Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor are demonised as the enemy. In this volume, Samir Amin presents a synoptic view of capitalism's future.

Two leading feminist thinkers, posing a radical alternative to the current free-market industrial system, show how if we are to survive, economies must become needs-based, environmentally sustainable, co-operative and local. They call instead for a new politics and economics based on subsistence.

No body of international law regulates access to fresh water supplies. This work calls for a world water contract . It exposes how corporate interests prevent adequate responses and describes a market-oriented system that sees water as a commodity and not a community resource and human right.

No body of international law regulates access to fresh water supplies. This work calls for a world water contract . It exposes how corporate interests prevent adequate responses and describes a market-oriented system that sees water as a commodity and not a community resource and human right.

This volume provides a history of the modern state of Saudi Arabia.

An anthropological study of the gift, that relates giving to the institutions and social structures of modern life

How can those in poor countries raise their standards of living, on a planet with limited resources, without putting it under additional environmental stress? This book constructs the necessary intellectual and moral platform for fundamental progress in the decades of the 21st century.

A comprehensive introduction to the philosophical and political thought of Karl Popper divided into three parts. The first part provides a biography, the second part examines his works and recurring themes and the last part looks at his critics.

One of the century's greatest and most influential thinkers, Karl Popper, calls to all of us to recognize our responsibilites in preserving the democratic system, reminding us that it is our actions which will create the world of tomorrow.

According to current deabtes, 'individualization' has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to 'globalization'. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures.

This freethinking book, structured as a dialogue between the authors, overturns conformist discourses and received ideas about Jewish culture and identity. It challenges pious myths and biases, addressing such questions as: what if the Jews were not the descendants of the Hebrews?

Original perspective on international trafficking and sex industry focusing on the criminal networks involved.

This work uses case studies, examples and quotations to illustrate how women all over the world have become the call girls of the global labour market. It shows how lives have been turned upside down, by industrialization in the South and a return to homeworking in the North.

This work uses case studies, examples and quotations to illustrate how women all over the world have become the call girls of the global labour market. It shows how lives have been turned upside down, by industrialization in the South and a return to homeworking in the North.

This volume explores the relationship between Islam and modernity.