China and Africa have long shared a history of allegiance and contact points through global political forces from the time of colonialism and the Cold War. With China’s rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. While issues such as trade, aid and development have received much attention, Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture is a neglected field.

From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an unstoppable entity that takes new forms as it engulfs its opposition?After Capitalism brings together leading scholars from across the academy to offer competing perspectives on c...

Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb,is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. From local underground bands in Detroit, Michigan to bands in Puerto Rico or across Europe, this book demonstrates the importance of aggressive music in our society. While other volumes seek to denigrate or put down this type of music, Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk forces the audience to ...

Better Life Balance Bundle, 3 in 1 bundle: A Life in Many Worlds, Better Balance for Life, and Being in BalancePeace and happiness can be difficult to catch. Finding the right balance that lets us get to all of the different goals that we have in place is not always as easy as we would like. If we focus on our careers too much, we miss out on time with the family or we are notgoing to have fun with any of your hobbies at all. Finding a way to balance all of these different ...

Better Balance for Life: Discover How to Find the Perfect Balance Between Your Physicality and Spirituality and Live a Harmonious LifeOur spirituality and our physicality are the two components of which we are made. If we could strike the right balance between the concrete and the abstract parts of our being, we could definitely turn ourselves into better people.This audiobook will teach you how to improve yourself corporally and spiritually and you learn how to find the ri...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Experience the gripping story of a CIA legend who hunted some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. Dive into the heart of the intelligence community with Hank Crumpton, a decorated veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces and a key figure in the global war on terror. In this raw and unflinching memoir, Crumpton reveals the secrets behind his success, offering unparalleled insight into the world of espionage, covert operations, and t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Experience the gripping story of a CIA legend who hunted some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. Dive into the heart of the intelligence community with Hank Crumpton, a decorated veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces and a key figure in the global war on terror. In this raw and unflinching memoir, Crumpton reveals the secrets behind his success, offering unparalleled insight into the world of espionage, covert operations, and t...

With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer-including socialism, anarchism, and deep ecology. It picks its way through the pockets of resistant thinking and emerges with paths to changing the world that rest less on rigid ideology imposed from above than on practical transformation from below.Richard Swift is former editor of New Internationalist magazine and author of...

"David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi KleinA "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian)Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been t...

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-expression, and personal growth for more people than ever before? Phelps makes the case that the wellspring of thi...

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.Boldly calling i...

In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are...