Highlights
Capitalism
Geoffrey Ingham
Global financial markets are in turmoil. In the wake of the US subprime mortgage defaults, some of the largest and oldest financial institutions on Wall Street have found themselves on the verge of collapse, and both the American and British governments have intervened to try to stabilize the financial sector...
Fat: A Cultural History
Sander Gilman
This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day...
Quick LinksThis site provides sophisticated materials for both lecturer and student use. Student materials on the website include MCQs, extra web links and assignment guides; lecturer materials include a full instructors' manual and sample seminar plans.
In this website you will find a variety of useful tools to help further the study of globalization and the debates about it. Among these are: discussions of how to define globalization, advice about how to research globalization, a variety of articles and interviews by the editors and useful links relating to the Globalization series of books.
This contains a number of useful resources, including information about the author, a detailed study guide, an interview and a postscript to the book.
Features
Global Financial Regulation
Howard Davies & David Green
"A superb account of the international regulatory system, together with a set of proposals for its reform that are highly relevant. While largely written before the market disruption that began in August 2007, subsequent events have tended to reinforce rather than invalidate most of its prescriptions ... This book is wholly authoritative and its judgments carefully reasoned."
Financial Times
"An admirable starting point for coming to grips with the historical and institutional background to the ongoing debate."
Spectator Business
The Comfort of Things
Daniel Miller
"An outstanding piece of work: a fine example of modern anthropological fieldwork, a powerful corrective to the banal notion that materialism is synonymous with excessive individualism and, perhaps above all, an informed, sensitive, and wholly sympathetic guide to the human diversity to be found through the keyholes of our capital city."
The Independent
"A wonderful and unusual antidote to the fear that humanity and individuality is losing its battle with modern consumerism. In his book, even the most trivial product of consumerism can be rendered almost magical by its owners."
Financial Times
"A set of delicately drawn pen portraits of lives in a single, unnamed South London street ... this is a book quite out of the ordinary. While you read these pages, this is the street where you live."
Times Literary Supplement
"This is social anthropology at its finest."
The Age
Number and Numbers
Alain Badiou
"A bracing alternative both to the sterile and dry discussions that constitute much of the literature on mathematics and to the daily incursion of pie-charts, mortgage payments and bills that make up most of our dealings with numbers. Badiou's own 'history of eternity' is a manifesto for the future of mathematics, and of philosophy's role in appreciating that future."
The Philosophers’ Magazine
