalist world, which is composed of various sets of capitalist systems, can be clearly explained and described with the mathematical concept of 'measure' instead of the conventional term of 'value'. The history of the commodity world is that of the...

Social Anthropology delved into the war as one of most important activities of all societies, cultures and civilizations. She not only sets the circles of solidarities by means of the articulation of fear but also she continues the advance of technology previously developed in peace-time....

The attempt itself to give a rigorous interpretation to the concept of culture is widely met and inexorable for a scientific approach on the cultural phenomenon. The emphasis on some points of view, of new orientations regarding the definition of the concept of culture is necessary, first...

Throughout his life, John Stuart Mill warned contemporaries about stagnation or immobility, a most dangerous phenomenon, perhaps the chief evil then begining to afflict modern societies. Despite its close links with many other key ideas in Mill, the perils of stagnation have not yet been subject...